NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Since 2007 Jane Hart , Founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) , has been creating the most wonderful lists of tools based on international survey input from educators, experts, instructional designers, consultants, developers and vendors. Check out his iPad Apps for Schools and Android for Schools.

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iPad Android E-rate Facebook 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Learning Revolution Events Global Education Conference , November 17th - 21st, 2014 Partner Spotlight Africa ICT Right (AIR) is an ICT-oriented non-profit organization established in 2007 with its Headquarter in Ghana and run by a team of volunteers. More information at [link]. More information. Share your ideas with Joel here.

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 53

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. Half of those, the firm said, would be iPads. Apple sold just 50 million iPads. Virtual worlds in 2007, for example.

Trends 40

Trends Report iPhone Software 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Much like “brain training,” “brain scanning” was repeatedly hyped this year as a possible way to improve the efficacy of education software. Take iPads , for example. Say, the Android device in Google’s Cardboard Viewer and Expeditions program.). Fads fade, of course. Hype wanes. Or MOOCs even.

Technology 40

Technology Education Report Training 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145