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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

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and students are thriving under innovative initiatives that include blended learning, tech-rich classrooms, and exposure to hope and opportunities for lifelong success. When we support parents’ learning, they create a culture of learning at home.” Just four years later, graduation rates have spiked 21.8%

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Making MAKEing More Inclusive

User Generated Education

The maker movement and maker education, in my perspective, are such great initiatives – really in line with what student-centric education should be in this era of formal and informal learning. Social media has helped me gain a more global perspective and become aware of some of the problems associated with the maker movement.

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Make This the Year That You Take On Ambitious IT Projects in Your School

EdTech Magazine

Test Adobe Spark, free for educators and a user-friendly tool for creating video, social media graphics and web pages. In Georgia’s Columbia County School District , for example, students in teacher Erica Cox’s class use Google Drawings and other G Suite apps to illustrate and create presentations. . In the Beaverton (Ore.)

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Discovering the “Ultimate Classroom”: A Student Led Project Based Learning Inquiry

EdTechTeam

I never imagined that the final course on learning space design would launch my students and I into the most exciting and rewarding project based learning experience of my career. At the beginning of any project based learning unit, a lot of initial planning has happen behind the scenes.

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Here’s Why You Need Multiple Types of Programs in Your School

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Students learn differently and have different aspirations. Enrichment programs encourage creativity, independence, and set the stage for lifelong learning. They can also be used to enhance what your students are already learning. Share it on your website, on your social media pages, and via your email newsletters.

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The 2016 Student Technology Conference Is Tomorrow! Keynotes and Speaker List Inside.

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

9:00am OPENING KEYNOTE: Mamadou Diallo - The Young Hackers 10:00am "The Science of Small": An Introduction to Nanotechnology - Dallin Harper, junior Benefits of social media in EFL classrooms - Quratulain Hussain Oh Snap! Simran Sehdev To spread creativity and innovation through 3D designing by learning it in your classes.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

From the press release : “IMS Global Learning Consortium Announces Open Badges 2.0 Ramona Pierson , the founder of Declara , is now the head of learning products at Amazon ( according to LinkedIn , at least). “ Does tech designed to personalize learning actually benefit students? The third: lifelong learning.