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Adapting to the New Classroom

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Google Classroom ? The district faced challenges with dropouts and reduced graduation rates due to failed classes, school transfers, and absences due to weather and medical issues. Google Classroom ? Google voice typing ? Read & Write for Google ? Various Google Chrome extensions ? Canvas LMS ?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Fines Google $5.1 ” The Google blog post announcing “ Course Kit ,” a tool that will integrate Google Drive with the LMS. Another invocation of Google Map s as a metaphor for student learning data in Edsurge. The Google Empire. Via The New York Times : “ E.U. ” But f**k it.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” ” “ University of Wisconsin System to Migrate From D2L Brightspace to Canvas LMS” by Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. Google had a big media to-do this week. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Via CNBC : “ Google , Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” ” Via the Google blog : “ VR Labs open doors of opportunity for STEM students.” ” Credentialing and Competencies.

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“ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? ” Via Edsurge : “ Google and Digital Promise Reimagine Teacher Tech Training with New National Program.” ” Via Education Week : “ Google Launches $50 Million Effort on the Future of Work.” ” asks the Pioneer Press. ”). .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Meanwhile on Campus… Via ProPublica : “‘Alternative’ Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System.” ” Via the Khan Academy blog : “Teachers using Google Classroom can now quickly and easily import their class roster to Khan Academy.” ” Wheee.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Google Drive will soon back up your entire computer,” says The Verge. ” – data about LMS adoption from Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill. ” “The Case for Learning Platform Grade Book ” by Mindwire Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. But only if you let it. Don’t.