Big Deal Media K-12 Technology Newsletter

April 03, 2017

 

NetSupport DNA - Managing Your IT Assets While Better Safeguarding Students

Managing Your IT Assets While Better Safeguarding Students

Combine the cost- and time-saving benefits of education-focused IT Asset Management software while utilizing unique student Internet safety controls and multiplatform classroom management features to better leverage the value of technology-led learning. Visit NetSupport’s website for more information or a free trial.

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Standing Desks - How and Why Educators Are Using Them

Funding & Recognition

Standing Desks That Make a Difference

In the words of teachers, introducing adjustable standing desks into the classroom is a game changer. Not only are there health benefits to introducing standing, but there are also learning benefits. Additionally, LearnFit adjustable standing desks are naturally mobile, removing classroom furniture as an obstacle for learning and teaching. View the edWeb.net PD webinar for a CE Certificate. You will hear from two educators about their experiences implementing mobile standing desks into their classrooms, including their observations, insights, and challenges in making the transition to a standing classroom. The webinar will also present additional information, data, and resources for helping to build the case for standing desks at your school. Find more information on Ergotron’s Just Stand for Kids web page or view a video case study about one of the presenting teacher’s standing classroom.

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Computer Science Curriculum

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Project-based Computer Science Curriculum

Mobile Computer Science Principles (Mobile CSP) offers an Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles (AP CSP) curriculum for students in grades 9–12 to learn computer science by building socially useful mobile apps. 

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Virtual Exchange Program

Social Media

Virtual Cross-Cultural Exchange Program

Campfire is a virtual exchange program that leverages technology to enable meaningful cross-cultural dialogue and collaboration.

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Poetry App poetryfoundation.org

Mobile Learning

Mobile Poetry Library

With The Poetry FoundationPOETRY mobile app for iOS and Android, students can take hundreds of poems by classic and contemporary poets with them wherever they go.

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Grants for Health

Funding & Recognition

Grants for Health Initiatives

Game On Grants, sponsored by Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK), fund physical activity and nutrition initiatives to support K–12 schools in becoming nationally recognized as health-promoting institutions.

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VR Art & Culture blvrd.com

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Virtual Field Trips to Cultural Sites

Boulevard (formerly WoofbertVR) offers educators and students the opportunity to explore art galleries all over the world, fostering student discovery without leaving school and adding new energy to classroom discussions.

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National Coding Competition playcodemonkey.com

Funding & Recognition

Coding Competition Combining Learning with Playing

CodeMonkey, in partnership with DK Publishing, has launched Code Rush, a national coding competition created for elementary and middle schools in the United States.

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National Constitution Center

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Videos Sharing Personal Thoughts on the Constitution

The National Constitution Center (NCC) and iCivics have launched a digital initiative called “WeLoveTheConstitution,” inviting people of all perspectives to record videos celebrating America’s founding document, the US Constitution. 

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Harrassment Bullying gse.harvard.edu

Professional Growth

Stories to Spark Shared Conversations

One and All is a project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for creating, posting, and sharing stories, videos, and resources to spark a shared conversation about how educators can protect students, respond to harassment, and build strong, positive and inclusive schools.

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Drop Everything and Read

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Activities in Celebration of Reading

“Drop Everything and Read” (D.E.A.R.) is a national month-long celebration designed to remind people of all ages to make reading a priority activity in their lives. 

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Algebra App nudgemath.com

Mobile Learning

Algebra Tutorials

Nudge an iPad and Android app from Benciti Technology, provides students with interactive, on-demand algebra tutorials.

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News Literacy

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Lessons for Developing News Literacy

A Washington, DC–based organization, the News Literacy Project is piloting a virtual classroom called Checkology, where teachers and students in grades 8–12 can access digitally a dozen lessons, many of which are taught by journalists in the field. 

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Community Action Contest

Funding & Recognition

Challenge to Inspire Courageous Action

Middle school and high school students have the chance to win scholarships of up to $5,000—and additional money for their educators and schools—by entering the annual IWitness Video Challenge hosted by USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education at University of Southern California

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Program Evaluation

Professional Growth

Effectiveness of Math and Reading Programs

A new website geared toward school administrators rates instructional programs for K–12 reading and mathematics based on the criteria for judging their effectiveness that are laid out in the new federal education law. 

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STEM Activities sciencefriday.com

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Weekly STEM Podcasts

Covering the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies, Science Friday is the source for entertaining and educational stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff.

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Space Game App thix.co

Mobile Learning

Galaxy in a Game

Designed by THIX for the iPad and iPhone, the SPACE game invites students to create their own universe by building asteroids, nebula, comets, planets, moons, stars, pulsars, and even black holes.

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Skype Around the World

Social Media

Real-Time Translation Tool

Skype has made it easier to connect with people halfway around the world, even if they speak different languages.

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Environmental Education

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Design-based Learning for Environmental Stewardship

NEXT.cc is eco web that develops ethical imagination and environmental stewardship through activities and links to cultural heritage institutions.

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