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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

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EdSurge connected with Cavanagh (online of course) to talk about what he has learned from all those podcast chats, and about how his sidegig as a detective novelist shapes his work in campus innovation. You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen.

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

of Text-Messaging at School A Big Step for Gesture-Based Learning? The presentation software SlideRocket announced SlideRocket EDU this week, making its tools available to students and teachers via the Google Apps Marketplace. Updates and Upgrades Google announced a change to the way it will sell its new Chromebooks.

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WHAT’S NEW

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Software & Online ACCELERATE LEARNING STEMSCOPES SCIENCE ( www.stemscopes.com ) Accelerate Learning announced a new platform using the best of CNN’s digital content to create a new science education product. The new video tool runs inside the web browser already installed on teachers’ devices. Illuminate 10.0

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Key Digital Skills for 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Using digital technology to merely replace analog technology (substitution level, as is the case in using a word editor instead of pen paper), does not result in any transformative change and definitely does not create any pedagogically innovative practices. Check out the best presentation making tools for teachers to learn more.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. “The San Francisco-based software company will continue a four-year partnership with San Francisco Unified School District. ” Via The Atlantic : “A Federal Judge’s Ruling Against North Carolina ’s HB2.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). And “free” doesn’t last.

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