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13 Digital Tools to Empower Active Use

Tom Murray

Simply digitizing past practice serves little instructional purpose and ultimately leads to low levels of learning. These types of practices have lead to a number of studies that have indicated that purchasing more technology does not increase student learning. An app is available for Chrome as well.

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What a blended learning classroom really looks like: An urban teacher’s reboot

The Hechinger Report

Many people want to know how what blended learning and the personalization of student learning are and how they look in implementation. In a personalized learning environment, student needs drive the design of the learning. My classroom is a blended learning classroom and every student has a laptop.

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We Might Be at the End of the Free Ed Tech Era

techlearning

Their success rate of companies is incredibly high as they helped start Class Dojo, Plickers, Remind, Padlet, Blendspace, Educreations, and a WHOLE host of others. Imagine K12 is a startup incubator out of California based on education. There is one big issue for most of them though: revenue. [