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Khan Academy: Friend or Foe?

A Principal's Reflections

In addition to using Yahoo doodle, he began writing quiz software in 2006. As the site increased in popularity it caught the eye of Bill Gates and Google with an end result being over 4 million in funding. Dismissive at first, he then began to create video tutorials that were uploaded to YouTube.

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

”( Holmes & Gardner 2006 ). (7). Google Apps for Education. A collection of software bundled by Google that is available on a subscription model for schools and classroom. Services include Google Drive, Google Docs, Gmail, and more. Google Classroom. Common Core) for individual students.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , a major designer of common-core tests for states, is looking for a new fiscal agent after the University of California, Los Angeles, said it will no longer do that work.” Google has released an update to its Course Builder software.