Top 5 Preschool Apps for 2013
By Amanda Backof
Digital Education
ON JANUARY 3, 2013…
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January 22, 2013
Yesterday, President Obama took the oath of office for a second time. While there are so many teachable moments in this historic event,…
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January 21, 2013
A few years ago, I made a family calendar as Christmas gifts for my relatives. Using an online photo site, I uploaded family photos for each person's birthday, anniversary, holidays, etc. I figured my relatives would enjoy the calendar gifts, but what I didn't count on was the year-long pressure resulting from the calendar. At every event since the first calendar, every time a picture is snapped, I'm greeted with, "That has…
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JANUARY 18, 2013
Edutopia…
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By Katharine Haber on January 18th, 2013
Smart Brief - Friday Feature…
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By David Penberg on January 17th, 2013
The global village and the flattened world are no longer…
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If you've got real talent and individual ambition, school might not be the best avenue to success for you. In fact, these businessmen, artists, scientists and actors were so bored with school that they were expelled, but they still made it to the…
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by Seth Goldin
When we get together with others, even at a weekly meeting, it either works, or it doesn't. For me, it works:
...If everything is on the line, if in any given moment, someone is going to say or do something that might just change everything. Something that happens in the moment and can't possibly be the same if you hear about it later. It…
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Added by Michael Keany on January 17, 2013 at 3:04pm —
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Among the many pushes and pulls that impact the exchange between teacher and student we find an ever-growing list of elements that demand our attention. Today our senses are being battered by any number of requests for “techno fixes” and ways to gain an advantage, or ways that provide the promise of being able to take a shortcut to the success of everything from student achievement to the prevention of a possible physical assault on our students. Test prep programs, online tutorials,…
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by Barnett Barry
The politics of teaching policy continues to produce contentiousness among reformers and researchers as well as administrators, union leaders, and practicing teachers themselves. In response, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested three years and $45 million in painstaking efforts to find the…
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January 15, 2013
Want to improve characterization in your own writing? Want to teach your students how to analyze character? Then hurry to catch the New York Public Library exhibit,…
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Being Mobile | Blog
Common Core Technological Standards: They Are the Tail, Not the Dog
Up to now, test makers have been the dog--and education has been the tail. But the test makers are increasingly out of touch with students who use mobile devices for everything…
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Added by Michael Keany on January 15, 2013 at 12:42pm —
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HOW TO SOLVE PROBLEMS LIKE SHERLOCK HOLMES
BY: JENNIFER MILLER
Fast Company
A new book says you can train your brain to be a creative problem solver worthy of literature’s most famous sleuth.…
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