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CUE 2018: 5 Steps to Create More Accessible, Personalized Professional Development

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CUE 2018: 5 Steps to Create More Accessible, Personalized Professional Development. Switching to gamified PD through a partnership with game-based learning company Alludo was a no-brainer. meghan.bogardu…. Fri, 03/16/2018 - 16:13. When Tulare Joint Union High School District (Calif.) Continue to Support and Celebrate Teachers.

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Google Makes a Rare Education Technology Acquisition: Workbench

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Getting acquired by the likes of Apple, Google and other “Big Tech” firms is often the dream of entrepreneurs (and their investors). Yet in the education industry, these deals have been few and far in between, especially as many of these companies have opted to build their own edtech tools.

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Google Assistant and Edwin Want To Be Your Next English Tutor

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Google Assistant can remind users about appointments, turn off TVs, and help drivers manage tasks from behind the wheel. Google is investing in the education startup Edwin , an AI-powered English tutor that was one of eight education technology companies to come out of Y Combinator’s latest demo day. Part of that next move?

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How to block websites in K-12 schools

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Whether students type keywords into a Google search box or enter a URL (uniform resource locator) into the search engine address bar, your web filter should block unwanted content from reaching learners. . Under CIPA, schools must: block websites or filter learners’ internet access to inappropriate and harmful pictures. URL filtering.

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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

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And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

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billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. From the forms the company filed with the SEC last month, we learned the company conducted a study to evaluate Duolingo’s effectiveness versus traditional university language courses.

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Learning.com Unveils New Integration with Google Classroom

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. – April 23, 2018 –Learning.com today announced its digital literacy curriculum and content for grades K-8 will be completely integrated with Google Classroom and other learning platforms. Helps infuse the curriculum into lesson plans more quickly, providing easy access to materials that align to district initiatives.

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