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Paper vs. Screens by Christine McDonnell, CEO at Codelicious

Teacher Reboot Camp

Traditional coding activities dictate that students sit in front of laptops or tablets, working to develop a program or a game. Unplugged activities allow educators to teach coding away from laptops and tablets. Students could visualize the outcome of binary code without sitting in front of a device. For example, Ms.

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Paper vs. Screens by Christine McDonnell, CEO at Codelicious

Teacher Reboot Camp

Traditional coding activities dictate that students sit in front of laptops or tablets, working to develop a program or a game. Unplugged activities allow educators to teach coding away from laptops and tablets. Students could visualize the outcome of binary code without sitting in front of a device.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

Technology companies offer their products as the solution, and technology advocates promote the narrative of techno-solutionism. If schools are struggling right now, education technology companies — and technology companies in general — are not. Tech companies are dominating the stock market. Let me fix that sentence.

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations. FTW Robotics displayed its drone technology in booth #518 that is currently in 1K schools throughout the United States.

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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. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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Can children learn from a “mixed-reality” game?

The Hechinger Report

A computer scientist, she opens a door in the table’s guts where a laptop computer is hidden, types on its keyboard and, within seconds, the animated gorilla is back to her pedagogical self again. Some tech companies are also trying to mix hands-on play with digital learning. Most technology is so isolating,” she said. “I

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What Kids Can Learn When Blocks Get A Tech Boost

MindShift

A computer scientist, she opens a door in the table’s guts where a laptop computer is hidden, types on its keyboard and, within seconds, the animated gorilla is back to her pedagogical self again. Some tech companies are also trying to mix hands-on play with digital learning. Most technology is so isolating,” she said. “I

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