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What Makes a Good Edtech Tool Great?

Edsurge

The boom and bust of Common Core standards have left their mark, just as new concerns over media literacy and privacy are doing currently. As a director for Common Sense Education , I’ve enjoyed something of a ringside seat, having edited close to 1,000 edtech reviews written by expert educators. and guided demo approach.

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How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

Hapara

. “Interactive Middle School Math 7” This middle school math online textbook aligns to the Common Core State Standards. High school math – “Interactive Geometry” This math digital textbook also aligns to the Common Core State Standards and covers a complete year of geometry. Find out how H?para

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May this Gobstopper (Now Called Curriculet) be Ever Lasting!

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

Gobstopper is an e-reader platform that allows teachers to input and customize annotations, resources, questions, and quizzes linked to the Common Core Standards directly into a public domain text, and provides the students with immediate feedback, and the teacher with analytic data on student and class performance. Seriously ?!

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The email, he said, detailed a “Priority 1 Alert” that had been issued by Pearson and the New Jersey Department of Education, regarding a student who had tweeted about a test question on the PARCC — a standardized test based on the Common Core State Standards. Common Core State Standards. In 2013, Pearson paid $7.7

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via eCampus News : “The 2 edtech fields with the most potential under Trump.” ” Via The Washington Post : “ School offers ‘incentives’ to get kids to take Common Core standardized test.” ” Via Edsurge : “Is Edtech Worsening or Righting Inequities in Education?

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Will Virtual Reality Lead More Families to Opt Out of Traditional Public Schools?

Edsurge

For this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we connected with Green to find out what she learned about the school, about why some edtech experts are concerned about the amount of time its students are spending in VR, and about how the high-tech experiment fits within broader debates about the future of public education.