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1/13/12
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PLAYBACK: Pedagogy, Coding and Teaching Kids to Think Deeply
Idaho teachers resist technology push; teens adapt the Xbox to help patients; & why learning to code may be harder than you think, all in this week’s Playback.1/09/12
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Why Your 2012 New Year’s Resolution Should Be Learning to Code
270,000 sign up for free online programming lessons through Codecademy.12/19/11
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Sarah Jackson
Google Gives Funding to Girl Scouts to Promote STEM Education
The Girls Scouts, which turns 100 in 2012, is going tech with the help of Google and others.12/16/11
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Sarah Jackson
PLAYBACK: Profits Ahead of Quality in Online Charters?
Virtual schools face criticism on funding, quality and oversight; HASTAC’S Cathy Davidson offers advice to parents and students on how to make better decisions about what constitutes effective online learning; and much more, all in this week’s PLAYBACK…12/13/11
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School Leaders Collaborate on Best Practices for District-Level Digital Media Policy
School leaders from around the country met in Washington, D.C., last week to collaborate on creating models for digital media use policies in K-12 education.12/08/11
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Digital Media and Learning Competition Announces Stage One Winners in Badges for Lifelong Learning
The Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition announced 60 winners of stage one this week, part of the annual Digital Media and Learning Competition.12/07/11
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Why Online Learning Should Not Mean Replacing Teachers With Computers
The Nation covers efforts to expand virtual schools and online learning that may lead to more classrooms without teachers. But experts say realizing technology’s potential must include adult guidance and support.12/02/11
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PLAYBACK: Tweeting History, Literature and Politics, and the Future of News
Tweeting world history; the value of short-form writing; teenager, 1-governor, 0; and how Knight and Mozilla are reframing journalism for the digital age—all in this week’s Playback.11/29/11
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Sarah Jackson
Hashtags for Education
A resource, a search engine, a gathering place—educators are discovering valuable uses for Twitter, from finding information to creating community.11/21/11
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Sarah Jackson
Digital Media in Early Childhood? Not Without Trained Teachers and Guidance for Parents
Advocates say the role of parents, families and teachers needs to be brought to the foreground in debates over the appropriate use of technology in teaching and learning for the preschool set.11/16/11
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Can You Design Video Games to Teach STEM? National Challenge Open to Students and Pros
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center and E-Line Media, a publisher of game-based learning products, just announced the launch of the second National STEM Video Game Challenge.11/11/11
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Sarah Jackson
PLAYBACK: The (Mostly) Kind Social Networking Spaces Teens Find Online and Learning How to Learn
New study examines teens’ experience on social network sites; teaching kids to search online; the expansion of YOUmedia; and Twitter memorials for Veteran’s Day….11/10/11
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Why Professors Need to Do a Better Job of Teaching Effective Online Communication Skills
Ron Tanner, a professor of writing at Loyola University Maryland, has an important piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education this week about why colleges need to do a better job of teaching students to understand and produce texts online—“an essential skill” for their future.11/07/11
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iPads & Autism: Can Technology Help Kids Communicate?
A school in Toronto is using iPads to help autistic children reach development goals. But the technology is not a miracle cure.10/31/11
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