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Innovative School District Seeks Middle School Science and Social Studies Apps

Digital Promise

WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies. There is strong leadership from the superintendent and middle school principal, focused on using technology to power personalized learning.

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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.) CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.).

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