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Should we teach all kids to code?
This is a comment I put on the blog post: We’re Not Ready To Teach Kids To Code: Think Kids Should Learn To Code? Teach The Teachers First. It said, ”We need a paradigm shift in education before we even dream of making … Continue reading
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Q&A: How Students Can Help Teachers Use Technology for Learning
From Common Sense Media A thirty-year veteran educator, technology trainer Lisa Hogan teaches students and faculty in Topsham, Maine to better use new digital media tools to transform learning as part of Maine’s innovative 1:1 laptop program. We talked with her … Continue reading
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Learn how to be a constructivist teacher in a digital world
Constructing Modern Knowledge is back for a 5th year, July 9-12, 2012 in Manchester, NH. This year’s CMK 2012 promises to be bigger and better than ever before! Guest speakers include award-winning filmmaker Casey Neistat; MIT Media Lab professor and Lilypad Arudino inventor, Dr. Leah Beuchley; Mark … Continue reading
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Webinars - Addressing youth risk in a positive and restorative manner
from Nancy Willard of Embracing Digital Youth: Addressing youth risk in a positive and restorative manner Embracing Digital Youth is proud to announce our first two Webinars. Through these Webinars, Embracing Digital Youth will seek to help educators, mental health professionals, law … Continue reading
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Tagged cybersafety, digital citizenship, empowerment, online youth risk, youth risk
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Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
“Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics” has just been released by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. The report includes recommendations such as: adopt evidence-based teaching … Continue reading
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Overhauling Computer Science Education
“Students from elementary school through college are learning on laptops and have access to smartphone apps for virtually everything imaginable, but they are not learning the basic computer-related technology that makes all those gadgets work. Some organizations are partnering with … Continue reading
Posted in education reform, In the news, professional development, technology literacy
Tagged computer science
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Go ahead, be unreasonable
Many educators I speak to daily are very reasonable people. They have dreams about how education should be, but still show up for work every day in a system that is slow, if not hostile to change. They compromise with … Continue reading
Teacher Training, Taught by Students
Teacher Training, Taught by Students “In a role reversal, Ms. O’Bryant and other teachers at Brick Avon Academy are getting pointers from their students this year as part of an unusual teacher training program at 19 low-performing Newark schools. The … Continue reading
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Arts and Education: Experiential Learning
I had the opportunity last week to participate in a symposium on Arts & Education last week in Harrisburg, PA. I spoke on a panel about Experiential Learning. My main contribution was to connect the arts and sciences through a … Continue reading
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Beyond technology capacity
Many times when we work with new schools implementing GenYES or TechYES student technology leadership programs we find that they have a lot of technology, but that the perception and reality in the classroom is very different. It’s one thing … Continue reading
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