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Game On: Kahoot Snaps Up DragonBox for $18 Million for Its First Acquisition

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Kahoot is best known for its digital quiz tools that can turn the classroom or corporate office into a raucous quiz show. The program includes tablets and apps, along with print workbooks, lesson plans and physical manipulatives aligned to national academic standards. But there is no question about how it plans to grow.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

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. — On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Teachers rarely stand at the front of the classroom. Getting there wasn’t easy.

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

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But once a staple—and stable—presence in the classroom, Apple’s dominance in the education market has taken a backseat. According to Futuresource , a UK market research firm, devices running the Chrome operating system accounted for close to 60 percent of all sales of mobile devices in the U.S. K-12 education market in 2017.

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