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Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

The gaming industry thrived, and educators looked for ways to capitalize on that. Teachers can create digital breakouts using several Google functions , including Sites, Forms, Drawing and Slides. Speaking of Google : Do you remember the Google Art project where students — and everyone else — could discover and view art online?

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Ozobot Classroom - STEAM learning management system coming this Fall

Educational Technology Guy

From there, educators can manage students and bots, access standards-aligned lesson recommendations, assign activities and digital badges, and use real-time insights into students’ online and offline activity to inform their teaching strategies. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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StudyBlue announces annual teacher appreciation program “Thank a Teacher a Latte.”

Educational Technology Guy

As the largest digital library of peer-sourced study materials, StudyBlue is inviting students, parents and industry leaders nationwide to join in building a virtual Wall of Thanks to give back to the educators who have made a difference in their lives. With one click, a digital thank-you card is created and displayed as a keepsake.

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What Problems Has Edtech Solved, and What New Ones Did It Create?

Edsurge

As we bid farewell to the teenage years of the 21st century, we posed these questions and others to longtime industry entrepreneurs, analysts and stakeholders about the highs and lows, wins and woes of the past decade. Open digital badges. In education, does technology create just as many problems as it solves?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via ABC News : “ A defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine over the magazine’s debunked article about a University of Virginia gang rape was tossed out by a judge Tuesday. Conference of Mayors Resolves to Support Digital Badging ,” says Edsurge. District Judge P. ” “U.S.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

These have all been separate articles in each series. I’ve already made references to for-profit higher education in the second and third articles in this year-end series – on the “ innovation gospel ” and on the business of student loans. The prison market. “The new economy.”