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AUGUST 7, 2024

Rita Mortenson, the educational technology coach for Verona Area High School in Wisconsin, uses Google Arts and Culture. Google Arts and Culture offers over 1,600 experiments and counting. There’s also 3D Pottery, where users can virtually recreate pottery from different cultures and time periods.

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APRIL 30, 2024

During that time, I have enjoyed working with the staff, students, parents, and community members to thoughtfully integrate technology into the classrooms. In 1995, I became the Educational Technology Coach for the Verona Area High School. Google Arts and Culture : I have been a fan of Google Arts and Culture for years.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2025

Yet, in the art room, where images are the universal language, his talent shines, allowing his classmates to see his strengths, not just his struggles. The arts give students opportunities to express themselves, their ideas and their feelings in creative ways. In addition, I was placed in an art class.

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JULY 26, 2016

This fall, my computer science class will follow the new AP Computer Science curriculum framework while also including culturally responsive instruction that makes use of students’ interests, community settings, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

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APRIL 1, 2019

As focused as both young women are on integrating into their new home, they are both fiercely protective of maintaining their first languages, their cultures and their identities. Collection of the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Ky. Lian and Lisbet are not alone. Walter Ufer. Bob Abbott and His Assistant,” 1935.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The New York City-based language company, founded in 2011, offers 10 language classes along with courses in interior design, mixing cocktails and French culture. VentureBeat called it a place to “teach Brooklyn hipsters about French culture.” Scaling a culture school. Looking outside of higher education.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

For instruction that yields cultural literacy, we most often look to language arts and social sciences. With Google's Applied Digital Skills as his foundation, Hicks prioritizes culturally relevant teaching through the vehicle of computer science. We really need to make everyone’s culture part of the conversation.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

When I left the classroom in 2017 for a job as an events curator for a community arts organization, it was the middle of spring semester during my seventh year as a teacher. When I launched the project in 2016, I was baffled that the culture gaps in our schools weren’t inspiring protests in the streets.

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MAY 10, 2019

Sometimes it’s about empathy —or in the case of some of the latest research coming out of Johns Hopkins, it’s about understanding how art plays a role in learning. EdSurge sat down with Hardiman recently to learn about the Initiative’ recent findings around how injecting art into lessons across disciplines can boost memory and retention.

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2023

Renaissance has launched the second annual “ Shine a Light on Bilingualism ” art contest to celebrate Hispanic culture and bilingualism. Each winner will receive a $500 Visa gift card and have their art featured during Renaissance’s celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, which takes place between September 15 and October 15.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2021

This initiative includes curriculum and two STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) educational technology platforms, KIBO and ScratchJr. Students use these tools as they explore themes in the Jewish holiday cycle while expressing their ideas and understanding through building, coding, and art activities.

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JULY 5, 2019

Recently, Education Week published an article describing culturally-questionable activities and language found in Studies Weekly , a social studies curriculum used by more than 13,000 schools across the country. Of course, curriculum is only a small part of what’s needed to create culturally-responsive classrooms.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

I teach middle school English Language Arts at St. I also grapple with the cultural obsession with technology. Even the students who struggle in language arts, and perhaps could not provide polished grammatical corrections, were enthusiastic and on-task with their positive and constructive comments. The whole class did.

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AUGUST 14, 2016

When the visual and performing arts, the musical and recording arts, and the theatrical and graphical arts are seen as mere luxuries or add-ons within the walls of a school, powerful forces are thereby prevented from transforming routine schooling into a renaissance of learning.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

One is cultural, says Yong Zhao, author of the book “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World.” “In In Chinese culture, parents provide as best they can for their children,” says Nicolas Huang, co-founder of Lonely Reader, a digital platform that teaches liberal arts.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

The work we are doing with Google is about trying to help people find a culture of innovation. The visit to Google, then, was one of her strategies for cultivating an innovative culture in the state. The work we are doing with Google is about trying to help people find a culture of innovation.”. Erin O'Briant.

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2024

Another great resource from Discovery Education is the Sandbox AR app – it really helps build student curiosity and skills in AR/VR! Civilisations AR The BBC AR brings to life art from around the world. The Civilisations AR is a companion to the BCC TV series by the same name, but it can be used independently.

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APRIL 18, 2017

During an open mic night hosted by the San Jose Digital Arts department, the girls took home top prizes for their performances. LaToya Fernandez is a charter school educator at Rocketship Education. She has taught English Language Arts and currently teaches Social Justice and Culture to K-8 students.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

He was motivated, in part, by the September opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the Washington Mall, just 30 minutes away from Dominion High. But if you search for designs related to identity, history, or culture,” he says, you find nothing. Autodesk’s comprehensive guide Smithsonian Education.

