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Learning.com Joins National Digital Learning Day Celebration with Classroom Lessons and Resources

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February 15, 2018 – Learning.com is joining thousands of educators and students nationwide to celebrate Digital Learning Day, February 22, 2018. PORTLAND, Ore. Founded in 1999, Learning.com currently partners with one in six U.S. school districts and serves more than 4 million students each year.

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Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments

EdTech Magazine

“For example, if an individual student’s summative assessment is significantly different from previous test data, a teacher may want to look for underlying issues or problems,” Monica Fuglei writes for education blog Room 241. Formative assessments, meanwhile, provide for more fluid interaction between teachers and students. “At

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CoSN 2018: Broadband and Cybersecurity Are Top IT Concerns

EdTech Magazine

More than half of women come to their IT role with an academic background in education and instruction , compared with a third of men, who come from a background in technology,” says Steve Langford, CoSN Board member and CIO of Beaverton School District in Oregon. IT Leaders are predominately white (90 percent).

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Learning.com’s Third Annual Code-a-Thon Open for Registration

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The competition exemplifies Learning.com’s commitment to Computer Science for All (CSforALL), a national movement designed to enable students in grades K-12 to achieve computer science literacy as an integral part of their educational experience. There will be two grand prize winners and four runners up randomly drawn from the participants.

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zSpace Unveils World’s First AR/VR Laptop

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A fully functional laptop, students can also use the mobile zSpace solution to explore the internet, complete classwork assignments, take online assessments or any other activities that they would use a computer for at school. Now we will continue to support these programs with the new zSpace Laptop.

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4 Steps for Designing an Online Assessment for Flipped Classroom

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Are you thinking about designing an online assessment for a Flipped classroom? First, consider whether the tool you are thinking about is the right tool for what you want to assess. Second, does this online assessment align with the rest of the course curriculum. Make a plan for evaluating the online assessment.

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6 Tech Best Practices for New Teachers

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Both are great devices, but represent a sea change from the Macs and PCs that have traditionally been the device-of-choice in education. When asked, most educators shrug and point at someone else. Use it for all projects–a science poster, a history magazine, and math homework. This isn’t just for writing, though.