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What’s New: New Tools for Schools

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Amplify Fractions covers math standards in grades 3–6 and uses adaptive learning, interactive storytelling, and a personalized digital tutor to help students conquer fractions. The bundles pair Wonder Workshop’s Cue, Dash and Dot robots with Acer Chromebooks, Chrome tablets, Window notebook PCs and Android tablets.

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WHAT’S NEW

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The integration will enable teachers to use Renaissance Star 360 assessment data to accurately place students into FuelEd’s Stride adaptive learning solution. Hardware Acer ( www.acer.com ) has launched a new Chromebook and Chromebox for education and commercial customers and a new Chromebook for retail. Type C ports.

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Teaching Coding to Kids: What Programming Language Should We Use?

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Having taught coding for almost 10 years to hundreds of students, I often present at conferences or run workshops for teachers new to computer science. Programming languages come and go—and you will adapt. If students are working on Chromebooks, then having a stable, browser-based tool is critical.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The Washington Post : “ A South Carolina school district just abolished snow days – and will make students learn online.” It’s probably better for them than stupid worksheets on their Chromebooks. DreamBox Learning has raised $130 million from The Rise Fund. ” JFC. Or just have them read a book.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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IBM boasted a partnership with the Sesame Workshop to build “ cognitive learning ” apps. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” But these outlandish claims of a powerful piece of learning software never matched what materialized.

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