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3 Apps to Keep Parents in The Loop

Ask a Tech Teacher

It didn’t mean parents as tutors, homework helpers, or classroom volunteers–although it could be those. If you’re looking for a way to involve parents more granularly in your classroom, try these three ideas: Edmodo for Parents. I’ve taught Preschool-8th grade for thirty years. Insider Tips. Jupiter iO.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. Subscribe to their blog. There’s an existing market there.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. One crucial impact of mobile technologies in education is the way they tear down our old boundary walls, the ones around in-session classes, or conferences, or meetings. Let’s see if 2016 doesn’t see more tv-studio-style classrooms.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

Conferences ran streaming video events. Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. The rise of video carried over into education.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. The Flipped Classroom". WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” The Linked Learning Alliance is a voluntary certification program for California’s high school career academies. Teacher on Paid Leave After Confederate Flag Found Hanging in Classroom.” Google has released the latest generation of Chromebooks. Go, School Sports Team! ” From the HR Department.