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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

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She makes a concerted effort to encourage Latino students at her high school to take computer science classes. Antonio Vigil is director of innovative classroom technology at Aurora Public Schools in Colorado. But one of the first obstacles she has to help them overcome is their own self-doubt. “I

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The Importance of Math Manipulatives: A Math Playground

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Perhaps books will have a diagram or teachers will attempt to explain a way to visualize a higher level math concept, but rarely do math textbooks and other math exercises for middle and high school explicitly focus on visualizations.

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