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Personalizing history for more impactful student learning

eSchool News

Personalized paths, oral histories, and local histories are strategies that resonate with the NCSS definition to bring the human experience into the K-12 classroom, because these strategies allow students to determine how their life fits into the story of history and to discover why the past matters to them.

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Need Inspiration Designing Station Rotation Lessons for your Math, English, History, or Science Class?

Catlin Tucker

So, I’ve created the following idea documents brainstorming learning activities that teachers in math, English, and history may find helpful as they plan for their station rotation lessons. History: Station Rotation Ideas. When I work with history teachers, I adapt and use many of the strategies I employed in my English class.

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4 edtech tools that can transform student teamwork

eSchool News

One might assume that the most desirable skills for someone entering a STEM field would be things like vast scientific knowledge or a laser-like attention to detail. Nearly every great advancement in human history involved multiple people working together to accomplish a common goal. Ive wondered about this myself on a few occasions.

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How to integrate environmental concepts into every subject

eSchool News

Theres a sense that it demands more time, more resources, and specialized knowledge. Last year, I organized the first-ever PK-12 Youth Climate Summit in history. For many schools and districts, integrating environmental topics like this into the curriculum can feel like a heavy burden.

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Indigenous Knowledge Is Often Overlooked in Education. But It Has A Lot to Teach Us.

Edsurge

The loss of my unci , a lifelong educator, my namesake, and one of the most important teachers in my life, and in the lives of many others, has prompted me to think even more deeply about how important it is for Indigenous Knowledge Systems to be not only included, but honored and affirmed in classrooms.

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STEM Careers Coalition Offering Educators No-Cost Resources to Celebrate Black STEM Leaders During Black History Month

eSchool News

NC — The STEM Careers Coalition – the first-of-its-kind national STEM initiative powered by corporate leaders and anchored in schools by Discovery Education – presents a curated collection of no-cost content celebrating the careers of Black leaders in STEM for use during Black History Month and beyond.

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The Surprising History of Google's Push to Scan Millions of Library Books

Edsurge

Schonfeld, co-author of the new book, “Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization.” We came away wondering why people don’t talk more about this bit of recent edtech history, and what lessons could still be learned from it. There were all sorts of limitations—and that's to take nothing away from the great work that was done.

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