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Maximizing COVID Relief Funding and Its Effectiveness

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A very wide range of district programs can qualify for the latest funding, including access to school facilities, educational and professional development needs, and the use of technology to sustain and improve the educational environment. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Boxlight. Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast.

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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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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. I graduated with a Masters in Instructional Technology in 2007. I wanted them to learn that technology was a tool for their learning. We've come a long way baby!

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

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Increasingly, Asian companies are also investing abroad to find fresh ideas and tools to bring to their local markets. TAL Education Group , which began as a solo tutoring operation in 2003 and has since grown into a publicly-traded empire, boasting $620 million in revenue in 2015 from a network of over 300 brick-and-mortar tutoring centers.

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Use Design Thinking to Develop Critical Skills for a Global Economy

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During the first case study, I struggled to find a note taking strategy and furiously scribbled down ways that digital tools would have improved the learning experience. The skill content of recent technological change: An empirical exploration. Dancing with robots: Human skills for computerized work. References. Gordon, E.

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Teacher: Know Thyself – School Culture Shift is About the People

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The mastery for the future is not in a tool or workflow solution, it is found in innovativeness, in the champion’s ability to change. Read through the descriptions below with one type of emergent technology and see how you fit. The Maker Movement’s Innovator may also be the Robotic’s Laggard, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

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The Greatest EdTech Generation Ever – LIVE Blog of Justin Reich’s Keynote

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To begin, Justin starts by talking about the power of Rainbow Loom – one of the greatest tools of recent years to get kids excited about creativity. To begin, Justin recommends reading Frank Levy and Richard Murnane’s work, Dancing with Robots. However, Justin says that the subtext of the story was, “Thank goodness!

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