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Will Hybrid Teaching Stick Around as the Pandemic Fades?

Edsurge

It’s a practice he started at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many students were in quarantine and needed ways to continue learning remotely. Faculty are saying, ‘I’m back in the classroom where I want to be,’” he says, admitting that there is less HyFlex teaching now than during the pandemic. Will their efforts succeed?

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

FY 2006 $272,300,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). Schools today offer a greater level of technology infrastructure than just a few years ago, and there is no longer a significant need for a State formula grant program targeted specifically on (and limited to) the effective integration of technology into schools and classrooms.

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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

Shake Up Learning

Membership is affordable because I believe in the importance of what students learn by doing Shapegrams challenges. When I taught fifth grade, a new Shapegram greeted students in our Google Classroom for their morning message every Wednesday. Learning in Hand started in 2002 as part of my classroom website.

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Clearlake Capital to Acquire Discovery Education from Francisco Partners

eSchool News

Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. is an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit, and other related strategies. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 About Clearlake.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

When I worked at Microsoft back in 2002, our team basically invented the idea of Google Classroom (it was called Microsoft Class Server), but we were twelve years too early and the product disappeared by 2006. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public).

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Games and Apps for Supporting Young Students with Mathematics Difficulties

edWeb.net

According to American School Board Journal in 2006, 40% of US kindergarteners are already one to three years below grade level when they first enter public school. PreK-3 Digital Learning is a free professional learning community (PLC) that hosts webinars and wide-ranging discussions on digital learning in the PreK-3 grades.

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Launching SchoolLibraryNJ (and some models beyond)

NeverEndingSearch

The WA Digital Teachkit is an easy-to-use guides crafted by teacher librarians to help K12 educators select, understand, and use commonly-adopted digital learning tools in Washington State. Divided into two sections, WA Digital TeachKit. Among the Guides are: WA Digital TeachKit Guides. Chapter in Mary K.

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