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Best-in-Category Awards for 2016

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To award this Best in Category badge, we looked for the uncommon resources (meaning: not the ones everyone knows about, like Khan Academy) most visited by our readers in each category. Honorable Mention: Doodle –simplify scheduling; syncs with Google Calendar. Honorable Mention: Google Earth. Winner: Scratch Jr.

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10 Great PowerPoint Changes You Probably Don’t Know About

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This isn’t new to PowerPoint 2016, but if you haven’t upgraded in a while or simply didn’t know add-ins are available to Microsoft Office, you’ll love these. This includes DropBox, Google Drive, Poll Everywhere, Camtasia, and Adobe Stock. This feature also shows up in Word and Excel 2016. Khan Academy.

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The AppVent Calendar 2016: All The Best Educational Apps From The Past Year.

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18) Google Docs has allowed for easy but effective collaboration. Neil Jarrett (@edtechneil) November 17, 2016. 12) Google Cardboard , paired with a smartphone and viewer brings virtual reality to your classroom. 14) Google Maps allows you to explore the world. 3) Google Classroom has changed the way I teach.

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When Teachers Build Edtech, Awesomeness Ensues—and Here’s Why

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The first time I created Khan Academy playlists for each of my 100 fifth graders,” says Dong, “it took me 6 hours.” Today, KIPP Bay Area teachers can generate personalized Khan Academy playlists for their students in under 10 minutes using an automated tool. Teachers, by default, began creating their own solutions.

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The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech

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Younger students are seeking assistance online from Khan Academy videos and digital resources like the books available through Epic Kids, which hit No. Between 2016 and 2019, online tutoring services raised more than $1.2 1 on the kids’ free apps chart in the Apple app store during the first week of April.

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Google Offers Free Cloud Access to Colleges, Plays Catch Up to Amazon, Microsoft

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Google in June announced an. Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud services both offer education programs, and now Google Cloud wants a part in shaping future computer scientists — and probably whatever they come up with using the tool. Google Cloud launched in 2011, but has caught up to competitors to. Google breaking in? .

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Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later

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By 2008 it had its own conference, FlipCon (which closed in 2016). Equally important, the approach offers a readymade solution to a universal problem: In the information age, how do you teach students to think for themselves when so many answers are just a Google search away? “We Jon Bergmann.