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Guest post: Caston Binger Explains How the Digital Revolution Has Transformed Education

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This includes online courses, lesson plans, and assessment tools. However, with the advent of social media and collaborative software tools, students can now work together from anywhere. One great example of this is the online classroom platform, Edmodo. One great example of this is the website Discovery Education.

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All the Upgrades and Updates From Apple, Google and More at ISTE 2018

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Software Updates Google is reorganizing its Classroom platform to make it easier to sort materials by topic. A new open platform from Curriculum Pathways, called Crio , lets teachers build lessons using multimedia and assessment features (e.g. As ever, it was a popular time for product announcements. What, too soon?)

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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

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billion on education software each year. Yet it can be tedious to manually keep track of how students interact with different pieces of software—or whether these tools are even being used. Is Assessment Ready to Move Beyond Standardized Tests? If you buy it, you better use it. Here’s one startup trying a “clever” approach.

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A Commitment to Digital Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Vicari’s business classes utilized YouTube, a variety of video sites, and websites to preview Superbowl commercials as an introduction to the semester Marketing/Advertising course. Students in Mr. Chowdhury''s honors physics class, students used Edmodo as a means of collaborating on a new topic.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Remember Edmodo? Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is).

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Google Apps and Chromebooks Web App Recommendations - a whole lot!

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Suggestions for extensions/apps to be preloaded on Chromebooks Edmodo Google Keep - notes and lists Evernote Web Adblock Plus Evernote Web Clipper WeVideo - Video Editor and Maker GeoGebra math app Read&Write - reading support EasyBib Desmos Graphing Calculator A to Z of Google Services https://docs.google.com/viewer?

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

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Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth. is a type of essentialist, behaviorist education based on the three Rs – receiving by listening to the teacher; responding by taking notes, studying text, and doing worksheets; and regurgitating by taking the same assessments as all other students in the cohort.

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