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PowerPoint
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WebQuest was Invented
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Movie Make and iMovie
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The American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR) become the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)
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Cho Seung-Hui killed two students in a dorm and 30 in a classroom. Making it the deadliest school shooting in the U.S.
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Mind Maps/webs to demonstrate understanding. Inspiration or Kidspiration
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Quest to Learn, first school to teach through game-based learning, opens in NYC
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Prezi
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The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act provides more than 90 billion dollars for education
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U.S. Department of Education invites each State educational agency to request flexibility.
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Alabama is the first state to require public school immigration status checks.
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There were over 168 million child labor workers between the ages of 5 to 17, so they were unable to attend school.
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Chicago Board of Education votes to close 50 Schools
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School District of Philadelphia announces they are planing to cut approximately 4,000 employees
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Illiteracy is highest among females. In about 20 developing countries, illiteracy rates exceed 70%
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Indiana becomes the first state to sign legislation withdrawing the state from the core standards.
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Chicago elects to layoff more than 1000 employees, including about 550 teachers.
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Minnesota State High School League allows transgender students to join female sports teams.
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97% of low-income students rely on school for internet access.
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85% of current jobs and 90% of newer jobs require college or post-secondary education
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Around the world 59 million children are being denied an education.
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Spreadsheets such as excel and google are used widely
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Fathom and InspireData are two applications to use for spreadsheets also.
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Simulations are widely used in the learning community. It is an effective teaching technique.
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Virtual Field Trips have numerous amounts of opportunities and have the ability to extend learning.
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Tutorials are software applications that are used to provide initial instruction on a given topic.
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The Geometer's Sketchpad is used to explore relationships among points, lines, planes, and angles.
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3-D printers are also one of the newest types of technology to reach the classrooms.
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Calculators and graphing calculators are large trends going on in the country.
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Conflict and natural disasters have interrupted the education of about 75 million kids.
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Virtual schools, online schools, are fast-growing alternate schools. They are trying to take over the normal school system.
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Laptops and Handheld Computing Devices.
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It would take 39 billion dollars every year to send all adolescents to school.
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Betsy DeVos becomes Secretary of Education
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Throughout West Virginia teachers walk out to protest their pay and benefits.
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West Virginia Teacher Strike ends, Governor allows 5% pay increase.
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Thousands of students across America walk out of school to demand changes in gun laws.