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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 14 Edition)

Doug Levin

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. But youth in the criminal justice and foster care systems often don't have access to it. What does it mean to be an XYZ-certifed educator?

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 14 Edition)

Doug Levin

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. But youth in the criminal justice and foster care systems often don't have access to it. What does it mean to be an XYZ-certifed educator?

EdTech 150
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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Tagged on: March 17, 2017 Google's Family Link unlocks Android for kids | CNET → "We don't want kids thinking Google has built spyware.,"

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50 Of The Best Video Games For Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

What exactly this looks like on a daily basis in your classroom depends on the reality of your classroom: Available technology, WiFi access and bandwidth, grade level, content area, your comfort level with games, and so on. Biomedical Plague - Android Apps on Google Play. Follow List. Embed List. E3 2008 - Fallout 3 Trailer.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Senate to serve as Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical and Adult Education and Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development , respectively.” “The FCC Is Threatening to Gut a Program That Provides Internet Access to Minorities,” Pacific Standard reports. . Fines Google $5.1

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via NPR : “ Wyoming School District Stalls On Transgender Student Policy.” Here’s Edsurge’s “exclusive” on the news that Android apps will soon be able on Chromebooks. Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository. ” Upgrades and Downgrades. ” KickUp has raised $1.54