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Personalized Learning
Public School Kids in Pennsylvania Getting Short-Changed
After all, underfunding promising innovations hurts real children and real teachers. Blunting online public schools to a shadow of their full potential limits the potential of girls and boys with a broad range of talents, challenges, and backgrounds who find their fit in an exciting new type of public school. That short-changes us all.
Ed Policy
What Common Core Means to Military Families: A Student’s Perspective
I spent my whole childhood as a military child, so moving around was a pretty common occurrence. In fact, I moved 12 times by my 18th birthday, which included attending four different high schools.
Personalized Learning
Infographic: Why US STEM Initiative Shouldn’t Over Look Computer Science
It is time to start teaching our students to code. Code.org wants all teachers to sign up for The Hour of Code coming in December. Teaching kids to code does not mean you have to be an expert- read Dave Guymon's post that went live today, Teaching Students to Code With PowerPoint.
Personalized Learning
Is Virtual Learning the Anti-bully?
I, too, would recommend online school to these families – not as a haven, but as an alternative. I’d also recommend it to the families of students who suffer from other “distractions,” such as health struggles or ADHD. Online learning can foster remarkable focus.
Personalized Learning
Interview | Code Together Now
“I decided to take on leadership of Code Together because of the many and growing opportunities for collaborative technologies on the web,” she says. “I’m excited to see where we will take Code Together as Treaty (an embeddable document editor) and Squad continue to grow.”
Leadership
Alumni Engagement | Alumni as Volunteers, Three Ways
With the University of California and California State University applications due on November 30, 25 Alumni have already spent 90+ hours helping students tighten their personal statements and apply to college. And that’s before our big November push.
EdTech
Relax. It is You . . . And Them
Yes, it all happened. Everything we feared would come true did to some degree. We had students that got off task in class and missed the assignments or the lecture or the project. We had students download music in the hallways between classes so they could listen to it in the next period. We had students at home not doing the work they didn't due in class because they were playing games, or on Facebook, or tweeting, or listening. Yes, it all happened.
EdTech
Collaboration for Innovation
Technology can do even more for students and teachers. Now students’ reading notes can be recorded online rather that in notebooks or on Post-its and shared instantly with the teacher. Students’ writing can be compiled in a digital portfolio accessible with a single tap by the teacher or the student.
EdTech
The Hour of Code is coming – with Mark Zuckerberg & Angry Birds
Every educator who hosts an Hour of Code will get a gift of 10GB of free DropBox storage. And one participating school in every state will win a full class-set of laptops. Just register your school’s participation by Nov. 1 to qualify.
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Students Outsmart School Laptops – And That’s A Good Thing
As a developer, my answer is simple: let the students explore their own laptops. They can use the educational software when required, and design their own programs when not. In a world that is increasingly built on computer knowledge and experimentation, do you really want your schools taking away technological devices simply because the students have learned how to use them? I don’t think so.