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Organizing the Edtech Toolbox

edWeb.net

Teachers have many edtech resources in their toolbox now. During the edWebinar, “ Transform Learning: Track Results for Chromebooks, Google Suite, and Every Application,” presenters Kyle Berger, Chief Technology Officer at Grapevine-Colleyville ISD, TX, and Matthew X. More important, are the tools of equal quality? Joseph, Ed.D.,

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What Happened to the ‘$100 Laptop’?

Edsurge

I think that they might have come about in the next few years anyway though in 2009 when, in Paraguay at least, when the One Laptop per Child laptops were given out, the first round of them, less than 10 percent of the Paraguayan population had computers. So if we didn't have cloud computing, Chromebooks still wouldn't be very useful.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called badges a “game-changing strategy.”.

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