Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers. Instructional design is experiencing a renaissance. One useful post on strategies to drive enrollment and sales of an online course was produced by the founders of Groove. Surely a lot has changed!

Udemy 137

Udemy Course Coursera MOOC 137

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

For example, many of the nation’s largest school systems use Google’s free suite of education tools, which allows teachers to develop their lessons, create assignments and administer assessments online. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Software Student Data Privacy OER Data 48

NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 15, 2016

News-o-matic : This daily newspaper for kids is available: for Android on Google Play , for iPhone and iPad at the App Store , or for Kindle. Skills and Strategies. News for Your Classroom : is Scholastic’s free daily magazine complete with kid reporters, video highlights and an archive. Spanish Text Sets. State Text Sets.

Common Core 40

Common Core iPhone Instructional Materials Android 40

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. K12 digital curation is about getting our users/students/teachers to the good stuff, pointing them to content and resources they might now discover with their intuitive strategies. What’s curation?

OER 46

OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Top reported teachers’ apps have adapted to meet pandemic purposes. Home may be the new classroom, but instructional approaches are slower to change. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. Zoom took the number one spot in mentions by teachers in 2020, at 60 percent, displacing 2018’s top mention, Google Classroom. Accelerated?

EdTech 167

EdTech LMS Survey Classroom 167

techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

This program adds full home access for students, custom curriculum alignment, performance reporting, professional development, and more. The Marketplace also includes free curriculum content from its partners, including Google Classroom, Newsela, and more.

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Tools Robotics Software Microsoft 51

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Only 21 states have any kind of dedicated state funding for technology, and this can range from just digital instructional materials (e.g. Companies like Apple, Microsoft and Google regularly supply schools with discounted technology that districts could not otherwise afford themselves. But these options, too, come with a catch.

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Technology E-rate Laptops Digital Divide 170