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

Edsurge

based firm has established itself as a familiar name within the education technology industry. Earlier in 2018, Pluralsight, which provides online classes for technology and business professionals, went public. Blendspace was purchased by TES. Blendspace (TES Global). Investors took a loss on these latter two deals.)

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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

Wynzleen Lee Technology as a possibility to value language teaching profession: yes, there is a choice! Erica Magnusson, Content Analyst, TES Global Encounters: Connecting Classrooms to Address the World's Great Challenges. Terry Godwaldt, Director of Programming International Project-Based Learning: The Monarch Butterfly - Mrs.

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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Hiba Ibrahim Crowdsourcing Educational Projects on a Global Scale: From Research to Practice / Ioana Literat, Assistant Professor of Communication, Media and Learning Technologies Design Culture-Educational Paradigm Shift Framework Approach / Dr. Mirzi L. 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). Versal (web; also available as a Chromebook app).

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Favorite Tech Tools For Social Studies Classes

MindShift

She used to teach social studies, but is now the K-12 Technology Integrationist and Instructional Coach at Rock Valley Community Schools in Iowa. She emphasizes that, as with any classroom technology, teachers need to be careful not to just substitute a tech tool for an analog one. Sites are then easy to drag and drop to reorder.

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