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How Children’s Toys Reflect What’s Next in Technology & Education
PRAGMATIC VISIONS | by Jim Brazell [Editor’s note: This is the first in a new column series from the pragmatic visionaries at the Thornburg Center for Professional Development] “The availability of technologies to youth is its own instructor.” –Nobelist Herbert A. … Continue reading
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Interview | Taking Footsteps2Brilliance with Ilene Rosenthal
In the U.S., 46 percent of children enter kindergarten at risk of failure and 88 percent of them never catch up. From the moment that Ilene Rosenthal learned of these statistics, she knew that something needed to be done to … Continue reading
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Tagged children and technology, Curriculum and Learning games, edtech solutions, Footsteps2Brilliance, formative and summative assessments, Ilene Rosenthal, iPads, iPhones, iTouches, Kindle Fires, language arts, Lightspan, mathematics, Nooks, reading, Sony PlayStation, tablets
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