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Personalized Learning
Blended Learning That Is Truly Blended
Even though blended learning is erroneously becoming synonymous with online, digital learning, it is arguably the most intriguing and perhaps the least mastered of all current buzz words.
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Education Standardization: Essential or Harmful?
In my previous post, I described how much of the standardization that exists in our current system of schooling is harmful to students and should be eliminated, but made the argument that not all standardization is harmful - that, in fact, in some cases it is essential to enable innovation and transformation.
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To Innovate in Education, First Standardize
Standardization harms students. The much-maligned industrial model of education truly is flawed in countless ways that flow from the assumption that children are like interchangeable parts on an assembly line.
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Infographic: The Value of a STEM Education
This great infographic from Edutopia highlights the value of educating students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. US students are slipping behind other countries on assessments like PISA in STEM categories while 80% of fast growing occupations will require these skills.
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Product Review: Cyber Science 3D
Cyber Science 3D offers a wide variety of 3D and 2.5D (more about that in a minute) manipulable anatomical models. The range of models available is impressive, including chemicals like acetaminophen and adrenalin, cells, mammals, fish, dinosaurs, invertebrates, plants, earth science models like a volcano and a geyser, planets, and mechanical elements like a satellite and a turbine engine.
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Microsoft Launches Imagine Cup Gaming Competition
Interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) among children has been in decline over the past decade. If these trends continue, there could be a possible shortage of STEM graduates and careers in computer programming and software design may go unfilled in coming years.
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SmartTech Roundup
Blended Schools & Tools Rocky Mountain High-Access. Idaho announced the 30 school districts and two charter schools that will be the first to implement 1:1 laptops in the next two years (they’ll join Maine secondary schools, 40% of South Dakota high schools, a third of Iowa districts,…
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Students Report On SOPA, PIPA & ACTA
Students at Blue Springs High School recently published a SchoolTube video reporting on the SOPA, PIPA and ACTA controversy that threatened the freedom of the Internet in an effort to stop piracy. The video uses popular word animation to supplement the audio around the current events. This video is a great example of student awareness about complex current events.
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Take the Bio-Bus to the Future to Learn About Recycled Fuels
Chemistry teacher Tray Sleeper at Merrimack High School in Merrimack, NH published "Bio-Bus to the Future," a SchoolTube video demonstrating how to create fuel from recycled fry grease in a parody that plays off of the hit 1980's film "Back to the Future."
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Discover Fundraising Tips From a NJ Junior High School
Westwood Regional Junior Senior High in Township Of Washington, NJ created "Charity Champions," a SchoolTube video to showcase how it raised money for cancer research with a series of initiatives involving students, educators, parents and the local community.