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13 Digital Tools to Empower Active Use

Tom Murray

Having worked with over thousands of school leaders in the past two years, I’ve compiled a list of favorites; those tools that support teachers in creating authentic, personal learning experiences. Tools such as SoundCloud , Voice Recorder and Vocaroo can seamlessly be used for creation on Chromebooks and other devices.

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We Might Be at the End of the Free Ed Tech Era

techlearning

Their success rate of companies is incredibly high as they helped start Class Dojo, Plickers, Remind, Padlet, Blendspace, Educreations, and a WHOLE host of others. Imagine K12 is a startup incubator out of California based on education. There is one big issue for most of them though: revenue. [

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What a blended learning classroom really looks like: An urban teacher’s reboot

The Hechinger Report

In a personalized learning environment, student needs drive the design of the learning. How you group students, spend time with students, deliver content and create the learning environment is adaptive. My classroom is a blended learning classroom and every student has a laptop.