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Wow! This inquiry-based, technology-rich school has no tech staff

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With the support of a teacher or parent as facilitator, students research, design, plan, implement, and reflect on their learning. Another inquiry-based initiative we are always working on is our Next Generation Curriculum model. Students decide what they want to learn and/or do. It gives you goosebumps, doesn’t it?

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Twig Science Nevada Approved for Statewide Use

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The Nevada Department of Education has adopted Twig Science Nevada , a complete Pre-K–6 curriculum from leading education multimedia company Twig Education , making it available for purchase statewide. Educators and schools can get started using the curriculum by visiting Twig Science Nevada. About Twig Education.

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8 maker tools to inspire next-gen innovation and design

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Ardusat offers kits and curriculum with everything students need to design their own science experiments in outer space, receive and analyze data, and publish their results. VentureLab , a Texas-based nonprofit organization, highlighted its entrepreneurship curriculum for schools.

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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

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Student data for one group of students : Some studies include only one group of students—for example, providing teachers with an online reading curriculum to try out with students and describing change between state English language arts tests administered before and after using the curriculum.

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How Makerspaces in Schools Help Students Learn to Code

EdTech Magazine

Kids were not only learning about construction and building and architecture, they were pulling out books to research designs, working together, discussing and learning from each other,” Michele Kirschenbaum, the librarian at PS 452, who was awarded a makerspace kit from the Department of Education’s Office of Library Services, told UTF. “Our

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Lexia Celebrates 40th Anniversary 

eSchool News

Nevertheless, in the year following its founding, Lexia won a major grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to fund product research, design, and development. It was out on the fringes,” said Lexia President, Nick Gaehde who joined the company as its head in 2005.

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Engineers Week — A Must for High School

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Future City challenges middle-school students to take four months to imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future using the free platform SimCity. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.