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Epic Guide To Game Based Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

100+ Game Based Learning Resources to Get Started in Your Classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Tweeting Aztec’s Project to teach history with Twitter with Australian Educator Jacques du Toit. ipadgames – Games for the iPad. Games are fun. We can use them to teach.

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Leadership Roundtable: Digital Equity

techlearning

The most important outcome of our visits was that our teachers became friends with teachers at Leyden and left there with Twitter handles and contacts. We offer tech summer camps at no charge for students, such as robotics and coding, starting at pre-K. They now had people they could connect to for advice as needed.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via KPCC : “ LAUSD may try again to give an iPad or computer to every student.” ” Via Motherboard : “ Twitter Is Banning Anyone Whose Date of Birth Says They Joined Before They Were 13.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” More on the plan from Chalkbeat.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

a blockbuster case whose outcome will affect whether transgender students can use the school bathroom that aligns with their gender identity. Its outcome will have ramifications in schools throughout the country.” Twitter announced big layoffs this week – 9% of its staff – and said it would shutter its video app Vine.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. Ed-Tech Startup Accelerators.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later.