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What’s New: New Tools for Schools

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Amplify Fractions covers math standards in grades 3–6 and uses adaptive learning, interactive storytelling, and a personalized digital tutor to help students conquer fractions. The new offering supports principals’ pursuit of improved learning outcomes, engaged students and parents, and reduced teacher workload.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Students will receive iPads. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”)

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

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The Chronicle adopted a modified version of the format during a session at the South by Southwest Edu conference in March, with a panel of experts weighing in on five new products or ideas to fix pressing problems in higher education. And interacting with faculty members, again based on student-learning outcome and pedagogy.

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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. Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. The iPad would solve that,” he said. Alexa at School. “Do

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ Apple and Maine education officials are allowing school districts to trade in iPads for laptops after teachers and students say the computers are better for schoolwork,” according to The Sun Journal. “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.”