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Educational Technology Guy

24th, they say “how to use technology to differentiate instruction” (51 percent) and “how to use educational games in the classroom” (35 percent) are at the top of their wish list for professional development this year. Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

As this article was being written, the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, forcing a global experiment in online education as schools and colleges closed their doors and moved teaching to online formats. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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Help Save PicLits - Wednesday, May 2nd

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

PicLits was conceived by Terry Friedlander in 2002: "I read an article from USA TODAY which talked about the most often searched words and listed in the top ten was writing/poetry. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. The numbers that I read were staggering.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. The FCC did not return emails and phone calls requesting an interview for this article. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change

Hack Education

This graph comes from an article in the online publication Vox that includes a couple of those darling made-to-go-viral videos of young children using “old” technology like rotary phones and portable cassette players – highly clickable, highly sharable stuff. A good myth. A dominant ideology.) Digital data is fragile.

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How to Monetize Your Education Technology Product (Hint: Positioning Is Paramount)

Edsurge

Lately I’ve seen quite a few edtech companies that hope to graduate from offering a free product to actually monetizing it. Perhaps that’s a sign of their business’ growing maturity, or maybe it’s because in today’s tighter investment climate, their investors are urgently demanding to know how they will make money.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

This follows the company’s recent integrations with Canvas and Schoology and its OneRoster alignment. BLACKBOARD ALLY ( www.blackboard.com ) Blackboard announced that Blackboard Ally is now available for multiple learning management systems used by K-12 school districts.

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