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How Tablet Games Can Teach Skills to Students with Visual Impairments

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His tablet-run version of the game has the same goal: pick letters to figure out a mystery word. The tablet reads out each letter, building your association between the raised dots and the alphabet. The tablet reads out each letter, building your association between the raised dots and the alphabet.

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Celly Launches New Service and Android App for Building Mobile Social Networks

Educational Technology Guy

It is free to use (standard text messaging rates apply though) and anyone with a mobile phone or access to the web can use it. The new service allows users to build instant mobile social networks, called "cells" using text messages, QR Codes, email, web or the new Android App. Today, Celly is announcing a new service.

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Game On: Kahoot Snaps Up DragonBox for $18 Million for Its First Acquisition

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Last December, following a Disney investment that valued the company at $376 million , the Oslo-based company made clear its intention to build a pipeline for acquisitions. The company has since expanded its collection of games to cover other math skills, from number sense to geometry proofs. The company also earned $1.9

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Verizon launches free trainings and tools to help educators navigate digital instruction

eSchool News

The program is now expanding to include a new model for schools that already have 1:1 device programs, with Verizon providing hotspots equipped with a 30GB 4G LTE monthly data plan for students who have a school-issued tablet or laptop but lack reliable home internet access. billion in 2019. About Citizen Verizon.

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The Game Agency Creates Custom Game-Based Solutions To Help Complement Training Initiatives And Improve Learning Outcomes

The Game Agency

A: The Game Agency is a software development company focused on building game-based solutions that make K-College and corporate training more effective. Our games are available in >20,000 schools and used by hundreds of companies including Amazon, Comcast, IBM, Kellogg, PayPal, Philips, Siemens, and Wells Fargo.

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iPads Did Not Revolutionize Campus Teaching (But a Few Colleges Give Every Student One)

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When Apple released its first iPad seven years ago, the company thought one area it would revolutionize was education. So when Hiram College announced last month that it would provide every student and professor an iPad starting this fall, it made us wonder what the state of Apple’s sector-creating tablet on campuses is these days. (It

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ClassDojo - free classroom behavior system - announces iOS apps.

Educational Technology Guy

The free service also operates on the Web, allowing teachers to alternatively use a laptop, desktop computer, or any smartphone or tablet via Web browser. ClassDojo is free for teachers, and the company is dedicated to keeping it that way. To date, over 3.5 To download the ClassDojo app, visit: [link] app/classdojo/id552602056?ls=

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