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?Expanding Access to Edtech Isn’t Enough. We Need to Make Sure It Works, Too

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For much of the past year, approximately 150 researchers, policy makers, entrepreneurs, educators, investors, and institutional leaders have been collaborating in 10 working groups (each supported by a professional researcher) to study and discuss data, processes, and systems that show substantial promise. Rapidly emerging technologies.

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1EdTech and Common Good Learning Tools Launch Major Upgrade to Database of State Learning Standards

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The ultimate objective of CASE (1EdTech’s Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange ® specification) is to make it easier, more accurate, and less expensive for edtech suppliers to align resources and tools with state and district academic standards, therefore allowing educators to find resources that better support their needs.

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Magic of the Everyday: Southern CA Educators Share 10 Best Teaching, Technology Practices

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Many districts have signed the Future Ready Pledge , but what comes next? Start with the Standards, then get Creative When Edna Tristan became principal of the brand new STEAM Academy in El Rancho Unified School District, her mission was to tie STEAM into the regular classroom through cross-curricular, project-based activities.