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7 Games to Play in the Classroom with an Interactive Whiteboard 

ViewSonic Education

In the past, the use of games within academic environments had too often been restricted to the final few days before the school holidays or for special ‘one-off’ lessons. When teachers open up a game, they will also be able to see tags explaining what subjects the game can best assist with.

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From inner space to outer space, schools try new ways to help students explore

The Hechinger Report

Purvis Thompson poses for a portrait at the Brooklyn Public Library after taking an anthropology class offered by Bard College on October 16, 2018. Bard College has opened a micro-college, offering associates degrees earned by attending classes at the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza. JACKIE MADER. By Sophie Margolin.

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From the Ground Up: Building a New Classroom Culture

EdTechTeam

If you have been an educator for more than two decades as I have been, then you remember school before changes like the paperless classroom and the global classroom, when the most accessible content resource was a textbook, and essays were to be written in blue or black ink. These things are the collected products of our school’s culture.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Consortium for School Networking, CoSN, has taken up the mantle for the K-12 version. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. The Promise of “Free”.

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New Content Added to Discovery Education’s Award-Winning Digital Services Boost Teachers’ Ability to Engage Students in Science, STEM, Social Studies, and More

techlearning

Ignite My Future Webisodes: Computational thinking is not just about computers. Much like critical thinking, computational thinking equips learners with essential skills for solving complex problems to find innovative solutions through skills such as collecting and analyzing data, modeling solutions, or applying algorithmic thinking.

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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

Edsurge

Today, OpenStax—part tech startup, part publishing house, part cognitive science research lab—has a library of three dozen titles. By Rebecca Koenig In Pursuit of Personalized Learning Baraniuk played electric guitar in high school rock bands while growing up in Winnipeg, Canada—the same city, he notes, that spawned The Guess Who.

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3 LMS adoptions that go way beyond the basics

eSchool News

These districts and schools are drawing more benefits out of their learning management systems. Needless to say it caught on with universities—and eventually school districts. Any time schools get a new software program, they tend to pick off the low hanging fruit—i.e. For most, the LMS is rarely so different. Pie in the sky.

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