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

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Founded in 2012, Nearpod started as an “interactive lecture” platform for iPads that has since evolved to support all devices. Its biggest institutional shareholder is Insight Venture Partners, a private equity firm whose education portfolio also includes Chegg, Instructure and Pluralsight—three companies that have gone public.

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3 Apps to Build Solid Study Skills

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Not available on Chromebooks or iPads. There’s an easy-to-access setting that allows you to use your finger as an eraser. Brainscape is accessible from desktops, smartphones, and tablets and synced across all devices when the user creates an account. Website Review: Chegg. Insider Tips.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

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When we asked what they liked about Versal, the first thing they said is their students live on their devices — they live on the iPads and so on — and this for the first time allows them to create really cool interactive content for them and really speak the same language that these students are geared now to speak.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. 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.

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