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Teacher Play – 6 Apps to Explore This Summer

Fractus Learning

Devoting a few rainy afternoons to “teacher play” can pay off big in the fall: you can update your curricula or even develop new activities and assessments, and you can also test-drive apps to determine which ones would work well for your students to use. Blendspace (web). Google Classroom (web, iOs, Android).

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Reach Capital’s Newest Education Technology Investment Fund Closes at $82 Million

Edsurge

Zeal, which attempted to bring on-demand tutoring to classrooms, shut down earlier this year. Curriculet, which offered a digital library of reading materials and assessments, briefly closed shop before it was acquired by the nonprofit Waterford Institute. Blendspace was purchased by TES. Blendspace (TES Global).

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we interviewed across library land curated in several different ways and we used the term curation differently depending on current community needs or where they were in any particular project.

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2015 Global Education Conference - Day Three!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Erica Magnusson, Content Analyst, TES Global Encounters: Connecting Classrooms to Address the World's Great Challenges. Alba Silvana Salica 8:00 AM Chinese Culture University-Eastern Connecticut State University global connections: First year college students collaboration - David L.

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Favorite Tech Tools For Social Studies Classes

MindShift

Educators are looking for ways to help students participate in a digital world, but the choices for digital engagement in the classroom can be overwhelming. ” She put together a list of favorite digital tools for the social studies classroom and shared them during an edWeb webinar.

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The 2015 Global Education Conference Starts Today - All Online - Full Session Listing - Join Us!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Ed AFS-USA's Intercultural Learning eTool: Culture Trek: Classroom Connections / Tonya Muro, Ed.D., Granger MA Connecting Classrooms via Global Collaborative Projects / Kim Caise, NBCT, M.Ed. / Klees, Professor of International Education Policy / Carol Anne Spreen A Global Shift in Mindset: How to develop innovative leaders?