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Best Math Apps For Kids

Fractus Learning

We grouped the apps in tools for preschool, school, and high school kids. Available in English and Spanish and on Android, iPad, and iPhone devices, your kid may have found their new favorite bedtime routine. The kids’ math activities and books cover the Common Core Standards and the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework.

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Appy-Picking Month: Weekend Music

SpeechTechie

Especially as kids get older, music can provide a great conversation starter and really be part of kids'' identity, making it a good context for an activity with a social-pragmatics or other group. Having kids introduce a song can be a great motivating guessing game (who liked it?) And it happens.

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?On-Air EdTech: How Audio Journalism Is Helping Students Build Digital Literacy

Edsurge

The group took home the event’s Social Impact Award. Students learned how to use audio recording devices on iPhones and mobile USB recorders. To gather that feedback and allow educators to exchange ideas, the organization also created a private Facebook group for those who download the curriculum. “We

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How to use Sphero the Robot in STEM and Beyond – From Courtney Pepe

EdTechTeacher

Sphero emphasizes the power of play in education and has a variety of lessons that are aligned to the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards on their website. Sphero is a robotic ball that can pair with an iPad, tablet, iPhone, or smartphone through Bluetooth, and getting started is relatively easy.

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Amazon Updates Whispercast For Simpler Use In Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

including tiered administration and group management, an easier-to-use UI, added payment options and premium customer support.”. New features and enhancements—including tiered administration, group management, and premium customer support—make it easier for organizations to use Whispercast at-scale . With Whispercast 3.0,

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High failure rates spur universities to overhaul math class

The Hechinger Report

Related: Will the new Common Core SAT close the privilege gap? Within five minutes, students have re-formed the rows into 10 small groups — so that the desks face each other, not Nowicki or the board. Nowicki asks the groups. One student asks his group mate. Easy, right? Can I hear your reasoning?” Why do we care?”

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Game Education: It’s in Their DNA – Guest Post from Courtney Pepe

EdTechTeacher

Recently, Osmo has included a new feature which allows the user to load in his or her own sets of vocabulary images, meaning that this game can be used to teach academic vocabulary in any subject area or with any age group with minimal prep time on the part of the teacher.