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K-12 Dealmaking: PowerSchool Acquires Haiku Learning; Jefferson Education Partners with Fishtree

Marketplace K-12

PowerSchool continued its acquisition streak with the purchase of Haiku Learning; in addition, Jefferson Education announced a partnership with Fishtree, and digital writing solution provider Citelighter gained additional funding. PowerSchool Purchases Haiku Learning: The K-12 education solutions provider acquired Haiku Learning , provider of a cloud-based learning management and classroom collaboration solution designed to meet the needs of K-12 educators.

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A Must Have Google App for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Haiku Learning empowers you with a suite of educational tools to use in your instruction. June 6, 2016 For those of you using Google Apps for Education, this app is definitely a must have. These.read more. google apps

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The Paperless Classroom According to Our Science Teacher Ms. Brown

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I learned a lot from our 7th and 8th grade Middle School science teacher Moka Brown about how she manages her paperless classroom. Time-stamped index: 05:50 - Intro to Doctopus 07:31 - How Moka Brown started on her paperless journey 09:41 - Haiku Learning demo 11:45 - Students'' reaction to the new system 13:49 - Video casts for mini-lectures under 5 minutes 16:28 - Run-through of Doctopus 24:34 - About Goobric.

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App of the Week: A clever LMS for instruction design

eSchool News

Haiku Learning. Haiku Learning is a cleverly designed LMS geared towards extending learning beyond the classroom. Keep up a gradebook, attendance rosters, and inter-class communications in this centralized, cloud-based learning hub. Bottom line : With planning for content and design, and some restraint, teachers can create and manage relevant pages ideal for extending and transferring learning.

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Pear Deck Raises $4M to Jazz Up Digital Presentations in the Classroom

Edsurge

Prior to this venture, Eynon-Lynch and two other co-founders developed an online gradebook that was acquired by Haiku Learning in 2013. Haiku Learning, in turn, was bought by Powerschool in 2016.) A crop of startups have embarked on the laudable task of ridding the classroom of stale PowerPoint slides. One of the latest is Pear Deck , which just closed a $4 million Series A round led by Growth Street Partners.

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Buncee News

Technology Tidbits

Besides the unveiling of their new "beta" user interface, they have developed an exciting new relationship w/ Haiku Learning. It means that users of Haiku Learning can now embed a buncee inside of it. digital storytelling presentations project based learning Web 2.0Buncee the innovative site for creating beautiful presentations, projects, greetings, and more. has been getting quite a bit of well deserved press lately.

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PowerSchool Completes Schoology Purchase in March Toward ‘Unified’ K-12 Data Ecosystem

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The newest addition comes courtesy of Schoology, a K-12 learning management system provider that PowerSchool announced it was buying last month. After PowerSchool rolled out its Unified Classroom suite in 2016, Schoology was tapped to be its first learning management system partner.

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From Tech Newbie to Ninja to Sensei

Teacher Reboot Camp

Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers and Learning to Go. Develop a Professional/Personal/Passionate Learning Network (PLNs). Send your student ninjas on learning missions with technology. You will need ninja learning community (a VLE/LMS ). Try Edmodo , Google Classroom , Schoology , Moodle, Edublogs , Haiku Learning, Wikis , or Google Apps for Education. Have students learn the tools, then train others. “Technology is just a tool.

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PowerSchool to Acquire Schoology, Pairing Major K-12 LMS and SIS Providers

Edsurge

PowerSchool has reached an agreement to acquire Schoology, a provider of learning management systems with a sizable footprint among K-12 schools and districts. Schoology would be PowerSchool’s second purchase of a learning management system (LMS), after it acquired Haiku Learning in 2016. Haiku has since been rebranded as PowerSchool Learning.

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5 Essential Effective Blended Learning Best Practices

The CoolCatTeacher

Tips and Tricks I've Learned from Experience From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. ” When bricks and clicks combine into a powerful learning experience for students, we have an effective blended classroom. This blog post is sponsored by PowerSchool Learning. As an illustration, this summer at ISTE, I facilitated a panel of blended learning experts. In flipped learning, students watch videos at home.

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PowerSchool Buys Chalkable, Tops $200 Million in Acquisition Spending

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The once venerable publisher axed several high-profile (and profitable) businesses in the Financial Times and The Economist as part of efforts to transform itself into a digital learning business. Gulati gushed about another Chalkable asset, Learning Earnings , that allows teachers to offer rewards (such as hall passes and lunch) to incentivize positive student behavior. Ever since Pearson sold PowerSchool in June 2015, the two companies have embarked on very different paths.

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Flipping Instruction for Struggling Students

Teacher Reboot Camp

We can get students to learn at home with engaging content and show them how to use web tools and apps to seek help. Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers or Learning to Go. Edpuzzle has many features to get your students to interact and learn from video instruction. Embed videos on a virtual learning environment (VLE), a space on the web and also accessible on mobile devices, where students access the lessons or videos. Flipped Learning , by shellyterrell.

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Flipping Instruction for Struggling Students

Teacher Reboot Camp

We can get students to learn at home with engaging content and show them how to use web tools and apps to seek help. Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers or Learning to Go. Edpuzzle has many features to get your students to interact and learn from video instruction. Embed videos on a virtual learning environment (VLE), a space on the web and also accessible on mobile devices, where students access the lessons or videos. Flipped Learning , by shellyterrell.

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

eSchool News

As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. Every student is unique and learns differently. Gooru’s enhanced, free K-12 content will support a variety of innovative educational models and facilitate the growth of competency-based learning.”. Digital Learning and Tools News Online Learning Top News

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5 Tech Tools, Innumerable Possibilities -- from the Hawaii #GafeSummit

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I learned about them at the Hawaii #gafesummit, which was a delightfully surprising experience. PearDeck I learned about this very promising now-in-private-beta tool from +Chris Bell ''s demo slam. It''s a start-up by 3 Iowa City teachers whose web-based gradebook ActiveGrade, LLC , was acquired by Haiku Learning. Photo Sphere I learned about Photo Sphere for Google Maps '' Up, down, and all around. Five tech tools -- innumerable possibilities.

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

The CoolCatTeacher

Haiku Learning (my LMS). Haiku Learning is my Learning Management system. Haiku Learning is the tool I use to blend my classroom. Tip: To learn about my blended learning strategies, see my presentation on Slideshare Simple Steps to Blended Learning . I embed these into Haiku and make many of them with Office Mix (PC) or Screenflow (Mac.). If you use Keynote, learn how to use Magic Move.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” From the press release : “ Learning Machine and MIT Media Lab Release Blockchain Technology for Educational Credentials.” ” “ Lifeliqe debuts VR -enabled educational content to keep kids interested in learning,” says Techcrunch. The video learning company has previously raised $1.57 PowerSchool has acquired the LMS Haiku Learning for an undisclosed sum. Education Politics.

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