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Marketplace trend update: 6 ed-tech developments

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The new Brightspace Daylight experience is built from the ground up to work on any device and be fully accessible so students and teachers can use smartphones, tablets or any browser-enabled device. This August, Subaru of America, Inc.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Amazing what reading a book will do for you. From the Google blog : “ Chromebook tablets for versatile learning.” Via George Veletsianos: “ Bots, AI, & Education ” – updates 2 and 3 on his book project. This, on school shootings , absolutely gutted me. State and Local) Education Politics.

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65 ways equity, edtech, and innovation shone in 2022

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Additionally, the tablet has Bluetooth, so I am able to carry on a lecture while walking around the classroom monitoring students as they take notes or work through problems. Teachers want programs that they can implement immediately: not just something they read from a book. This is where my Wacom Intuos has been so very helpful.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Edsurge and Getting Smart promote venture capitalist Ryan Craig ’s new book A New U and the idea that “ faster + cheaper alternatives will replace most of higher ed.” “ Microsoft Hopes to Revive Its Education Tablet Efforts With the New $399 Surface Go,” says Edsurge. and Worldwide by 2024.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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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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