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Blackboard launches New Learning Experience platform

eSchool News

Blackboard has launched a new K-12 platform for districts and schools that brings together institutions, parents, teachers, and learners in an integrated approach that addresses fundamental requirements for student success including school safety and security, family and community engagement and personalized competency-based learning.

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Best Practices with Mobile Tech: #adjunctchat Tuesday, July 15

Connecting 2 the World

I also am able to update my students, giving them access, through mobile apps for programs such as Trello.com, edmodo, googledocs, youtube or blackboard, to updated resources, feedback, and assignments. And new mobile technologies allow for more natural conversation through facetime, skype, or google hangouts.

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Why the Education Expenses are Rising and How to Deal with it?

Evelyn Learning

Today’s generation is inclining more toward becoming social media influencers, stock market traders, etc. Operational Cost Gone are the days when the things required to impart education were just different subject books, a professor, a blackboard, chalk, desks, and students. Now, the time has changed.

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Top 20 Tech Tips for Teachers

Shake Up Learning

When it comes to the digital tools that you have discretion over, shop for your learners like you are on Amazon! Read reviews, talk to friends, get ideas from blogs and social media. We still have a huge digital divide. You may actually be on Amazon, the App Store, Google Play, the Chrome Web Store, etc.

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Mark Bauerlein on Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me Tuesday, May 15th, for live and interactive Future of Education conversation with Mark Bauerlein to talk about his new book, The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking , and how this reflects our perspectives on teaching and learning. Log in at [link].

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. Also off campus, not on-: “ Unemployed Detroit Residents Are Trapped by a Digital Divide.” ” Go Ducks.