The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 4, 2012

In the middle of my sophomore year I volunteered in a Kindergarten classroom a few days a week reading to kids and working on colors and shapes. So I changed majors and graduated a few years later with a degree in Middle Grades Math and Science Education. I enjoy spending time watching kids be curious and discover their world.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. Currently, more than 25 percent of K-12 students are chronically absent and most students have ground to make up in math and reading.

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Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

If you're looking to get kids excited about STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), show them the ways that popular media uses -- and misuses -- the concepts you teach daily. There's still a great need to introduce kids, and especially girls, to STEM fields like neurobiology, nanotechnology, and civil engineering.

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Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

If you're looking to get kids excited about STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), show them the ways that popular media uses -- and misuses -- the concepts you teach daily. There's still a great need to introduce kids, and especially girls, to STEM fields like neurobiology, nanotechnology, and civil engineering.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Math centers or workstations where kids are all involved in different activities are a fundamental part of many elementary classrooms. How is a differentiated math partner game time different from math centers? Kids can pair up and play a game with a partner in either setup. Are the kids really learning?

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MindShift

JULY 1, 2018

But there’s compelling research to show that kids forget a lot of what they learned during the school year if they don’t have opportunities to continue reading, using their mathematical thinking skills and exploring the world around them. That’s sort of the whole point of this,” Salimpoor said. She also has two young kids of her own.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

I have often wondered what John Dewey would do in today’s educational setting with our vast amount of knowledge from research and our rapid growth of technology. Using Games, Play + Digital Media To Build Your Own Maker Culture – If you are going to be at ISTE in Denver this summer be sure to stop by this session.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. ” he asks.

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MindShift

MARCH 15, 2016

What is the best game-based tool for learning? This 32-game bracket-style competition is a teacher-fueled smackdown of learning games thoroughly vetted by Graphite. If you aren’t familiar with a game, take a look at the Graphite review to learn more, or download it and give it a whirl. Round 2: 3/20 – 3/23.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 5, 2022

That’s how I came up with these five strategies and routines that help me cultivate a safe and welcoming classroom for secondary students. First, I have students fold their name tents in half to make the “tent” shape. Jeux Jeudi (Games Thursday). The themes are: Lecture lundi (Reading Monday).

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 7, 2021

As teachers, we have to guide kids in the practice of focusing more on the kinds of questions that will lead them to a conclusion, as opposed to here’s the answer key, here are the right answers. We need to teach kids to focus more on the information itself: how it’s created, how we’re accessing it, etc.

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MindShift

AUGUST 12, 2020

Taught: Seventh grade math. Wong Baesa, the only seventh-grade math teacher at her school, taught math to all seventh grade students on Mondays via pre-recorded video lessons, and spent the other days grading and planning for upcoming lessons. “ And then it’s like, ‘Well, scratch that. Jamie Wong Baesa.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. Seymour Papert died at his home in Blue Hill, Maine in August (yes, that’s the site of the Blue Hill Fair, where Charlotte the spider saved Wilbur the pig ). Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. .”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The present can never be extricated from what’s come before. If, indeed, Internet adoption has moved rapidly, it’s because it’s utilized existing infrastructure as much as because new technologies are somehow inherently zippier. It’s probably felt true at every moment in time.) We try to do better.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The phrase “if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” gets bandied about a lot — despite, according to Slate ’s Will Oremus , it being rather an inaccurate, if not dangerous, slogan. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um,

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook’s Plans to “Personalize” Education. “Personalization” is also the cornerstone of the investment strategy for Mark Zuckerberg’s new venture philanthropy firm, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative. “A truly terrible deal,” says Cathy O’Neil , author of Weapons of Math Destruction.

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