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Personalized Learning
#FETC | Incorporating STEM and Tinkering Across the Primary Grades
Getting Smart Teacher Blogger Lindsey Own shares four projects from Finalists for the FETC STEM Excellence Awards. The four projects will be presented at FETC. They represents a range of subject areas and levels of student independence.
EdTech
EdTech 10: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Indirectly, David Bowie was a frontman in the movement to personalize learning. Bowie taught a generation of educators that each student is unique in their own individual way, who should be provided their own individualized learning playlist. This week’s EdTech 10 is inspired by the life of Bowie.
Difference Making
How Project-Based Learning Prepares Youth for Freelance Nation
Young people that decide against the freelance economy and land good jobs with organizations are likely to do most of their work in projects. Other than low skill/low wage tasks, it’s quickly becoming a project-based world.
Personalized Learning
Microschools with Macro Impact
CottageClass is making it possible for you to visit and get an inside look at 12 example microschools. They are hosting the NYC Microschool Tour, on January 27-31. Read the article, get a discount code, be inspired.
Difference Making
Engineer Your Future: Don’t go it Alone, Own it, Create it
By: Fushcia-Ann Hoover. Struggling to decide on entering or staying in a degree or career? Don’t quit because you doubt your abilities or worthiness. Go for it. It will be hard and—I won’t lie—sometimes very isolating, but it is worth it and so are you.
Personalized Learning
5 Ways for Smart Parents to Plan and Implement Intentional Time & Margin
In Smart Parents: Parenting for Powerful Learning intentionality is listed as one of the key qualities of smart parents. Smart parents are “intentional about creating powerful learning experiences.” Here are five ways smart parents can plan and implement intentional time and margin.
Personalized Learning
EdCamp Voxer: Personalized Professional Development
400 teachers, from more than 20 states, participated in EdCamp Voxer Personalized PD. The virtual collaboration proved the best teacher professional growth does not exclusively occur between the walls of the school at a designated time.
EdTech
Sir Ken Robinson’s ‘Creative Schools’: Change We All Want & Deserve
Sir Ken Robinson, with collaborator Lou Aronica, does what he does best in his latest book, Creative Schools. Robinson does an excellent job of highlighting what is going right in education, while asking questions about how we can do better.
Leadership
Undoing EduSpeak and Why Words Matter
A joint effort between boots-on-the-ground educators that are utilizing and implementing learning pedagogies with their students, in coordination with researchers and policy-makers is required to unpack and undo EduSpeak.
Personalized Learning
Why Children Who Play Succeed
Health researchers have finally documented what veteran teachers have long understood: A young person’s social competence is a major driver of future success. In other words, children who play well with others do better in life.