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Pandemic Pivots: Edtech Edition

Edsurge

Here are some edtech pandemic pivots to watch. AVID also launched a website, “Open Access,” that curates digital instructional materials from nine content providers including Code.org, Microsoft and MIT. It marks one of AVID’s first forays into online instructional content.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition)

Doug Levin

Zeynep Tufekci shares her experiences more broadly (beyond education) in this provocative talk from June 2016: I’ll be spending some time later this week with friends and colleagues at the EdTech Efficacy Research Academic Symposium and look forward to the dialogue. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition).

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EdTech Company ChalkTalk Earns Funding to Help Shape The Future of Teaching

eSchool News

Unlike fully self-paced competitors that give students practice videos and content snippets for individual consumption, ChalkTalk generates personalized lesson plans and actionable teaching materials for teacher-led instruction—whether that teaching takes place in-person or remotely over a web-conferencing platform such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom.

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6 Cutting Edge EdTech Companies to Keep An Eye Out For This Year at the ISTE Conference!

TeacherCast

Microsoft Education – Booth 2900. The biggest party at ISTE this year will be happening at the Microsoft Education booth where you will find everything you need to create the perfect digital classroom for your students next year. ThinkWrite – Booth 1251. Learn more at [link]. Shmoop – Booth 554. MERGE – Booth 2746.

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CoSN 2019: K–12 Schools Address Digital Equity with Curriculum Framework

EdTech Magazine

Teachers spend seven or more hours per week, or 250 hours per year , creating or finding instructional materials for the general classroom, said Clark. For students who do not have appropriate materials in K–12, it can cost an additional $3,000 to earn a bachelor’s degree. . billion annually.

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The Best Flipped Classroom Software Tools For Flipped Learning In 2021

Fractus Learning

Interactive Whiteboard Edtech Tools. ShowMe is an Edtech tool that turns a teacher’s iPad into an interactive whiteboard. Create recorded voice-over classroom materials for blended learning or a flipped classroom. Schools that use Microsoft have access to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. Microsoft Teams .

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How Much Longer Will Schools Have to Scrape Together Technology Funding?

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Only 21 states have any kind of dedicated state funding for technology, and this can range from just digital instructional materials (e.g. Companies like Apple, Microsoft and Google regularly supply schools with discounted technology that districts could not otherwise afford themselves. But these options, too, come with a catch.