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Here's How Single Sign-On Saved One District 2,500 Hours of Instructional Time Per Month

Edsurge

So we got some very passionate phone calls and lost a lot of time in the classroom. Our district uses a wide variety of technology—MAC, PC, iPads, Android tablets, Chromebooks, cell phones—which can be a challenge for IT departments and teachers. We’ve alleviated barriers to using technology in the classroom—along with the anxiety.

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Ed-Tech and the Commercialization of School

Hack Education

Testing and assessment remain the primary reason why schools buy computers; these are also the primary purposes for which teachers say they use new technologies in their classrooms. Ed-tech amnesia: we act as though nobody thought about using computers in the classroom until Steve Jobs introduced the iPad, or something.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). There’s an understanding – even if it’s a disgruntled one – among those in the classroom and those making procurement decisions of what the LMS is for, what it should do, and so on. Students will receive iPads.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it. Personalized learning is winning a growing amount of attention, but no off-the-shelf tech solutions. Even academics.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

You have to work with the gray—that is the day-to-day reality of the classroom. We [made] probably the biggest single investment [in the Pearson System of Courses , which] completely rethinks the way that numeracy and literacy are taught in the classroom. The company recently agreed to pay more than $6 million to the district.

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S3: A Holistic Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Educational Innovations (Including OER)

Iterating Toward Openness

If work that is highly impactful in a single setting cannot be scaled to multiple classrooms, it does little to advance the cause of improving success for each and every student. However, if there’s no practical way to adapt this model to other classrooms, we can’t use this model to help improve success for all students.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Wired : “How Apple Lost Its Place in the Classroom.” ” Via The New York Times : “Apple Unveils New iPad to Catch Google in the Classroom.” ” Via The Verge : “Apple is ready to fight Google’s Chromebooks with cheaper iPads.”