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30+ new tools and services we saw at ISTE 2019

eSchool News

Another ISTE has come and gone–were you in Philadelphia for ISTE 2019? Coding and robotics (check out our ISTE 2019 robotics round-up), social and emotional learning, and building employability skills were at the top of the many trends and focus areas highlighted during the conference.

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News from the Y: The Latest Edtech Startups in Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 Class

Edsurge

She ran a blog about self-taught digital marketing before launching the online school in April 2018. In 2018, it claimed about 6,000 paying one who altogether brought the company $500,000 in revenue. Courses on the platform range from one on fashion marketing (for at least $790) to one on Google and Facebook ads (for at least $4,500).

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

Since 2018, she has been a partner at Learn Capital, a venture capital fund focused on the global education sector. Our higher education system formed around libraries. From 2008 to 2019 we have witnessed a 4,000-plus percent expansion in the number of funded edtech startups, and the best startups can become unicorns.

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PROOF POINTS: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating

The Hechinger Report

The number of eighth graders who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points between 2017 and 2019. The percentage of public school students who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points from 53 percent in 2017 to 49 percent in 2019.

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8 Lessons in amplifying literacy with technology

Neo LMS

However, if you’re not into the idea of social media, Youtube, or a public blog, you can use a simple library of items that students can have access to such as Google Drive, or something more advanced such as your school’s learning management system. I read a total of 61 books in 2019, of which at least half were in a digital format.

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Our 2018 Picture Book Smackdown was a Success!

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

The 2018 Picture Book Smackdown was held on November 29, 2018. — Donna Macdonald (@dsmacdonald) November 30, 2018. We kept a list of all of our books so we could remember them for our own libraries and to share with all of you. — Donna Macdonald (@dsmacdonald) November 30, 2018.

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Top Tweets from 2021

Learning in Hand

GoogleForEdu released a Google Slides template for teachers with a variety of resources. Sticker Library ? candytechideas used Google Slides to make this slick soundboard! apsitjen has questions to help you choose Google Slides, Google Drawings, or Google Jamboard. ✏️ Weekly Journal ? Participation Chart ?