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Can Video Games Help Early Learners Grow?

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“They're not going to be able to even use the controller with great effect,” says Heather Kirkorian, an associate professor of human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the impact of screen media on infants and young children.

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iPads Did Not Revolutionize Campus Teaching (But a Few Colleges Give Every Student One)

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“We’re very interested in having the mobile technology used outside the classroom where so much learning takes place,” says Hiram president Lori Varlotta. Students will be able to capture video and write about their experiences when they’re studying abroad or working on research projects.”

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What Would Abe Lincoln’s Social Media Campaign Look Like? A New Classroom Use For Twitter and Facebook

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But Obama’s use of mobile devices and social media changed political campaigns forever. Teachers Know Best, 2015 Report This sort of thinking on the part of your students fits neatly into the four dimensions of the National Council for the Social Studies Inquiry Arc and my own C4 Framework. I’m curious.

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How To Find a Job When You’re Not Looking

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EdSurge is hosting a series of spring fairs this April! It only takes a few months of working in a corrosive environment to realize that organizational culture isn’t just the stuff of case studies. And if it has anything to do with education, consider dropping by the next EdSurge meetup or job fair! San Francisco, April 10th.

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Mobile Apps Are a Must to Attract and Engage Students—Here's How Colleges Can Build Them

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LaKisha included descriptions of programs of study and student resources and an interactive campus map that highlights important landmarks, allowing visitors to easily find their way around. By supplementing in-person tours with a mobile tours app, colleges are able to reach more students without adding staff. Career Fair.

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Palmdale School District’s Technological Transformation: Equity, Innovation, and Literacy

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Kevin Hogan Now you mentioned devices as part of that initiative and what I read at mobile devices are a. As I mentioned before, we started recording we’re finding in our coverage over the past several months that there’s a little bit of a blowback when it comes to the use of mobile devices.

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Looking for a Class Robot? Try Robo Wunderkind

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Fair warning: This robot doesn’t look like the famous humanoid robots of literature–C3PO or Marvin the Paranoid Android (from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ), with arms, legs, and a head. Lessons are each about five hours and cover topics like road safety, math, art, and nature studies. That’s it!