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Celebrating the Future of Learning, One Region at a Time

Digital Promise

RLDAA events will be held across nine regions this spring: Remake Learning Days – Eastern KY : April 12–20, 2019. Remake Learning Days – Knoxville, TN : April 15–20, 2019. Remake Learning Days – Southwestern PA : May 9–19, 2019. Remake Learning Days – West Virginia : May 9–19, 2019. Spark curiosity and learning for youth.

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If we don’t engage online, we cede mindshare to others who will

Dangerously Irrelevant

Please join Dr. Heather Johnson and me for one or both of our two Spring 2019 social media workshops for SEHD faculty and students! ]. As a faculty member who has an outsized social media presence ( 53,000+ Twitter followers ; video series with 100+ million views ; one of the top education blogs in the world , etc.),

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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

Edsurge

From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. Department of Education, privacy advocacy groups and a school district explore how to find the right balance between the two ideals. Students’ Safety or Privacy?

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Trying to improve remote learning? A refugee camp offers some surprising lessons

The Hechinger Report

Generation Z students may be digital natives, easily connecting with friends and family on social media apps, but that doesn’t mean they understand how to use the internet as a tool. For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling.

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Teaching ‘action civics’ engages kids — and ignites controversy

The Hechinger Report

Larry Paska, the executive director of the National Council for the Social Studies, challenges this characterization of action civics, saying it’s far broader than political protest. Related: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds. Teachers, for their part, tend to side with the liberals.

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Child care workers organize for better pay and treatment

The Hechinger Report

In California, Child Care Providers United, which represents more than 40,000 home-based providers, won the right to collective bargaining in 2019 , and last year secured a second substantial reimbursement increase from the state for many home child care providers. We were running ads on social media.

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Educational Leadership for Social Good

EdTechTeam

EdTechTeam is a California Benefit Corporation , dedicated to effecting positive change in schools, and currently supporting a number of advocacy programs including the Our Voice Academy and the nonprofit Student Voice Foundation. Guest blogging opportunities: Educators can share success stories around social good or global collaboration.