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Early Edtech Giant PowerSchool Goes Public

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PowerSchool’s journey has gone like this: It was founded in 1997, back in the early days of the web and before smartphones, tablets or social media even existed. As districts move back into classrooms, we are very focused on the fall and helping districts support the learning loss that occurred,” she added.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. Tablet computers didn’t take off until a decade later. Internet ubiquity in the classroom led teachers to adopt email and experiment with other technologies. The infrastructure just wasn’t ready.

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. District #3 : Next Generation Digital Classroom - moving away from laptops and desktops. Have narrowed down to four vendors to try iPads, Android tablets, Windows 8 tablets, Chromebooks. Important for modeling classroom management. Click here to see all of them.)

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Guest Blog Post: Online Learning – a Perfect Confluence or a Bad Influence?

EdTech4Beginners

The classroom environment is based on strong discipline. In addition to the fun aspect of online learning, there are other benefits that convince students to take at least one online course per semester: Students can use their smartphones and tablets to access online lectures at any time. Learning is a life adventure.

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What Technology Does What: An #edtech Chart For Teachers

TeachThought - Learn better.

This is what we hope will be an ongoing collection of the most effective ways to use technology in the classroom. iPad/iPad Mini, Nexus 7 , Nexus 9, Microsoft tablets (e.g., …Perform universal tablet tasks (e.g., Nexus 7, Kindle Fire/HD, iPad Mini, iPad, Windows Tablets. Access Flipped Classroom Content.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Star Online : “ Germany plans to invest an extra €5 billion over the next five years to equip more than 40,000 schools and colleges with faster internet, wireless access points and tablet computers, the Education Minister said.” None of those chose for the education section are classroom educators, no surprise.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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