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Speak Up 2020 Congressional Briefing: Release of the National Research Findings

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For the last seven months of 2020, school districts have gone through extreme changes regarding how learning is happening in a pandemic-induced educational environment. Digital Learning During the Pandemic. The Speak Up data revealed an increase in students’ access to mobile devices, tablets, laptops, and Chromebooks.

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SplashLearn Raises $18 Million in Series C Funding Round From Owl Ventures & Accel

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In 2020, more than 10 million new users joined the SplashLearn program. In the latter half of 2020, SplashLearn expanded its offering beyond the math program to include reading and also launched a personalized tutoring product, owing to growing demand from parents and teachers. “The About SplashLearn. About Owl Ventures.

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Wakelet

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

(Keep in mind that collaboration tools are in beta as of February 2020.) This allows users to be able to create Collections from their mobile device, albeit the options are more limited than the full website version of Wakelet. Be sure to follow her on Twitter, Wakelet and beyond! How do you personally use Wakelet?

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Restoring Learning at Scale in a Remote Environment

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The chronic attendance problem that had plagued districts before COVID-19 was exacerbated once schools shut down in March 2020. Todd Rogers is a behavioral scientist who studies how mobilizing and empowering students’ social networks can increase student success. You can follow Eileen on Twitter @EileenBelastock.

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"Always On" Education with Project Share #SXSWedu

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Notes from a breakout session at South by Southwest Edu 2011 Presenter: David McGeary, Harris County Department of Education, Digital Learning Specialist McGeary helped build the first version of the Texas Tour in ProjectShare Hybrid or blended learning fills the gap between what we teach in the classroom with what they do in the real world.

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Faye Miller, University of Canberra/Human Constellation - Digital Research Consultancy How Online Tutoring Programs have Developed Global Citizens , Kasey Beck, President, Invictus Institute HOW TO COMBINE MEDIA ARTS AND EXCHANGES IN GLOBAL LEARNING. You can find her on Twitter, Voxer, and Periscope at @fmargret.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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