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Maximizing COVID Relief Funding and Its Effectiveness

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This approach is more likely to provide educators with the ability to use all the tools in their classroom to meet the individual needs of their students and keep the students engaged in learning. 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

Edsurge

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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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

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

EdTechTeacher

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. Dancing with robots: Human skills for computerized work. Finally, I took a deep breath, politely asked if I could please borrow a pen, and put my phone and iPad away.

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The Progression of our Lower School Technology Integration

Tech Helpful

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!

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

techlearning

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. If perhaps you were to approach this same list of categories with topics like Virtual and Augmented Reality, the Maker Movement, Coding, and/or Robotics… you may find yourself in a different adopter category.

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

EdTechTeacher

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. Today, Justin is going to recruit everyone into his generational project.

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