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Drinking, Smoking and Sugar: How Unsavory Ads Wound Up on Edmodo

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Beth Freeman logs in to her son’s Edmodo account from time to time to check on his homework assignments. The advertisement appeared on Edmodo’s mobile app, which Freeman’s son uses daily for updates about homework, quizzes and other school assignments. That incident was also an accident, according to Edmodo CEO Vibhu Mittal.

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12 Principles Of Mobile Learning

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12 Principles Of Mobile Learning. Mobile Learning is about self-actuated personalization. As learning practices and technology tools change, mobile learning itself will continue to evolve. As mobile learning is a blend of the digital and physical, diverse metrics (i.e., by Terry Heick. Asynchronous .

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

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Frontline Education , a provider of K-12 data software, is developing a new feature (or “skill”) for Alexa that allows administrators to access data, such as teacher evaluation reports and employment rates, through voice-activated commands. Kahoot adds the ability to create and host quizzes and other content from its mobile app.

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Help with new technology trends for 2013/14

Connecting 2 the World

Last summer I worked with edmodo and mendeley. I ended up using Edmodo, but not really catching on to mendeley (nor did my students as it was a bit limited in collaborative work, we found). I am especially interested in data visualization (including mindmapping or flowcharts) apps and/or video apps.

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3 Organizational Apps to Start the School Year

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Educreations can be linked to file locations like Dropbox and Google Drive as well as LMS communities like Edmodo. Otus is a free all-in-one mobile learning management system designed by teachers for teachers, available on iPads and desktops. It’s as simple as a slideshow with a voice-over and built-in whiteboard.

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Go Paperless for Earth Day

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an LMS like Edmodo, Otus, or MyBigCampus–these often include an interactive gradebook, parent inclusion devices, a student discussion forum, polls, a way to collect and share resources, a class calendar, and access across a variety of digital devices. Would you trade your smartphone for a 1983 Nokia mobile phone? And then charge.

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How to go Paperless in Your Classroom

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an LMS like Edmodo, Otus, or MyBigCampus–these often include an interactive gradebook, parent inclusion devices, a student discussion forum, polls, a way to collect and share resources, a class calendar, and access across a variety of digital devices. Would you trade your smartphone for a 1983 Nokia mobile phone? And then charge.

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