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Schools Must Support Educators While Keeping Tabs on Tech Trends

EdTech Magazine

No matter what investments school districts make to create a modern learning environment, they likely won’t have much impact if teachers don’t use them. Robotics — Educators are leveraging robotics to promote critical and computational thinking, and to provide hands-on learning in STEM subjects. Two to Three Years.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

Today’s K12 educators are more digitally native than ever before. When I started my first edtech business in 1998, our competitor Blackboard had less than 10 employees and customers. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012.

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The Importance of eBooks in a Flipped Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

The idea is that students first learn course content online, usually at home, and the time in the classroom is devoted to what used to be traditionally homework, with the teacher’s assistance. Many articles have been written on how the idea of a Flipped Classroom has gained currency with the advent of eBooks and digital learning content.

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New Markets Venture Partner’s Latest Edtech Fund Closes at $68 Million

Edsurge

The firm plans to invest up to $5 million into Series A, Series B and recapitalization rounds for education companies serving pre-kindergarten to professional learners, with a focus on digital learning, learning sciences, analytics and workforce development services. It’s a bold, but not entirely unfounded, thesis.

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Classroom prizes and grants available!

Educational Technology Guy

After winning the $500 prize last year, I purchased an XYZ 3D printer to integrate STEM into my classroom. The online survey is facilitated by Project Tomorrow and supported by many of our nation’s most innovative companies, foundations and nonprofit organizations including Blackboard, Inc., Since 2003, more than 3.7

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Newkirk believes that his model will work for other STEM fields, including chemistry and physics. In fact, over the past several decades, CMU has built a series of digital learning tools that address all three of the broad categories of learning engineering — cognition, metacognition, and motivation—that Koedinger outlined.

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The Social Learning Summit Is Tomorrow - Online and Free

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

All sessions will be publicly available to attend through the online Blackboard Collaborate platform, and every session will be recorded and made available immediately following the conference. in teaching and learning, and the URL for attending is [link]. The Summit is from 9:00am - 3:00pm US Eastern Time. See you online!