News and Trends
BLOG BITS, May 2012
May 1,2012
Like political or commercial
messages, infographics are
carefully crafted media
messages.
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TOP TWEETS, May 2012
May 1,2012
Nancy Caramanico: @ncara
Americans Reading More Ebooks
on Computers Than Ereaders,
Phones [http://zite.to/Ic8cAI
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GOT STEM?
May 1,2012
The 2012 National Survey on STEM Education had the following key findings:
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PTA Matching Grant Program
May 1,2012
eInstruction’s PTA Matching Grant Program focuses on fundraising
efforts lead by parent-teacher organizations.
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Sites We Like
May 1,2012
Training Teachers to Teach with Technology
is aimed at looking at the future of teaching
degrees from a collection of viewpoints.
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Top 10 Apps for Digital Storytelling
May 1,2012
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From the Classroom: Best Tech Practice Video of the Week Blog Series
May 1,2012
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Are you a “Flipper”?
May 1,2012
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Getting Ready for the Test
May 1,2012
Kaplan’s new whitepaper, “Effective Test Readiness,”
outlines six key findings that guide effective test prep:
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The Growing App Gap
May 1,2012
* Among lowerincome
children, 27
percent have a parent
with a smartphone,
compared to 57 percent
for higher-income
children.
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“Got Game?” Contest
May 1,2012
STEM Fuse
announces the
first semi-annual
“Got Game?”
Contest.
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Teacher Eval Report
May 1,2012
A new report titled “Teacher Evaluator Training and Certification: Lessons Learned from
the Measures of Effective Teaching Project,” was based on the collaborative work on
video-taping and scoring over 23,000 lessons across
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New Energy Report
May 1,2012
Cloud computing could become a game changer for energy-efficient IT,
as cloud computing is about efficiency in every respect
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STEMIE Award
May 1,2012
McGraw-Hill Education’s
Science, Technology,
Engineering & Math
Innovative Educator
Awards, known as
the STEMIEs, will
acknowledge teachers who
are pioneering effective
techniques to engage
their students in
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Primary Sources Teacher Study
May 1,2012
Scholastic and the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation
recently released the latest
Primary Sources study.
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