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Four Important Steps When Going From Teacher to Ed-Tech Entrepreneur

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

The notion that teachers can thrive as entrepreneurs is just rising to the surface, despite the ed-tech startup industry’s rapid growth. So, what can other teacherpreneurs do to get to this place faster? The post Four Important Steps When Going From Teacher to Ed-Tech Entrepreneur appeared first on Market Brief.

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Future Proofing Your Video Platform: A Cautionary Tale About Obsolescence

Edsurge

Colleges and universities are awash in digital video. Chief information officers (CIOs) are tasked with organizing, sharing and providing on-demand access to terabytes of video for a panoply of stakeholders. Yet most of the content management and storage solutions are woefully to support teaching and learning. Even as learning sciences offer stronger evidence of how video can support learners, CIOs continue to invest in commercial video platforms that solve for yesterday’s use case—often without

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6 Great Search Engines Designed Specifically for Kids

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

December 23, 2016 After posting about the 10 most popular academic search engines that teachers and student researchers can use to locate and access scholarly content online, today's post features.read more.

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Diffusing the Generational Divide in the Digital Era

Edsurge

Editor’s Note: ‘Tis the season of giving, eating and reflecting, a time to look back on 2016 and to make bold predictions about what next year may hold. In our fourth year-end personal statement roundup, we’ve again asked thought leaders to share their outlooks on education, but with a twist. They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now!

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Google Tone : A Practical Tool for Broadcasting Web Content to Multiple Computers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

December 23, 2016 Google Tone is a cool tool that allows users to broadcast any URL to other computers within earshot. All you need is to be logged in to your Google account and to have Google Tone.read more.

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Friday 5 — 12.23.2016

Perry Hewitt

Do you have 49 other people you’d like to video chat with over the holidays? Facebook Messenger can help you out, with up to six people streamed simultaneously, and up to 50 in a carousel-style display. Remember the good old days when digital experience meant only an html webpage? Scott Brinker explains how digital proliferation — from chatbots to augmented reality to wearables — transforms the role of marketing to embrace digital everything, and provides three specific recomm

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4 Cs Series: Communication

EdTechTeam

Self-Evaluation Communication Rubric In part two of this four part series on the 4Cs in education, we’re going to examine communication. Whether it is written or oral, what we say and how we say it is the most important part of getting something done. And, in this ever-growing global world, effective communication is paramount to being successful at whatever we are setting out to do.

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Top 10 Stories in the K-12 Marketplace in 2016

Marketplace K-12

What captured the most attention from our readers in 2016? Interest in Amazon, Pearson, and Bill Gates was high, as was a focus on open education resources. The post Top 10 Stories in the K-12 Marketplace in 2016 appeared first on Market Brief.

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Create and Program Mobile Apps With MIT App Inventor

techlearning

Fun programming site gets kids to build their own mobile apps.