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Reach Capital’s Newest Education Technology Investment Fund Closes at $82 Million

Edsurge

Curriculet, which offered a digital library of reading materials and assessments, briefly closed shop before it was acquired by the nonprofit Waterford Institute. Blendspace was purchased by TES. Blendspace (TES Global). Zeal, which attempted to bring on-demand tutoring to classrooms, shut down earlier this year.

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10 New Ideas for Creating Literacy Centers – From Beth Holland

EdTechTeacher

Assessing Fluency. I have always loved Kristen Wideen’s Fluency Station for its simplicity of set up as well as the powerful way in which she has her students self-assess their reading. With her activity, shown below, students use AudioBoo (now AudioBoom ) to record and self-assess their reading. Image Credit; Kristen Wideen.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we interviewed across library land curated in several different ways and we used the term curation differently depending on current community needs or where they were in any particular project.

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2015 Global Education Conference - Day Three!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Erica Magnusson, Content Analyst, TES Global Encounters: Connecting Classrooms to Address the World's Great Challenges.

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The 2015 Global Education Conference Starts Today - All Online - Full Session Listing - Join Us!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Crow, Associate Professor of School Library Science / Dr. Lisa Kastello Low-Context Delivery, High-Context Classroom: Meeting the Challenges of the Global Classroom / Dr. Betsy Bannier, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Mathematics / Johnnie C Bannier, Jr., Maru Busico-Flight Becoming more active citizens of the world with MY HERO!

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Teacher Play – 6 Apps to Explore This Summer

Fractus Learning

Devoting a few rainy afternoons to “teacher play” can pay off big in the fall: you can update your curricula or even develop new activities and assessments, and you can also test-drive apps to determine which ones would work well for your students to use. Blendspace (web).

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Favorite Tech Tools For Social Studies Classes

MindShift

Symbaloo is an organizational tool Langenhorst has found to be helpful in libraries and social studies classes, especially with younger students. Socrative has long been a favorite in many classrooms for the easy formative assessment it offers. Langenhorst uses Blendspace to help teachers find and keep track of their resources.

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