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Review: Power Up with the Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop

EdTech Magazine

Review: Power Up with the Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop. eli.zimmerman_9856. Sat, 10/12/2019 - 15:44. When I told some of my middle school students I would be reviewing the Acer Predator Helios 300 , their eyes lit up. . They all agreed the laptop has a great reputation within the gaming community. . The Helios 300 is a gaming laptop designed to be not only affordable but also powerful enough to handle the rigors of a high school esports program. .

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Rebuild The World With @Lego_Education

The Web20Classroom

I recently returned from a trip to Billund, Denmark. To many, a trip to Denmark is one of a lifetime. For me it was especially so as Billund is the home of LEGO. From the time I was a kid I have been surrounded by legos. I could spend hours upon hours building my own utopian town, a scene from the old west, a spaceship or something else entirely. Even in my adult life I am still surrounded by these magical bricks.

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The New Research Competition That Could Spark an Edtech Revolution

Edsurge

Another school year has kicked off, and school officials will spend more than $13 billion on technology solutions that claim to work but often fail to generate the desired outcome. The question of whether or not something “works” in the abstract is very different from the question of whether it might work in your district. That’s because education research has historically paid little attention to the sort of implementation variables (such as teacher buy-in, planning time, data interoperability

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Some of The Best Apps for Teaching Cursive Writing

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Upon the request of some of our readers here in EdTech and mLearning we went ahead and curated for you these helpful iPad apps to use with young learners to help them master the art of cursive.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Always connected

Learning with 'e's

It was Howard Rheingold (2002) who coined the term ‘smart mobs’ (a play on the word 'mobile' or mobile phone) to describe individuals who work collectively and intelligently toward a mutual goal without necessarily having met. Unlike their more feral counterparts, smart mobs tend to act intelligently and with a purpose. They are distributed beings (Curtis, 2004), carrying devices that have immense computing power and telecommunication capability, enabling them to collaborate in ways which were p

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Tools to Engage Students in Creative Drawing Making Activities

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Here is a collection of some helpful web tools students can use to unleash their creativity through drawing, painting and sketching. These are applications that are all easy and simple to use and.

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