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Otus - LMS, Data Management and Assessment Management, all in one easy-to-use product

Educational Technology Guy

And has a mobile app for educators, students and families. Has a great gradebook supporting traditional points-based classrooms and standards based grading. It provides powerful assessment options to support every subject, grade level, and pedagogical method. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy.

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EdTech Expo 16 - free educational technology conference - 2-12-16 Westchester NY

Educational Technology Guy

Ed Tech Expo 16 is a free educational technology conference being held on Friday, February 12, 2016 at the Westchester Marriot in Westchester, NY. There will be some great sessions around edtech, along with vendors with demos and products. 2016 looks to be a milestone year in educational technology.

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MIT’s Scratch Program Is Evolving For Greater, More Mobile Creativity

MindShift

His Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab develops Scratch , one of the most popular coding programs for kids, which is based on the seminal work of Seymour Papert, who died in 2016. The new version of Scratch is being designed to work on mobile devices, so it will be lighter and more flexible.

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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

Edsurge

They were looking to license their tools, or acquire them, or simply see what new ideas startups were coming up with,” says Karen Billings, who ran SIIA’s education technology division from 2002 to 2016. Computers, laptops and mobile devices became more affordable. There were no vendor halls where salespeople demoed their tools.

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5 Ways live streaming is going to change the future of education

Kitaboo on EdTech

Did you know more than 80% of internet and mobile audiences watched more live-videos in 2016 as compared to 2015, and streaming video accounts for more than two-thirds of all internet traffic and is expected to jump to 82% by 2020? Kitaboo is a cloud-based content platform to create-publish-distribute interactive mobile-ready content.

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Why the World’s Youngest Continent Got an Edtech Accelerator

Edsurge

In South Africa, the youth unemployment rate topped 50 percent in 2016. To that point, several teams are building solutions for “feature phones,” mobile devices that can connect to the internet but have limited storage and support for third-party apps. Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school.

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Flexcat collaboration system gets big upgrade for ISTE

eSchool News

At ISTE 2016, classroom audio provider Lightspeed Technologies will introduce three new features of its Flexcat system. Lightspeed’s new mobile app, launching in July, turns teachers’ iOS device into a Flexcat remote control. Schools that want flexible technology can now use classroom tools for PD as well.”.

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