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Including computer science into your curriculum might be intimidating but it IS necessary, argues Matt Britland

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Tonight during an #edchat on Twitter, the group was discussing leadership in education. Partially joking, but with some level of honest curiosity I sent the follow tweet out:

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A preposterous notion about the role of administrators in crafting an unsupportive work environment

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The letter that can't be sent to your pupils' parents is published here: "I'm part of the this system. And I had to confess"

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She was, according to this report, the worst eighth-grade math teacher in New York City, where she has taught since 2007.

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A reminder–CS & IT Conference 2012

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My students spent a few weeks on Gothic Literature a bit ago and I was very impressed with some of the stories the students created on their own. I had always been frustrated in the past when I felt students did a great job, but had no way of really sharing what they did with the rest of the school.

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It seems that nearly every week we report on groundbreaking news from TED, the global nonprofit known for its “Ideas Worth Spreading”. Today, it announced its latest efforts in the education space: a dynamic TED-Ed site with new teacher tools for customized learning experiences.

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Apps for Education

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This will be the class they remember forever

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Teacher’s Assistant Pro for iPad and iPhone - <br />One of the Best Teacher Apps Around!

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In the blended learning approach, a student’s day typically includes a combination of online learning and small group instruction time with teachers. 

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Tablet computing and mobile devices promise to have a dramatic impact on education. A growing number of schools across the world are jumping on the digital bus and embracing  iPads (less often, other tablet products) as the latest tool to teach literature in multimedia, history through games and simulations, and math with step-by-step animation of problems.

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Teaching schoolchildren happiness, empathy, altruism and compassion has proven beneficial results for classroom learning as a whole, says Vinciane Rycroft

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With public education currently under attack from many different sides, it is important that we as educators, become advocates for our profession.  We need to arm ourselves with the facts, with why we should be proud of what we do, and how well we do it. 
 
With that in mind, here is a list of ten interesting facts that teachers should be proud of.  Read them for yourself…and then share them with everyone you know!

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Getting started with teaching tips and step-by-step guides for popular teacher tasks is easy and free. Use these teacher guides to learn ways to inspire your students and to better use new tools and technologies in class.

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I once sat on an interview committee in which the candidate p[proudly proclaimed that to integrate technology her students would use word processors and publish their work in a monthly book.  My toes instantly curled.  It wasn't so much that she had used the words "word processor" but rather that she thought tech integration meant to have students type on a computer and then publish their work, that that would make them ready for this century of jobs.  So a couple of things come to mind whenever we discuss tech integration in schools.

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There is a discussion that seems to be becoming increasingly common among educators along the lines of “How can we make best use of e-technology [to assist with teaching and learning]?”.

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Are you teaching Advanced Placement Computer Science? Are you looking for supplemental exercises that may help you students with the concepts? If so this announcement may be of interest to you. Pex for Fun has been around for a while offering coding duels in C#, F# and Visual Basic. Recently though it was decided to invest some time, money and effort to adapt some exercises specifically to help learn APCS concepts. Most students find the differences between Java and C# pretty minor at this level so most APCS students will find this doable even if they have only been taught Java previously.

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