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Creativity Now with Best Selling Author Sean Thompson

The CoolCatTeacher

In 2014 he partnered up with DEEP Learning to support the team with the development, promotion and execution of professional development conferences for teachers worldwide. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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When It Comes To Edtech, How Much Influence Do Teachers Have?

Edsurge

That left us at EdSurge to ponder, how are edtech companies making sure their products are working best for teachers, the people responsible for weaving them into lessons each day? And what—if anything—can we glean from the number of former educators in the leadership ranks of edtech companies? The short answer is—it depends.

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Are classroom robots the NextGen of learning?

Neo LMS

Microbric, an Australian company, created this affordable robot for students to start learning how to code and program in the most engaging manner. To use Edison, you have to connect it to your computer or tablet to run the pre-loaded programs or start loading programs that students create using any of the above three progressive languages.

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10 Tips for teachers to make the most of ISTE

Neo LMS

Edtech conferences are a great opportunity for everyone activating in the education sector to connect and network with fellow like-minded people and take the pulse of the industry. An edtech conference of such high caliber as ISTE can draw in hundreds if not thousands of exhibitors and tens of thousands participants! During ISTE.

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Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning

The Hechinger Report

Only 24 percent of public school teachers reported that all of their students had access to a computer or tablet to use for school work, according to a nationally representative survey of 600 public school teachers conducted in early May by Educators for Excellence (E4E). Some students will have just the normal kind of summer learning loss.”.

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Fantastic Figjam Makes Brainstorming and Collaboration in the Classroom Better

The CoolCatTeacher

He is a Google for Education Certified Innovator, Trainer, and Product Expert who has spoken at national conferences including SXSW EDU, the National Council for the Social Studies, and ISTE. Sticky Notes with Names of the Creator 00;05;26;19 – 00;05;43;29 Tom Mullaney All right, so two things I said was it had some tablet features.

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COLUMN: Can we find the solution to middle school math woes in a virtual world?

The Hechinger Report

It’s a little too early to know if VR lessons like this one will improve lagging test scores, but Anurupa Ganguly, founder and CEO of Prisms, the company behind the platform, is convinced it will. Still, it’s impossible to ignore growing skepticism about the power of digital tools.

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