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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

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AUTODESK TINKERCAD ( WWW.AUTODESK.COM ) Tinkercad is a simple, free online design tool used to create and print 3D models, as well as for building and testing electronics. In addition, CatchOn helps district administrators mitigate student data privacy risks associated with unknown tool usage.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

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Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online ACHIEVE3000 & ICIVIC ( www.achieve3000.com launch of Be a Maker, an all-new mobile application that teaches children how to code by allowing them to program their Jibo robot. CASIO CLASSPAD.NET ( classpad.net ) Casio’s ClassPad.

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Which Edtech Companies Are Listening to Teachers?

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The creators of an educational robot, for instance, recently decided that they needed to rethink its training regimen. The small Dallas-based edtech company named RoboKind makes a 3-foot tall, spikey-haired robot named Milo, used in schools to help children with autism learn to decode nonverbal communication. They’re engineers.

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

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The district also holds several events inviting staff to learn about technology tools and strategies for the classroom. Furthermore, due to remote learning, Alvarez turned to the technology solution to equip educators with insights and tools to personalize and accelerate learning at-home and in the classroom.

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Education Technology and the New Behaviorism

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It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us. “ What If Students Have More Confidence in Growth Mindsets Than Their Teachers?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Affluent students get to digital tools for creative exploration; poor students get to use theirs for test prep. Purdue boasted that Course Signals increased retention by 21%, making it an incredibly effective tool. Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. But the “spying” has continued. Chatbot Instructors.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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She’s Building Tools to Boost Student Character.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Edmentum has raised $25 million in debt financing from New Mountain Finance Corporation and Tennenbaum Capital Partners. From Edsurge : “This Year’s ASU+GSV Summit Is Hard to Describe.