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

Edsurge

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. Pear Deck works on most web browsers on desktop and mobile devices. Sorry, Internet Explorer.)

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PowerSchool Buys Chalkable, Tops $200 Million in Acquisition Spending

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The sale gives PowerSchool access to Chalkable’s clientele of 1,100 U.S. Chalkable was formerly called STI, a Mobile, Ala.-based million students across the world, Gulati hopes to make data more accessible and actionable for teachers. school districts. based education data management company founded in 1982.

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Flipping Instruction for Struggling Students

Teacher Reboot Camp

Embed videos on a virtual learning environment (VLE), a space on the web and also accessible on mobile devices, where students access the lessons or videos. Flipped Learning , by shellyterrell. ebook, Learning to Go , which has digital/mobile activities for any device and editable/printable handouts and rubrics.

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Flipping Instruction for Struggling Students

Teacher Reboot Camp

Embed videos on a virtual learning environment (VLE), a space on the web and also accessible on mobile devices, where students access the lessons or videos. Flipped Learning , by shellyterrell. ebook, Learning to Go , which has digital/mobile activities for any device and editable/printable handouts and rubrics.

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

The CoolCatTeacher

Haiku Learning (my LMS). Haiku Learning is my Learning Management system. Haiku Learning is the tool I use to blend my classroom. Tip: To learn about my blended learning strategies, see my presentation on Slideshare Simple Steps to Blended Learning . MAD-Learn is a curriculum.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “For-profit Ashford University , facing loss of access to GI Bill benefits by month’s end, needs approval from a state to stop thousands of student veterans from losing aid.” Microsoft has released an early access version of its Minecraft : Education Edition. ” asks Education Dive.