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CFY becomes PowerMyLearning

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While we were never about only providing “computers for youth,” we’ve become even more convinced over time that it is not just technology alone that powers learning. Rather it is students who power their own learning through a combination of technology and the people who matter most to their success – their families and their teachers.

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Want Students to Remember What They Learn? Have Them Teach It.

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Perhaps it’s the work of “learning by teaching,” also known as the Protégé Effect. I have recently become very interested in these questions because the Protégé Effect is something we are now trying to leverage at the nonprofit I work for, PowerMyLearning , which strengthens the triangle of student-family-teacher relationships.

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Empowering Superintendents to Connect Technology and Learning

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In fact, many school technology plans fluctuated depending upon the latest fads and what someone learned at a conference and had little connection to curriculum or learning goals. The Five Imperatives of Technology Leadership , the presenters explored how they have shifted their approaches to integrating edtech in the classroom.

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Time Is the Greatest Challenge to Teaching STEM. Families Can Help.

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An engineer by training, I wanted to learn more about the solutions available to help teachers like Ms. Exposure to science not only changes a child’s understanding of his or her own identity, but impacts learning and career trajectories.” Bringing Families Onboard It does not have to be robotics, 3D printers or coding.

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What Students Gain When They See Parents Struggle

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An emerging trend is to embed social-emotional learning (SEL) skills like persistence into curriculum rather than teaching SEL separately. And then there’s the approach we’ve taken at PowerMyLearning, the nonprofit I run in New York City. But to my surprise, the strongest lesson that Dalton felt her students learned was persistence.

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EduStar Platform Promises Quick, Randomized Ed-Tech Trials

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The technology platform is the product of a grant-funded collaboration between two professors and the nonprofit PowerMyLearning. It runs trials on granular pieces of digital learning activities via the PowerMyLearning Connect platform, which is available free to schools. What The Trials Showed.

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Nonprofit CFY honors innovative parents and ed-tech visionaries

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On Tuesday, June 9, more than two hundred and fifty guests gathered at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers in New York City to honor award recipients and to celebrate the work of CFY –a national nonprofit that helps students, teachers, and parents use digital learning to improve educational outcomes. 2015 ILA Honorees.