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Zap Zap Math–Gamify any Math Curriculum

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Zap Zap Math is a free gamified way to teach math skills that’s tied to many national and international standards (like Common Core). Students direct their learning with a unique space-themed avatar (called a ‘mathling’) that identifies their work and keeps them engaged.

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What are this year’s top trends at SXSW EDU?

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Future of Assessment & Accountability. From Common Core to the SAT, the call for accountability is moving away from the drivers of the past two decades as we look to reflect the more holistic attributes of student development and grapple with the adverse impact of high-stakes testing. Playful Assessment: Don’t Stop the Fun.

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How Effective for Learning are the Apps we Use?

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Impact tracks the link between student usage on a particular app and how that may or may not influence their performance on assessments. Educators need to know which products are likely to have a positive impact on learning for their students. Dr. Ryan S. Clarity will really help us guide our next steps.”

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

He also talked about how he thinks policy shifts like the implementation of the common-core standards and the adoption of “open” educational resources are likely to affect the K-12 market, and his company’s work. We’re very confident that our products are aligned to the common core.

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Newsela – Robust Education Technology for Reading Comprehension Skills Development

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Adaptive Platform Delivers Reading Materials at 5 Different Reading Levels, With Built in Assessments How would you like to be able to give students reading assignments focused on current events that. Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning

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The computer system does this by constantly assessing how a particular student answers questions and what kind of lesson most engages that student. Baker, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the new Penn Center for Learning Analytics.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

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Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. As we reflect on the year that was in 2016, the Presidential election continues to loom as the largest event of the year.

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