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Family Physical Education Week

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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. Virtual Reality in PE –resources and videos to use.

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Technology Use and Wellness: How to Guide Students in a Digital Age

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Technology Use and Wellness: How to Guide Students in a Digital Age The amount of time young Americans spend staring at a screen has reached unprecedented levels. As such, parents and educators must be more proactive in managing technology use to mitigate these health consequences.

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Human Meets AI: Helping Educators Navigate Their Emotions About Technological Change

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With shifting societal norms, advances in technology and evolving pedagogical practices at play, it's no surprise that change is the only constant in education. This dynamic is significantly magnified within the education workforce.

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How Educators Can Empower Students Through Technology

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With education turning on the technology skills of students and teachers, its important to gain a rudimentary understanding of foundational technology. Ready or not, digital transformation has come to education. That’s a lot of good news about this massive new experiment in learning through technology.

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How VR Can Be an ‘Empathy Machine’ for Education

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The hope is that the immersive technology will provide a shift of perspective that’s simply impossible in the physical world, but can be simulated in emerging virtual reality spaces. The goal is not just to create a virtual field trip to a farm that students in a classroom might not have access to.

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Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South

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Department of Education and will last five years. Think Like a Scientist The lessons focus on chemistry and physics, two “gatekeeper” subjects that are typically seen as more difficult, Schneider says. Other challenges seem to have set back STEM education, too. Students will learn to think like scientists.

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The Role of Technology in Personalized Learning

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Personalized learning has been a buzzword in education since the turn of the century. This past fall, I met with several education leaders to discuss this very topic and codify what it looks like in the classroom. Defining personalized learning Technology is associated with personalized learning for a variety of reasons.