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What apps do you recommend for use in the classroom? Here are 50 teacher picks for sharing + transferring knowledge.

Educators from around the country shared their favorite teaching apps.
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Congrats to the KQED Learning team for receiving a NAMLE media literacy award for their efforts with KQED Teach!

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The National Association for Media Literacy (NAMLE) has announced that KQED is a recipient of a 2017 Media Literate Media (MLM) Award for
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What if school was more like a startup? With an entrepreneurial mindset, students learn resiliency, problem solving, and passion.

At its most basic level, a startup is a learning machine—one that helps its founders understand and serve the real world in a manner that enables itself to continuously gather information and grow.…
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What do your doodles, notes, and reflections look like? Take inspiration from the notebooks of famous designers.

Designers from Ikea, Pentagram, Ideo, and more tell us what makes a great notebook.
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"How might we enable students to design their lives and connect purpose to their education?" Six tips from IDEO.

A few simple ways design can help you explore purpose
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In a new survey from New America, just one in four respondents believe higher ed is functioning fine the way it is.

Americans see the work force and societal value of getting a college degree, a survey from New America finds, but community colleges have more support than do other sectors.
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How do you help your students with creative thinking? These 7 ideas will get you started.

Michael Michalko explains that everyone is an artist and that it takes belief and persistence to nurture this quality. He offers seven principles about creative thinking that he wishes he'd known as…
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The acquisition of Kaplan by Purdue University might confuse the mission of academic institutions.

What the commentary on the Purdue-Kaplan venture published to date overlooks is the importance of President Daniel’s biography.
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To fight fake news, pay attention to what's taught in first-year college writing courses.

Such a class can provide a model for constructive, fact-based public discourse and stand as a model of principled resistance in a “fake news” era, argues John Duffy.
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As we prepare for an automated future, can education change fast enough to outpace the machines?

A third of respondents who work in education and technology said new schooling would not emerge in time to train workers for jobs of the future.
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Will new EU legislation mean the end of social networks for kids? An effort to protect children's data might diminish their engagement and ability to communicate online.

From May 2018, The General Data Protection Regulation, will take effect in the EU. After years of debate, the legislation was passed including provisions that will affect children’s personal data. …
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Reverse brainstorming is a great group exercise to spark new ideas. We used it to consider how to increase participation in online courses.

Generate fresh ideas with this group exercise
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"Design is poised to make a huge impact in higher ed" - Kate Canales lists ways design thinking will change edu.

Research professor Kate Canales believes design is crucial to disrupting higher education, and the timing has never been better.
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The definition of digital literacy evolves as the tech we use to find, create, and share content changes.

For educators, digital literacy means much more than learning to read online. Here's a guide to understanding it.
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What essential books should students in their teens and 20s read? The NYTimes has some thoughts:

What makes these books must-reads?
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IBM Watson launched their 1st app for educators, putting AI to work to help teachers understand student performance.

IBM Watson proved on Jeopardy it can process and “learn” information much faster than humans. But how well can it help teachers and students learn?Last week, IBM Watson released Element for Educators, an iOS app designed for the iPad to give teachers a better understanding of factors affecting stude
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It's NaNoWriMo time! Need some tips to get your writing together? Check out these tips and survival strategies.

NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, is a competition to write a 50,000-word novel entirely in November. If you are under the age of 18, you can take part in the young writers program and choose your own word goal, but if you are 13 or...
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