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Learning Revolution Free PD - Conference Volunteering - Libraries! - Google Excitement - Common Core Film

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Library 2.014 - October 8th + 9th. We are gearing up for another amazing year of the Library 2.014 Conference.

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Sphero Makes a Big Acquisition in littleBits to Bring Hands-On STEAM Learning to Life

Edsurge

Today, the robotic toymaker is following through by adding a big building block to its educational offerings. His company’s flagship offerings are robots that come pre-built with LED lights, sensors and motors that respond to light and gestures, and which kids can control via an app on a computer, smartphone or tablet.

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Check out… Robotical!

EdTech4Beginners

I’ve researched and tested a lot of EdTech tools and for me Marty the Robot is an integrated STEM solution that covers all bases. What you might not think is that children, even these days, are pretty traditional in their views of how a robot should look. Design: I’ve never had a reaction like it when we first unboxed Marty in class.

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Websites for Hour of Code by Grade

Ask a Tech Teacher

They can be done individually or in small groups. Kindergarten — Human Robot. Preview them first to pick the one best suited to your student group. Besides Math Standards, Alice supports these Common Core writing skills: 8.3a Divide the class into groups. Grade-levels below are guidelines.

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MC Assessment = Meta Cognitive Assessment

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

In groups-- the Socrative space race is great for this! And once the test is created in Edmodo, it is saved in your Edmodo cloud and can be assigned to other classes/groups and edited as needed. I can also create group assessments and have the student with the device be the group leader. They can communicate textually.

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Discovering the “Ultimate Classroom”: A Student Led Project Based Learning Inquiry

EdTechTeam

With the Common Core, state testing, interventions, and all else that goes on in the elementary day, how would I find time for my students to investigate and inquire into their interests? While some studied robotics and social media, others dived into different learning disabilities and schools around the world.

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Tech Ed Resources–K-12 Tech Curriculum

Ask a Tech Teacher

All of them, I’ve found, are well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, offering inclusive solutions to the issue of tech tools–taking into account the perspectives of stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to ensure learning is organic and granular.

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