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Looking Back on Three Years of the ConnectED Initiative: Did It Deliver?

Edsurge

corporations, from Apple to Adobe. According to the fact sheet that the White House recently released, here’s what we know: Adobe has delivered creativity and e-learning software to over 950,000 students and teachers at more than 1,450 schools and launched more than 20 district-wide Adobe & ConnectED programs.

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

Edsurge

Smart Sparrow’s current platform is built on Adobe Flash, the technology that supports interactive elements in web browsers. Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER. Ben-Naim says the acquisition by Pearson could “affect the plan,” which was to build OER content on Smart Sparrow.

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Digital natives still clamor for print materials

eSchool News

He’s got a thick hard-cover “Adobe Digital Desktop” textbook. Creating a Digital Learning Environment Digital Learning and Tools McClatchy News Top News books digital digital materials ipads mcclatchy OER print' Not a book, as in the actual physical object, to be found among the studying horde.

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Meet Some Heroes at This Week's Connected Educator Cafe Sessions

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Kathy Schrock : Educational Technologist, DEN Guru, Adobe Ed Leader, Google Certified Teacher, Sony Ed Ambassador ( kathy@kathyschrock.net ) Shannon Miller : Teacher Librarian, Mom & Wife who loves connecting, creating, collaborating & change. Esther Wojcicki : Educator, journalist, IT & OER consultant. Consultant.

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HyperDocs and the teacher librarian

NeverEndingSearch

They incorporate thoughtful integration of the third party platforms we already regularly use and love and on which we invite learners to organize, collaborate, create and reflect–like Padlet, Buncee, Sway, Adobe Spark, WeVideo, Evernote, Thinglink, Popplet, Book Creator, etc.

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Write a report.

NeverEndingSearch

How have you led in curating and integrating OER? This is the perfect time to document the value of your curations. Can you link to or append your Hyperdocs, collections, dashboards, playlists, galleries? This is the perfect time to document your role in professional development. And it doesn’t have to be fancy.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.