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Friday 5 — 4.24.2015

Perry Hewitt

” Back when the “Mobile-friendly” text first appeared on Google search results on mobile browsers, many assumed this was a first step toward an algorithm change rewarding mobile-first design. Mobilegeddon is here without any apparent, major fallout to date, but Moz has listed some potential big losers.

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

Edsurge

We screened them using a pre-interview questionnaire built in Google Form. We also timed our marketing campaigns according to seasonal trends (such as back-to-school, testing, Teacher Appreciation Week, summer learning), and for sales we tracked what the best times of the day and year were to reach them. We did semi-annual ones.)

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How to Boost Your Teacher Brand

Shake Up Learning

What will they find when they Google you? You should expect to be Googled before a job interview. It should describe your experience in the field of education and highlight topics that you follow like Maker Ed , Google Apps , or edtech. Nuzzel : A free web tool that lets you see the content trending among the people you follow.

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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

Edsurge

In fall 2007, Larry Berger, CEO of Wireless Generation (now Amplify) was invited to submit a paper to an “Entrepreneurship in Education” working group led by Rick Hess, the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. I’d recently moved to Washington, D.C. and he asked me to co-author the piece.

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Gaming, VR Exploring, and App Building: The Ellis Island Hack-A-Thon

techlearning

Not engage, like simply hooking them in with entertaining or trending toys, rather we work to engage our students in meaningful learning. Students will examine nativism and anti-immigration policies, including the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Gentlemen’s Agreement, and immigration legislation of the 1920s.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

In previous years, when I’ve written about this topic, I’ve saved “The Business of Ed-tech” for one of the last articles in my “ Top Ed-Tech Trends" series. This is part three of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. Everything’s a business opportunity. (In Icon credits: The Noun Project

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

Doug Levin

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Tagged on: September 13, 2017 The Equifax hacks are a case study in why we need better data breach laws | Vox → Equifax handled a disastrous hack poorly.

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