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How to Blend Learning with Play for a Kid-friendly Summer

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With summer fast approaching all over the Northern Hemisphere, kids are eager for time away from teachers, textbooks, and To-do lists. Quandary – an ethics problem-solving game from MIT. Let children build on class initiatives for programming by picking an option that works best for their learning style rather than the group.

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Learning in the Digital Age

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This accessibility fosters self-directed learning and encourages students to explore beyond the confines of traditional textbooks. Personalized learning: Technology enables a more personalized approach to education. Adaptive learning platforms use algorithms to tailor content and pacing according to individual student needs.

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Curriculum Gets Personal: An Interview with LearnZillion's Eric Westendorf

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An Ethic of Excellence by Ron Berger. Five or ten years from now, we want folks to look back and say, "Remember when we had these static textbooks and we thought about curriculum this way? They decided to use LearnZillion to craft their curriculum so it focused on text-dependent questions and writing about reading. That was rough.

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5 Favorite Activities to End the School Year

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It has eighteen units that blend tech knowledge into the real world. Topics include If-Then Adventure Stories; Research and Develop a Topic; Technology, Ethics, and Security; Plan an Event; Technology’s Role in Current Events; Plan and Budget ; and eleven more. Let students pick the skills they would like to learn.

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Facebook and Fake News: Esther Wojcicki On Teaching Digital Journalism in High School

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We teach them all the rules and ethics of the press. I propose teachers do the traditional lecture, textbook method for 80 percent of the time. It's called the blended learning method that we're doing in Palo Alto Unified Schools. Because journalism and all these platforms, they're simply just that.

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Dreaming bigger for Iowa education

Dangerously Irrelevant

we trained district curriculum leaders in various blended learning models ? like some states and districts, we created open access textbooks and taught teachers how to curate open educational resources (OER), thus freeing up textbook monies for other purposes? ’ Serve your detention or lose your textbooks.