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?Meet Intel Education Accelerator’s Newest Cohort of EdTech Visionaries

Edsurge

The program announced that last year, participants like tutoring app company GotIt! raised more than $9 million in a recent Series A round , and handheld wireless sensor company PocketLab is now teaming up with Google to bring the pocket-sized lab equipment to the Google Science Journal. prices on a by-school or company basis.

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29 Sessions to Watch During This Year's SXSW EDU

Edsurge

With less than a week until the storytelling-themed keynote kicks things off, we combed through the sessions, workshops and talks that will be filling our heads, and our Twitter feeds, in the days to come. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Can Evidence Even Keep Up with Edtech? EdSurge 4:00 p.m.

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4 Questions to Lay the Foundation for a “Culture of Innovation”

The Principal of Change

Are people more likely to complain after a professional learning meeting, than in one? In workshops, one of the things that I often say is that I am totally open to people disagreeing with me, but not after the day when I am gone. What does the time look like in staff meetings or professional learning time?

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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

Edsurge

Now in its seventh year, the annual gathering brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, educators and industry experts from around the world for four days stacked with panel discussions , workshops , an expo hall , meetups , film screenings —plus plenty of after-hours shindigs. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes? 2:00 p.m.

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Events + News - New Curated "Revolution" Blog - NMC Preview - Games for Change - The Modern University is Failing.

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other member of the community in regular "live" web meetings. For the 2015 NMC Summer Conference Preview of the NMC On the Horizon series on April 14th, we''re highlighting the 2015 NMC Summer Conference with a range of keynote, featured session, Idea Lab, and preconference workshop panelists.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” If you can’t create revenue, raise venture capital. Via Edsurge : “As LinkedIn ’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges.” Via The New York Times : “ Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students.”

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What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!

The Hechinger Report

Even before a deluge of fibs and fakery swamped our recent election cycle, Wineburg and company realized that readers of online news need many of the same skills used by a good historian, such as identifying the sources of claims and asking questions about their evidence. My students are all about social media.