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How K–12 Classrooms Can Benefit from Robotics

EdTech Magazine

How K–12 Classrooms Can Benefit from Robotics. Cracking the K–12 connection code requires a new approach, one that combines active-learning pedagogy with robotics in the classroom to deliver an interactive, immersive learning experience. . New Learning Styles Offer Different Types of Learning.

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E–Rate Updates Free Up Resources for New Classroom Technology Projects

EdTech Magazine

But without good internet, the laptop that you have won’t work,” says Hector Reyna, CTO of Socorro Independent School District in El Paso, Texas. E-rate discounts free up funds for everything from coding in elementary schools to robotics programs. “It She is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines.

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

techlearning

Members of the highly competitive APSD Dream Academy (and Dream Scholars, their middle-school counterparts) are given laptops for 24/7 use. Sascha Zuger is a lifestyle journalist for national magazines, a travel writer, and a young adult novelist. Google Classroom —Digital learning management system using Google apps ?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

(Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.). And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.”

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer. Tagged on: March 17, 2017 Problems with Personalized Learning | dy/dan → Dan Meyer says, "This isn’t good instruction. " says Google Family Link manager Saurabh Sharma.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The New York Times Magazine has an incredible profile of Gwyneth Paltrow ’s “ Goop ” empire. Good thing IBM Watson isn’t making any claims about “personalized learning” or partnering with beloved shows like Sesame Street. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” asks New York Magazine. Via The Daily Times : “Blount County Schools building new options to personalize learning.” ” Boy, it seems as though “personalized learning” is really just code for “virtual charter schools.” “ Can personalized learning prevail?