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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

And it is clear that the library must be the center of that experience. But, first, a little background: I’ve been playing around with building virtual school libraries for a very long time. I started playing around with the fairly easy and recently very popular strategy of building a library scene in Slides. by EZ EdTech!

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Course Hero Joins the Edtech Unicorn Stable

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I am careful about that term being the focus,” says Andrew Grauer, who co-founded Course Hero in 2006. Users who upload class materials can access the full library for free. These quizzes can then direct users to study materials from Course Hero’s resource libraries. But its CEO winces when he hears the word.

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The ‘Enrichment Gap’ Is Widening. Students’ Social-Emotional Development Is at Risk.

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Libraries, lifelines for low-income families in the afterschool hours, have largely remained closed to patrons during the pandemic. Scores of low-income youth, who have relied on these organizations for technology access and vital emotionally and academically supportive relationships, have been cut off.

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Clearlake Capital-Backed Discovery Education Acquires Pivot Interactives

eSchool News

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education , a global edtech company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. Through our acquisition of Pivot Interactives, Discovery Education is now better positioned to broaden our impact by providing our partner school systems access to phenomena-based, active learning tools.”.

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Clearlake Capital to Acquire Discovery Education from Francisco Partners

eSchool News

The Company’s integrated learning platform empowers teachers by offering easy lesson creation, ready-to-use formative assessments, and personalized, data-driven recommendations from a library of educational resources. million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in nearly 100 countries and territories.

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Fighting Apathy, Neglect and Racism to Give Left-Behind Learners a Chance

Edsurge

I came to the Cobb County School District in 2006. The curriculum they were exposed to had already proven itself ineffective—but I didn’t have access to anything better. Personalized learning is the new buzzword—edtech companies are after it and teachers toss it around as often as possible.

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Charting a New Path for Strategic Edtech Planning

edWeb.net

Additional edtech budget items: Most administrators’ budgets have detailed estimates that include direct costs (e.g., Some are also becoming de facto internet service providers as they try to provide WiFi accessibility. ClassLink empowers your students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources.

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