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4 Easy Steps to Start Google Expeditions in the Classroom

EdTechTeam

Install the App The Expeditions app is currently only available for Android devices but an iOS app is promised to be available soon. iOs Android 2. iOS Android 4. Google Play 2. Best Buy Education will be making Expeditions kits available for schools to purchase. Cardboard Camera Takes 3D VR photos.

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Virtual Nerd Mobile Math

Technology Tidbits

Virtual Nerd Mobile Math is an excellent free iOS app by education leader Pearson. An Android version of the app will be released this coming Fall. This is a great Common Core aligned app that allows users to find educational videos, concepts, and tutorials on MS/HS Math.

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Jersey Educator Podcast Episode 1

TeacherCast

Subscribe via RSS Subscribe on Android Follow @TeacherCast. Jeff has Keynoted for the Pearson Authentic Learning Conference, EdTechNJ and most recently at Columbia University’s Teacher College and Podcast Mid-Atlantic. . Listen in a New Window. SoundCloud. Leave a Review. Leave a VoiceMail. each and every day in your schools.

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Google EDU Releases Expeditions and ‘Cast for Education’ Apps, Introduces Quizzes to Google Forms

Edsurge

Shrom also shares that he and his team are continuing to create more Expeditions through partnerships with Getty Images, Associated Press, Pearson and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Google reports that the app is available today for Android, and will be available for iPhones and iPads later this year. Projecting With ‘Cast for Education’.

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Here's How Single Sign-On Saved One District 2,500 Hours of Instructional Time Per Month

Edsurge

Our district uses a wide variety of technology—MAC, PC, iPads, Android tablets, Chromebooks, cell phones—which can be a challenge for IT departments and teachers. Tam Nguyen Twitter: @TechGuyTam Orange Unified School District We wanted to alleviate those roadblocks so teachers could adopt instructional technology in the future.

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Noodle Partners Goes After the $1.5B Online Degree Market

Edsurge

Serial entrepreneur John Katzman, who is Noodle Partners’ founder and CEO, compares his latest venture to the “Android version” of OPMs. Five of those companies—2U, Bisk Education, Wiley Education Services, Pearson Embanet and Academic Partnerships comprise roughly half of the the market, and all of them operate under a revenue-sharing model.

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How do Mississippi charters work and are they “private?”

The Hechinger Report

Connections Academy, before Pearson PLC bought it in 2011, have earned millions of dollars in profits. You have Apple and iPhones, Google and Androids. The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools says up to 13 percent of charter schools are for-profit. Some for-profit entities like EdisonLearning Inc. and K12 Inc.,

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