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Guest post: Caston Binger Explains How the Digital Revolution Has Transformed Education

EdTech4Beginners

This includes online courses, lesson plans, and assessment tools. However, with the advent of social media and collaborative software tools, students can now work together from anywhere. One great example of this is the online classroom platform, Edmodo. This allows them to share ideas and learn from each other’s experiences.

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Why I like Edmodo

Connecting 2 the World

We don''t have technical support for Edmodo, but we now have minimal support for the LMS as more people are encouraged to use it but the number of support positions have stayed the same (3 dedicated positions for a university of 10,000 students). So what do I like about Edmodo? There is no syllabus creation function.

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All the Upgrades and Updates From Apple, Google and More at ISTE 2018

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Software Updates Google is reorganizing its Classroom platform to make it easier to sort materials by topic. McGraw-Hill introduces a new English language arts software for grades 2-7 called Redbird Language Arts & Writing. As ever, it was a popular time for product announcements. What, too soon?)

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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

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billion on education software each year. Yet it can be tedious to manually keep track of how students interact with different pieces of software—or whether these tools are even being used. That’s a jarring question, especially coming from Conrad Wolfram, the brain behind Wolfram Alpha and Mathematica—two widely-used math software.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Remember Edmodo? Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is).

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A Commitment to Digital Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Vicari’s business classes utilized YouTube, a variety of video sites, and websites to preview Superbowl commercials as an introduction to the semester Marketing/Advertising course. Students in Mr. Chowdhury''s honors physics class, students used Edmodo as a means of collaborating on a new topic.

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Google Apps and Chromebooks Web App Recommendations - a whole lot!

Educational Technology Guy

Suggestions for extensions/apps to be preloaded on Chromebooks Edmodo Google Keep - notes and lists Evernote Web Adblock Plus Evernote Web Clipper WeVideo - Video Editor and Maker GeoGebra math app Read&Write - reading support EasyBib Desmos Graphing Calculator A to Z of Google Services https://docs.google.com/viewer?