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3 Signs of Quality You Should Look For In Instructional Content
The future will bring amazingly better instructional content for teacher and student use. If the market notices key signs of this, then more effective, comprehensive content will be broadly and rapidly adopted, to the benefit of teaching and learning. I believe there’s three signs the market should be looking for.
Personalized Learning
Zspace: The Future of 3D Learning
Zspace is an impressive immersive environment with obvious learning benefits. These workstations will be pricy for a while, so Zspace is not an education 1:1 solution just yet. But every young person needs to experience an immersive design and learning space like this. These workstations should be in high school and college STEM labs and public libraries. Virtual dissections, field trips, and design projects must be part of every high school experience.
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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,…
Leadership
Staff Picks: Higher Ed, Digital Learning, Math Education, SmartTech
Karen Picks “Changing the Economics of Higher Education” Karen says, “I’m a big believer in higher education, having served on a community college board, and we have quite a few college degrees in our family, but both of my children obtained their degrees with alternative/combination high school-college…
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Urban Elementary Students Publish Their Own Math E-textbook
Jon Smith, or @theipodteacher as I’ve come to know him, caught my attention on Twitter this week. Students in Mr. Smith’s sixth grade classroom at Gibbs Elementary in Ohio’s Canton City Schools just published their own math textbook, released just days ago on iTunes!
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Bill Nye “The Science Guy” Changes the World One Summer Science Video at a Time
Many teachers remember the excitement on kids faces when the theme song for Bill Nye The Science Guy came on in the classroom: “Bill! Bill! Bill!.” Lots of kids of the 90s have memories of learning about the science of storms, outer space, brains and more from his wacky and…
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SmartTech Roundup
Blended Schools & Tools Take a look at international edtech. Brookings released “A New Face of Education: Bringing Technology Into the Classroom in the Developing World,” a new international education paper written by Rebecca Winthrop from Brookings and Marshall Smith formerly from the U.S. Department of Education. On the…
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SmartTech Roundup
Blended Schools & Tools Who needs a hard-drive? New Google Chromebook “gets it right” and, with plans to offer a steep discount to schools, might answer the call of blended-curious districts. Alabama moves ahead! Thanks to H.B.165, the Alabama Ahead Act, participating high school students and teachers will have better access to electronic textbooks and mobile learning devices.
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Can Music Really Aid Math Learning?
Most of us heard of the correlation between math and music – musical structures are mathematical in nature, of course, but can learning, or listening to, music really help us to learn math? Or are there specific musical techniques we can use to help our brains to process the learning techniques involved in decoding math problems?
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Q&A: Classroom Coding Creates Trajectory Toward Career Application
Educator Chris Bartlo at Wilson High School in Portland, Ore. joins us today to discuss the programs at his school and the importance of computer science for students’ futures.