Discover the Power of Book Access
In Game Changer! Book Access for All Kids, bestselling author Donalyn Miller and fifth-grade teacher Colby Sharp, both literacy advocates with a deep passion for books, showcase the power of children’s access to books, providing teachers and administrators with the tools and information they need to increase children’s meaningful engagement with books and to launch or sustain book access initiatives in their communities.
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November 15, 2018
Funding & Recognition
Fellowship to Enhance Teaching in STEM Fields
The Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship supports teaching certification and a master’s degree in a science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) teaching field for career changers and recent graduates with STEM backgrounds. The goal of the teaching fellowship program is to recruit, train, and retain the nation’s best and brightest STEM teachers.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Artists’ Responses to the World’s First Modern War
November 11 marked 100 years since the end of World War I. Artists and intellectuals, many of whom experienced combat firsthand, responded in myriad, often contradictory ways to the world’s first modern war.
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Professional Growth
Advance Your Knowledge to Meet the Challenges Facing Education
Penn State’s M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction, with five areas of emphasis from which to choose, and the university’s Graduate Certificate in Children’s Literature are led by expert faculty from Penn State’s College of Education and conveniently offered online through Penn State World Campus. No matter where you are in the world, you can pursue a master’s degree or certificate backed by a world-class reputation and accreditation, student support team, and a powerful network of students, mentors, and alumni. Applications are now open for the spring 2019 semester. Take the next step to advance your career in education and become part of the Penn State network of more than 692,000 alumni.
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redistrictinggame.org
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Game Introducing the Political Redistricting System
The ReDistricting Game is designed to educate, engage, and empower students around the issue of political redistricting. The game provides a basic introduction to the redistricting system, allows players to explore the ways in which abuses can undermine the system, and provides information about reform initiatives, including a playable version of the Tanner Reform Bill to demonstrate the ways in which the system might be made more consistent with tenets of good governance.
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waypointedu.com
Mobile Learning
Educational Augmented Reality (AR) Geocaching Game
Using
Magnate I
nteractive’s
Waypoint EDU, a
free geocaching and scavenger hunt app for
iOS, teachers can create an augmented-reality game with multiple-choice questions. The process is quick and easy: Teachers open up the app, tap Create, and give their hunt a title and description.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
SPOTLIGHT! On STEM for English Learners
School systems across the country should do more to ensure that current and former English language learners have access to STEM education, a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine finds. The report follows up on a 2017 study that detailed how under-resourced schools and underprepared educators hinder efforts to help students learn English.
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aprendeconelchavo.com
STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Game to Help Young Children Develop Analytical Skills
Learn to Code with El Chavo is a
free educational game from
Televisa for five- to eight-year-old children to learn about the logic behind computer coding through the characters of
El Chavo del Ocho (often shortened to
El Chavo), a Mexican television sitcom that gained enormous popularity in Latin America and Spain, as well as in the United States.
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instagram-press.com
Social Media
Video Episodes on Channels from Instagram Creators
IGTV is a
platform from the folks at
Instagram. However, instead of individual posts or Instagram Stories, which combine still images and short video clips, IGTV hosts longer videos, usually centered around one topic.
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Funding & Recognition
Award for Excellence in Engineering Science Education
The
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and
Northrup Grumman Foundation annually present one
Excellence in Engineering Education Award to recognize the importance of integrating high-quality engineering instruction into science classrooms and the critical need to make students proficient in practices used by engineers in the field.
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facinghistory.org
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Teaching Idea to Model Civil Discourse
Prior to the 2018 midterm elections,
Facing History and Ourselves created a teaching idea that offers approaches to addressing the results of the midterms with students, no matter what the outcome. By giving students time to pause and reflect, process and think critically, teachers can model civil discourse and support their students’ civic development.
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exploratorium.edu
Mobile Learning
App for Experimenting with Color and Sound
Sound Rebound is an offbeat experience of color and sound that invites students to create ricochets, bounces, or bumps to investigate seeing and hearing. The
app, designed for
iOS devices, invites users to move objects around the screen’s “play field” to experiment with color and sound.
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Funding & Recognition
Essay Contest on the Necessity of Free Speech
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) works to educate students and the general public on the importance of free speech to a thriving democratic society. FIRE’s
Free Speech Essay Contest is now open to juniors and seniors in US high schools, including homeschooled students, and US citizens attending schools overseas.
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globalonenessproject.org
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Multimedia Resources Celebrating Indigenous Voices and Perspectives
In honor of
National Native American Heritage Month,
Global Awareness Project has created a collection of
Native American educational resources available on the organization’s website. These include films, lesson plans, photo essays, and articles.
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Funding & Recognition
Donor Site Aligning Tech Requests with Tech Policies
The crowdfunding website
DonorsChoose is making it easier for teachers to determine whether their technology requests are in line with what their school districts can support.
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digizen.org
Social Media
Resources for Strengthening Awareness of Digital Citizenship
The
Digizen website provides information for educators, parents, caregivers, and young people to strengthen their awareness and understanding of
digital citizenship and encourages technology users to be responsible DIGItal citiZENS.
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merriam-webster.com
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Merriam-Webster’s Time Traveler
Gamification, hashtag, tweep … When were these words first used in print? To find out, students simply enter a date in the search field on
Mirriam-Webster’s
Time Traveler webpage where they will see the words first recorded on that year.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Tool for Students to Express Gratitude
Give Thx provides a structured way for teachers and students to practice expressing gratitude through peer feedback and reflection. The
mobile and
web platform is straightforward: students log in and write a short thank-you note for one of their classmates.
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amazonfutureengineer.com
STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Computer Science Opportunities from Kindergarten to Career
Amazon Future Engineer is a comprehensive
childhood-to-career program to inspire, educate, and train children and young adults from underserved and low-income communities to pursue careers in computer science. Amazon aims to inspire more than 10 million children each year to explore computer science.
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exploratorium.edu
Mobile Learning
Interactive Book That Explores the Surprising Side of Color
When is yellow yellower than yellow? What color is a whisper? What’s missing from the palette of Renaissance painters? Students can explore the surprising side of color with
Color Uncovered, an
interactive book for
iOS and
Android.
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sheg.stanford.edu
Social Media
Assessments of Civic Online Reasoning
The
Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) has developed
assessments of
civic online reasoning—the ability to judge the credibility of the information that floods young people’s smartphones, tablets, and computer screens. Discussions about politics and public policy, for example, increasingly take place on social media.
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