It wouldn’t be Google I/O if the company didn’t talk about all the fun stuff that they’re doing for education. Luckily, they announced Google Play for Education, which is a new section in Google Play that includes apps and games that are meant specifically for the classroom in order to help students learn in a
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Google Play for Education brings Android to the classroom
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on May 15, 2013
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South Carolina school brings robots into the classroom
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on May 4, 2013
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Wonderville Launches An Interactive Content Library And Virtual Classroom Network For Kids
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on April 28, 2013
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Last July, a group of veteran executives from eToys, eBay, Sesame Street, Discovery and Disney unveiled their ambitious plan to create a souped-up Khan Academy for kids. But rather than a straightforward port, the learning platform, called Wonderville, aimed to expand on Khan’s approach to the “flipped classroom” by aggregating educational content from a variety of third-party sources.
Classroom Clashes Over Science Education
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on June 5, 2012
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cheezitmike writes “In a two-part series, the American Academy for the Advancement of Science examines two hot-button topics that create clashes in the classroom between science teachers and conservative-leaning students, parents, school boards, and state legislatures. Part 1 looks at the struggle of teachers to cover evolution in the face of religious push-back from students and legislatures. Part 2 deals with teaching climate change, and how teachers increasingly have to deal with political pressure from those who insist that there must be two sides to the discussion.”
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Harvard, MIT online learning portal to help Web, classroom learning
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on May 3, 2012
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An online education organization backed and funded by MIT and Harvard University will use open-source technology to offer free classes over the Internet, the two schools announced Wednesday at a press conference.
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With A New Educational Platform, TED Gives Teachers The Keys To A Flipped Classroom
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on April 25, 2012
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You may know TED, not as the guy from marketing, but as the nonprofit organization devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading” — or as the set of global conferences, Talks, and videos that touch on the many heady, relevant issues surrounding Technology, Entertainment, and Design. As an increasingly powerful medium through which the world’s experts share their hard-won knowledge, TED is also an educator. In March, the organization launched the first phase of its “TED-Ed” initiative, in practice a series of a dozen short animated YouTube videos “created for high school students and lifelong learners,” in the big picture an invitation to teachers to collaborate with TED to create more effective video lessons that can be used in classrooms.
Tonight, TED is announcing the second phase of its education initiative — a website that lives on TED.com, which is designed to enable teachers to create unique lesson plans around its video content.
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Clever cameras in the classroom: Smart cameras run apps, detect license plates
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on April 13, 2012
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Columbine-type shooters, bullies, drug dealers and even tornados are just a few of the threats children face these days at school — leading some districts to turn to a new breed of ultrasmart surveillance cameras that run iPhone-style apps, can read license plates and even talk back to misbehaving students.
Twitter gets an A+ in kindergarten classroom
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on April 3, 2012
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A New York public school teacher experiments with social networking as a way to teach young students to think succinctly in 140-character messages.
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Rethinking the Social Media-Centric Classroom
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on February 12, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes “Michael Wesch has been on the lecture circuit for years touting new models of active teaching with technology. The associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University has given TED talks. Wired magazine gave him a Rave Award. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching once named him a national professor of the year. But now Mr. Wesch finds himself rethinking the fundamentals of teaching after hearing that other professors can’t get his experiments with Twitter and YouTube to work in their classes. Is the lecture best after all?”
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MusicShake Brings Its Music Creation Tool For Novices To The Classroom
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on January 24, 2012
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At some point, you may have found yourself bored out of your mind by your current music selection, and resisting the urge to try one of the eleventy million music discovery services out there, you think, “By God, I’m going to do it myself.” You rush home, download a music suite, start furiously clicking and recording, only to be sooner or later confronted by the reality that you have no idea what you’re doing, and reprimand yourself for turning down those music lessons in fourth grade.
The Korea-based, VC-funded MusicShake launched back at TechCrunch40 in 2007 to solve these woes, allowing users to create their own music in a fun an intuitive way.
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