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Terry HardisonApril 14, 2015 0

National Poetry Month: It’s a Bigger Deal than You Think

Every so often I like to amuse myself by scrolling through a website that identifies special days, weeks, and months during the year that honor a person, event, product, or virtue. For example, we all know that April 1 is April Fools’ Day, but I was surprised to learn recently

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Staci LyonApril 1, 2015 0

Math Awareness Month: The Poetry of Logical Ideas

“Mathematics has beauty and romance. It’s not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It’s an extraordinary place; it’s worth spending time there.” – Marcus du Sautoy. I agree, there IS beauty in mathematics, and I genuinely love math! Math is vital to everyday life from young kids learning

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Clare FitzGeraldMarch 31, 2015 0

Women's History Month: Recognizing Pioneers

Why is the history of women singled out and celebrated with Women's History Month? Dr. Myra Pollack Sadker, a pioneer researcher who documented gender bias in American schools, summed it up well when she noted that “each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless history, she learns

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Terry HardisonMarch 25, 2015 0

Transitions Make Your Sentences Spring to Life

It’s late March, and I can see signs of spring everywhere I look. The dingy snow piles that lined our streets and highways in February have finally melted away. If I look closely, I can make out the first traces of tree pollen that will gradually coat our cars and

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Lucy KosturkoMarch 23, 2015 0

Reading & Writing Tools for Your Chromebook

We've shared at length our resources for your iPad, but we're happy to announce our new Chromebook apps! Writing Navigator Writing Navigator is a suite of four tools, one for each step in the writing process: planning, drafting, revising, and publishing. Each tool offers numerous instructional features that help students create an effective

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Ada LopezMarch 18, 2015 0

From Virtual Experience to the Natural World

Like Henry David Thoreau or E.O. Wilson, students and teachers love to step outside the classroom for hands-on experiences in the natural world. Science teachers generally expect that a fun outdoor activity will guarantee student engagement. Fulfilling that noble intention, however, demands that you answer these two questions: How do

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Mimi StapletonMarch 16, 2015 0

Hey Pre-service Teachers! We're Here to Help

Dear Pre-Service Teachers, Congratulations on deciding to become a teacher. Yours is a noble calling, "not the filling of a pail," as the Irish poet W.B. Yeats said, "but the lighting of a fire" in the minds and hearts of your students. As a pre-service teacher, "lighting a fire" begins

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Scott McQuigganMarch 12, 2015 0

Flash Cards Redesigned for iPad and iPhone

One of our most popular apps, SAS Flash Cards, launched today with a brand new look-and-feel. This release responds to many helpful recommendations, suggestions, and questions we've received from users. We hope you like it, and we hope you let us know your thoughts as we begin planning the next version.

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Staci LyonMarch 11, 2015 0

Celebrating Pi Day!

Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Although it is a non-terminating, non-repeating number, the decimal approximation 3.14 and the fraction 22/7 are typically used to represent the irrational mathematical constant. The Greek letter π, was first used as the symbol for pi in 1706 by

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Scott McQuigganMarch 10, 2015 0

Themes from SXSWedu: Mobile, Privacy, Special Populations, the Science of Learning, & More!

At SXSWedu 2015, we are pleased to hear echoes of several themes from our new book, Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Developers, Educators, and Learners. Privacy Privacy is a hot topic in education: we found at least 13 sessions on student data privacy. The two sessions we attended focused on the

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Jen SabourinMarch 6, 2015 0

The Future of Mobile Learning

This week we’ve mentioned a variety of things that make mobile learning a special and unique endeavor. But mobile learning is still in its infancy. The technologies and the world are changing at a rapid pace, and it’s hard to predict what the future will hold. So what do we

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Ralph MooreMarch 5, 2015 0

Pi Day 2015 – Yummier Than Ever!

Ever since the ancient Egyptians, teachers have celebrated March 14th with a combination of pastry and math. The 18th century addition of the Greek symbol π to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter gave the number 3.14 a unique gravitas all its own. This

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Scott McQuigganMarch 5, 2015 0

How to find the perfect app: The Great App Checklist

Last summer at the Apple developer conference, WWDC, we learned that there were more than 1.2 million apps in the Apple App Store alone. That's a lot of choices. In a sea that large, understanding how to find apps for the classroom can be challenging. In speaking with numerous educators, we

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Jamie McQuigganMarch 4, 2015 0

Ten Things That Make Mobile Devices Amazing

In our book, we interviewed dozens of educators and administrators, and we heard again and again: There’s just something about these devices. Well, we were curious about this statement and tried to dive a little deeper … Just what is it about these devices? 10 distinguishing factors set the mobile

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Lucy KosturkoMarch 3, 2015 0

#MLearning & Higher-Order Thinking Skills

Higher-order thinking skills 21st-century skills The 4 C's (Creativity, Collaboration, Communication, Critical thinking, and Problem Solving) No matter the educational buzzword or phrase you choose, we're talking about complex cognitive processes that are rarely outlined in any set of standards or curriculum. Yes, we can hear you gasping from here

