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Everything is Coming Up Robots
Now I find myself learning and teaching with robots. Where once I was reading through Chaim Potok’s The Chosen asking myself which learning objectives I could met through this text, now I am searching through Youtube videos of robot challenges to find a match for my objectives for the students.
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Learn What Most Schools Don’t Teach
Code.org and all the partners behind Computer Science Education Week encourage students, parents, and educators worldwide to engage in computer science. Take a 1 hour course online. Or host it in your classroom. Or ask your school to offer computer science to your children.
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Infographic: The Use of Social Media in School
eLearning Infographics shared this helpful visual along with the 11 facts copied below. The site also provides a full list of helpful teacher guides for all the different social media outlets, outlining best practices for using them with students.
Personalized Learning
205 Trillion Online Instructional Resources – Feeling Overwhelmed?
As an educator, have you ever felt overwhelmed by the plethora of educational resources and techniques available - on top of and including state and national standards? If so, this news will either make you cry or jump for joy. Perhaps both. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Temple University have found that there are "more than 205 trillion instructional options available" for educators to choose from.
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10 Tips for Starting Your Blog
Here’s 10 tips from your blog experts at Getting Smart to help you get started.
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Infographic: Are MOOCs The Future of Online Education?
As the price of higher ed rises, the big question is will MOOCs be the viable alternative that makes education after high school more affordable? This infographic draws out some of the statistics known about the development of MOOCs so far, as well as plotting out the pros and cons of taking a MOOC today.
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Online Learning Boasts Bright Future Thanks to Virtual Reality Platforms
A high-end virtual world presents new great aspects of an educational experience, and combines this achievement with the greatest aspects of the real world classroom. Before getting deeper into the fantastical possibilities of world exploration, it's important to realize that the “home room” of these virtual worlds can very well be a virtual classroom.
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An EdTech Giving with Steve Jobs
Wearing beltless Levis, a long-sleeved, black shirt, and white kicks, Steve Jobs walked the perimeter of an endless rectangular table attended by students of all ages, races, cultures, and religions. With each stop near an excited kid, he handed out MacBooks, iPads, iPods, and iPhones from a limitless bag embroidered with the famous Apple logo and cheerfully held by the “Woz.”
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Google Glass: Really Promising or Not So Much?
We reviewed all the proposed applications we could find and rated them Really Promising (RP) or Not So Much (NM). Here’s our list of applications and ratings:
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10 Elements of Next-Generation K-12 Systems
Next generation systems--across a state or region--will share ten elements: goals, standards, a focus on personalized learning, assessments, talent development, authorizing, data systems, accountability, funding, connections, and supports.