Tackle Local Issues, Win Technology Prizes

A win for your students, a win for you school, and a win for your community! Students can win a share of $3 million in prizes for their school and solve a problem facing their community—that’s a big STEM win! Samsung Solve for Tomorrow is celebrating 10 years of helping educators teach STEM while tackling local community issues and winning technology for their school. To celebrate, Samsung is giving away up to $3 million in prizes and selecting more winners than ever before. Submit your application to participate today.

Deadline: October 23, 2019, for applications

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mott.org

Funding & Recognition

Grants to Support College & Career Readiness

The Charles Stewart Mott (CSM) Foundation offers Graduating High School College & Career Ready grants to increase high school graduation and college and career readiness outcomes for students, particularly those in low-income communities.

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highschoolesportsleague.com

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Gaming Curriculum to Develop SEL Skills and College & Career Readiness

An esports league has launched a free high school curriculum to help teachers use gaming to boost student learning. Gaming Concepts, from the High School Esports League (HSEL), was written as a turnkey curriculum that almost anyone with even rudimentary computer skills can teach.

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Literacy Resources

Best Practices for Implementing a Collaborative Coaching Partnership

This professional book from Scholastic helps educators learn to implement a collaborative coaching partnership system that will improve instruction and maximize student learning in their schools. The authors examine coaching best practices through research-based strategies, real-life vignettes, coaching-in-action videos, reflective practice questions, a helpful planning tool, and more.

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STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Curriculum to Help Students Realize the Impact of STEM and Imagination

Electronics company RS Components in the UK has launched Imagine-X, a series of free curriculum-aligned resources that link STEM subjects to real people who have used their skills to make the world a better place—to broaden horizons, empower the disadvantaged, and diversify life choices.

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Tell Us About Yourself!

As a recipient of Big Deal Media’s K–12 Technology eNewsletter, you are invited to tell Big Deal Media how you use this publication and how you participate in the purchase of technology products and services. (The survey will take about five minutes to complete.) Surveys submitted in full by October 31, 2019, will be entered into a random drawing to win a $50 Amazon gift card. Big Deal Media is giving away one $50 card for every 100 completed surveys.

Deadline: October 31, 2019, for completed surveys

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Funding & Recognition

Contest Applying Math to Modeling and Problems Solving

COMAP’s High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling (HiMCM) is an international contest designed to provide high school students with the opportunity to work as team members to engage in and improve their modeling, problem solving, and writing skills.

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Professional Growth

Professional Resources for Creating Digital-Age Learning Experiences

Designed by Metiri and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), Digital Learning Pathways is a collection of online professional development resources that empower teachers, schools, and districts to create authentic, digital-age learning experiences by unpacking and implementing the ISTE Standards for Students.

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Digital Learning • Learning Support

More Time Learning, Less Time Logging In

ClassLink empowers students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources. ClassLink LaunchPad includes a library of more than 6,000 single sign-on apps and instant links to file folders at school and on Google, Office 365, Box, and Dropbox cloud drives. ClassLink Analytics gives decision-makers the usage data they need. Your school district has invested heavily in the adoption of digital learning resources, but how much do you know about how often they are actually used? Find the answers you’re looking for with reports accessible on any device.

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aspirations.org

Funding & Recognition

Award Honoring Girls’ Computing-Related Achievements

The National Center for Women and Information Technology sponsors the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing (AiC), which honors ninth- through twelfth-grade girls and women for their computing-related achievements and interests, and encourages them to pursue their passions.

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worldrescuegame.com

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Games That Teach Global Citizenship and Sustainable Development

Learning through digital technology and video games can lead to more peaceful societies, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the educational arm of the United Nations. The UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development has created two games aimed at teaching students about global citizenship and sustainable development.

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STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Citizen-Science Projects Contributing to Real Discoveries

In 2007 the Adler Planetarium and Oxford University in the UK founded Zooniverse—the world’s largest platform for people-powered research. Zooniverse connects everyday citizens with researchers to help classify galaxies, find new planets, explore the surface of the Moon, and complete dozens of original projects in astronomy, biology, science, and the humanities.

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bostonteapartyship.com

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Road to the American Revolution Brought Alive in the Classroom

Teachers can revolutionize their curriculum by bringing the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum into their classroom. Through this virtual experience, students learn about the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution by playing an active role debating taxation without representation, and the issues that pushed Massachusetts down the road to revolution.

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teknekk.com

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Parental Remote-Control App for Instant Screen Timeout

TekNekk is the world’s first Parental Remote-Control App protecting children’s minds, spines, and safety. Users can control a child’s phone from any device—as if using a TV remote control.

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Digital Learning • Learning Support

Lesson on Becoming an Internet Detective Using Google

The questions and activities in a lesson from The New York Times Learning Network help students understand why and how to do better Google searches but also weave in ways to apply the information and practice on their own.

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educraft.tech

Mobile Learning

Language Learning with Virtual Characters

Users of Android devices can experience the most advanced way to learn languages in any setting. Mondly, offered by ATi Studios, is the first VR app for learning a world language featuring speech recognition and chatbot technology.

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easel.gse.harvard.edu

Professional Growth

Professional Support for Social–Emotional Development and Positive School Climate

The Ecological Approaches to Social Emotional Learning laboratory (EASEL) at Harvard University is testing the use of flexible, bite-sized lessons to teach social and emotional learning. The “kernels” are designed to be adaptable to students’ interests and needs.

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stormboythegame.com

Mobile Learning

Children’s Book Brought to Life

Storm Boy is an interactive adaptation of author Colin Thiele’s 1964 novel of the same name, a classic in its native Australia. Students can play Storm Boy the Game from Blowfish Studios on iOS or Android devices.

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