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7 Shifts to Closing the Digital Divide

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Authors, industry leaders, and other schools can connect together on collaborative projects. We agreed to do a book together, explore poetry, and have our students connect through the app Edmodo. Our fifth grade used the Wonder Workshop robots for a variety of lessons across the curriculum.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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”) 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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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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CENTRALREACH PK-12 ( www.centralreach.com/industry/pk-12-education ) CentralReach launches CentralReach PK-12, a collaborative and data-driven software for special education. Together, Edmodo and Clever make it easier for teachers to access Edmodo’s resources, save time planning lessons, and help students master concepts even faster.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The New York Times : “The Snake Oil of the Second-Act Industry.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Robots or Job Training : Manufacturers Grapple With How to Improve Their Economic Fortunes.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Contests and Conferences. .”

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The Weaponization of Education Data

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77 million users accounts stolen from Edmodo. There were other high profile incidents as well: the refusal, for example, to give visas to the all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan. A file configuration error at Schoolzilla that exposed the data of some 1.3 million students. A ransomware attack at a school system in Maine.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The New York Times looks at “A Legal Industry Built on Private School Sex Abuse.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via Getting Smart : “Using Robots to Teach Elementary Students About Human Nature.” If the court’s answer is no, unions would probably lose a substantial source of revenue.”