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Launching Real “Reading Progress”: A Game Changer from Microsoft Education

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Microsoft Education’s new (and free) Reading Progress application promises to be a game changer and I would get ready to introduce it to your faculty early in the school year. Passages may be assigned to groups or teachers may customize assigned readings to address differences in student interests and abilities. How does it work?

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OER and you. The curation mandate

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At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. But it was clear to our little group, that to the larger majority of the participants, we were not even on the OER radar. Some OER background: Launched in October, GoOpen is a U.S. What are OER? and Mary Reiman (NE).

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Ed-Tech Software Group Objects to Messages in Feds’ #GoOpen Campaign

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Supporters of OER also point out that for resources to meet this definition, it’s not enough that resources branded as “open” be free. The post Ed-Tech Software Group Objects to Messages in Feds’ #GoOpen Campaign appeared first on Market Brief. See also: Districts Put Open Educational Resources to Work.

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Heard, Overheard and Announced at ISTE 2016

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ABCMouse , who’s grouped in with the “big guys” because of its record-making $150M fundraising round , released its flagship K-12 product, ABCMouse for Schools. It’s rare that you have the ability to to take consumer technology and offer it to schools,” he said. And then, there’s Amazon.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Are any education technologies, for that matter? Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. They’re amazing.

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Amazon Education to Launch New Website for Open Education Resources

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School administrators learned about the site, to be called Amazon Inspire, during a “Transitioning to OER” session Friday as part of the National Conference on Education of the AASA, the School Superintendents Association, held here. “If you think about those resources, they’re not all that discoverable or sharable.”

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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

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But the technology lends a question: to what extent should educational products make assumptions about a user’s end goal? Speakers from University of Virginia, University of Maryland, MIT and University of Pennsylvania will share what works, what doesn’t and how they have built structures to support technology initiatives on their campuses.

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