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Battle of the Classrooms: Apple, Google, Microsoft Vie for K-12 Market

Edsurge

It’s terribly confusing, but perhaps no coincidence, that three of the world’s most prominent consumer technology companies—Apple, Google, Microsoft—each boast a “Classroom” tool aimed at K-12 educators and students. Other planned updates include the ability for teachers to mute devices and share documents or websites via AirDrop.

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Learning.com Includes Essential Skills for Remote Learning in EasyTech

eSchool News

Word Processing: Develop students’ proficiency using word processing programs and tools for online document creation, design, editing, collaboration and problem-solving. Grades can even be set up to transfer from Schoology to PowerSchool without teachers having to enter them.”.

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Who Should Truly Have the Power in K-12 Edtech Adoption?

Edsurge

Enterprise, a battle droid, or a replica of the Elder Wand emblazoned with a slick company logo? No one would deny the coolness factor of the wand, but that’ll only take a product so far (and will probably bankrupt the company in legal fees). Or is it geekier swag—perhaps something that resembles the U.S.S. That may be a mistake.

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The Best Flipped Classroom Software Tools For Flipped Learning In 2021

Fractus Learning

Snagit will enable teachers to grab text from a screen capture and paste it into another document without retyping the text. Schoology is an LMS that feature assessments, instructional tools, collaboration, and analytics. Snagit’s screen recorder is an excellent teaching tool, and content is shareable with Box and Slack.

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Meet the All New Flipgrid! #flipgridfever

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

As you construct a topic for your students, you can now embed Youtube or Vimeo videos or upload a high resolution image, link to a website or document, or include an emoji or GIPHY. Flipgrid is always evolving because they are a company who listens to their users. Multiple Platforms in a Topic. Personalization of Responses.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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No Kidding: This Pre-Revenue Edtech Startup Just Raised $15M in Series B Funding

Edsurge

But the company has kept mum on specifics to everyone else, only sharing that it’s seen “viral growth across hundreds of thousands” of U.S. It took some time for the company to build all these tools. Kiddom is integrated with Google Drive, which allows teachers and students to send Google documents between one another.