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How Teachers Are Taking Lessons Learned From Virtual School Back to the Classroom

Edsurge

In the past 18 months, educators across the country learned how to adjust their instruction to online learning environments; many had to completely rethink how they would approach their content to meet the needs of all learners. Using Microsoft Teams, teachers at Lone Star found ways to help relationships thrive.

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

In addition, NSNO started a personalized learning fellowship in the 2016-17 school year, giving teachers $2,000 apiece to start pilots in their own classrooms. Fellows attended monthly meetings at which they could share their questions and observations about personalized learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The New York Times : “Moving to Make Amends, Georgetown President Meets With Descendant of Slaves.” Via Apple : “ Swift Playgrounds App Makes Learning to Code Easy & Fun.” ” Via Techcrunch : “Meet Box Island , a new iOS game that aims to teach kids the fundamentals of code.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via the Journal & Courier : “Legislation that set the stage for Purdue's dive into online higher ed also exempts ‘New U’ from state’s open meetings, public records laws. ” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference.

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” Via The Verge : “ Microsoft secures $480 million HoloLens contract from US Army.” ” Via NPR : “Meet Jin Park , The First DACA Recipient Awarded A Rhodes Scholarship.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. State and Local) Education Politics. ” Immigration and Education.

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Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” It’s a partnership with Microsoft. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?”

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” Last year , the Ugandan government decreed that company’s schools be shut down because they failed to meet education and sanitation requirements; Kenyan courts have also ordered the schools to close. Investors in this education startup include the Gates Foundation, Learn Capital, and the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative.).