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Age of Learning’s Latest Is a $100 Million Educational Game

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How much does it cost to build educational games with all the flair and polish of their commercial counterparts? $10 The game, publicly available today, works on web browsers and iOS and Android mobile devices. Creating a game that is both educational and entertaining is not for the faint of heart—or capital.

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Where in the World Is Planet3? An Educational Gaming CEO Seeks His Second Act

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He envisioned a game-based educational platform used by teachers and students to learn about science and the environment. He had the staff, as many as 35 employees with experience in game and curriculum development. have adopted the standards while 21 states have standards based on the framework.

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Game On: Kahoot Snaps Up DragonBox for $18 Million for Its First Acquisition

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Last December, following a Disney investment that valued the company at $376 million , the Oslo-based company made clear its intention to build a pipeline for acquisitions. The program includes tablets and apps, along with print workbooks, lesson plans and physical manipulatives aligned to national academic standards.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

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From IBM’s test scoring machines in the 1930s to the Speak & Spells of the 70s, innovators and educators have been trying to improve education with technology for decades. But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning.

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7 Shifts To Create A Classroom Of The Future

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It’s challenging enough to manage a traditional learning environment where the curriculum is handed to you, and meetings are set, and you’re simply there to manage; adding more ingredients to the mix seems like asking for trouble. The good news is, many of the elements of a progressive learning environment—e.g.,

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What If Your Co-Teacher is a Computer?

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All of this created a spiral of stress for both the educators and students. At its core, the issue was resolving one of the toughest situations in education: effective co-teaching. Alignment to academic standards is usually more prominent and obvious. However, the educator is constantly looking at two things.

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20 Questions Every Parent Should Ask Teachers

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One of the most significant challenges facing formal education in the United States is the chasm separating schools and communities. Until parents have a better understanding of what pure academic work looks like–from the content to the assessment to the reporting–every single bit of this is on the shoulders of teachers.