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    Supporting America's Teachers

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    I’m thrilled to announce today that Microsoft Partners in Learning is teaming up with a soon-to-be-released film, American Teacher , as part of our ongoing efforts to support the teaching profession and encourage broad dialogue about the importance...
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    Higher Innovation Podcast – "rebirth of hip"

    Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Higher Innovation Podcast [hip]. I am very excited to start this series that goes deeper on the issues impacting education and technology. Enjoy and share. Continue reading → No related posts. ...read more
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    NBC Education Nation–Reflections Day One

    The Microsoft Education team came to Manhattan to kickoff NBC's Education Nation Summit 2011. Cameron Evans, Microsoft CTO, reflects on the events of day one and shares his observations. Continue reading → No related posts. ...read more
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    Interesting Links 26 September 2011

    Autumn has technically arrived in New Hampshire. The leafs are starting to turn but the weather has stayed a bit unseasonably warm. Even still school is in full swing all across the US and my little part of the world is no exception. It’s also fall advisory board meeting time for the career technical schools and I have several such meetings in the near future. It’s always interesting to hear how the various programs are going. Some are under more financial stress than others but at least at a career technical high school programming and web development are more than just ordinary electives. From...
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    Flying Fish & Kinect help lead the final U.S. team to the Partners in Learning Global Forum

    As many of you might recall there was a fair amount of blogging activity around the Partners in Learning 2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum we hosted in July. The event brought together just over 100 educators from across the country to showcase and...
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    Update: American Teacher premiere at NBC Education Nation

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    Yesterday’s premiere of American Teacher was fantastic ! The teachers in the audience were thrilled – as one educator told me, she felt the film gave teachers a “voice” that had all too often been missing. Another told me that...
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    NBC Education Nation—Reflections Day Two

    It's Monday, September 26th and we just completed day two of NBC Education Nation. The temperature was hotter and so were the conversations. Read Microsoft CTO, Cameron Evans' highlights of the day. Continue reading → Related posts: NBC Education Nation–Reflections Day One ...read more
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    Robotics @ Home Competition

    The Micro soft Robotics team has released a new software stack for controlling robots  – RDS4 Beta . There are a couple of very exciting new additions in this beta: Uses Kinect for the eyes A new reference design for consumer robots – write code once, run it on any robot. You can see a lot more of the details at this Channel 9 video: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/A-Look-At-Robotics-Developer-Studio-4-Beta They are also interested in encouraging others to use this new software so there is now the Robotics @ Home Competition . Do you have a cool idea for an @home robot? Here’s your chance to...
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    When Fish Fly

    How excited am I about the Partners in Learning Global Forum ? I’m seriously thinking of taking vacation days and paying my own way to Washington DC to see if I can “crash” it. I had a great time and learned a lot judging the US event ( Innovative Education Forum–Judging Day ) this summer. I met some great teachers doing a whole lot if interesting things. One of the special things about this year’s event is that the attendees were grouped into teams and asked to create a “learning excursion activity.” The team that created the best activity as judged by their peers would be the “tenth team” that...
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    Helping Bridge the Digital Divide for All 300,000 New York State Teachers

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    As our culture continues to be dominated by technological innovation in our everyday lives and kids expect to learn in a digital way, its important educators feel comfortable and confident using technology in the classroom to help their students stay...
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