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

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Microsoft does, too, and various pens from third-party manufacturers are beginning to dot the touchscreen Chromebook market. Microsoft was one of the first big tech companies to market styluses to schools. The company currently markets the product as a tool to enhance creativity in the classroom. 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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New Markets Venture Partner’s Latest Edtech Fund Closes at $68 Million

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The partnership also helps surface new tools and services. New Markets’ Market Forecast Over the years, New Markets’ Palmer, whose career includes stints at Microsoft, Kaplan and the Gates Foundation, has learned to read market cues from federal legislation. The only acquisition with a disclosed valuation was Questar’s $127.5

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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. Soapbox does not develop user-facing products, but licenses its speech recognition tools to 25 other organizations that integrate them into their products.

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

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Over the past century, radio, television, video cassette recorders, desktop computers, laptop computers, handheld devices, tablets, and cell phones have all been heralded as potentially transformative classroom tools (Cuban, 1986, 2003).

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Teacher, Teach Thyself! Free Quality PD Resources

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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. LIVE! - [link] This site provides weekly live webinars with education practitioners that are sure to add to your teaching tool kit! Each video is a short overview of a technology topic or tool.

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The Progression of our Lower School Technology Integration

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In the last few days of the first semester of the 2003-2004 school year I was given the opportunity to speak with the teacher that was leaving the school briefly before he left for Christmas break to understand what the curriculum expectations were for the stand alone computer classes in the elementary school. We've come a long way baby!