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5 Essential Practices for Designated and Integrated ELD

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Elizabeth Iwaszewicz talks about five strategies for designated and integrated English Language Development (ELD). They have a new classroom management tool called Collections. Today’s Sponsor: Metaverse is a powerful augmented reality app.

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Facebook Seems to Be Adding Video-Course Features. For Edtech, That Raises Old Fears.

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A consultant recently noticed a company announcement about the features in the U.K. version of the platform and shared a screenshot on Twitter. The company did not respond to questions about the program. But recent reports have speculated that the company could “bootstrap an online course ecosystem.”

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

But I want to call out Proctorio in particular in this talk because this company has demonstrated it has no business in schools; its products have no business in classrooms. " Cop s**t supposedly brings order to the classroom by demanding compliance. What kind of company culture sanctions that?

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29 Sessions to Watch During This Year's SXSW EDU

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Every year in March the edtech world descends on Austin for SXSW EDU, a conference that’s become as much about classroom practice and implementation as entrepreneurship and tech innovation. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Can Evidence Even Keep Up with Edtech? Higher Ed 11:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m.

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A Podcast for Every Discipline? The Rise of Educational Audio

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Learn more at ed.unc.edu/meite, on IG @UNCmeite , and Twitter @unc_Meite. Some of the podcasters got their start making educational videos or or producing MOOCs, those free online classes that were all the rage a few years ago, but ended up not living up to the hype.

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VHS Learning Partners with Continental Han Feng Network Technology to Develop Chinese Language Program

eSchool News

Hua Zhang, the team’s lead subject matter expert developing course lessons, brings substantial classroom experience, having taught Chinese to high school students in China and the United States for over 25 years. For more information about VHS Learning please visit [link] and follow on Twitter at @VHSLearning.

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?Betsy DeVos at SXSW EDU: ‘What Students Really Need Won't Originate in Washington'

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Well,” DeVos answered, “we are at an innovation conference, and I believe that teachers can and are innovators—and believe that we actually have to free up teachers to be able to be a lot more innovative in their own classrooms.” Betsy DeVos at SXSW EDU 2018.