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Lumio: Making Review and Practice Easy

The CoolCatTeacher

How to get to the site. You’ll see when you login that you start off by being able to add activities, explore the resources they have, or get some training on how to use this collaborative learning tool. Add free manipulatives and lessons to your library first. What is included in the Lumio library?

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As LinkedIn’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges

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It has been just over two years since LinkedIn shocked the industry by buying Lynda.com, a library of video courses, for $1.5 The move made clear that the professional networking platform wanted to play a broader role in the future of employment (and it raised the eyebrows of some college officials who wonder how big that role might get).

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

NCTE Position Statement on Independent Reading ) 3:51 How does Lisa talk to her students about reading stamina and how to refocus when distracted? Have a great classroom library. Talk to your students about reading stamina and how to build it. October 31, 2011. June 16, 2011. 4:57 Idea 1: Opportunity.

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Steve Jobs, Visionary. 1955-2011

SpeechTechie

My dad, the head of a public school "Library/Media" department, brought home an Apple ][ (2), and I was instantly hooked. Through the years, I have loved the products conceived and nurtured by Steve Jobs, even in those years the company was expected to go under (Jobs himself got kicked out of the picture for a period of time).

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News from the Y: The Latest Edtech Startups in Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 Class

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Among the graduates were a half dozen education technology companies. CareerTu The growing number of Chinese e-commerce companies and their fight for eyeballs has created a business opportunity for Ruiwan Xu and her team at New York-based CareerTu. The online bootcamp of sorts focuses on teaching Chinese students how to sell online.

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After its college closes, a rural community fights to keep a path to education open

The Hechinger Report

They’re in the fading photos on the library walls of students who, over 177 years, attended the college and the boarding school from which it sprang, and of the Ursuline nuns who taught them, in their simple tunics and scapulars. Martin, was dissolved in 2011, when the population had dwindled to 129; the campus was absorbed into Fayetteville.

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Sal Khan on Expanding Into Early Learning and Launching a Peer-to-Peer Tutoring Platform

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Like, of course my kid knows how to do those things. Duck Duck Moose was the first company that could come up with really compelling apps that were good—arguably good—for kids, in 2009, 2010, 2011. I love how they had the fun and the quirkiness that could capture kids' attention. And they were also not just edu-tainment.