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The Learning Counsel’s 2019 National Digital Curriculum Strategy Survey Yielded Surprising Results

EdNews Daily

The Learning Counsel released the results of its sixth annual Survey of School and District Digital Curriculum Strategy and Transformation. Some of the top takeaways from the 2019 survey include: The K-12 Ed-Tech Market is experiencing the results of an unsustainable growth in spending without commensurate results. 462 K-12 U.S.

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7 Reasons Advancement Courses Has Excellent Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

When surveying the research , effective teacher professional development is content-focused with active learning, supports job-embedded collaboration, uses models and modeling, provides coaching and expert support, gives opportunities for feedback and reflection, and is of sustained duration (Darling-Hammond). Look at Courses.

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Parents Don't Need to Be Coding Experts, Just Willing to Learn With Their Children

Edsurge

They were at a family coding event and had been working together to brainstorm an idea for a story, draw it on paper and try out different ways to recreate it using KIBO , a tangible robotics platform programmed using interlocking wooden blocks. He pressed the green triangle on top of the robot to run the program again.

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With an Eye Toward the Future, This Program Connects Students to Tech Careers

Edsurge

I survey my students regularly. One industry partner brought his entire team to meet with my students and then provided their emails and contact info for long-term mentoring and career development. Zoom and other tools have shown us that we can meet, connect and often work more easily. We’re going to build a robot.

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When Bots Go to Class

Edsurge

The whole role of a university and college is evolving to meet the needs of how society is evolving,” Thompson, special assistant to the president for innovation and entrepreneurship at Ferris State, told a local television station. The AI agents will also be fed information from the course syllabi and turn in assignments.

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CoderZ Announces CoderZ League World Champions

eSchool News

CoderZ today announced the winners of the all-new CoderZ League: the Virtual Cyber Robotics Competition (formerly the Cyber Robotics Coding Competition or CRCC). Students in grades four through 12 throughout the United States and the world joined in the cloud-based robotics tournament. We are so immensely proud of them all.”.

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The importance of agency in successful edtech adoptions

eSchool News

Instructional design and product development teams should consider the adoption process when designing products to meet the current needs of educators. Innovation in technology and strategies can provide new opportunities to meet the diverse needs of our students. Successful adoption also requires defining the measure of success.

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