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Guest post: Caston Binger Explains How the Digital Revolution Has Transformed Education

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One great example of this is the online classroom platform, Edmodo. Edmodo is also aligned with the Common Core State Standards, so it can be used to measure student progress. One great example of this is the website Coursera. This allows them to share ideas and learn from each other’s experiences.

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')

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.” I made that selection in part because several ed-tech companies indicated that year that this was what they hoped to become – the MOOC startups, for example, as well as Edmodo, a social network marketed to K–12 schools. ” Despite raising some $87.5

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. The incident caused a great deal of furor, perhaps because it came at a moment of heightened political outcry about the Common Core State Standards and standardized testing. But that doesn’t feel quite accurate.

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