Technology in the Classroom: Product Guide

Edutopia - 49 min 45 sec ago
Forest Lake Elementary takes advantage of technology to personalize the learning process. Find out what tools educators and students use in these 21-century classrooms.
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Five Ways to Empower Students

Edutopia - 7 hours 18 min ago
Teacher, student and blogger Adora Svitak explains how teachers can give students a more empowering role in their own education.
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Ten Websites for Science Teachers

Edutopia - Tue 7 Feb at 3:20 PM
Blogger Eric Brunsell takes us on a tour of his favorite online resources for science teachers.
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New Teacher Academy: How to Work with Parents

Edutopia - Tue 7 Feb at 7:55 AM
In week four of Lisa Dabbs' New Teacher Academy series, guest blogger Shelly Sanchez Terrell talks about the benefits of working with the parents of students.
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Writing

Education Week - Mon 6 Feb at 9:02 PM
Students' reading skills benefit from instruction in writing, according to a research review in the winter issue of the Harvard Education Review.
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Many States Receive 'D' or 'F' in Review of Science Standards

Education Week - Mon 6 Feb at 9:02 PM
A new report offers a "bleak picture" of the state of state science standards across the nation.
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Small, Rural Districts Test Four-Day Week

Education Week - Mon 6 Feb at 9:02 PM
The Montgomery County school system about 80 miles west of St. Louis is among a growing number of rural Missouri districts that have eliminated one day from the school week.
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Threat to Transitional Kindergarten Roils Calif.

Education Week - Mon 6 Feb at 9:02 PM
Educators and preschool advocates urge state lawmakers to reject eliminating the new program as a budget move.
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Ed. Experts Critique 'Digital Learning Day'

Education Week - Mon 6 Feb at 9:02 PM
Advocates and critics offer their assessments of the inaugural event, which featured the release of a new federal resource advising educators about digital-textbook adoption.
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N.H. Schools Embrace Competency-Based Learning

Education Week - Mon 6 Feb at 9:02 PM
Newfound Regional High School is part of an aggressive statewide effort to make learning more about mastery and less about seat time.
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Nine Things Successful People Do Differently

Edutopia - Mon 6 Feb at 3:00 PM
Motivational psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson presents the simple yet game-changing tool of "if-then" planning.
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Do You Write with Your Students?

Edutopia - Mon 6 Feb at 7:18 AM
Blogger Rebecca Alber shares how writing and reading with your students can make a difference.
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Head in the Clouds: The Benefits of Celestial Storage

Edutopia - Fri 3 Feb at 5:00 PM
Blogger Nick Provenzano presents five ways that cloud computing helps him as a teacher.
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Fallen in Love

Fresno Library - Fri 3 Feb at 8:52 AM

Every Friday we give a new book away. To get the book, it's simple: just be the first to fill out the form at the bottom of the page. (Note: you must be a Fresno County resident to be eligible for Free Fridays.)

Fallen in Love by Lauren Kate
(a companion to the Fallen books)

What makes your heart race a little faster? Just in time for Valentine's Day, it's Fallen in Love, four wholly original new stories collected in a new novel set in the Middle Ages by Lauren Kate. 

Fallen in Love gives fans the much-talked about but never-revealed stories of Fallen characters as they intertwine with the epic love story of Luce and Daniel. The stories include: Love Where You Least Expect It: The Valentine of Shelby and Miles , Love Lessons: The Valentine of Roland; Burning Love: The Valentine of Arriane; and Endless Love: The Valentine of Daniel and Lucinda.

Also includes a preview of her next book, Rapture! 

Congrats to Juanita! Your book is on its way.

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The Hole in the Wall Project and the Power of Self-Organized Learning

Edutopia - Fri 3 Feb at 7:53 AM
Sugata Mitra's Hole in the Wall project showed that children could teach themselves, and each other, how to use technology.
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Five-Year-Olds Pilot Their Own Project-Based Learning

Edutopia - Fri 3 Feb at 12:00 AM
[VIDEO] Student-driven projects, enhanced by technology, launch kindergartners on a journey of lifelong learning.
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Shop is Not a Four-Letter Word

Edutopia - Thu 2 Feb at 4:10 PM
Blogger Jim Berman opens our eyes to the increasing value of offering career and technical education at the high school level.
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How College-Bound Students of Color Should Prepare for Life in a Predominantly White Campus

Edutopia - Thu 2 Feb at 12:13 PM
Blogger Danielle Moss Lee discusses the cultural assumptions that students of color might face on a predominantly white college campus.
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