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Top 5 new EdTech tools that you might use in your university

Neo LMS

Modern educators know this very well, so they’ve come up with many different ways to incorporate gamification elements into the everyday classroom environment. But what is the purpose of gamification ? This is why gamification plays such a major role in contemporary education.”. Robot teachers.

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Racism is a subtle, silent enemy of STEM classrooms

eSchool News

We as educators can also serve as gatekeepers to either advanced studies, special education, counseling, etc. Related : Computer science classes have an equity issue–some NYC educators are trying to change that How robotic gamification helped my elementary students love STEM

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Game Education: It’s in Their DNA – Guest Post from Courtney Pepe

EdTechTeacher

Teacher #1 – Matthew Farber ( @MatthewFarber ), Social Studies. Says Farber of Game Education; “I use games in social studies because the mechanics (e.g. Game #4 – Sphero the Robot. They smile, laugh, and applaud as the iPad visually prompts them to shake the robot so it will change color over and over again.

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Racism is a subtle, silent enemy of STEM classrooms

eSchool News

We as educators can also serve as gatekeepers to either advanced studies, special education, counseling, etc. Related : Computer science classes have an equity issue–some NYC educators are trying to change that How robotic gamification helped my elementary students love STEM

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. In April, Education Week’s Market Brief reported on a study by the consortium claiming school districts could save billions if they shared with one another the details about what they were paying for hardware and software.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES AQUIRES MOTION MATH ( www.curriculumassociates.com ) & ( motionmathgames.com ) Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math to further help elementary students improve their math fluency and number sense in key conceptual areas. These solutions will be offered to school librarians in the U.S.

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Re·Con·Figures: The Pigeons of Ed-tech

Hack Education

In her 1985 “Cyborg Manifesto,” science studies scholar Donna Haraway gave us a blasphemous, “ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism,” one centered on the figure of the cyborg. . (“We” – I mean, I was 9 in 1980, 14 when the Cyborg Manifesto was published.).