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Zap Zap Math–Gamify any Math Curriculum

Ask a Tech Teacher

Zap Zap Math is a free gamified way to teach math skills that’s tied to many national and international standards (like Common Core). Students direct their learning with a unique space-themed avatar (called a ‘mathling’) that identifies their work and keeps them engaged.

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How Effective for Learning are the Apps we Use?

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Join us for What Ed Tech Apps Work Best for Learning? Even more, they need to know the impact of these apps -- if students are learning because of them. Educators need to know which products are likely to have a positive impact on learning for their students. Cost and usage are only part of the picture. Dr. Ryan S.

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What are this year’s top trends at SXSW EDU?

eSchool News

Connecting leaders across the learning lifecycle and around the world, SXSW EDU serves as a melting pot for the latest approaches to education. What follows is a curated list of the top 10 trends impacting teaching and learning as exhibited in the programming at SXSW EDU 2019. AI, XR, & Blockchain: A New Era in EdTech.

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MinecraftEdu Creators Struggle to Find a Second Hit

Edsurge

The company creates a curriculum and lesson plans around each game and offers learning analytics, showing how games are being used. While TeacherGaming typically does not pay game developers upfront, opting instead for a revenue sharing model, there are other costs involved. You wouldn’t need to know the games.

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

Marketplace K-12

He also talked about how he thinks policy shifts like the implementation of the common-core standards and the adoption of “open” educational resources are likely to affect the K-12 market, and his company’s work. We’re very confident that our products are aligned to the common core.

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Newsela – Robust Education Technology for Reading Comprehension Skills Development

EmergingEdTech

Adaptive Platform Delivers Reading Materials at 5 Different Reading Levels, With Built in Assessments How would you like to be able to give students reading assignments focused on current events that. Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning

MindShift

We have proven the fact that all children can learn — and can learn well — under the right instructional circumstances,” said Kenneth W. They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. What is personalized learning?