The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

CoSN 2014 Annual Conference Reminder. March 19th - 22nd in Washington DC will be the annual CoSN Conference. The conference starts with an opening "Town Hall Forum" with the Hon. The conference starts with an opening "Town Hall Forum" with the Hon. Learning Revolution Online Conference: Call for Proposals.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

New Flipgrid updates will launch and be livestreamed from Minneapolis on August 1 at Flipgrid’s annual educator conference, #FlipgridLIVE. Varying exercises are designed to support learning every step of the way, and the FingerPaths keyboard helps students intuitively visualize key locations and finger movements.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This annual conference mainly took place at Science Leadership Academy (SLA) High School at Center City. I first heard about SLA/EduCon when reading Reinventing Project-Based Learning last fall, and then read about SLA again a few months later as one of four schools highlighted in Running with Robots.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Building community around game-based learning requires reaching out into the media space that reaches teachers—whether that be webinars, news articles, conferences, social media, or networking events,” said Rushton. Other games are designed specifically for humanities classrooms.

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Fractus Learning

JUNE 13, 2016

By acknowledging that teachers can have bad days (shock–they aren’t robots!), MTW calls these exercises rituals because the idea is that you practice them every day, ritualistically, rather than as the need arises (because really, that’s too late). Empathy–it’s not just for futuristic sci-fi robots!

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Building community around game-based learning requires reaching out into the media space that reaches teachers—whether that be webinars, news articles, conferences, social media, or networking events,” said Rushton. Other games are designed specifically for humanities classrooms.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

By demonstrating the various types of training equipment–from mechatronics to robotic arms, 3D printers, pneumatic trainers, AC/DC electricity trainers, and more–students understand the big picture of how this dynamic and engaging learning environment equips them with the skills they need to succeed.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

CES2017 The best of show from the CES2017 Conference, the largest global gathering technology trade show, has been curated by tech publications like Wired , Engadget , and PC. While Ozobot is not new to the “easy programmable robot” scene, this little guy brings new features we hadn’t seen in the Ozobot family. Learn more > goo.gl/gH6Mp0

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Two teachers, seated at U-shaped tables on opposite ends of the classroom, were going through a reading exercise with four kids each, helping them sound out letters. He also described his product as “a robot tutor in the sky that can semi-read your mind and figure out what your strengths and weaknesses are, down to the percentile.”.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us. There are promises about “ brain zapping ” to speed up learning. The research is iffy at best.).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 4, 2024

I have often done an exercise with educators that I call the conditions of learning. I gave a keynote address on this idea at a statewide education conference, and after I spoke I sat down at the speaker table next to the state superintendent of education. What did you think of my talk,” I asked.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 1, 2023

I quoted The National Council of Teachers of English’s “ Statement on Classroom Libraries ” as it “supports efforts to provide teachers with the ability to exercise their professional judgment in developing and maintaining classroom libraries and to support them with financial resources to do so.” We want your children to learn and grow.

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2021

Gifted education teachers at the National Association for Gifted Children’s 2019 conference work on a toothpick-and-gumdrop tower, an exercise sometimes done in “talent development” classes. The district invites parents and teachers to activities such as the annual conferences of two Illinois gifted education groups.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 17, 2021

While Dr. Albrecht's twice-monthly podcast and blog posts are available for free, as are our regular mini-conferences and all the conference recordings , there is a cost to attending our series of webinars with him or watching the recordings, and details are here. Don't get robotic in your answers, greetings, or wrap-ups.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Erika Sandstrom, who currently works with students in grades 4-8 in Massachusetts, created a custom, animated template–something she calls “ Breathing Bubbles ”–that helps her students with mindfulness and breathing exercises. This ability to personalize each exercise improved student engagement. Right now in my U.S.

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Educator Innovator

JANUARY 6, 2014

Her class had previously used the FabLab to create wire armatures, onto which they would glob clay; an exercise that the students got quickly bored with. I have heard grumblings at numerous conferences that staff in libraries and museums across the US are stretched thin. She had no experience using the FabLab’s tools (e.g.,

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Educator Innovator

JANUARY 6, 2014

Her class had previously used the FabLab to create wire armatures, onto which they would glob clay; an exercise that the students got quickly bored with. I have heard grumblings at numerous conferences that staff in libraries and museums across the US are stretched thin. She had no experience using the FabLab’s tools (e.g.,

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User Generated Education

JULY 2, 2017

Articles, resources on social media, and conference presentations on these topics are proliferating at a rate that most educators are now familiar with maker education. Let me be really clear, making is not simply 3D printing, Art Lino, Raspberry Pi, LEDs, robots, laser and vinyl cutters. ” Mitch Resnick in [link].

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

This talk was presented today at the Designs on eLearning conference. I confess: I was immediately intrigued by the theme to this year’s conference – “Anxiety and Security.” It has become a routine exercise to demonstrate this in classes in elementary psychology by conditioning such an organism as a pigeon.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Controversies within the science of reading A growing number of researchers are criticizing an overemphasis on auditory skills In this story about the over-teaching of phonemic awareness, I explained how companies encouraged schools to spend a lot of time on sound exercises when the research evidence in teaching reading said otherwise.

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Hack Education

JUNE 21, 2020

I gave this keynote this morning at the ICLS Conference, not in Nashville as originally planned (which is a huge bummer as I really want some hot chicken). It was October 29, 2019 when I sent the conference organizers my title and abstract. I tend to be pretty skeptical about exercises in "reimagining school."

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Indeed, the World Bank issued a report in January arguing that digital technologies – not just robots in factories – stand to widen inequalities as well, “and even hasten the hollowing out of middle-class employment.” None of this has played out equitably, as the benefits have accrued in management and not by labor.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Start Holding Weekly Data Conferences." There were other high profile incidents as well: the refusal, for example, to give visas to the all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan. They monitor all sorts of activities – sleep, exercise, and more – of student athletes. I call b t.)

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