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Funding & Recognition
Student Photography Contest Fostering Environmental Inquiry
Global Oneness Project encourages teens to enter a student photography contest, inspired by the Earthrise film, which tells the story of one of the most iconic images in history.
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Mobile Learning
Podcasts Encouraging Children to Play with Words
From puns to personification, young readers tuning in to the Buttons & Figs podcasts will develop a love of all the amazing things they can do with words.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Essentials to Help Facilitate Remote Learning
If your school or district has closed due to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, and is shifting to temporary online or remote learning, MackinVIA has an effective solution for you. The company has compiled helpful videos, links, downloadable resources, and more to help you with this remote-learning transition.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Program Connecting Students with Scientists
Sponsored by the National Weather Are your students interested in ichthyology or curious about crustaceans? Skype a Scientist brings experts into the classroom or students’ homes—virtually—to answer all their questions—for free.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Game of Art, Architecture, and Artificial Intelligence
The free video game Occupy White Walls by StikiPixels allows users to design their own art gallery. Available on gaming platform Steam, the building experience features 2,200 unique architectural elements and more than 6,000 artworks ranging from Old Master paintings to contemporary creations.
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Professional Growth
Drive Student Success Through Technology
As the online teaching and learning environment continues to evolve, schools are looking for technology leaders to more effectively engage learners, increase performance, and improve the quality of learning experiences for their students. Penn State World Campus, in collaboration with Penn State College of Education, offers a 30-credit master’s degree in learning, design, and technology. This completely online program can prepare you to leverage emerging educational technology to shape learning in the future.
Penn State World Campus also offers three online postbaccalaureate certificate programs in educational technology integration (15 credits), e-learning design (12 credits), and teaching and learning online in K–12 settings (15 credits). Credits successfully earned in any of these programs will count toward the requirements of the MEd in Learning, Design, and Technology, if you apply and are accepted into the program.
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Professional Growth
District Reponses to COVID-19 School Closures
The Center on Reinventing Public Education, part of the University of Washington Bothell, is cataloging and sharing how 82 US school districts, varying in size and geography, and serving nearly 9 million students, are successfully making the transition to remote learning during prolonged school closures.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Activities and Thinking Routines for Virtual Classrooms or Home Learning
At this time when so many educators suddenly find themselves teaching in unfamiliar contexts, the question, “How can I support learning?” looms large. Project Zero (PZ) researchers in Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education have developed the “At Home with PZ” toolbox to help teachers and parents answer that question.
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Professional Growth
Weekly Blog Curating Children’s Literature
During this period of school closures, children’s authors, illustrators, editors, and publishers have offered many resources to assist in teaching and learning. In response to educators’ needs and in an effort to helpfully curate this emerging content (as well as preexisting resources), the Children’s Literature Assembly (CLA) of the National Council of Teachers of English has started a twice-weekly blog to support preK–grade 12.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Video Series That Encourages Young People to Tell Their Own Stories
Recently appointed National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress, young adult author Jason Reynolds is bringing his storytelling to students virtually through videos and newsletters as part of his “GRAB THE MIC: Tell Your Story Program.”
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
At-Home Digital Program Exploring the Musical “Hamilton”
Hamilton and The Gilder Lehrman Institute (GLI) of America have launched #EduHam at Home, a free digital program for students and their families to explore the world of the Pulitzer Prize–winning musical and America’s founding era.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Virtual Reality Reenactment of a Speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
Just days after the start of the Greensboro sit-ins in February 1960, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what would become a widely influential speech titled, “A Creative Protest.”
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Funding & Recognition
High School Music Creator Awards
NextNotes is a national program, sponsored by the American Composers Forum, to nurture the next generation of creative voices in music of all styles. Talented young artists convene as a cohort and receive mentorship, scholarship funds, and recognition through a national awards ceremony.
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Professional Growth
Remote Teaching Strategies to Sustain Student-Centered Learning
Facing History and Ourselves supports teachers and students in making sense of the rapidly evolving circumstances around the novel coronavirus and in effectively using whatever educational “class time” they have together. Teachers can view three on-demand webinar series in which they will explore remote teaching strategies and approaches to creating community and sustaining student-centered learning in a digital environment.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Science Units Grounded in Current Events
A small group of science teachers in Missouri are using the coronavirus as a teachable moment aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
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Mobile Learning
Interactive Children’s Encyclopedia Exploring the Natural World
With Little Mouse’s Encyclopedia, an app for iOS or Android by Circus Atos, children can join Little Mouse on her journey to explore the fascinating world of nature.
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