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A rural Montana district goes all in on makerspaces

The Hechinger Report

This is the second year the three organizations partnered with a rural school district to increase its capacity for digital learning and lend additional momentum to local efforts. Already, CoSN published a report about the challenges and opportunities of rural school districts in embracing digital learning.

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EduStar Platform Promises Quick, Randomized Ed-Tech Trials

Marketplace K-12

It runs trials on granular pieces of digital learning activities via the PowerMyLearning Connect platform, which is available free to schools. “We do what Google and Amazon do every day, when they do something called A/B testing,” he said. Boredom: The Dividing Fractions Trial .

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(Marketing) Virtual Reality in Education: A History

Hack Education

In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus VR , Google released its Cardboard viewer, and Playstation announced it was working on a VR gaming headset – these have all been interpreted in turn as signs that virtual reality will soon be mainstream. Even without a VR headset, there’s a disembodied-ness with most digital learning.

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A Single Sign-On Platform Revolutionized How This District Uses Tech—and Saved $120,000

Edsurge

That’s how Aleigha Henderson-Rosser describes the technical issues around access to digital learning resources when she joined Atlanta Public Schools (APS) in 2010 as Executive Director of Instructional Technology. It may have been the thick of the digital learning revolution in the U.S., “A ball of crazy!”

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

Doug Levin

Anonymizing datasets is a practice fraught with challenges , especially in cases where data from multiple sources are combined. But not in the case of our software." Another tactic – as much a statement of political protest as a technique to enhance privacy – is obfuscation. Our food cannot routinely poison us.

EdTech 150
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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 37 Edition)

Doug Levin

Anonymizing datasets is a practice fraught with challenges , especially in cases where data from multiple sources are combined. But not in the case of our software." Another tactic – as much a statement of political protest as a technique to enhance privacy – is obfuscation. Our food cannot routinely poison us.

EdTech 150