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Take a look at these great ideas on what you can do on Digital Learning Day!
This flyer, created by library media specialist Robyn Young from Avon High School in Indiana, includes recommendations for teachers and ideas that technology leaders, principals, or district leaders can encourage educators to do on Digital Learning Day. We recommend you use these ideas or develop your own based upon her recommendation.
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Congratulations, you made it! Friday has arrived and soon you will be on your way to watching Saturday morning cartoons. That is, if you haven’t already started. But if you happen to still be in the office, enjoy the latest in education news.
The Washington Post reports the United States Attorney in the Western District of Pennsylvania has activated a hotline where citizens can report “suspected possible corruption in public education.” This stems from a probe of schools throughout the state regarding improprieties from the 2009 PSSA tests.
According to the Associated Press, California educators and childcare advocates are protesting Governor Jerry Brown's proposal to dismantle a new program for children who are no longer old enough for kindergarten. The plan doesn't provide funding for "transitional kindergarten," a new grade level created when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation that raised the starting age for kindergarten.
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Genvieve Dorsey is a sixth grade teacher at Herman Intermediate School in San Jose, California. She is also involved with the school’s ADVENTURE STEM Program.
When I first learned about a hands-on, blended, game-design program for my classroom - Globaloria, I thought to myself, this has to be a part of our STEM program in Oak Grove. This was a chance for my students to be able to learn how to program their own educational web games based on what they’re learning in the classroom. This was a perfect, relevant and exciting solution for our Silicon Valley students to engage in project-based learning.
Read Entire PostThirty-six states, representing 79 percent of the teachers and students in the U.S., have signed up to host their own personalized version of Digital Learning Day.
Visit the state events section of the Digital Learning Day website to see if your state is among the participants. If it is, reach out to learn more (get more information by clicking on your state on the list on the left) or reach out to your department of education or other state organization to recommend that they get involved!
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Don't fret, you're almost there. One more pit stop on the road to an extended weekend. In the meantime, enjoy the latest in education news.
The Huffington Post reports that parents in Middletown, Connecticut are protesting the use of what they're calling "scream rooms" by Farm Hill Elementary School as a way of disciplining misbehaving students. The rooms have essentially been used as a “time-out” space for students who have become unruly or disruptive.
District of Columbia Public Schools is set to receive $21 million to cover cost overruns after the District Chief Financial Officer revised the revenue forecast to include an additional $42.2 million. But the Washington Post reports that the city’s charter schools are objecting to Mayor Vincent C. Gray asking the D.C. Council to appropriate half of it to the city’s 123-school system and are looking to stake a claim for some of the revenue.
Read Entire PostLearning Stations To Reach Every Student
Kim Sharp, an English teacher at Klein Forest High School in Houston, Texas, shares how learning stations help her meet the needs of individual students in her class.
It's More About Learning than Digital for LFA
Cheryl Williams, the executive director of the Learning First Alliance, discusses the importance of how a teacher relates to students, engages their interest, and opens the world of intellectual curiosity and how technology and digital learning can help a teacher make this happen.
It’s the middle of the week so you can wave goodbye to Monday and Tuesday and finish up Wednesday strong and in the know with the latest in education news. Teacher Beat reports that the U.S. Department of Education has selected the panelists who will write new regulations for the reporting requirements for teacher preparation programs. The is a step in the education reform process that will readdress teacher preparation and evaluations.
Earlier the Alliance mentioned the tension brewing between teacher unions and school districts that may put schools in jeopardy of losing federal funding. According to the New York Times, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a blistering statement, saying "the forces that protect this bureaucracy have stymied reform at every turn." The governor urged both sides to come to an agreement.
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We hear a lot of talk about adding more days to the school year and more hours to the school day. And I’ll ‘fess up: I don’t disagree. After all, if we are talking about making school correspond more to the “real world,” then we can’t end our teaching at 3:00 P.M. any more than we would want our students to end their learning at 3:00 P.M.Recent educational movements toward blended learning, the combination of face-to-face and online strategies, extend learning beyond the bell and support lifelong learning.
Learning strategies for blended learning may cause some growing pains, but I assure you, it will result in a curriculum that can stand straight and tall under the scrutiny of college and career readiness. When you think about it, functioning online is a real world skill, and blended learning is about modeling that skill.
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