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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

Edsurge

billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. From the forms the company filed with the SEC last month, we learned the company conducted a study to evaluate Duolingo’s effectiveness versus traditional university language courses.

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Low Tech? No Problem. Here are 3 Alternative Ways to Help Distance Learning Happen.

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Here are three alternative ideas for how to ensure students can learn from home when necessary. According to a 2019 Pew Research Center report, 96 percent of adults own a cell phone and 81 percent own a smartphone. About half own a tablet computer, while three-quarters own desktop or laptop computers.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018, 2030), you are likely to be a person who is loyal, loves to snuggle, is attentive to details, and loves company. 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019, 2031), you are a person who "remember past events well and learn quickly from your mistakes.

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Celebrating Adult Literacy and Technology

Digital Promise

In addition, many other traditionally K-12 edtech companies, like Achieve3000 , have begun to look into ways their products might serve adults. Read more about the adult learning market. Eight semi-finalist products will reach more than 12,000 learners over the next year in the field testing phase of the competition.

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AI in VR and AR with Rachelle Dené Poth

The CoolCatTeacher

She is the past-president of the ISTE Teacher Education Network and served on the Leadership team of the Mobile Learning Network for five years. She received the ISTE Making IT Happen Award in 2019 and has received several Presidential gold and silver awards for her volunteer service to education.

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Power Up Your Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

Pause a second and think about companies such as Uber and Airbnb. Statista predicts that approximately five billion people will use a smartphone by 2019. If you were to go back in time and pinpoint when disruption began to take off, I would wager that it correlates with the proliferation of the smartphone.

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A little help from my friends

Learning with 'e's

I will namecheck just a few here, to give you a flavour of their contributions, which may pique your interest in reading the entire book when it hits the bookshops in April 2019! David goes on to consider a number of scenarios around the use of mobile learning in large organisations, and concludes that: “.mobile