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MAY 12, 2021

Younger kids wanted more arts activities, more play and more time in person with their friends. Her district is focused on fostering a “culture of fun,” which may look different for each kid. Young Audiences / Arts for Learning is a nonprofit with a longstanding relationship to Baltimore City Public Schools. Does It Matter?

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MARCH 15, 2021

However, as books like “ Brotopia ” by Emily Chang and “ Race after Technology ” by Ruha Benjamin indicate, the culture of tech companies can be misogynistic and racist and therefore unwelcoming to many people. I am actively learning about people across the globe who have different religious and cultural ways of life than I do.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — ParentPowered PBC , an education technology company that provides research-based digital family engagement, today announced the appointment of Terri Soutor as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Melissa Palmer as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). over two years. .

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The nonprofit, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, provides music education to children in communities that lack these opportunities. The Bay Area Music Project started in 2014, as an after-school pilot project at Maya Lin, an art-integrated, magnet school in Alameda, California. And it’s not just creativity that’s lost.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

To be clear, I’m not saying that there isn’t a space for career changers or alternative pathways for educators — in fact, that would be welcomed as we need all the help we can get to train and retain quality teachers in the education system. However, that would require us to recognize the art that goes into teaching in the first place.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In 2020, Reading Plus doubled its content library to over 2,500 engaging and diverse selections to provide students with meaningful representation and culturally responsive texts as they grow into global, lifelong learners. For more information, visit www.readingplus.com. *

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Johnston County educators are confident they will continue to see growth, and they credit Savvas for being part of the “right mix of expertise, resources, and support” that is delivering real results for the district’s students. These are exactly the goals that Adam has tried to achieve through edtech during his 24-year teaching career.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2017

The appropriate use of innovative education technologies will be an essential component to bringing STEM to children wherever they live as part of a well-balanced set of active learning experiences with educators and parents. Next page: What does the future look like for STEM education?).

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

For many of his students, who attend Atlanta Public Schools in Georgia, the course introduces significant historical events, art and cultural contributions and glaring injustices that they are learning about for the very first time. He covers art and culture, along with Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Afro-Latinx culture?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2018

We have talked about grading and assessment , digital literacy , open education , caring for students , cultural competence , how people learn , and productivity. Here’s what I aim to do with this new EdSurge advice column: Recognize that teaching is both an art and a science.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

At SchoolStatus, we firmly believe that educators’ voices must be central in shaping education technology. Members of the CAB were selected based on their deep knowledge of education technology, passion for improving learning outcomes, and success in supporting students’ academic achievements and families’ evolving needs.

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JULY 13, 2022

Wherefore art thou Romeo?” Another similarity: Both systems are designed based on the premise that three-dimensionality matters a lot to understanding the art form of theater and the stories it has to offer. It’s such an embodied art form.” I think leaving the audience out is a big danger of virtual reality theater,” she says.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

A teacher at heart who values community, I often reflect on my past experiences with students and the ways we explored, celebrated and protected our cultural identity. While there are opportunities to do this within the academic curriculum, my Black students’ cultural identity is often reflected in how they wear and style their hair.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

ótiyapi was at the center of our knowledge, our culture and our way of life as Lakota people. In many of our conversations, we acknowledged how our ways greatly differed from the ways of knowing and learning found in mainstream education systems. ótiyapi and the values embedded within that language.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

Luckily, these six educators have recommendations that anyone can start implementing immediately. Let Data Inform (Not Drive) Many educators urge their fellow professionals to move away from the concept of “data-driven,” and instead towards a culture of “data-informed.”

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JULY 11, 2022

To their surprise, however, the educators found themselves not on Lumen’s website but on Course Hero, a homework-help site that’s blocked by some higher ed institutions for its use by some students as a cheating tool. Our Art faculty alerted me to her Lumen Learning Art courses now being redirected to Course Hero. What the heck?”

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JULY 23, 2024

The Let Teachers Teach workgroup released its list of recommendations in May, and their ideas span improvements for dealing with issues including professional development, student discipline and what one of the state’s top education leaders calls “the art of teaching.” “To While Brumley and Louisiana Gov.

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MARCH 12, 2024

Of course there are many factors, but in this same period of time there have been a growing number of messages in popular culture giving highly skeptical views of college. Ben Wildavsky, author of the new book, “ The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections.” By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent.

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