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Unconventional Research Sites to Inspire Students

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How Stuff Works Free How Stuff Works, available on the web, iPads, and Android, is an award-winning source of unbiased, reliable, easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. This includes topics such as animals, culture, automobiles, politics, money, science, and entertainment.

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#EdTechTidBits of the Week (April 27, 2015)

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Tickle is an app for the iPad that allows you to create Scratch like programs to control your robotic toys such as drones, Sphero , and your Philips Hue wireless light bulbs. There is a free web-based version, Edmodo app, and iPad app (with Android coming soon!). You can also just create fun interactive programs.

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#EdTechTidBits of the Week (April 27, 2015)

EdTechnocation.com

Tickle is an app for the iPad that allows you to create Scratch like programs to control your robotic toys such as drones, Sphero , and your Philips Hue wireless light bulbs. There is a free web-based version, Edmodo app, and iPad app (with Android coming soon!). You can also just create fun interactive programs.

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Use Unconventional Research Sites to Inspire Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

How Stuff Works, available on the web, iPads, and Android, is an award-winning source of unbiased, reliable, easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. Decide which of these eight research tools suit your student group and then collect them into a Box of Links on your class website, Symbaloo account, or Edmodo.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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From the Edmodo blog : “We’re Partnering with Clever to Give Districts Automatic Digital Classrooms!” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The company, which makes educational and entertainment robots, has raised $520 million total. ” Spoiler alert: AI doesn’t care. HopSkipDrive has raised $7.4

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. For a time, Edmodo was quite the ed-tech industry darling. Can Edmodo Turn Virality into Profitability?” Founded by two educators in 2008, Edmodo experienced a number of leadership changes this decade.

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