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Lisa Blevins-Salyer posted
Hour of Coding
December 8th-14th
[bpfb_link url=’http://hourofcode.com/us’ title=’Join the largest learning event in history, Dec 8-14, 2014′ image=’http://hourofcode.com/images/hour-of-code-2014-video-thumbnail.jpg’]The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries and over 30 languages. Ages 4 to…Read More -
Carmen posted
This link will take you to the videos created by a group of Kentucky sophomores as they attempted to define the āAmerican Dreamā in the 21st Century. The assignment required them to represent their thoughts digitally. As youāll quickly see, some are AMAZING and some still need some work (but will be amazing eventually!) Thought this was a reall…Read More
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Abbie Combs posted
Pat Trotter shared an interesting article. The lead sentence states, “To harness the power of digital learning, we should focus more on the planning how technology will improve how students learn and teachers deliver instruction”. It is well worth the read time.
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Jeff Phillips posted
Interesting item on technology nad several resources.
[bpfb_link url=’http://www.learningfirst.org/education-transformation-it-s-marathon-not-sprint’ title=’Education Transformation ā Itās a Marathon, Not a Sprint! | LFA: Join The Conversation – Public School Insights’ ima…Read More -
Jeff Phillips posted
[bpfb_link url=’http://www.wired.com/2014/10/on-learning-by-doing/’ title=’American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist | WIRED’ image=’http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/education-ft.jpg’]Being dumb in the existing educational system is bad enough. Failing to create a new way of learning adapted to contemporary…Read More
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Too true. The article states that “Americans need to learn how to discover.” I hope we can move toward discovery learning so our students can adapt to the world as it constantly changes. Thank you for sharing this article.