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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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Unfortunately, current learner navigation systems more closely resemble the early, self-contained GPS devices with incomplete and inaccurate maps. This data must be in a machine-readable format and interoperable to work in all apps and systems. K-12 learners.

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Plagiarism Checkers: Changing the Writing Process

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Access to billions of scientific research has never been easier, academic journals and the latest discoveries available online and can be analyzed right from mobile phones. We also see continuous promoting and steering of open science systems in the digital world.(3) Academic honesty promotion is crucial for student success.

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How to Choose the Best Educational Software for Your Classroom

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Technology has seeped its way into classrooms, streamlined academic standards, and transformed the pedagogical landscape to a large extent. This system also frees up time for educators to focus on teaching and providing additional support to students.

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

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Lindsay Unified has seen significant improvement in academic achievement, graduation rates and the number of students going to college since it created a performance-based system in the mid-2000s. Lindsay High School junior Gaby León demonstrates Lindsay Unified’s learning management system, Empower. Credit: Courtesy Gaby León.

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Behind Closed Doors: Edtech Entrepreneurs’ Biggest Challenges in 2018

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MindRight (501(c)3/Newark, New Jersey) empowers youth of color to heal from systemic oppression trauma — including structural violence, poverty, racism and discrimination — with support via text message. Words Liive (Washington, D.C.) makes it effortless for teachers to integrate music into lessons.

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Why the Boldest Ideas in Education Come From Underrepresented Entrepreneurs

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“Transforming misery into agency” is among the visionary goals that co-founder Wisdom Amouzou has for The HadaNõu Collective , which currently operates centers in public high schools that “map authentic experiences to academic standards.” Literator. The nonprofit is based in Miami, Fla.,

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