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How Children Succeed: Attachment, Advisory & Adversity
Paul Tough takes on the enormous question of How Children Succeed in his new book. In a well-produced long interview with Ira Glass, Tough said, "We don't teach the most important skills," a list that includes "persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and self-confidence."
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The Hamilton Project Releases Two Papers Furthering Tech & Economics in K-12 Education
The Hamilton Project launched today two new papers, “Harnessing Technology to Improve K-12 Education,” and “A Dozen Economic Facts about K-12 Education,” at an education forum in Washington D.C. to help further public investment in K-12 education for economic growth and effectiveness.
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Google Ventures Backs Math Education Startup Desmos
Google Ventures joined investors Kapor Capital, Learn Capital, Kinder Capital, and Elm Street Ventures today in funding more than $1 million for hiring, growth, and expansion of Desmos, Inc., an education technology company devoted to inspiring and engaging the next generation of math students.
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4 Ways PBS is Innovating For Students’ Futures
PublicBroadcastingService(PBS) has a long standing reputation in the education community for providing quality news, media, material, and more for engaged learning. Today, PBS is leveraging front-edge tech -- the flipped classroom, learning playlists, online professional development, games, and more -- to research and refine quality content and delivery of learning for students, parents, and educators. Here are four ways PBS is innovating for students futures.
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting … iPads
All this iPad talk is leaving many parents very nervous about this all really means for their children: Are these devices really worth the money? Will their children’s learning truly benefit from these tools? Will iPads only add to “screen time,” hinder social skills and, ultimately, disconnect them from their peers? What is the magic the iPads create for students?
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DIY: Sweat Equity Brand Building
It has never been easier and cheaper to build brand equity--a favorable impression with an audience that matters to you. Sure, it's noisy out there, but with a little sweat equity you can build support for your school, project, or product.
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MOOCs Shift From Curiosity to Employability
With huge investments and lots of fanfare, massive open online courses (MOOC) are the higher ed topic of the year. They’ve been around for years, but when more than 100,000 people signed up for a Stanford artificial intelligence course it was obvious that MOOCs had arrived.
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11 of the Best Google Chrome Extensions for Students
Today, computer developers constantly add new features, plugins, and tools to help us access useful, relevant, and personalized data. In fact, developers at Google released an extension-friendly web browser called Google Chrome in 2008. Chrome offers extensions, or browser plug-ins, with unparalleled tools for learning that help improve one’s productivity and access to information. Here are 11 of the very best Chrome extensions for students.
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SETDA Releases ‘Out of Print’ Highlighting Textbooks in the Digital Age
oday the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) released Out of Print: Reimagining the K-‐12 Textbook in a Digital Age. This report highlights the sea change underway in the multi-‐billion dollar U.S. K-‐12 instructional materials market enabled by recent technology and intellectual property rights innovations.
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Charters, Common Core & EdTech Headline Education Nation
Mayor Bloomberg kicked off the morning with a growling defense of Chicago mayor Rahm Emauel. He said, "We should evaluate and pay teachers as skilled professionals." He announced expanded access to full day K next year and the first Eeducare school an early childhool leadership institute thanks to Susan Buffet.