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How an Ed-Tech Startup Can Rise Above the Noise at ISTE

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

As a small company it’s hard to be heard over the noise (and the smell of popcorn). The center of the exhibit hall has the most valuable real estate and the biggest companies and displays. Edmodo had a dancing logo (see photo). Every year ISTE seems to grow, in attendees and in the hype on the exhibit show floor.

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Collaboration between companies + school district = Connected educators

The Innovative Educator

Do you think Microsoft is magnificent? Do you excel at using Edmodo? Wouldn’t it be great to have a direct connection to the people who work at the companies of the very resources you are using for teaching and learning? Are you gaga over Google? Do you think PBS is the perfect platform for digital media content?

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Mindful Tracking Cookie Policies Improve K—12 Data Security

EdTech Magazine

“We talk about this in terms of URLs and tracking, but what we are tracking is bits and pieces of people’s lives being sent off into black boxes to be used in ways that we don’t know,” Bill Fitzgerald, a blogger who discovered tracking cookies hidden in an education product from Edmodo, told EdSurge.

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Privacy Tool fr @CommonSenseEd Pushes Companies to Make Safer Sites

The Innovative Educator

I’ve written about the privacy policies of some of the popular players in classrooms such as Microsoft, Google, Class Dojo, and Edmodo which you can read about at this link. It is the innovative educators who are trying the newest tools and pushing the companies to update their platform in terms of privacy and pedagogy.

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“Corporation” doesn’t have to be a dirty word

The Innovative Educator

I have had the pleasure to be involved with creating partnerships between innovative educators and the companies that provide them with resources. This currently includes companies like PBS, Common Sense Media, Google, and, Microsoft, SMART, and Edmodo. This is a big PR problem that corporations need to take seriously.

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Latest Updates to Discovery Education’s Flexible K-12 Platform Keeps All Learners Connected to Engaging Content, Instructional Strategies, and Professional Learning

eSchool News

Single-Sign On (SSO) integrations available through Clever, Classlink, Google, Microsoft Office 365, SAML/ADFS, and in North Carolina, NCEdCloud. Discovery Education’s K-12 learning platform now integrates into Microsoft Teams, Canvas, Schoology, Google Classroom, Brightspace by D2L, and Infinite Campus. QR Code (for students only).

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. Remember Edmodo? The company has raised some $77.5