Tagged: schools

All Tech Considered
5:49 pm
Wed October 3, 2012

Some Schools Actually Want Students To Play With Their Smartphones In Class

Originally published on Wed October 3, 2012 6:40 pm

If there is one thing that the mobile-computing era has made clear, it's that kids love touch screens. Because those touch screens — smartphones, iPads, Kindles and the like — are an inevitable added distraction to the classroom, schools across the country are struggling to deal with the growing prevalence of the technology.

But a growing number of schools are embracing these hand-held, Internet-ready devices by creating policies that put them to use in the classroom.

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Word of Mouth
11:06 am
Tue July 31, 2012

What Makes a Great Science Teacher?

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Produced with Phoebe Axtman and Zach Nugent

Mounting research has shown that the most important factor in a child’s successful education is not his or her socioeconomic status, class size, or even the design of the curriculum…. it’s the teacher.  But teacher dropout rate is high and the highly talented teachers are too few, especially in Science and Math.

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