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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We educators need to rest and recover this summer. But the reality is also that we’re going to have to prepare for a fall that – whatever it looks like – will include an online learning component. So many of us are exhausted.

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Clearlake Capital-Backed Discovery Education to Acquire DreamBox Learning? 

eSchool News

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education , a global education technology company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”), today announced it has agreed to acquire DreamBox Learning® , a PK-12 education technology provider serving more than 6 million students and 600,000 educators nationwide.

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I Wonder If This Social Media Thing Will Ever Catch On?

The Web20Classroom

What I really enjoyed was there were so many people there that I knew because of social media. Members of my PLN (Personal Learning Network), PLC (Professional Learning Community), colleagues, whatever you want to call them, (I call them all friends) were there sharing their learning with not only the new teachers, but with me as well.

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What Gartner’s Top Tech Trends for 2019 Mean for Education

EdTech Magazine

While autonomous school buses may be far down the road, companies like RobotLAB are already designing interactive learning experiences that incorporate autonomous machine s to teach programming. Members of the online community maintain multiple versions of themselves through social media sites, online profiles and other means.

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How to succeed with online PD for teachers

Neo LMS

A survey of 755 teachers in the US found that they value the immediate feedback they get on Twitter. Schools might be concerned about the lack of interaction in online learning. Hundreds of teachers are interacting daily through Twitter, Reddit, Quora etc. building a personal learning network online.

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Please Listen to Teachers: It’s Not Safe to Go Back to School Yet

Edsurge

I’m not sure this is it, but the Twitter thread below sure stopped me in my tracks. I have never been a fan of cyberlearning in lieu of in-person learning, except in specific circumstances. Ed tech companies can play an important part in improving the online experience for our children. We can do this.

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Clearlake Capital-Backed Discovery Education Acquires DoodleLearning

eSchool News

The United Kingdom-based DoodleLearning’s Math and English Language Arts products create personalized learning experiences that help improve students’ academic achievement and confidence. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., More information is available at www.clearlake.com and on Twitter @Clearlake.