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

Edsurge

The company’s flagship products are two round blue robots aimed at introducing students six to 12 to computational thinking. Students use an iOS or Android app to code commands for the robots. By the end of 2015, 1,500 schools, mostly American, had adopted it. Dash retails for $150; Dot for $50.

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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. The Robot Factory by Tinybop. MarcoPolo Weather.

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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. . This is not the first challenge that Flores has presented his competitive engineering team.

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#EdTechTidBIts of the Week (April 21, 2015)

EdTechnocation.com

Here's your #EdTechTidBits for the week of April 21, 2015. I found two new apps, a Disney article, a robotics competition to the moon, and a repository of maker projects! The task is to design, create, and program a robot that can rove & navigate on the moon's surface. They also have an Android app !

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#EdTechTidBits of the Week (April 27, 2015)

EdTechnocation.com

Here are your #EdTechTidBits for the week of April 27, 2015! Tickle is an app for the iPad that allows you to create Scratch like programs to control your robotic toys such as drones, Sphero , and your Philips Hue wireless light bulbs. There is a free web-based version, Edmodo app, and iPad app (with Android coming soon!).

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#EdTechTidBits of the Week (April 27, 2015)

EdTechnocation.com

Here are your #EdTechTidBits for the week of April 27, 2015! Tickle is an app for the iPad that allows you to create Scratch like programs to control your robotic toys such as drones, Sphero , and your Philips Hue wireless light bulbs. There is a free web-based version, Edmodo app, and iPad app (with Android coming soon!).

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Live Broadcasts from ISTE 2016

Learning in Hand

Like in 2015, I'm traveling to the ISTE conference and taking my iRig Microphone HD to broadcast live on Periscope. Remember, if you join live in the Periscope iOS or Android app, you too can ask questions in the broadcast's comments! You're welcome to take a look at archived broadcasts from ISTE 2015. What's Periscope?