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20 STEM Activities For Kids This Summer

TeachThought - Learn better.

20 STEM Activities For Kids This Summer. To combat summer learning loss and keep those STEM skills fresh over the summer, Project Lead The Way put together a list of super simple (and fun) STEM activities you can do with your children over summer break. All you need is a laptop and creativity. by pltw.org.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 33 Edition)

Doug Levin

Using half of the funds, the Texas Education Agency contracted with OpenStax, a nonprofit based at Rice University, to write textbooks for several popular high school STEM courses. Tagged on: August 17, 2017 Do Laptops Help Learning?

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6 Powerful Instructional Coaching Tools

EdTechTeam

This can be a laptop computer, a chromebook, an iPad, or even just your cell phone (though something more conducive to complex work is encouraged). Tool #5: Quality Question Stems. While it may not be intuitive, quality question stems are one of the most powerful instructional coaching tools coaches can posses.

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6 Super Geeky Tech Tips for the New School Year

The Daring Librarian

A trusted ed tech leader friend of mine told me "because of Dropbox I don't care if my laptop crashes." Resources 6 Tips to a Super Twitter Profile How to Write a Professional Social Media Bio 4. Twitter and Scoopit are my preferred tools and I recently added Instagram—because that’s where my kiddos are!

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Everything Doesn’t Always Have to Be Awesome on Social Media

Philly Teacher

It got me thinking about how I’ve been feeling catching back up on social media over the last month, and I reflected on how it felt when I first discovered Twitter back in 2009. Needless to say, there hasn’t been much time in my life for social media as there used to be.

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Learning for the Always-On Generation (Part 3)

EdNews Daily

The digital generations are highly social – although not in the same way that the older generations are. Today, as a result of constant exposure to digital reading formats, reading also involves viewing the layouts of things such as social media pages, websites, tablets, smartphone screens, ebooks, and video games.

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What is Collaboration for Professional Learning?

My Island View

After being involved in social media for over a decade, I have made a few observations that might be helpful to folks who use social media, more specifically Twitter, to develop and maintain a Personal Learning Network. Using Twitter for professional learning requires a collaborative mindset.