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Students in Georgia’s Muscogee County School District take ownership of their learning through a strategic rollout of differentiated instruction and personalized learning.

Student anxiety and depression are on the rise, and adolescent suicides are increasing. The statistics are alarming:

“Technology changes drastically, but if we don't expose our kids to these types of environments, they'll never be able to succeed in the future,” said Mac.

Graphic Organizers are used daily in education for any curriculum to help teach any subject.

Engage: Hero is Called

National Geographic Kids provides a great many high-quality visual learning tools.

As traditional sources of funding decrease, securing grants is a reasonable supplement to established funding.

The challenge took students through an online environment of the sport; set up with milestones and labs to uncover information needed to create deliverables.

Read about the rhetorical touches Thomas Paine employed in this pamphlet which galvanized colonial thought about breaking away from Mother England.

According to recent research, 1 in 6 students miss three weeks or more of school per year.

The visionary Professor of Educational Technology headed Friday afternoon’s keynote lineup.

I’m starting to get the feeling that we’ve reached critical mass. When I work with social studies teachers around the country, I always make sure they’re familiar with the work by Sam Wineburg and the Stanford History Education Group.

Two screens really can be better than one

This year I am SUPER excited to teach a new class this year called "Engineering for Social Good". Click here for a short version of our class syllabus. For each of the five projects I plan to facilitate in the course, I will post a similar blog post to share the successes and failures of the course as I modify it for future years.   For our first project of the year, we are leveraging the "Drawdio", a device imagined and designed by Jay Silver. Click here and here to learn more about the Drawdio circuit and here to view Jay's incredible TED Talk. Click here to purchase your own Drawdio kit.  After a brief  live demonstration of how the Drawdio circuit works, I provided the students with the following prompt: In 1979, Mattel created a game called "Electronic Connection". Using your Drawdio circuit, develop a game, made in the the spiriting of Electronic Connection, that helps young learners (4-5 years old) improve their fine motor control and handwriting skills. We will then deliver the games to local Preschool and Kindergarten classrooms. Go!  We finished prototypes today and I was absolutely blown away with the way the natural prototyping process happened seamlessly when the end user was clearly defined. The the low barrier to entry associated with this device and the "window" it opens to the subsequent learning of the interior electronics of the device make this activity one that acts as a perfect inquiry opening for this new course.  See videos of two student prototypes in action below: 

Microsoft wants to power the teachers of 2030

The second day at Bett 2020 was off to an incredible start with the insightful Made by Dyslexia panel.

Tech & Learning’s Best of Show awards are an opportunity for companies to showcase their products in this esteemed publication.

The only thing better than teaching interested children about science, technology, engineering and math is doing it for free.

Microsoft’s keynote led with new research that examined what teachers would need in the classroom of 2030.

Using tech tools to enhance project-based learning helped one teacher personalize lessons and reach all her students, regardless of knowledge gaps and multi-level abilities.