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Fill the gap between curriculum and learning experience with pi-top

Published on: 11/19/18

Cornwall Hill College in Pretoria, South Africa, focuses on providing wide-ranging opportunities and exceptional facilities for students to excel in academic, sporting and ...

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Defining constructionist learning

Published on: 11/6/18

The following extract is from the research paper Education, Knowledge, and Learning. An overview of theories and research about constructionism and making by Lorraine Charles, ...

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Five common mistakes to avoid when building a maker space in your school

Published on: 11/5/18

This article is an abridged transcript of a segment of 'We Make the Future' featuring Nicholas Provenzano. Listen to the whole episode here. Nicholas Provenzano has been in ...

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Are we about to witness the global collapse of school exam rankings?

Published on: 10/24/18

Singapore is leading the way in abolishing some school exam rankings, stating that 'learning is not competition'. So how do we work out what we value if we no longer value exam ...

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Is Pearson the Kodak of education?

Published on: 10/3/18

Artificial Intelligence (AI) often makes the list of things that are ‘just around the corner’ in the forthcoming Fourth Industrial Revolution, swiftly followed by ubiquitous ...

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Case study: St Raymond School

Published on: 9/26/18

At the St. Raymond school in Menlo Park, California, Ken Hawthorn has one goal: ensure that his school is a model for STEAM learning. Ken is a mechanical engineer turned teacher. ...

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Interview: Mitchel Resnick, MIT Media Lab

Published on: 9/20/18

Mitchel Resnick is the Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. Amongst his group’s many achievements is the programming language, called Scratch, that ...

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Case study: how a successful pilot program led All Saints’ to offer new computer science classes

Published on: 9/18/18

All Saints’ Episcopal School is a leading college preparatory day school in Fort Worth, Texas. The school emphasizes leadership, academic rigour, and artistic exposure. Its aim is ...

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Using pi-tops in your holiday camp or after school club

Published on: 9/6/18

Summer camps and after-school clubs are great fun, and are sometimes where learners get their hands on pi-tops for the very first time. Saturday Kids have been using pi-tops as ...

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How to buy the right technology for your school

Published on: 9/4/18

The educational technology ('EdTech') sector is booming (some might even say overheating). Startups, as well as major global giants, now offer teachers and schools hundreds of ...

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