Cycles of Learning

OCTOBER 1, 2018

If you are like me as a science teacher, you simultaneously live the acronym "STEM" and are exhausted by its overuse in nearly every blog, set of state standards, or professional development seminar that comes to town ( Full disclosure : I often facilitate those seminars).

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

Examples include small-group brainstorming and “Mini Socratics” (small-group Socratic Seminars), gamification methods giving students points for each component they’ve completed in an assignment, small-group peer reviews where students reflect on each other’s ideas instead of correcting errors, and more.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

STEAM-based learning emphasizes both hands-on and digital experiences with engineering, art, game design, prototyping in makerspaces, authoring, robotics, and much more. In connection with the internship, all students participate in an Integrative Seminar where we explore connections between their internships and coursework.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2017

Here in the Pittsburgh region, educators from the Remake Learning Network —a coalition of more than 250 schools, universities, libraries, startups, nonprofits, museums—offer several hundred peer-led programs, including workshops, peer networks, one-on-one mentorship programs, and summer seminars.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

In the Minerva Project, TAL is much more interested in the technology that allows the company to run online, asynchronous seminars (dubbed “ The Active Learning Forum ”) than launching new universities. Sinovation also funds companies in other technology sectors including robotics and Big Data.) edtech startups. The San Mateo, Calif.-based

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2015

Why our ELA department dropped seminars in favor of real, ongoing professional development. Most of these were one-day seminars, with every teacher in the school or district in attendance. During my forty plus years in education, I have spent countless hours sitting in professional development sessions.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

They find dozens of free seminars and keynote talks, several hundred exhibitors, and many special events outside of the official program, including seminars run by Microsoft and Google and debates hosted by Smart. The sheer number of robots of various shapes and sizes was striking. 4 THEMES FROM THIS YEAR’S SHOW 1.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Bett is primarily about the business of education; this means that outside the keynotes, presentations and seminars (of which there are many), most of what goes on are meetings and events for vendors and their distribution partner ecosystems. At 34 years old, Bett is younger than ISTE (considered the U.S.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 29, 2016

If you had to design a robot to replace a teacher what would look like and what would it be able to do? This was the task students were asked to perform during a student led seminar earlier today. This was how it worked: Three groups of students were each asked to design their robots and post them using the web sharing tool Nearpod.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 12, 2017

It's sometimes hard to see how listening in lectures, attending seminars, and sitting exams promotes these skills. As global management consultants McKinsey and Company rightly identify, jobs in the near future will increasingly come under threat from artificial intelligence and robotics.

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MindShift

JULY 1, 2016

“So the last couple of seminars we’ve been talking about technologies that will potentially change the world,” the 39-year-old Louisiana native tells the students. “We did self-driving cars, virtual reality; we talked about life extension, and robots.” The seminar topic when I visited?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 14, 2024

Craddock has conducted seminars at the White House, the Bay Area MakerFaire, and South Carolina Association of School Libraries. IdaMae Craddock Librarian, Albemarle County Public Schools, Community Lab Schools, Virginia OPENING KEYNOTE PANEL A 22 year veteran of Albemarle County, IdaMae Craddock, M.Ed

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 14, 2014

World View brings together university faculty, regional experts, and global educators from across the country and organizes professional development opportunities including seminars, conferences and symposiums, online courses, and study visits abroad. Register here.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 4, 2023

Other possibilities are Socratic seminars or student-led discussions. Though I’m committed to advance planning as the best way to meet student needs and maintain work-life balance, I definitely still make day-to-day adjustments — I’m not a robot compulsively following a plan. You can plan in advance AND make day-to-day adjustments.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

It’s not always like this, Egler assured us, a group of education journalists visiting as part of the Education Writers Association’s Rethinking the American High School seminar. The scene is chaotic, but not out of control.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs. The slides are also available here. Thank you very much for inviting me here to speak today.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Here’s the Boing Boing headline on a new journal article about the Manne seminars at George Mason University : “A data-driven look at the devastating efficacy of a far-right judge-education program.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The robot presents as a black female? The Business of Job Training.

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