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Larry Yudelson writes about a technology revolution taking place in New Jersey day schools thanks to a donation of about 500 iPads to three schools, equipping their entire sixth or ninth grades. Dan Fried, a local chemist, has jumpstarted technology in Bergen County classrooms by funding iPads for students in three Paramus yeshivot — elementary schools Yeshivat Noam and Yavneh Academy, and a high school, the Frisch School.
Published: 2013
Updated: Mar. 05, 2013
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Builders of Jewish Education - LA, in partnership with Adat Ari El, has introduced an innovative, 3D online videogame called Virtual Israel. Combining the latest in education and gaming to transport young people back in time to Israel, circa 1912-1915 (then Palestine), players become new European immigrants, experiencing early life in Jaffa and historic Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv's first Jewish neighborhood.
Published: 2013
Updated: Mar. 05, 2013
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As the aging Holocaust survivor population dwindles, University of Southern California scientists hustle to create life-size 3D holograms that can answer viewer questions through natural language technology. New Dimensions in Testimony, a collaboration between the USC Shoah Foundation and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, in partnership with Conscience Display, will yield insights into the experiences of survivors through a new set of interview questions, some that survivors are asked on a regular basis, plus many of which have not been asked before.
Published: 2013
Updated: Feb. 26, 2013
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About 1000 Jewish lay and professional day school leaders from across the globe gathered in Washington, D.C. on February 3 – 5, 2013 for the fourth annual North American Jewish Day School Conference. The theme for the 2013 conference, 'Learning to Lead–Leading to Learn,' highlighted the importance of visionary leadership and network weaving for ensuring the vibrancy and value of Jewish day school education, now and into the future. The North American Jewish Day School Conference is jointly planned and sponsored by RAVSAK: The Jewish Community Day School Network, the Institute for University-School Partnership at Yeshiva University, the Schechter Day School Network, PARDES Day Schools of Reform Judaism, and PEJE, the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education.
Published: 2013
Updated: Feb. 19, 2013
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The Yeshiva University Institute for University-School Partnership's Legacy Heritage YUTeach Fellowship has been established to address the need for more dynamic and inspired educators by identifying Judaic Studies teachers who have the desire and capacity for professional development and provide them with the opportunity to leverage their own experience and collective learning with experts in the field. Judaic studies teachers who have been working in the field for a minimum of two years, and have been nominated by a school leader, may apply until March 15, 2013.
Published: 2013
Updated: Feb. 17, 2013
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Register now for Facing History and Ourselves' Spring 2013 online seminar, Educators in a Jewish Setting: Holocaust and Human Behavior. During this eight-week (January 17-March 13, 2013), self-paced online course, participants will explore the connection between Jewish History and identity along with the moral questions inherent in everyday life.
Published: 2013
Updated: Jan. 30, 2013
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AlHaTorah.org is a one-stop Tanakh study resource, providing the tools, techniques and technology to make Torah come alive in the home, classroom and synagogue. It mines 2,500 years of Biblical interpretation to offer the user a rich, multi-dimensional learning experience. It has begun by providing rich resources for the Book of Shmot.
Published: 2013
Updated: Jan. 29, 2013
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This free webinar, to be held on February 13, 2013, 7 PM Israel Time, 12 PM EST led by David Lachmish and Shani Ziv will deal with the gamification of location-based learning. During the webinar, we will analyze several gaming structures related to location-based learning, and extract the gamification principles embedded in them.
Published: 2013
Updated: Jan. 29, 2013
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On Sunday December 30, 2012, the Scheck Hillel Community School hosted the world’s first JEDcamp, a unique, participant-driven professional development conference for teachers of Judaic Studies. The event, called JEDcamp South Florida (JEDcampSoFlo) brought together forty educators from seventeen different schools, synagogues, institutions and agencies of Jewish education in South Florida.
Published: 2013
Updated: Jan. 10, 2013
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Project Zug is an innovative initiative employing the ancient Jewish method of “hevruta” with modern technology of distance learning (like Skype), to bring together the two largest Jewish communities of today, Israel and the United States. Our hope is that learning in pairs will reduce the geographical and cultural distance and strengthen the bond between our two cultures.
Published: 2013
Updated: Jan. 08, 2013