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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

Edsurge

billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. And it turns out that online language learning is the fastest-growing market segment within the edtech industry. According to Urdan, language learning in the U.S.

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When Learning Goes Nomadic

Edsurge

How does higher education use mobile technology to teach? The edtech seminar I'm teaching this semester recently explored the post-desktop world, and to get students thinking about the differences, I began with a quick exercise, asking them to rearrange the classroom into old-school rows. It was mobile learning in action.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

These reflections are not just an academic exercise but a practical one, aimed at understanding and adapting to the evolving dynamics of education. The changes are not just incremental; they are foundational, reshaping the very nature of how we teach and learn. And guess what?

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EdTechSandyK's Top 5 Posts of 2013

EdTechSandyK

Because this was a helpful exercise for me at the end of 2012 / start of 2013, I thought I''d give it another go as 2013 ticks away its final hours and 2014 looms on the horizon. Mobile learning and online connection continue to dominate my thoughts and the interests of my readers. Another year has sped by. Much like 2012.

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15 Ways for Students to Use Google Keep [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

This is also an excellent way to create other types of habits as well, like remembering to take your backpack home, drink water, exercise, etc. What if we put these into a daily checklist for students to help them create habits? Group Projects. Collaboration has always been the number one feature of Google tools. No other product comes close!

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ASCD's #Empower18 Conference Report

techlearning

The Expo Hall showcased even more edtech tools that are changing and enhancing today’s learning. Nearpod is a unique mobile learning platform designed for the synchronized use of mobile devices in education. Wettrick presented an example called “Brainstorming Bubbles.”

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Sphero for Education

Technology Tidbits

Fun Challenge After the students have completed the previous two exercises a teacher can then give them a challenge to see if they can program the Sphero to go a certain distance and then have it return to them. edtech mobile learning programming sphero' For more information on using Sphero in Education click here !!!