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2016 Global Education Conference Starts Sunday - Important Information!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

You don’t need to be an expert in the Blackboard Collaborate platform to help (we give you training and then live help at the time), but it makes a HUGE different to presenters to have a moderator helper in their session rooms, and we try to make sure there is one for every session! Barrios, Ed.D.;

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Can Entrepreneurs Balance Educational and Financial Returns?

Edsurge

Its K-8 adaptive learning and diagnostic product i-Ready is used by over 4 million students, and a 2016 study found that it was an exceptionally accurate predictor of student performance on Common Core Assessments in New York State. Blackboard Inc.,

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OPINION: This high-poverty district learned to think differently about teaching and learning

The Hechinger Report

By 2016, the high-poverty school district had turned around. The district aligned curriculum, instruction and assessment to meet learning standards recently adopted by the state and modeled on the Common Core state standards. From 2006 to 2016, St. Some had remained there for nearly 10 years.

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Library 2.0 Sponsored Webinar - "Success for Struggling Readers: New Strategies Using eBooks" with Ann Fondren + Sarah Downing

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In a recent eSchool News article, Carl Harvey, librarian and former AASL president described the ways eBooks can assist students in six areas of the Common Core Standards. She was named Rappahannock Regional School Library of the Year for 2016. Sarah has been a librarian for many years, and also a long distance runner.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

BLACKBOARD ALLY ( www.blackboard.com ) Blackboard announced that Blackboard Ally is now available for multiple learning management systems used by K-12 school districts. Blackboard Ally is an accessibility solution that helps make digital class content in a learning management system (LMS) more accessible for all learners.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Happy 20th anniversary to Blackboard. Edsurge celebrates by reprinting Blackboard founder Matthew Pittinsky’s blog post “4 Secrets to Building a Tech Company for Higher Ed.” ” Edreports.org has released new reports on math textbooks and how well they align to the Common Core. “Why the U.S.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

Under a Trump administration: I very much want ed-tech companies and schools to reconsider collecting so much data about students — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) November 10, 2016. 2016 underscored that security flaws aren’t solely a problem of educational institutions and government agencies.

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