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Some Professors Fight Study-Help Sites. Other Professors Now Use Them.

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Soon someone from the company reached out to her to offer her full access to the site for free, which costs students either $39.95 And she complained to her contact at the company—though she still took the free trip and said she got a lot out of the presentations on teaching from the event. per month, or $119.40

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That’s a Rap! Nearpod Buys Educational Hip Hop Creator, Flocabulary

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Flocabulary has built a loyal following among educators and students with hip hop videos that cover K-12 subjects, life skills, and “weekend raps” that summarize news and current events. On their product integration roadmap is a single sign-on feature so that Nearpod users can more easily access Flocabulary content.

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Edtech Industry Magnate Michael Moe Makes a Pivot

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Together they have run the ASU GSV Summit , the annual must-go-to event for business leaders and investors in edtech. But that grew into the 25-year passion for me, both professionally and personally, around re-imagining the education system and how you provided people equal access to the education they need to thrive.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via CMX : “ How Edcamp Scaled Up 1,500 Community Events Connecting Educators All Over the World.” ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. “Ed access to VR growing as low-cost options expand,” says Education Dive. No mention that Lexia Learning is owned by Rosetta Stone.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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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

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” “My Statement: White House HBCU Event” by Dillard University president Walter Kimbrough. ” Via the press release : “ Cengage , McGraw-Hill Education , and Pearson have joined forces with Ingram and Chegg , Inc. .” More on changing her tune from The Chronicle of Higher Education.