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Apple and Microsoft Now Offer $100 Styluses. But Do Schools Need—or Want—Them?

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But losing a different kind of “pencil” that technology companies are aiming to push into schools may likely cause a bigger heartache and headache for the purchasing department. Microsoft does, too, and various pens from third-party manufacturers are beginning to dot the touchscreen Chromebook market. What’s in a Pen?

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New Markets Venture Partners Adds $30 Million, Former Gates Foundation Executive to Edtech Fund

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His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. The four focus areas include career credentialing, digital and adaptive learning platforms, STEM and computer science instructional tools and data analytic services for schools. The Fulton, Md.-based A fourth deal is expected to close sometime this month.

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To Build Voice Recognition for Early Literacy, Soapbox Labs Gives Kids a Voice

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In 2003, a team of Harvard University researchers concluded a survey and mapped out the idiosyncrasies in the pronunciation of common English words across the globe. She noticed another problem: Many of the apps used speech recognition technologies that were trained with adult data samples. Let's call the whole thing off!

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New Markets Venture Partner’s Latest Edtech Fund Closes at $68 Million

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When New Markets Venture Partners first began fundraising for its second education technology investment fund, Barack Obama was in office, Brexit for up for debate and iPhones still had headphone jacks. The partnership also helps surface new tools and services. Now, more than two years later, New Markets is finally calling it a wrap.

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How to Transform Teaching with Tablets – From Tom Daccord & Justin Reich

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Getting computing devices into schools is relatively easy; changing classroom practice with technology is really, really hard. With every generation of computing technology, a small group of educators has been able to use new tools in transformative ways, but on the whole, classroom practices have proven stubbornly resistant to change.

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The Progression of our Lower School Technology Integration

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This is the progression of technology integration at CCS lower school since I came on staff in January of 2004 as a part-time related arts computer teacher. After being a high school computer teacher, I decided to teach the Microsoft computer applications of Word and Powerpoint to the fourth and fifth grade students.

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Teacher, Teach Thyself! Free Quality PD Resources

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TeacherTrainingVideos.com - [link] Created by Russell Stannard, a specialist in the use of media and technology. The tutorials on this site rival any that I''ve ever paid to watch, and they''ve helped me learn several programs and web tools. Each video is a short overview of a technology topic or tool. Classroom 2.0