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Sphero Makes a Big Acquisition in littleBits to Bring Hands-On STEAM Learning to Life

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When Sphero laid off 45 employees in early 2018, the Boulder, Co.-based Today, the robotic toymaker is following through by adding a big building block to its educational offerings. In 2015, Sphero secured a licensing deal with Disney to sell robotic toys modeled after droids from the Star Wars franchise, BB-8 and R2-D2.

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10 Myths about Teaching with Tech

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The New York Post reported in 2018 that as many as 5 million schoolage children have no Internet access. No, it won’t, despite the 2009 robot who taught a Tokyo class and Elias, the Finnish primary school robot. It will be years before that can be incorporated into a robot or AI (artificial intelligence).

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

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For the fifth year, Tech & Learning presents its awards program that honors great products at ISTE 2018. For the fifth year, Tech & Learning presents its awards program that honors great products at ISTE 2018. Gizmos help prepare students for rigorous new standards and online assessments.

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Tech Ed Resources for your Class–K-8 Tech Curriculum

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The K-8 Technology Curriculum is Common Core and ISTE aligned, and outlines what should be taught when so students have the necessary scaffolding to use tech in the pursuit of grade level state standards and school curriculum. Today: the K-8 Technology Curriculum. Lessons build on each other kindergarten through 5th grade.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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LEGENDS OF LEARNING ( legendsoflearning.com ) Legends of Learning announced it will develop over 300 curriculum-based education games for elementary science curricula to be available Winter 2018. They are making hundreds of titles available digitally to libraries and schools for the first time, with more planned for 2018.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“Trump Taps Common-Core Foe Mick Zais for No. “‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. There’s more about Mattel’s robots and privacy in the privacy section below. Trillion in 2018.” 2 Post at Ed.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Chalkbeat : “‘ Common Core ’ no more: New York moves to adopt revised standards with new name.” 1, 2018, Eilif Serck-Hanssen will become the for-profit company’s new chief executive officer and Ricardo Berckemeyer will take over as the company’s president.