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The digital-first district where OER meets iPads

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The district is in the midst of navigating another drastic shift: rolling out custom, teacher-curated curriculum designed with free, openly licensed material, district technology director Ed Eimiller said.

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How Mentorship Has Kept Me in the Classroom

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I struggled with classroom management, curriculum design and the pressures of working in a high-poverty school. Growth and Community in South LA After completing my two-year commitment with TFA, I returned to Los Angeles to earn my master’s in education while working full-time as a visual arts teacher at KIPP Vida Academy.

Culture 205
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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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Constructionism,” a term Seymour coined in the mid-’80s in connection with the academic work on LOGO, (the children’s computer programming language) and the education movement it spawned, became the basis for our work together at the MIT Media Lab (described in a book we published in 1991). Seymour’s genius goes far beyond the academic.

Knowledge 129
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Canva Introduces Student-Safe AI Products, Customizable Lessons for Teachers, and Over 5,000 Free Classroom Resources to 50 Million Students and Teachers

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Instantly grab text out of photos of documents or screenshots to edit or use across other designs. Translate: Make teaching and learning easy in every language. Instantly convert designs into different languages with more than 100 options to pick from. “As AI is solving for the overwhelming administrative burden.

Teachers 154
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The All-Black and Latino School Where Every Kid Can Code

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The public charter school provides every student with a Chromebook and purchases licenses to online curricula for subjects including English language arts, math and computer science. The curriculum, which is aligned to the AP Computer Science framework, is free, but teacher training is not.

Schools 167
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Who’s on the List of Most Popular Edtech Organizations and Jobs?

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In fact, the word “curriculum,” whether followed by “writer” or designer,” appears to resonate relatively strongly with viewers. Take the five most viewed job postings from last year: “Curriculum designer” at NoRedInk. Curriculum solutions designers job” at Cengage Learning.

English 100
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A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

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Bolstering the technological advances necessitated by COVID-19 imperatives, the initiative’s primary purpose was to build knowledge on VR and encourage a multipronged approach in teaching and learning to enhance curriculum conceptualization and the entire education life cycle.

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