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Reach Capital’s Newest Education Technology Investment Fund Closes at $82 Million

Edsurge

We are advocates for early and equal access to education,” said Jeff Dunn, President and CEO of Sesame Workshop,” told EdSurge via email. “If Curriculet, which offered a digital library of reading materials and assessments, briefly closed shop before it was acquired by the nonprofit Waterford Institute. Blendspace (TES Global).

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10 New Ideas for Creating Literacy Centers – From Beth Holland

EdTechTeacher

Assessing Fluency. I have always loved Kristen Wideen’s Fluency Station for its simplicity of set up as well as the powerful way in which she has her students self-assess their reading. With her activity, shown below, students use AudioBoo (now AudioBoom ) to record and self-assess their reading. Image Credit; Kristen Wideen.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we interviewed across library land curated in several different ways and we used the term curation differently depending on current community needs or where they were in any particular project.

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2015 Global Education Conference - Day Three!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We've had two great days of sessions and keynotes, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken place are accessible on the conference recordings page. Wednesday, November 18th, is day three of the sixth annual Global Education Conference. Thomas Petra ‏ @ RealWorldMath 6h 6 hours ago Day 2 of the Global Educ Conference.

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Favorite Tech Tools For Social Studies Classes

MindShift

Symbaloo is an organizational tool Langenhorst has found to be helpful in libraries and social studies classes, especially with younger students. Socrative has long been a favorite in many classrooms for the easy formative assessment it offers. Langenhorst uses Blendspace to help teachers find and keep track of their resources.

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The 2015 Global Education Conference Starts Today - All Online - Full Session Listing - Join Us!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In addition to being able to find partners for global projects, you also have access to the archived recordings of the several hundred sessions that have taken place over the last five years! Rob Howard - Founder Empowering Students through the Open-Access Teaching Method Students Empowered (STEMP) / Carlos S. Mohammad Dayem Adnan.