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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

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” 2010 was also the year that the Common Core Standards Initiative was enacted in response to numerous indicators of low student academic performance. “More tech-based monitoring and assessment tools will be incorporated into to the instructional mix.” ” 1:1 + Common Core = $$$$$.

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10 Most Popular Tech Tips and Click-throughs in 2017

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Here’s a run-down on what you thought were the most valuable in 2017: Top 10 Tech Tips. Here are the Top Ten tech tips from 2017. 22 Digital Tools You Must Have in Your Classroom. What are Common Core keyboarding standards? Between these ten, they had over 174,000 visitors during the year.

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Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool for STEM, STEAM, Maker Education

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If this is how the makerspace is set up in your school, then your kids may not have access to the resources, materials, and tools when they need them, especially for STEM or STEAM. This is why we decided to create a planning tool for makerspaces in the classroom for you using the Design Thinking Process and Universal Design for Learning®.

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Edtech Needs More Infrastructure, Educator Support in 2017

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2017 is shaping up to be a big year of what-if’s. Continue Efforts to Improve Connectivity In Schools Just last week, one of my portfolio company founders was excited to pilot a new literacy tool in a school in Richmond, Calif., Here’s what Shauntel Poulson, a general partner at Reach Capital, had to say. education technology agenda.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Fourth grade ELLs at both schools grew their CAASPP scores by 252% of the state average in the 2017/2018 school year.

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Hour of Code is Coming!

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December 4-10, 2017, Computer Science Education will host the Hour Of Code–a one-hour introduction to students on coding, programming, and why they should love it, designed to demystify “code” and show that anyone can learn the basics to be a maker, a creator, and an innovator. No experience needed. Code Academy.