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Little Passports Vs. KiwiCo – Monthly Subscription Box Comparison – Is Kiwico or Little Passports The Best Educational Toy For Your Child?

Fractus Learning

Two moms launched Little Passports in 2009, and since then, the company has become an international brand with exciting choices to keep kids entertained and engaged. Supplemented with online learning resources for curious children who want to know more, your little explorer isn’t limited to the contents of this month’s kit.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. 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.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. But the “spying” has continued.

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