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Eschoolnews reports on a new TED website that gives teachers new tools to integrate video with assesment.
With the new TED-Ed platform, “you can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube,” the organization says.
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President Obama honored the National Teacher of the Year and the other finalists at the White House on April 24th.
President Obama honors Rebecca Mieliwocki, a 7th-grade English teacher in California's Luther Burbank High School, as the 2012 National Teacher of the Year, and thanks all the finalists for their hard work and dedication each and every day in the classroom. April 24, 2012.
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Dr. Salman Khan of the hugely popular Khan Academy says he isn't looking to take over teahcers jobs, but to offer a resource. He was interviewed at the National School Board Association (NSBA) conference.
Read the interview: Why Khan Academy is so popular—and why
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EschoolNews raises the question of what the effects Google Glasses will have on our classrooms.
While wearing a pair, you can see directions to your destination appear literally before your eyes. You can talk to friends over video chat, take a photo, or even buy a few things online as you walk around.
These glasses can do anything you now need a smart phone or tablet computer to do—and then some.
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The Minerva Project seeks to be the Ivy League online alternative to most online colleges, replete with Silicon Valley investment funds.
This week, the Minerva Project, a startup online university, announced that it had received $25 million in seed financing from Benchmark Capital, a major Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for its early investments in eBay, among other successful web companies. Minerva bills itself as "the first elite American university to be launched in a century," and promises to re-envision higher education for the information age. The chairman of its advisory board: Larry Summers, the former treasury secretary and Harvard president. Among others, he's joined on the board by Bob Kerry, the former United States senator and president of The New School.
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The Minerva Project seeks to be the Ivy League online alternative to most online colleges, replete with Silicon Valley investment funds.
This week, the Minerva Project, a startup online university, announced that it had received $25 million in seed financing from Benchmark Capital, a major Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for its early investments in eBay, among other successful web companies. Minerva bills itself as "the first elite American university to be launched in a century," and promises to re-envision higher education for the information age. The chairman of its advisory board: Larry Summers, the former treasury secretary and Harvard president. Among others, he's joined on the board by Bob Kerry, the former United States senator and president of The New School.
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