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Khan Academy: Friend or Foe?

A Principal's Reflections

To date, these statistics are: 140 million+ lessons delivered, 500 million+ exercises done, and 6+ million unique visits per month. In addition to using Yahoo doodle, he began writing quiz software in 2006. He officially started Khan Academy in 2009 knowing that quality videos would withstand test of time.

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GitHub?s New Education Bundle Equips Students With Industry-Standard Coding Tools

Edsurge

million companies across the world, GitHub is considered the standard when it comes to software development platforms. In a nutshell, GitHub is a collaborative development tool popular among programmers and software companies. Many professional and open-source software projects involve multiple developers who work on source code files.

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Renaissance Learning Acquires Schoolzilla to Marry Assessment and School Data

Edsurge

based provider of instructional software and formative assessment tools that is on a buying spree. Schoolzilla’s life began in 2009 as a project within Aspire Public Schools, a charter network with schools across California and in Memphis. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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TenMarks Shutdown Leaves Teachers Wanting, Competitors Circling

Edsurge

School and district users had ample warning about the demise of the adaptive K-12 math and writing software—the company issued a notice on its site 15 months ago—and yet many say that the off-boarding process was not a smooth one. Throughout the 2018-19 school year, he held out hope the software would be acquired.

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Amazon Will Shut Down TenMarks and Its Digital Math and Writing Tools

Edsurge

Founded in 2009, TenMarks developed a web-based, adaptive K-12 math program that included lesson plans, curriculum and exercises. A day before Horton received the cancellation note, her district’s director of learning support had received a quote from TenMarks for the 2018-2019 school year. It had raised about $4.8

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

The Hechinger Report

Children and teachers were familiar with a variety of learning apps and other educational software. Nagler, who became superintendent in 2009, had lots of ideas about how to do that. One such challenge asked elementary school kids to design an exercise for their physical education teacher to perform on video.

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ProfHacker 2015 Holiday Gift Guide

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And if for some reason you need more ideas than what’s here—or if you’re just feeling nostalgic, as is befitting this time of year—take a look at our lists from 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , and 2009. Our family’s budget software of choice is YNAB (You Need A Budget). Board Games.