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Robin Galloway

Eastern Iowa schools embrace initiatives to provide laptop for every student | TheGazette - 7 views

  • Lisbon is one of 44 school districts in Iowa participating in a 1:1 computer initiative.
  • Central City launched its 1:1 initiative in August 2008. At the time, it was touted as erasing the lines between the haves and the have-nots.
  • Today’s generation of students are comfortable with technology. It’s how they learn, how they play, how they live. Bringing that to school provides a relevancy that wasn’t there before.
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  • It’s our job, as a school, to provide meaningful experiences
  • ust giving students a laptop doesn’t automatically translate into learning
  • It has to change the way people teach
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Robin Galloway

Harvard and M.I.T. Offer Free Online Courses - 1 views

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    The latest partnership to offer free massively open online courses (MOOCs). Good article outlining the history of such initiatives.
Robin Galloway

Harvard and M.I.T. Offer Free Online Courses - 0 views

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    The latest partnership to offer free massively open online courses (MOOCs). Good article outlining the history of such initiatives. 
Robin Galloway

Foundations Look To Advance Common Core Curriculum -- THE Journal - 1 views

  • three-year initiative to fund an instructional system and 24 online courses--a "complete, foundational system of instruction" to be developed by Pearson--covering K-12 English/language arts and K-10 math. One course will be provided for each grade level. Four of those courses--two in each subject area in the early to middle high school grade levels--will be contributed as free and open resources through Gates Foundation funding "with the intent of widening access and spurring innovation around the Common Core,"
  • the courses will be "designed to engage and motivate" students and will incorporate social networking, gaming, video, and simulation, coupled with assessment and teacher professional development, both online and blended.
  • Conning said the initial group of courses will be made available in 2013, "before the Common Core Standards are implemented." She also said the courses will be field-tested in a variety of districts beginning in the late fall with some individual units. The complete system of courses is expected to be completed in December 2013 and ready for the 2014-2015 school year,
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    Gates and Pearson foundations partner to develop online courses developed around the common core standards in language arts and math for K-12 students (one for each grade level). 
Mikayla Hockenberry

Read the Standards | Common Core State Standards Initiative - 0 views

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    Common Core standards, descriptions, and examples.
Magda Galloway

Education Nation - 2 views

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    Education Nation is NBC News' initiative to engage the country in a solutions-focused conversation about the state of education in America.
Magda Galloway

Smithsonian Photography Initiative - 1 views

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    Great resource for free images and materials related to the visual literacy, history, culture and much more
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Taylor Murphy

Multicultural Education Definition - 0 views

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      Being diverse is very important! It can help broaden our life, also!
Morgan Malskeit

A Platform for Good - 0 views

  • Fight Cyberbullying with Dialogue and Technology The best way to fight cyberbullying is with dialogue and education. When that fails, use technology to fight online abuse. Learn about two apps designed to curb online bullying.
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    A Platform for Good is an initiative of the Family Online Safety Institute that seeks to help parents raising children in a digital world.
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    It has blogs, a resource center, and a way to interact with people, so you know your not the only one getting bullied.
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Mesothelioma Symptoms - 0 views

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    Mesothelioma is one kind of cancer disease. In initial stage it show very few symptoms that's why it harder to detect this disease. But in late stage symptoms if we detect it then also we are very much late to save our life, because in that time in many cases this is out of reach for the right treatment.
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