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13 Digital Tools to Empower Active Use

Tom Murray

Today’s digital world is littered with drill and kill technology, much of it no different than a digital version of the worksheets of years past. Simply digitizing past practice serves little instructional purpose and ultimately leads to low levels of learning. An app is available for Chrome as well.

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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 almost every facet of our day we receive some type of personalization, whether through the food we order, the medicine we receive, or the cars we drive. Related: Organic adoption of one technology leads to a seamless way to blend others. In a personalized learning environment, student needs drive the design of the learning.