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eSpark–Self-paced Learning for Math and Reading

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Each targeted quest curates a collection of third-party apps, webtools, videos, games, and other resources that focus on particular math or reading skills identified by the teacher or from the student’s earlier work as an area of academic need. In fact, some students can be working on Chromebooks while others use iPads.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

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Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards. Challenge: In a groundbreaking study led by The Education Trust, researchers found that “across the country, lessons from the Internet labeled as [standards] aligned are being taught again and again, whether or not they are really worthy.”

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To Prepare Kids for Their Futures, Incorporate Technology Into Core Curriculum

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Your school just invested in a new set of Chromebooks or iPads. Districts should look to solutions that streamline peer feedback, classroom polls, and flexible groupings. Even in districts without 1:1 devices, digital content can be used to provide context for academic standards and spark classroom discussion and inquiry.

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Teachers' Essential Guide to Seesaw

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Teachers can send group announcements to classes or families, and they can send individual private messages through the built-in messaging system , which will also send notifications when students complete work, depending on setting choices. 20 Seesaw Ideas with Chromebooks for K-12 Classes. 100 Ways Students Use Seesaw

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Apple’s Strongest Case to Reclaim the Education Market Is Not the New iPad

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Such features, he claimed, made the device more powerful than any laptop or Chromebook. That’s a not-so-subtle dig at Apple’s competitors—and the first time that the company called out Chromebooks at a keynote event. That cost is still steeper than Chromebooks, which start at $179. The cost: $329.)

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What’s New

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This K-12 ‘data switch’ uses proprietary and open standards to talk to a wide variety of data sources, and merges data into a single store to provide a unified view of educational data - such as achievement, attendance and students at risk - in real time. FOLLETT DESTINY 16.0 ( [link] ) Follett has released Destiny 16.0,

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

eSpark

Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards. Challenge: In a groundbreaking study led by The Education Trust, researchers found that “across the country, lessons from the Internet labeled as [standards] aligned are being taught again and again, whether or not they are really worthy.”

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