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Welcome : PBS TeacherLine - 0 views

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    PBS TeacherLine is the premier online professional development resource delivering courses online for PreK-12 teachers.
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What Will You Learn this Summer? 35 Professional Development Resources - 0 views

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    Posted by Shelly Terrell on Friday, June 11th 2010 Summer has officially started for many of you! I know that you will probably be relaxing for the first few days, but eventually you may feel the need to be inspired and motivated for the upcoming school year!
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Assessment Through the Student's Eyes - 1 views

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    Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.
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Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation - 1 views

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    A peer-reviewed electronic journal. ISSN 1531-7714
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3 Ways to Use QR Codes to Connect School and Home - 1 views

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    For Boss's Day, my office staff at Howe Elementary in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., gave me the book QR Codes in Education by David Hopkins. In it, Hopkins describes those ubiquitous squares we see everywhere as being "like a barcode, but [containing] more data than just a number string."
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Why app design is replacing computer science in public schools - 1 views

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    Were teenagers by-and-large rational, computer science would be an easy sell. In what other industry is a 50-person company selling for $19 billion? What other industry gives millions in financing to early twenty-somethings with almost no job experience, armed only with programming know-how and an idea that's "like Uber, but for (fill in the blank)"?
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PBL and STEAM Education: A Natural Fit - 1 views

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    Both project-based learning and STEAM education (science, technology, engineering, art and math) are growing rapidly in our schools. Some schools are doing STEAM, some are doing PBL, and some are leveraging the strengths of both to do STEAM PBL.
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Chrome Smashing: Creating the Inconceivable - 1 views

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    Despite what Apple and Microsoft would like for us to believe, there isn't always "an app for that." Sometimes, it takes multiple tools to complete a process, and this idea becomes abundantly clear when working with mobile devices.
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Could mobile tech training boost achievement? | eSchool News | eSchool News - 0 views

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    A new study reveals that providing mobile training to teachers could have positive results It's no secret that mobile technology is a powerful tool that connects students and teachers with digital resources and boosts engagement. Now, a new study indicates that targeted teacher training in the area of mobile technology could result in higher standardized test scores, STEM interest among students, and proficiency gains.
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Learning to Code: New After-School Activity - 3 views

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    With the advent of smartphones and handy mobile applications that help you hail a cab or find a gas station, the use of software has become more tightly intertwined with our daily lives. The success stories of some app developers have encouraged students and professionals to learn coding, the language of the future.
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Loyola program takes law school to high school | District Administration Magazine - 2 views

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    News, Articles and Community for district-level decision makers in K-12 education. Magazine published monthly, with daily news and blogs and online content. Archives available.
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Games students play in NYC - 1 views

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    Sixth grade students at Quest to Learn, a New York City public school, recently got a two-week break from regular class work to build a giant Rube Goldberg machine. The project, for example, required
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Students Get More Pathways to Careers - 4 views

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    A collaboration of central Ohio school districts, businesses and community groups will give more high-school students a jump-start on college and work skills. Starting this fall, students in several local districts can enroll in career pathway programs that will focus on health care, information technology, robotics and logistics.
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Digital immersion creates wave of change in language education - 0 views

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    To instruct or not to instruct has been a source of controversy in the field of applied linguistics since Krashen first introduced his comprehensible input theory in the 1980s. The debate over the utility of explicitly learned knowledge in language learning has come full circle again thanks to a new crop of digital immersion platforms, including Duolingo, Lingua.ly and Bliu Bliu.
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See for yourself: How Forest Grove students are using iPads to create content - 0 views

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    If you didn't make it to any of the three public tours at Neil Armstrong Middle School to learn about the school's pilot program involving the use of iPads, don't despair. If you have two minutes, we've got two YouTube clips and a brief comment (below) from Nichole Carter, an 8th grade language arts teacher who's been a leader in the school's transition to digital learning in the classroom.
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Tapping Into the Potential of Games and Uninhibited Play for Learning - 1 views

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    In the classroom, fiero -- excitement that gamers experience when they overcome challenges -- makes students see that they're empowered players in their own education. They're released into the exciting adventure that learning can be.
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Educational Leadership:Writing: A Core Skill:Technology and the Illusion of Creativity - 0 views

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    Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.
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Students at Holy Family in Ensley study engineering online, do fun projects, hone math ... - 2 views

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    BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- A dozen students at Holy Family Cristo Rey Catholic High School in Ensley have taken a pilot online engineering class this year, according to a news release from the school on Monday. The college-level coursework is focused on programming with MATLAB using an online learning platform developed by Birmingham firm Slate XP and the Online Engineering Academy at Hoover High School.
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