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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

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In December 2010, The Journal –“t he leading Technology based education publication for K-12 and higher education”– published an article with a 5-prong prediction for the following year. These were the pressing questions of the time – a time 8-months after the release of the first iPad and 6-months before the release of the first Chromebook.

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5 Reasons the iPad is Still Relevant to SLPs

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When the iPad came out in 2010, I was skeptical. First of all Chromebooks made accessing the web and Google productivity apps cheap and easy for schools. Let's face it- it's still not easy for K-3 students at least to log into a Chromebook and handle a mouse. Interactivity and No-BS access. Little Hands.

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InstallFree Nexus - us MS Office or LibreOffice on any device through the cloud

Educational Technology Guy

You can use Microsoft Office or LibreOffice on an iPad , Android Tablet, Chromebook or any device with a web browser. You can view and edit documents that you have stored in Dropbox , Google Drive , Office 365 and others and even access web apps that are written in Flash, Silverlight or Java. This is very useful for the Chromebooks.

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What Problems Has Edtech Solved, and What New Ones Did It Create?

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Shauntel Garvey (General Partner, Reach Capital): The launch of the iPad and Chromebook ushered in the age of devices in the classroom. These devices accelerated the unbundling of content so that students can directly access leveled news articles on Newsela, or their favorite book on Epic. Remember LAUSD’s failed effort ?)

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How Technology Is Harming Your Child’s Development … Or Is It?

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Now, with increasing accessibility to handheld portable devices (in a recent American Academy of Pediatrics study , 96.6% Now, with increasing accessibility to handheld portable devices (in a recent American Academy of Pediatrics study , 96.6% However, cases have been made for both sides of this debate in more recent years.

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When Education Giants Stumbled and Data Ruled

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Computers were still housed in labs or on carts, but one-to-one computing and internet accessibility were hot topics. When it comes to devices, many kids today have access to iPads or Chromebooks. The largest companies in 2010 were the textbook providers. The big players at the time were the large textbook publishers.

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Learning Games Startup, Motion Math Moves to a New Home: Curriculum Associates

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We now have access to capital and we’ll look at people who’ve made truly outstanding content,” says Waldron. Lessons Learned If Klein could travel back to 2010 and give himself one piece of advice, it’d be this: “get to a subscription model and web browsers faster.” Here’s what Klein says he’s learned along the way.

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