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EduStar Platform Promises Quick, Randomized Ed-Tech Trials

Marketplace K-12

The technology platform is the product of a grant-funded collaboration between two professors and the nonprofit PowerMyLearning. It runs trials on granular pieces of digital learning activities via the PowerMyLearning Connect platform, which is available free to schools. Parents can also access it for use by their children.

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Top 100 Sites/Apps for Game Based Learning

Technology Tidbits

The resources below will vary from drill and practice to all out epic adventures in 3D virtual worlds, to help Gamify a classroom. Game Classroom - A excellent site for Math and Language art games/worksheets for students K-6th. One theme I have noticed is that the subject of Math uses the concept of Game Based Learning quite often.

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Transitioning Edtech to the Cloud

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At the beginning of the edtech wave, superintendents saw many benefits from using digital resources in the classroom. District IT offices were taking on the same tasks as Fortune 500 companies without the ability to implement them as effectively. First, all programs are accessible to all students and teachers. Join the Community.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Wayne Johnson, the head of the department’s financial aid division and a former executive at a student loan company , says that those “non-traditional” servicers could include companies like Visa , Amazon , or Goldman Sachs. ” Remember: Jeb loves Betsy. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Education Week : “ DeVos-Backed Company Makes Questionable Claims on Autism , ADHD.” ” “Betsy DeVos Won’t Shed Stake in Biofeedback Company , Filings Show,” The New York Times reports. “Harvard Management Company to Lay Off Half Its Staff,” The Harvard Crimson reports.