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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. ” “ How Google Chromebooks conquered schools.”

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WHAT’S NEW

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BLACKBOARD AND READSPEAKER ( www.blackboard.com ) & ( www.readspeaker.com ) Blackboard and ReadSpeaker are furthering their partnership to help instructors worldwide improve course content accessibility. VITALSOURCE & BLACKBOARD ( get.vitalsource.com ) & ( www.blackboard.com ) Blackboard Inc. Type C ports.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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BLACKBOARD ALLY ( www.blackboard.com ) Blackboard announced that Blackboard Ally is now available for multiple learning management systems used by K-12 school districts. Blackboard Ally is an accessibility solution that helps make digital class content in a learning management system (LMS) more accessible for all learners.

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The age of disintegrated computing and thoughts on education

Bryan Alexander

Laptops keep mutating into new forms, extra-light, Chromebook, tablet hybrid, and so on. Not to mention robots, which we can’t carry, but are portable on their own terms. In education, wait for Blackboard and Microsoft to make this as sales pitch. Re-integrators will appear. Preservation gets even harder.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. The ratio of children to Chromebooks, in grades three through five, is one to one. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

Extra money has allowed these wealthier districts to invest heavily in Chromebooks and iPads, state-of-the-art robotics programs, computerized blackboards, and high-end 3-D printers. It’s perhaps not surprising. Many now have a laptop for every student. Not all parents have welcomed the embrace of the technology revolution.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

It’s probably better for them than stupid worksheets on their Chromebooks. “ Blackboard ’s Defense of its Finances is not Persuasive,” writes Michael Feldstein. Also from Feldstein : “ Moodle and Blackboard Cut Ties.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” JFC.