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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.
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SmartTech Roundup
Blended Schools & Tools Online learning is on its way. Results from the SREB Educational Technology Cooperative survey suggested that three-quarters of all districts in the SREB region will offer online learning options by 2015. Avoid the little spinning wheel, get more broadband now! The State Educational Technology…
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Educurious: Engaging Minds & Changing Lives
Educurious set out to make kids work harder, learn more, and love it. With support from the Gates Foundation, the Seattle nonprofit created high school biology and English courses that are compelling and challenging. Results from a handful of pilot sites indicate that it’s working.
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Los Alamitos Elementary Wins National Facebook Contest
MIND Research Institute, a neuroscience and research-based education non-profit, today congratulates Los Alamitos Elementary School for winning the “15 Years of JiJi Contest” on Facebook.
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Math Web Apps
At the Oklahoma Digital Learning Summit last week, an Oklahoma STEM specialist asked me what math products I liked and I mentioned the following: Elementary Math i-Ready.com from Curriculum Associates, is a great K-8 adaptive assessment with engaging content. Dreambox.com is a K-3 game-based adaptive math product.
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Students Compete in Statewide Oregon Computer Game Challenge
The Oregon Game Project Challenge (OGPC), managed and sponsored by TechStart Education Foundation, hosts its main event at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Ore. Saturday, April 28, 2012. The OGPC introduces middle and high school students to computer programming basics through games designed to be fun, challenging and innovative around a socially responsible annual theme.
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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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Q&A: Jeff Mao Shares the Inside Scoop on Maine’s 1:1 Program
Jeff Mao, the Learning Technology Policy Director of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) at the Maine Department of Education, joins us today to chat about the ways that Maine forged the path of 1:1 learning with the first and only statewide 1:1 laptop program. He tells us more about the challenges the state faced, the ways the program has benefits students and educators, and how the program is evolving to adapt to the needs of the future.