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10 edtech experts you should follow

Hapara

After helping teachers transition to online learning during the pandemic, she began writing about her experiences, including a chapter on online learning in Like No Other School Year. She also wrote a full guide to online and digital learning, A Teacher’s Guide to Online Learning. . Want to learn more?

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4 lessons learned about AI in 2023

eSchool News

These four lessons learned from this past year really get into the subconscious to discover how we feel about AI in our schools. In Steve Jobs’ memorable 2005 commencement address at Stanford, he shared a story about “connecting the dots.” The AI revolution happened because of COVID.

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Gaming Builds Valuable Life Skills

EdNews Daily

When I was in graduate school at Vanderbilt University, I studied digital learning with an emphasis on gaming for learning. What life skills can be taught and learned in a gaming environment? The freedom of interpretation is the opportunity to learn individually.

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Three Things We Learned at Khan Academy Over the Last Decade

Edsurge

In 2005, Sal Khan founded Khan Academy, the online education nonprofit where is now CEO, and in 2014 he founded the Khan Lab School. We are now largely past the hard work of putting the infrastructure in place to enable access to digital learning tools. Stay tuned for other reflections in the coming weeks.

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Innovative School District Seeks Middle School Science and Social Studies Apps

Digital Promise

So when Piedmont is looking for great digital science and social studies programs for its middle school, it’s hard for them to know where to look and what’s out there. WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies.

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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

Shake Up Learning

Since 1998 I’ve been a pioneer in digital learning, having a classroom website before many classrooms even had internet access. In 2001 I had a one-to-one classroom with Palm Pilots, and in 2005 I started one of the first podcasts from an elementary school.

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Top Hat Raises $55 Million to Take on Big Textbook Publishers

Edsurge

Bluedoor was founded in 2005 and is based in Minneapolis. This video from BVT Publishing shows how textbooks turned digital by Top Hat appear. Despite the emergence of digital courseware offerings from publishers and startups alike, printed materials remain a stubborn reality in American colleges.

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