Digital Learning • Learning Support
Managing School IT Assets While Promoting Digital Citizenship
NetSupport DNA is a suite of easy-to-use tools for managing multiplatform IT assets across a school or district. In addition to asset auto-discovery, inventory, software license management, software distribution and real-time monitoring, NetSupportDNA’s powerful internet safety tools ensure a safe digital learning environment. See how keyword and phrase monitoring, age-appropriate internet controls, and proactive identification of at-risk students empower educators to protect students while promoting digital citizenship.
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November 01, 2017
Funding & Recognition
School Garden Grant Program
A collaboration between the
Whole Kids Foundation and
FoodCorps, the
School Garden Grant Program supports edible educational gardens (growing fruits, vegetables, herbs, grains, etc.) located at schools or other nonprofit organizations.
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Mobile Learning
Sprint 4NetSafety
Sprint understands the benefits of staying connected to loved ones and friends through mobile technology. Each year more and more children and teens are receiving mobile devices. Safety is Sprint’s priority, and the company wants to help parents and educators understand the benefits and risks associated with mobile technology. Visit Sprint’s 4NetSafety website for free resources related to online safety topics, such as cyberbullying, online predators, privacy, social networking, and webcams.
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triseum.com
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Educational Gaming Journey to the Italian Renaissance
Founded out of the
LIVE Lab at
Texas A&M University,
Triseum has developed an
art history game,
ARTé: Mecenas, in which students assume the role of a Medici and balance relationships with powerful city–states, merchant factions, and the Catholic Church or risk excommunication, exile, and bankruptcy.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
TEACHERS: Your Mission – Should You Choose to Accept!
Register to be an eCYBERMISSION Teacher/Team Advisor. eCybermission is a free web-based STEM competition for students in grades 6–9 that promotes self-discovery and enables all students to recognize the real-life applications of STEM. eCYBERMISSION challenges students to develop solutions to real-world challenges in their local communities and compete for state, regional, and national awards. Teacher/Team Advisor Responsibilities include assembling a team; registering yourself and your students; assisting teams in choosing a Mission Challenge; assisting your team with their Mission Challenge; and submitting your team’s Mission Folder. Register for eCybermission by November 8, 2017, for free STEM Kits.
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classroomchampions.org
Social Media
Mentoring Experiences with Athletes
Classroom Champions brings
Olympic and Paralympic athlete mentors to classrooms via
video chats and
social media. Students will be able to interact with athletes during live events to learn lessons on goal setting, perseverance, teamwork, and courage, among other skills.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Empower Students, Inspire Ideas, and Create Change
Public school teachers are invited to enter the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest to empower students, inspire ideas, and create change. Incorporating STEAM into projects designed to help advance the interests of local communities teaches students critical thinking and, by extension, critical problem solving. Build a brighter future with STEAM by applying by November 9, 2017, for a chance to win a share of $2 million in Samsung technology!
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ignitemyfutureinschool.org
Professional Growth
Strategies for Computational Problem Solving
Tata Consultancy Services and
Discovery Education have launched
Ignite My Future in School, an initiative to transform the way students across America learn through
computational thinking, a foundational 21st century skill for successful careers in every sector. The journey into the world of
transdisciplinary instruction and
computational problem solving starts with the suite of
professional development tools.
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Funding & Recognition
Helping Hands Contest
Healthy schools and happy students go hand in hand! That’s why Deb is giving schools the tools to make hand hygiene fun with Deb’s Annual Happy Hands Contest. K–12 schools have the opportunity to educate students about the importance of hand washing, while also allowing them to express their artistic sides through the creation of an original design for a Deb dispenser. Schools can win too. The schools with the most popular designs will receive a $500 donation from Deb and free custom dispensers for their school. This year Deb is giving back with Design for Donation. For each dispenser design submitted for the Happy Hands Contest, Deb will donate $2 to Helping Houston Rebuild in order to aid schools rebuilding after Hurricane Harvey.
Deadline: November 30, 2017, for student designs
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channel.nationalgeographic.com
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Interactive Experience Following in the Pilgrims’ Footsteps
National Geographic’s two-part
film Saints & Strangers goes beyond the familiar historical account of Thanksgiving and the founding of Plymouth Plantation to reveal the trials and tribulations of the settlers at Plymouth: 102 men, women, and children who sailed on a chartered ship for a place they had never seen.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Design Solutions for Real-World Challenges
Created by the
Chicago Architectural Foundation, DiscoverDesign is an online platform where students, teachers, and mentors come together to
design solutions for real-world challenges. The website serves as a “town square” where students can be inspired, learn from peers, and get feedback from design professionals.
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Professional Growth
Lesson Analysis in Professional Development
With research backed by the nonprofit group
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS),
Science Teachers Learning through Lesson Analysis (STeLLA) is a nationally recognized program that explores the role that lesson analysis plays during professional development.
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aspirations.org
Funding & Recognition
Aspirations in Computing Educator Award
The
National Center for Women and Information Technology’s
(NCWIT)
Aspirations in Computing Educator Award celebrates educators at the high school level who encourage girls’ interest in technology. Recipients form a national community of peers, share practices, and empower other educators to support the participation of girls in computing.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Initiative to Combat Opioid Misuse
To combat America’s rapidly growing opioid and heroin epidemic, the
Milken Institute’s
Lynda and Stewart Resnick Center for Public Health is joining forces with the
United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),
DEA Educational Foundation, and
Discovery Education to expand the reach of
Operation Prevention—a national, standards-based initiative developed to educate students, families, and employees about the
science behind opioids and their impact on the brain and body.
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youtube.com
STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Physics Video Channel
Physics Girl Dianna Cowern has created a
YouTube channel about physics, astronomy, and other science-related topics. The show features engaging
DIY investigations, unusual and cutting-edge research, explanations about phenomena related to space and the universe, and
interviews with science experts.
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educators.honeywell.com
Professional Growth
Education Beyond the Final Frontier
Honeywell Hometown Solutions, in partnership with the
US Space and Rocket Center, sponsors the annual
Honeywell Educators at Space Academy, a five-day program consisting of 45 hours of classroom, laboratory, and training sessions that focus on space science and exploration.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Interactive Fiction on Japanese American Internment
The interactive fiction game Inside the Japanese American Internment by tFickle has players take on the role of an internee in a Japanese American relocation camp in 1941. Players are faced with decisions like those internees experienced, including whether to answer “yes” or “no” to a loyalty questionnaire, whether to join the growing resistance movement or stay quiet, and whether to throw one’s lot in with one’s country or with one’s race.
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sciencenewsforstudents.org
STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Sage Advice from Scientists to Students
Founded in 2003,
Science News for Students (SNS) is an award-winning
online publication dedicated to providing age-appropriate,
topical science news to learners, parents, and educators. SNS is a program of the
Society for Science & the Public (SSP), a nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and education.
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Mobile Learning
Time Management and Prioritization
The
Daily PlanIt app by
Productivity Labs for
iOS and
Android lets users enter events and projects on their calendar and determine priority. In Daily PlanIt, users swipe right to add an event on their calendar with the estimated time. Once the event is on the calendar, they can move the item to the time it fits with their other obligations.
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imom.com
Social Media
Social Media Contract
Freely downloadable from the iMom website, a social media contract between children and their parents establishes ground rules for how to stay safe online, what can be shared and not shared, what to do or not to do to be a good digital citizen, and what consequences result from violating the established rules.
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