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That’s a Rap! Nearpod Buys Educational Hip Hop Creator, Flocabulary

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Founded in 2012, Nearpod started as an “interactive lecture” platform for iPads that has since evolved to support all devices. Teachers can create, distribute and manage multimedia content and assessments on students’ devices. (These contracts may be district-wide deals, or cover a handful of schools within a district.)

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

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And then lastly a lot of these Learning Gadgets allow you to bring in third-party content — so almost anything that exists on the web you can bring right into a Versal course, organize it, organize it in lessons, put assessments in between, and so on.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. The iPad would solve that,” he said.

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