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 Minnesota’s Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop Public Schools’ New Partnership Powers the Creation of Dynamic Digital Learning Environments Supporting Science Education 

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Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. Pivot, which  joined the Discovery Education family of services  in 2022, makes teaching science with active learning and scientific phenomena engaging and easy.

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Digital Learning Day 2018 – Challenge Accepted!

EdTechTeam

Digital Learning Day 2018. On Thursday, February 22nd, tens of thousands of educators and students across the country demonstrated how technology can improve student learning as part of the seventh annual national Digital Learning Day ! The post Digital Learning Day 2018 – Challenge Accepted!

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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Looking Back At 2011 And Looking Forward To 2012

The Web20Classroom

Just my feelings from what I have been reading and seeing and what I believe will take a great hold in educational technology. I think more districts will revise cellphone and device policies and we will see more and more schools and districts allow students to bring technology with them. No science behind any of this.

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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

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This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Marie Cini is the president of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. An abacus is an educational technology, as is the slide rule.

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Harvard and MIT Launch Nonprofit to Increase College Access

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What would you do if you had $800 million to build a new nonprofit to support innovation in online learning? That’s the privileged question that officials at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have been mulling over for the last two years, and this month they announced some answers.

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Big Jump in Use of Games, Videos in K-12 Schools, Survey Finds

Marketplace K-12

. “The explosion in teacher interest and usage of videos and game-based learning could be a harbinger of a new awakening for digital learning” said Julie Evans, the CEO of Project Tomorrow, in a statement. Speak Up found that 50 percent of teachers were looking for such resources, up from 27 percent in 2012.

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