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

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The program includes tablets and apps, along with print workbooks, lesson plans and physical manipulatives aligned to national academic standards. 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.

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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. Activity lesson plans provided in the guidebook include: KIBO Bowling: Students use math skills such as measurement and estimation to program KIBO to reach the pins.

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Sphero Makes a Big Acquisition in littleBits to Bring Hands-On STEAM Learning to Life

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His company’s flagship offerings are robots that come pre-built with LED lights, sensors and motors that respond to light and gestures, and which kids can control via an app on a computer, smartphone or tablet. LittleBits takes a more barebones approach. Students making and tinkering with littleBits.

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KinderLab Robotics Announces New KIBO Guidebook to Enhance STEAM Education

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Each lesson includes facilitation suggestions, materials lists, center setup, and academic standards alignment. Each lesson plan provides specific setup suggestions, facilitation tips, and information on addressing cross-curricular connections and academic standards.

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

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The New Schools Venture Fund estimates that K-12 schools collectively spend about $9 billion per year on instructional software, digital assessments, laptops and tablets for students and teachers. Five factors currently drive this demand for improving the quality and scalability of education technology: Higher academic standards nationwide.

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

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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. One of the tablets in use in Jessica Howard’s classroom at Field Elementary. But we do.”.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. LINDSAY, Calif. — This story also appeared in The Fresno Bee. Getting there wasn’t easy. Does it work?