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

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In addition to those consumer offerings, DragonBox has been piloting and developing full math curricula for use in schools in Finland, France and Norway, where the company is based. The program includes tablets and apps, along with print workbooks, lesson plans and physical manipulatives aligned to national academic standards.

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

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In the interest of helping other companies and school districts enable extraordinary teaching and learning at scale, we’ve highlighted the three main findings—and some solutions—that have come from these conversations: 1. Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

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What If Your Co-Teacher is a Computer?

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

As I see it, such platforms fall on a spectrum, and for our purposes, can analogously be compared to in-the-flesh educators: Platform as Specialist : This is an adaptive learning platform (like Lexia Core5 or DreamBox ) that teaches discrete skills, usually in response to pre-assessed learning gaps. Is the student bored? Frustrated?

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20 Questions Every Parent Should Ask Teachers

TeachThought - Learn better.

Until parents have a better understanding of what pure academic work looks like–from the content to the assessment to the reporting–every single bit of this is on the shoulders of teachers. What academic standards do you use, and what do I need to know about them? What learning models do you use (e.g.,