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Pear Deck Raises $4M to Jazz Up Digital Presentations in the Classroom

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A crop of startups have embarked on the laudable task of ridding the classroom of stale PowerPoint slides. Founded in 2014, Pear Deck lets teachers create and share multimedia-rich digital presentations, which students can access on their devices and respond to through text, drawings and other interactive features.

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PowerSchool Completes Schoology Purchase in March Toward ‘Unified’ K-12 Data Ecosystem

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The effort, aptly named the “Unified Classroom” product suite, aims to connect assessment, enrollment, gradebook, professional learning and special education data services to its flagship student information system, which already houses a variety of data including attendance, discipline, health, roster and schedules.

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PowerSchool to Acquire Schoology, Pairing Major K-12 LMS and SIS Providers

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Schoology would be PowerSchool’s second purchase of a learning management system (LMS), after it acquired Haiku Learning in 2016. Haiku has since been rebranded as PowerSchool Learning. Canvas and Moodle are also widely used in higher education, and Classroom is a free tool with fewer functionalities.

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App of the Week: A clever LMS for instruction design

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Haiku Learning. Haiku Learning is a cleverly designed LMS geared towards extending learning beyond the classroom. note: App of the Week picks are now being curated with help from Graphite by Common Sense Media. Click here to read the full app review. . What’s It Like? Price : Free/subscription.

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

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As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. Teachers and students using Gooru can now adapt these high-quality resources for their classrooms.

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From Tech Newbie to Ninja to Sensei

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Discover which tools and apps your students already have access to or know how to use by surveying them. Send your student ninjas on learning missions with technology. You will need ninja learning community (a VLE/LMS ). Checkout this post, 10 ways I Utilize a Computer with No Internet Connection in the Classroom.

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Flipping Instruction for Struggling Students

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“The “Flipped Classroom” starts with one question: what is the best use of my face-to-face class time?” We can get students to learn at home with engaging content and show them how to use web tools and apps to seek help. To discover the history of Flipped Classrooms, see this infographic.

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