By Joe Robertson, The Kansas City Star, Mo. (MCT) This is the future American school? Really? “You guys are killing me!” teacher Don Labonte shouts. He’s laughing. He’s roaring back over the din of sixth-grade science students who are hurling arguments over the custom-made board game that is the curriculum for the hour. But he [...]
Video Games Key to Learning for Chicago Charter School
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Scaling Up a Video Game-Learning Link
Isn’t it time we leveled up? By Michael H. Levine & Alan Gershenfeld At an event at the White House in September, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the establishment of the Digital Promise, a nonprofit initiative created to promote digital technologies with the potential to transform teaching and learning. Experts on digital media [...]
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Schools address use of social media
First published in Newark Advocate Oct. 30, 2011 Navigating the ever-changing online world can be tricky for educators looking for new ways to reach their students. Some districts have written policies regarding social media use for teachers outside the classroom; for others, there’s at least an expectation that teachers won’t “friend” their students on Facebook [...]
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