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Here's How Single Sign-On Saved One District 2,500 Hours of Instructional Time Per Month

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And that is a very conservative number, based only on time saved using the top six critical core web applications from Pearson, McGraw-Hill, PowerSchool, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Google Classroom. Case Study: Pickens School District enjoys instant access. We actually have well over 30 applications at this point.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AI and Data Literacy With the AI revolution in full swing, teachers’ digital proficiency kit should also include AI and data literacy. Google’s AI literacy resource can help teachers learn more about how to effectively make the best of artificial intelligence technologies in their educational practice. Pearson, P.

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Schools and Colleges Try Virtual Reality Science Labs. But Can VR Replace a Cadaver?

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Google has partnered with science education company Labster to create an online biology degree program with virtual reality labs. Microsoft's partnership with Pearson includes HoloChemistry for primary, secondary and college students, and HoloPatient for nursing students. Students will use Google’s Daydream VR technology.

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Passwords, Permissions and Student Data—How One District Got Account Provisioning Right

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One of the things that appealed to the district is that the platform is based on OneRoster , an open standard that governs the sharing of student data among different educational systems, such as an LMS or digital content platform. Case Study: Clay County School District. It has been a wonderful solution for us.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Hindu Business Line : “ Pearson India set to launch K–12 online private school.” The non-speakers: James Damore, the fired Google engineer, and Lucian Wintrich, a journalist with Gateway Pundit. Via Campus Technology : “ Education Data Breaches Double in First Half of 2017.”

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

But even without knowing the funding data for the month of December, I can say a lot. ” Pearson cut 4000 jobs – 10% of its staff. You can find stock market data about publicly-traded education companies at funding.hackeducation.com. " I will do that in a separate article at the end of the year.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 37 Edition)

Doug Levin

And whether you are personally concerned about issues of privacy (perhaps because you believe you have nothing to hide ), you should be concerned about the ability of even the most sophisticated technology company to keep the data collected about you secure. Data breaches happen with alarming frequency.

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