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4 Ways to Get Started with Security

EdTech Magazine

Based on what they told us, we deployed a new firewall, upgraded all the software applications in our system and set up the system so it would notify us of any suspicious traffic. IT people at school districts are typically stretched thin and don’t have time to attend workshops and seminars. Place Controls on the District’s Network.

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Top 10 Digital Tools for the Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

As more and more teachers, students, and stakeholders experiment with technology, software developers are working day and night to bring them quality solutions. However, despite having so many options, users show a clear bias towards some platforms, software, or apps (read, digital tools) that they consider more user-friendly than others.

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How not to write about HyFlex or online learning

Bryan Alexander

Listen to this description of class problems: students and instructors alike seem to have endless tasks: a constant deluge of boxes to tick, videos to watch, assessments to mark. Over the past two years I’ve taught a series of HyFlex seminars at Georgetown. These aren’t HyFlex problems, but issues with online teaching.

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Data science under fire: What math do high schoolers really need?

The Hechinger Report

The students came up with the project themselves and designed a Google form to track their phone time, including which apps they used most. Students chat about the data analysis they’ve performed on their cellphone usage over a week, while Perizzolo walks around the room fielding their questions.

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

Edsurge

We primarily used Craigslist for all hires except sales and software development. It proved useful in finding teachers to help develop our lesson plans, assessments and professional development. We screened them using a pre-interview questionnaire built in Google Form.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

In the past couple of years the company has hired hundreds of software engineers, from the likes of Chinese internet giants Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, to make that happen. EduLab , a subsidiary of JIEM, a Japanese research and assessment provider. (It Limited Partner, Global Reach. That’s the strategy for. After all, every major U.S.

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