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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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KinderLab Robotics Announces New KIBO Guidebook

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Each lesson plan provides specific setup suggestions, tips, and information on addressing cross-curricular connections and academic standards. KIBO Shape Search: Exploring geometry, students program KIBO to draw shapes they find in the classroom.

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KinderLab Robotics Announces New KIBO Guidebook to Enhance STEAM Education

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For teachers implementing an activity centers-based classroom, library, or makerspace, this new guide provides 10 lessons that embed the KIBO philosophy of “Build – Art – Code – Play” in student-directed, discovery-based learning experiences. KIBO is a great fit for an activity centers-based classroom or makerspace.

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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

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Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. Most educators agree the Common Core standards are rigorous enough that students who meet these guidelines will be adequately prepared to pursue a career or a college degree after they graduate from the public school system.

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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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National test scores reveal a decade of educational stagnation

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states adopted new, more demanding academic standards in the 2010s, and there have been widespread reports about the difficulties in changing instruction in the classroom. More than 40 states embraced the “Common Core” while additional states adopted similar standards.). Then, nearly all U.S.

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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. And not to mention, Google announced yesterday its first “education tablet made for Chrome OS” that comes with a built-in stylus. That cost is still steeper than Chromebooks, which start at $179. The cost: $329.)

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