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CUE and Touchjet partner for STEAMpunk Mobile Labs

eSchool News

CUE , a nonprofit professional development organization for education technology, chose Touchjet , the first company to create a touch projector with a standalone Android operating system and a recent finalist of the 2016 Edison Awards for innovation, to help bring interactive technology to classrooms around the U.S.

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Code With Kids and See What Happens - written with Karly Moura!

Adam Welcome

Most of the kids at my school won’t be programmers or work for a tech company.” 1 we have a coding class in our 6th grade rotation and all students participate in the #hourofcode #mdusdchat — Kevin Honey (@mrkhoney) May 11, 2016 Coding Unwrapped: Coding is fun, but that doesn’t mean it should be relegated to one hour a year in school.

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Code With Kids and See What Happens #hourofcode #edtech #edchat #caedchat

Adam Welcome

Most of the kids at my school won’t be programmers or work for a tech company.” 1 we have a coding class in our 6th grade rotation and all students participate in the #hourofcode #mdusdchat — Kevin Honey (@mrkhoney) May 11, 2016 Coding Unwrapped: Coding is fun, but that doesn’t mean it should be relegated to one hour a year in school.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year. announced the U.S.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? Tagged on: March 17, 2017 Google's Family Link unlocks Android for kids | CNET → "We don't want kids thinking Google has built spyware.,"

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17 Things for Teachers to Try in 2017 (Infographic and FREE Download)

Shake Up Learning

Last year’s most popular post on Shake Up Learning was, “ 16 Things for Teachers to Try in 2016.” In December of 2016, Matt Miller of DitchThatTextbook.com and I announced our joint venture: The Google Teacher Tribe Podcast ! Program a Robot. Or try something more sophisticated like the Wonder Workshop Dash and Dot robots.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Mostly tutoring companies.). “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Badges , patents, and the world’s ‘least popular’ education company” by Doug Belshaw.