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Best Learning Apps of 2015

Graphite Blog

2015 was another great year for learning apps. Price: $2.99; Platform: Android, iOS; Grades: Pre-K–2 MarcoPolo Weather is a digital sandbox tool that emphasizes exploration and open play with colorful characters, fun sound effects, and lots of interactivity. Price: Free; Platform: Android, iOS, Chrome; Grades: K–5.

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Drones Take Flight as Latest K–12 Learning Tool

EdTech Magazine

The New Media Consortium , which publishes its annual “Horizon Report for K-12” previewing the technologies likely to impact education in the coming five years, forecast back in 2015 that by 2019, we would see drones playing a role in education. . We then built a curriculum around drones,” says Vickery.

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Best Learning Websites of 2015

Graphite Blog

Here's our list of 2015's most wow-worthy websites and web-based edtech tools: A.D.A.M. These powerful, inquiry-based science units capitalize on elementary kids’ natural curiosity. Price: Free, Paid (contact developer for pricing); Platform: Web, iOS, Android, Kindle; Grades: 7–12. Mystery Science.

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Top 50 Sites/Apps of 2015

Technology Tidbits

Mobile App Top 50 Sites/Apps of 2015 * Seesaw - Excellent free mobile app (Android/iOS) for students creating digital portfolio w/ educational portal. Sketch Nation - A great free site/app (iOS/Android) for creating games. Scratch). . Xtranormal) by typing a script.

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Using Tablets and Google for Education to Support Early Elementary Learning

District Administration

District Administration, August 2015 At the Challenge to Excellence Charter School (C2E) in Parker, Colorado, educators are using tablets and Google tools in surprising ways to foster creativity, collaboration and content creation in grades K-3, while also establishing a foundation of knowledge-seeking skills that students will use in later grades.

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World Education Games 2015! Math, Literacy, Science

iLearn Technology

What it is: You guys, the World Education Games is back again, taking place around the world October 13-15, 2015! More than 5 million students from over 200 countries and territories will participate in the games for 2015. Tips: Using an Android or iPads in the classroom? World Games Day has Apps for that!

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Robot Maker Wonder Workshop Raises a $20M Series B to Expand Internationally

Edsurge

Students use an iOS or Android app to code commands for the robots. Wonder Workshop claims that more than 4,000 elementary schools in the US and 2,000 across the rest of the world have incorporated Dash and Dot into their curricula already. By the end of 2015, 1,500 schools, mostly American, had adopted it.