{"id":3889,"date":"2017-06-20T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2017-08-02T20:49:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T01:49:14","slug":"techtuesday-avoiding-the-summer-brain-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2017\/06\/20\/techtuesday-avoiding-the-summer-brain-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"#TechTuesday &#8211; Avoiding the Summer Brain Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/328981757&amp;color=ff9900&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Students anxiously await summer break. It\u2019s a time to sleep in, hang out with friends and spend lazy days on the beach.<\/p>\n<p>But, unfortunately, it also can undo some of the learning from the recent school year. In fact, many students will lose between one and three months of learning during the summer, according to the National Summer Learning Association.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon is often called \u201cbrain drain.\u201d But technology is one tool that can help fight it.<\/p>\n<p>Products mentioned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/academy.geeksquad.com\/\">Geek Squad Academy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/piL8LE\">STEM + Learning Toys<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/JgNgrh\">Osmo Coding Jam<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/azWiXR\">Sphero SPRK+<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/6UK1Uc\">BOSEBuild Speaker<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students anxiously await summer break. It\u2019s a time to sleep in, hang out with friends and spend lazy days on the beach. But, unfortunately, it also can undo some of the learning from the recent school year. In fact, many students will lose between one and three months of learning during the summer, according to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2017\/06\/20\/techtuesday-avoiding-the-summer-brain-drain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;#TechTuesday &#8211; Avoiding the Summer Brain Drain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[100,308,537,42,536,191,535,534],"class_list":["post-3889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-technology","tag-best-buy","tag-education","tag-engineering","tag-geek-squad","tag-learning","tag-science","tag-stem","tag-toys","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3890,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}