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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

Edsurge

In his latest EdSurge column , Michael Horn laid out how Google Maps offers an aspirational metaphor for what the future of educational tools could look like. Today, Google Maps is an open ecosystem for accurate, real-time geospatial and navigation data. K-12 learners.

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Why Efforts to Improve Teacher Productivity and Efficiency May Not Pay Off

Edsurge

Architecturally, this plays out in new schools resembling whatever is culturally perceived as representing modernity (the factory in the early 20th century, the Google headquarters today). In contrast, the American education system, despite efforts to centralize elements like academic standards, remains enormously fragmented.

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How to Qualify Online Tutoring Services

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Students can now meet with private tutors, who are maybe from another country, through Skype, Google Hangouts, and other mobile communication applications. However, if they are from a different country try to find out if that country’s educational system and academic standard is the same or at par with your own country.

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

Edsurge

We screened them using a pre-interview questionnaire built in Google Form. Education industry conferences can also offer a good opportunity for employees to not only meet customers and potential clients, but also see what other companies (or competitors) are up to. We covered topics such as number of U.S.

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Six Steps to Project Based Learning

eSpark

The new legislation urged districts to embrace project based instruction aligned to academic standards and 21st century skills. How does Google make money?” Projects that ask students to collaborate with industry experts or solve a problem in their community lend context and urgency to content mastery. 3) Authenticity.

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Digitizing Curriculum Development: Think Efficiency

edWeb.net

Sharing Platforms – Ralyea notes that a major aspect of digitization is the ability to share standards-aligned resources with peers. That’s already happening with tools like Google Classroom. Imagine this sharing option built into a coordinated system that allows for greater curricular adaptation and usage?

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From Silos to Sharing: Why Are Open Educational Resources Still So Hard to Find?

Edsurge

A common set of academic standards could alleviate the discovery issue, but several states have withdrawn from the Common Core State Standards and decided to adopt their own. Foundations and other nonprofits should invest in solutions to some of the harder problems that the industry faces.

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