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Common Sense Education Resources from ISTE 2015

Graphite Blog

Learn how to bring wacky fun to geometry lessons with The Land of Venn; how to personalize math practice and assessment with Front Row; and offer adaptive learning opportunities with Think Through Math. Free Flipped Learning Tools You'll Love. Looking for great tools to support K-8 Common Core math instruction?

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Cash Awards Honor Faculty and Institutions for Innovative Use of Digital Tools

Edsurge

In 2015, nearly 500 students participated in the program and 56 percent improved their math placement at least one level; one student jumped four levels. For introducing a flipped-classroom chemistry curriculum that has cut student costs and boosted student success with online instruction and homework Oregon State University.

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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0; The list goes on and on.

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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0; The list goes on and on.

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Not Another Dashboard: K-12 Interoperability Efforts Aim to Inform (Not Just Report)

Edsurge

Many big ideas (or buzzwords) in education technology — from adaptive learning and personalization to the flipped classroom — transcend K–12 and higher education.

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Key Digital Skills for 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

They can be used in flipped classrooms or in blended learning environments. One of the characteristics of a 21st century teacher, according to Tsisana Palmer (2015), is that they are innovators. With innovations come the important skill of adaptability. Both qualities (innovation and adaptability) go hand in hand.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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