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Beyond Screen Time: Better Questions for Children and Technology in 2020

Edsurge

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. As I reflect on the intersection of child development, early learning and technology over the past 10 years, I am reminded of a decade of polarizing arguments for and against young children using technology. Relationships matter most.

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Campuswire Raises $3.6 Million to Improve Online Class Discussions

Edsurge

million seed round with participation from Bloomberg Beta, Rethink Education, Precursor Ventures, Betaworks and angels including Rob Hayes, Doug Scott and Jason Citron, the founder of Discord. The Campuswire platform comes as a desktop, iPhone or Android app that offers a forum for students’ questions.

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Virtual School Tips and Recommendations

The Thinking Stick

NCCE (Northwest Council For Computer Education) being our regional ISTE sponsored conference with somewhere around 1500 participants coming together each year to share and learn. For example, the iPhone was only 3 years old and smartphones were just taking off in 2010. Lessons Learned: 1. you’re gonna rock this!

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Animoto for teacher creations

Kathy Schrock

I made my first video with a free account at Animoto, using my iPhone 3GS, on August 3, 2009. As educators, we are always looking for free or freemium tools and apps. TRYING OUT THE ANIMOTO PROFESSIONAL PLUS VERSION Without reading any directions or learning about the new features, I dove right in and created a digital story.

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Schools on a screen: One tech-savvy school district has lessons for others going online

The Hechinger Report

Are you ready to learn the basics?”. For almost a decade, even young kids here have spent hours a day on screens as Mineola’s educators sought to transform schooling here. Children and teachers were familiar with a variety of learning apps and other educational software. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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Looking Back At 2010 And Looking Forward To 2011.

The Web20Classroom

I wrote a post on December 28, 2009 where I talked about tools that I thought would have a break out year. Here is an example I use a lot where I asked people to give me their thoughts on what a PLN (Personal Learning Network) means to them. Check out the Voicethread In Education wiki for some. I want to be hip. How did I do?

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’15 The Year of Wearable

The Thinking Stick

Each year I like to try and predict what might be the technology that affects us both in our daily lives as well as education. 2009: Bringing Social Learning to the Masses (Education goes deeper in understanding social connections). 2010: The Year of the Mobile Web (iPad, Android, iPhone do I need to say more?).