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

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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

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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. There is also more time for students to reflect on learning and for teachers to reflect on lessons. Plus, we’re a BYOD environment. Has SSO helped with security issues?

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Noodle Partners Goes After the $1.5B Online Degree Market

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Serial entrepreneur John Katzman, who is Noodle Partners’ founder and CEO, compares his latest venture to the “Android version” of OPMs. Our vision of Noodle is toward agile universities,” he says, meaning he sees the company filling in holes between online and in-person learning. “We We simply have an MBA program.”.

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WHAT’S NEW

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PEARSON & LITTLEBITS ( www.pearson.com.) & ( littlebits.cc/education education ) Pearson, has partnered with littleBits, bringing hands-on invention-based model of learning and teaching into its 3-8 science curriculum, Elevate Science, in a new program called,”Pearson littleBits STEM Invention Toolbox.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “ Pearson , WTF? Via Education Week : “Why Neuroscience Should Drive Personalized Learning ” – because of “the propagation of myths and misinformation.” Via Quartz : “ Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled.”

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Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” The private equity firm Education Growth Partners has acquired Apex Learning.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Pearson PARCC "Spies" on Students. But the “spying” has continued.

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