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Edtech Incubators are Fading. Here’s What Will Replace Them.

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StartL (now shuttered) and Imagine K12 (which merged with Y Combinator in 2016) were among the first edtech accelerators, designed to help entrepreneurs navigate the unique complexities of education. Now the game plan is to lace those programs, include workshops and certificates, and "personalize" edtech entrepreneur education.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Preconference workshop.

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Coding By Design: A Design-First Approach – From Douglas Kiang

EdTechTeacher

That’s why we engage our students from the start in a process of designing apps to help others — a process in which coding and programming are essential, but secondary to developing empathy and process-oriented design skills. >> in San Diego February 1, 2016. in San Diego February 1, 2016.

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We Stand Together: Finding a Better Way to End Racial Inequity Starts Today

eSchool News

These scholarships are in addition to the student and teacher scholarships already funded through the independent foundation K12 established in 2016, known today as Future of School. NYSE: LRN) helps students of all ages reach their full potential through inspired teaching and personalized learning.

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Part 4: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Check out my Booking Page.

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10 More Digital Citizenship Resources: The Web in the Classroom…Part 4

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. I am now booked through the end of December and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Check out my PBL and Technology Integration Workshop.

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Game On: How Four Community College Professors Spawned the CUNY Games Network

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Active professionals within this network have put on numerous GBL workshops for interested CUNY faculty members and have developed both board and paper (e.g. A Proof-of-Concept Study of Game-based Learning in Higher Education,” published in the August 2016 issue of the journal Simulation & Gaming. Some Practical Advice.