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Edtech Matchmaking: One Teacher’s Strategies for Choosing Better Technology

Digital Promise

When I first started teaching in Philadelphia in 2004, teachers were lucky if they had one desktop computer in their room for students to use, and students attended weekly computer lab classes. Edtech companies may even seek out these schools because they have a very clear mission and framework for implementation.

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Use Personalized Learning Tools to Boost Classroom Equity

EdTech Magazine

MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out where teachers can turn to fund personalized learning initiatives! The number of states with policies in place to promote and facilitate competency-based systems has grown from just a handful in 2004 to 43 states in 2018. Classroom Technology Strengthens Competency-Based Assessment. by Wendy McMahon.

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10 Types of Digital Activities to Engage Teenagers

Teacher Reboot Camp

I began teaching teenagers in 2004 in Texas. My new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies with EdTech Missions , has 10 digital missions to help teachers support their teenage students in establishing their identities and defining their goals using technology and digital devices.

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10 great virtual field trips to check out in 2017

Ditch That Textbook

In 2004, I was about to start my first teaching job. That’s when I got introduced to the world. I went on a 10-day mission trip to Uruguay. We drove the streets of Montevideo, a world capital that reminded me a lot of life in the United States. We walked through centuries-old Colonia del Sacramento, [.].

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Utah’s Edtech Unicorn, Pluralsight Files for Initial Public Offering

Edsurge

Founded in 2004, Pluralsight currently offers more than 6,000 online courses on a variety of technical, business and design skills—from architecture to manufacturing, game development and software engineering. edtech industry since Instructure, another Utah-based company, went public in November 2015.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

Edtech, I believe, is going through a similar rebuilding moment powered by three trends: widely available infrastructure, the catalytic impact of spending by both the government and philanthropy in education, and—finally—the embrace of edtech by educational institutions and educators themselves. 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure.

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The Surprising History of Google's Push to Scan Millions of Library Books

Edsurge

We came away wondering why people don’t talk more about this bit of recent edtech history, and what lessons could still be learned from it. So remind us what Google did back around 2004. Schonfeld is a longtime leader in the library community and is a program director at Ithaka S+ R a nonprofit education consultancy.

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