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4 K-12 Ed Tech Trends to Watch in 2018

EdTech Magazine

4 K-12 Ed Tech Trends to Watch in 2018. Fri, 01/19/2018 - 11:48. The classroom of the future isn’t far from becoming a reality in 2018. Once an expensive pursuit, virtual reality has become more affordable thanks to tools such as Google Cardboard. meghan.bogardu…. VR in the Classroom Grows More Feasible. CDW VV2 Strategy.

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Voice-Based English Tutoring App MyBuddy Merges With a Friend: Edwin

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In 2018, the company tried to expand its offering by creating and selling English courses. The heads of the two companies knew each other, and last year MyBuddy started to build its own language-learning curriculum to add to its offerings. AI-powered language-learning tools have recently attracted venture capital.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This involves recognizing, respecting, and using students’ cultural backgrounds and experiences as conduits for effective teaching and learning. As such, teaching and learning are “always mediated or shaped by cultural influences, they can never be culturally neutral” (Gay, 2018, p. xii cited in Gay, p.

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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

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While Google, Microsoft and Apple have been pursuing their ambitions in K-12 and higher education for more than a decade, Amazon has mostly remained at the sidelines. These learning centers look less like classrooms and more like co-working spaces, with lounges, group meeting rooms, individual study spaces, playgrounds and makerspaces.

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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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CUE 2018: 4 Ways Google Forms Create Efficiencies for Teachers and Administrators

EdTech Magazine

CUE 2018: 4 Ways Google Forms Create Efficiencies for Teachers and Administrators. Thu, 03/15/2018 - 14:37. For educators, Google Forms are an integral component of facilitating personalized and adaptive learning. at a March 15 session at the Spring CUE 2018 conference. meghan.bogardu….

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How AI Will Save Education

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

A quick Google search resulted in no immediate hits of others writing such an essay. For the entire text of this example lesson plan, click here to view as a Google Doc.). Corey had me at "Greg Toppo," as I've been a fan of his since 2018 when I first read one of his earlier books.) I thought I could easily stump ChatGPT.

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