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The new initiative provides students with VR equipment to create short films on social issues. MoreNaya Salah, a seventh grader at Stratford School's Santa Clara Middle School, uses a videoconferencing system called Beam to attend school as she recovers from leukemia and gets chemotherapy. More
Viewpoint
There are some that use technology to support construction-oriented pedagogies — maker movement, project-based learning — and some that use technology to support instruction-oriented pedagogies — personalized learning. Instruction may well be less costly to deliver — but the loss of the opportunity to develop our children’s creativity is inestimable. More
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has launched StudyPop, a new iOS app designed to turn studying into a game. MoreNComputing has launched the Chromebook CX110 and Chrome app, paving the way for American schools to easily run Windows applications on their Chromebooks. MoreCareerVillage, a nonprofit that aims to help low-income students better prepare for their future, is teaming up with Dell to produce TechWeek, an online networking campaign from May 16 to 20. Dell is giving CareerVillage $100,000 to aid in its mission. MoreReadWorks, a provider of reading comprehension curricula, is producing free summer reading packets for K-12 students. MoreIf adults want to help teenagers learn how to handle the big risks of Internet usage, the best thing we can do is let them get used to handling smaller risky online situations. That's the conclusion from a Pennsylvania State University research project that examined adolescent online safety. MoreGale has added a new archive, American Fiction, 1774-1920, to its Primary Sources program. MoreThe latest release for iOS now has full Cardboard support, enabling any YouTube video to be viewed in VR mode. More
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