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Pear Deck Raises $4M to Jazz Up Digital Presentations in the Classroom

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Founded in 2014, Pear Deck lets teachers create and share multimedia-rich digital presentations, which students can access on their devices and respond to through text, drawings and other interactive features. Haiku Learning, in turn, was bought by Powerschool in 2016.) The Iowa City-based startup has now raised $5.2

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PowerSchool Completes Schoology Purchase in March Toward ‘Unified’ K-12 Data Ecosystem

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Others were pieces for its new product suite, such as Haiku Learning, a learning management system that has a small market footprint, but which Gulati says helped to lay its groundwork for the Unified Classroom suite. Some of those assets expanded its footprint in the SIS market, like Sungard K-12 and Chalkable.

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App of the Week: A clever LMS for instruction design

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Haiku Learning. Haiku Learning is a cleverly designed LMS geared towards extending learning beyond the classroom. note: App of the Week picks are now being curated with help from Graphite by Common Sense Media. Click here to read the full app review. . What’s It Like? Price : Free/subscription.

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PowerSchool to Acquire Schoology, Pairing Major K-12 LMS and SIS Providers

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Schoology would be PowerSchool’s second purchase of a learning management system (LMS), after it acquired Haiku Learning in 2016. Haiku has since been rebranded as PowerSchool Learning. Neither the financial terms of the deal nor its expected closing date were disclosed in the announcement.

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

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As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. Often the tools available either meet some of the teachers’ needs or are prohibitively expensive.

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From Tech Newbie to Ninja to Sensei

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Discover which tools and apps your students already have access to or know how to use by surveying them. Send your student ninjas on learning missions with technology. You will need ninja learning community (a VLE/LMS ). Click to access that resource! Know your ninja tools! Tech Tips , by shellyterrell.

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PowerSchool Buys Chalkable, Tops $200 Million in Acquisition Spending

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The sale gives PowerSchool access to Chalkable’s clientele of 1,100 U.S. million students across the world, Gulati hopes to make data more accessible and actionable for teachers. School and district administrators may also find it handy to have access to different data in one place. school districts.