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Personalized Learning
The Elementary Years: Four Pillars That Build a Strong Foundation
By: Liz Wimmer. The knowledge and skills children gain from 6 to 12 years form the basis of all future education. Parents can help children take advantage of this readiness and build a solid foundation for later success. Here are four key areas where parents can guide children during the elementary school years.
EdTech
EdTech 10: Seizing Opportunity, Propelling our Game
This week’s EdTech news focuses on new opportunities for teacher-leaders, startups, and schools to skill up, improve strategies, and propel their game during the summer months.
Personalized Learning
Meriden Public Schools Launches “Take Charge of Your Learning” Campaign
Meriden Public Schools is launching a "Take Charge of Your Learning" campaign. Staff and students are pledging to be continuous learners and embrace the recent changes in teaching and learning.
Difference Making
Harnessing Uncertainty as a Learning Tool
When it comes to how we learn, rarely is something more impactful than navigating uncertainty. Deeper Learning happens when people are in situations where they must simultaneously learn, apply thinking, and reflect.
EdTech
EdTech 10: ISTE… The Superbowl of EdTech
Be it the high profile edurati presenting on the latest and greatest, the attendees swapping notes and jokes, or the production of demos and panels big and small, ISTE really is the Superbowl of EdTech.
EdTech
Every EdTech Conference Should Emulate the Energy of iPadpalooza
With conferences we need to know people are more than their current role or amount of Twitter followers. When those deemed “presenters” or “featured speakers” take the chance to really make meaningful connections everybody wins.
EdTech
12 Ways to use Inside Out to Teach SEL, STEM, and Life’s Ups & Downs
Now that you’ve seen the movie (or even if you haven’t), here are 12 ways teachers and parents can help kids extend and apply what they saw in the movie to use as a springboard to teach about the brain, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), and life in general.
Difference Making
Success Takes Agency, Identity, and Competency
Young adult success requires agency, an integrated identity, and competencies. Drawing on research from many fields, theory and practice to identify building blocks for life success, The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research developed a framework for youth development.
Personalized Learning
A Smart Planet: Dispatches from PBL World
Transforming education in the US and around the globe was the focus of Friday at PBL World. This got Bonnie thinking about her former students in Tanzania and the United States. How we create educational opportunities for all to transform learning is one of our paramount challenges.
EdTech
Carpe ISTE: Sessions, Socializing, and The Food Scene
With more than 1,000 official sessions and countless events and opportunities to meet up at ISTE 2015, you will experience FOMO (fear of missing out), but resist the urge to overload your schedule. Here's the session you need to get to, the best networking opportunities, and the places you must try while in Philly.