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College Prep: The Often Winding Road for Parents, Students and High Schools

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From 2006-2011, I supported and advised over 2,500 teachers. In the last three weeks alone, Foxconn announced it would replace 60,000 factory workers with robots and a former CEO of McDonald’s said given rising wages, the same would happen throughout their franchises. Schoold is available for download on both iOS and Android stores.

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3 Digital Tools to Encourage Close Reading

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PARCC, 2011, p. Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, 2011, p. Availability: 5/5 (iOS, Android). The reading voice is a bit robotic for me. Availability: 5/5 (iOS, Android, Web). This is not instinctual. This works well for me as a teacher and for my older students. Design: 4/5.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. 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.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” According to Edsurge , Knewton is now a courseware company and not a “robot tutor in the sky.” Via Think Progress : “Textbook co-authored by Roy Moore in 2011 says women shouldn’t run for office.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Moore is Alabama’s Republican Senate candidate.