Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The startup has raised about $13 million in funding, closing $8 million in Series B in December 2015. Books are one of the most essential resources used by teachers, but because so many of today’s school and classroom libraries have limited quantity and selection, it is becoming harder and harder to get kids excited about reading.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Part 3: Forty Educational Websites For Your Summer 2015 Toolkit ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ). Download software for offline use. Create online exercises (of 8 different types) or adapt from their library. Exploratorium.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

I got my first taste of "making" in April 2015, when I attended a session on makerspaces at South Dakota's Technology and Innovation in Education conference. I also knew creating such a space could be pricey, especially when you start talking about robots, advanced software and 3D printers. Every school’s makerspace is unique.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 14, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Library 2.014 on YouTube. The great majority of these events are free to attend. Computational thinking is essential to STEM.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

” Via the CBC : “ University of Manitoba students receive ‘extortion’ letters over illegal downloads.” billion, up from $178 billion in 2015, according to recent reports by tech market research firm Gartner.” " The Pew Research Center has released its latest report on libraries.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

“ New York City libraries have announced they plan to forgive the late fees of all children aged 17 and under in a one-time amnesty event,” The AP reports. Selected students can now choose to download a digital version of their degree certificate to their smartphones when they graduate, in addition to receiving a paper diploma.”

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