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Lucy KosturkoMarch 2, 2015 0

Five Components for Successful Mobile Learning

Over the past couple of years, we've done a vast amount of research to publish our latest book, Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Developers, Educators, and Learners. The primary takeaway? [SPOILER ALERT!] Mobile learning initiatives are complex, confusing, convoluted... You get the idea. There is no silver bullet, and with so

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Ralph MooreMarch 2, 2015 0

Flex Your Brain with Math Stretch

Math can be difficult for students. But learning how to use numbers in flexible ways can be the key building block to understanding. SAS Math Stretch, available for free in the App Store, designed to develop elementary math skills and number sense includes activities focused on counting, number relations and

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Educators and developers need each other to make learning succeed.

Jamie McQuigganFebruary 27, 2015 0

Ta-da! We Wrote A Book!

We are excited to introduce our new book: Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Educators, Developers, and Learners. Starting Monday, it’ll be available wherever books are sold. What’s it about? Let’s start with what inspired us to write. Every day, we think about the exciting possibilities mobile devices bring to the traditional classroom.

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Scott McQuigganFebruary 25, 2015 0

Headed to Austin for SXSWedu

The thing I love most about conferences is the opportunity to think. I am able to break out of the box a bit, collaborate with folks from around the world, listen to some great ideas, and generate a few of my own. SXSWedu fosters these opportunities. It is one of

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Scott McQuigganFebruary 24, 2015 0

Elementary Spotlight: Mobile, Mobile Everywhere!

Mobile devices are arriving in classrooms around the world in soaring numbers. Chromebooks and iPads are everywhere – from 1:1 programs to BYOD to carts classes can share. Why is that important? Because these devices have the power to change the classroom, provided teachers have the right integration strategies and lesson

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Terry HardisonFebruary 12, 2015 0

Writing Navigator: Auto-Save to the Rescue

Perhaps you’ve had this nightmare. You’ve spent hours planning and drafting an essay for an assignment that’s due the next day. All of a sudden, your computer freezes or shuts down, and you can’t save your work. All that effort, all that time—wasted. And your deadline still looms. Well, there’s

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Staci LyonFebruary 11, 2015 0

Teaching Students to Love the Value of Math

Mathematics, what a beautiful subject. It requires inquisitiveness, perseverance, and critical thinking. It promotes discourse, challenges the mind, and creates problem-solvers. Unfortunately, it also scares many students and adults. Why is that? How can one subject cause so much joy and at the same time so much discomfort? As a

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Polly Mitchell-GuthrieFebruary 6, 2015 0

The unicorn quest continues – more tips on finding data scientists (part 3)

Because finding analytical talent continues to be a challenge for most, here I offer tips 5, 6, and 7 of my ten tips for finding data scientists, based on best practices at SAS and illustrated with some of our own “unicorns.” You can read my first blog post for why they

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Ralph MooreJanuary 27, 2015 0

Curriculum Focus: Career Technical Education

I learned to weld in high school. Not that well to be certain, but I understand the basics. To this day, I recognize the skill needed to lay down a smooth bead. Back then, Amador County High School, had a mandatory full-year technical education course that split students each

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Scott McQuigganJanuary 22, 2015 0

Taking the Museum Experience Mobile

Visiting a museum is a great way to expand our knowledge, see things we can’t ordinarily see, and learn in an informal setting. Whether for field trips, Saturday morning tours, or special events, museums reflect the importance we place on knowledge and learning. They are valuable resources to us all. But

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Tim McBrideJanuary 19, 2015 0

A Crime-Scene Cure for Reluctant Readers?

Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is one of those rare books people describe as “impossible to put down” that really is (figuratively) impossible to put down. As an English teacher, I found a marked increase in student participation when I substituted Capote’s “nonfiction novel” for one of the canonical works in

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Mimi StapletonJanuary 14, 2015 0

Elementary Spotlight: Spanish

In Curriculum Pathways, elementary students and teachers will find a wealth of thematically organized resources that are age-appropriate and help students learn basic expressions, words, and phrases in context. Students explore and discover the Spanish language and culture by interacting with the resources. Our Spanish Language Videos introduce and reinforce

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Molly FarrowJanuary 14, 2015 0

Elementary Spotlight: Geography

Elementary students need an engaging tool to learn the basics, the physical and political geography of their school, their neighborhood, their town, their state, and the world. Our Interactive Atlas was designed specifically to build those skills and expand that knowledge base. From identifying basic knowledge—continents, oceans, countries, and capitals—to creating unique,

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Terry HardisonJanuary 12, 2015 0

Elementary Spotlight: Writing

Let me start by stating the obvious: teaching students to write well is hard. Yet teachers who have had success at the elementary level know that young writers can thrive when certain conditions and practices exist in the classroom. For instance, they know students need to be given time to

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