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How to use PBL with makerspaces across your curriculum

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Makerspace PBL is all about culture,” he said. “Do If you don’t have failure built into your maker education and your PBL system, just forget it. Embracing those failures has to be part of your culture.” Do your students feel safe to build? “Do Do your students feel safe to build? Do your students feel safe to screw up?

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The Real Reason Your Translation App Will Never Replace Language Learning

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Of all the classroom subjects technology is poised to change, perhaps none stoke the imagination quite like language learning. In-ear technology promises to make 40 languages comprehensible in approximately two seconds lag time. I also teach remotely and write content for an app-based English language-learning product.

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7 ways to rethink school/family partnerships

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Some parents remember their success, but others remember the negative adults and failure from their school career. These barriers can include time, language, and modes of communication. Counselors, social workers, support groups, and outside partnerships have an opportunity to impact the entire school culture.

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Forward Failures, Future of Work and What’s (Not) the Next Big Thing in Edtech

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Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose. However, innovating schools and actually putting those calls to practice can get messy, and it appeared that one theme throughout the event was about facing and learning from those failures. Many transferred for sure, but many didn’t.”

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How to Engage Your Students With the 12-Minute Rule and Quizzes They’re Meant to Fail

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So are most of the students taking the cultural competency quiz Professor John Branch gives out near the beginning of his MBA-level International Marketing class at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. But failure is the whole point of the exercise. Failure is the point of the exercise,” he says.

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Catapulting Teachers Into School Leadership Positions Too Soon Comes With a Cost

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I found myself burning out and I didn’t have the language to advocate for my needs, let alone hold that space for the staff I was responsible for. It also helped that I was from the community I was serving, which enabled me to navigate many of the cultural nuances of working in our school. When I got home, I was tapped out.

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Building Education Technology for the Developing World

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Two and a half million laptops later, some critics point out the project’s failures with its Western-centric approach and “technologically utopian” vision that hailed technology as the answer to difficult social problems. Another factor that also often gets lost amidst the focus on devices is the cultural relevance of the content.