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How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration

ED Surge

Heather Brantley, an instructional technologist and teacher at a Texas junior high school, recognizes the value of integrating augmented reality tools into her lessons. The social studies activity Space Race in McGraw Hill AR How has incorporating AR in your classroom enhanced the learning experience for your students?

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform,” said Logan, an eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. Logan Dubin, eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. MESA, Ariz.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

1, 1970, Higgins and Clarksdale high schools were merged in the Clarksdale building, and Higgins became an integrated junior high. A junior high principal resigned from the public school to lead it. Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year.

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Reluctance to require suicide prevention education could cost lives, but it’s complicated

The Hechinger Report

Birkholz believes state leadership is necessary. Like CPR, that you may have learned in health class, and like the Heimlich maneuver, this is a basic life-saving skill we’re hoping to share with you today,” Morris told students assembled in a social studies classroom, “because it very well could save a life.”.

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