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43 Apps, Games, and Websites Transforming This Year's Classrooms

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Simplify communication, collaboration, and document sharing. Bottom line: Google Classroom is a great way to manage and organize learning, though teachers who need more features may need to look elsewhere. Solid adaptive instruction in reading and math, with data at the ready. Google Classroom. Imagine Math. Khan Academy.

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43 Apps, Games, and Websites Transforming This Year's Classrooms

Graphite Blog

Simplify communication, collaboration, and document sharing Bottom line: Google Classroom is a great way to manage and organize learning, though teachers who need more features may need to look elsewhere. Google Classroom. Imagine Math. Khan Academy. Khan Academy Kids.

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43 Apps, Games, and Websites Transforming This Year's Classrooms

Graphite Blog

Simplify communication, collaboration, and document sharing Bottom line: Google Classroom is a great way to manage and organize learning, though teachers who need more features may need to look elsewhere. Google Classroom. Imagine Math. Khan Academy. Khan Academy Kids.

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The Assessment Range: Using Data To Meaningfully Affect Learning

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Among the challenges of assessment, this concept–as it applies to formal academic classrooms designed to promote mastery of Common Core or similar standards–is near the top. These are industrial documents. Adaptive learning algorithms within certain #edtech products are coded along these lines.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Whittle went on to have a string of business failures in the 1990s — well-documented in Samuel Abrams’s book The Commercial Mindset — most notably the for-profit flop Edison Schools.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. ” Via Politico : “ Success Academy documents point to ‘possible cheating’ among challenges.” Testing, Testing… Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “British Officials, Pearson Probe Effort to Leak Test Content.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

1 after an investigation found chapter members repeatedly used racist , homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs , and then ostracized a black member who told them to stop, according to documents released by the university.” “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” ” Go, School Sports Team!