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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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50 Alternatives To Lecturing

TeachThought - Learn better.

The idea is to see a lot of awesome possibilities in one place, not write a book. This is a mix of learning models and literacy strategies that can be used to accomplish what we hope a lecture might–“give information” and “promote understanding.” Learning through projects. Problem-based learning.

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From Good to Great, Initial to Ideal: A Way to Improve Exhibitions and Other Performance Assessments

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

Indeed, if the phrase conjures up images of a junior high science fair with trifold presentation boards, homemade dioramas and solar system mobiles, or perhaps cute elementary students dressed up as famous people for a living wax museum, you would be forgiven. From a certain perspective, student exhibitions are not new.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

CYPHER LEARNING NEO LMS ( www.cypherlearning.com ) CYPHER LEARNING announced the launch of the Windows app for its product NEO LMS. Users can also use the NEO advanced features such as automation, gamification, learning paths, and competency-based learning directly from the Windows App.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).” And digital bits have replaced the need to cut down trees to make paper and waste ink to create those books.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. ” (An excerpt from Daniel Willingham’s new book.). . “The legislation filed on Friday targets Lifeline , which is a Universal Service Fund program paid for by surcharges on phone bills.