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New Posted Resources 02/16/2012

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id=ddwwqq6t_22g7rmsjgk tags: google google apps favorite Internet Safety for High School Kids Tips | Common Sense Media tags: internet safety high school favorite EdTech Toolbox: Web 2.0 Tools by Task tags: web2.0 tools favorite Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.'

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Looking Back At 2011 And Looking Forward To 2012

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For the past few years ( here and here ) I started a tradition (if we can call it that) where I look back at the year in #edtech and try to make predictions as to what''s going to take hold in the coming year. No science behind any of this.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. Today’s K12 educators are more digitally native than ever before.

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Can This Be the K-12 Edtech Marketplace That Finally Succeeds?

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In 2012, First Book , a nonprofit that provides affordable learning materials to kids in need, approached the publishers of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and asked: Can you make a bilingual version of the popular children’s book? In 2012, the Center received a $1.5

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A Clever Way to Measure How Students Actually Use Edtech (and Whether It Works)

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Dubbed “Clever Goals,” the tool lets educators, students and parents see how long a pupil spent on different digital learning programs, along with their “progress,” which is defined differently depending on the kind of edtech software. (It It could be books read, quizzes finished, activities completed.)

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Kahoot Acquires Clever for $500M, Hoping to Expand Its Presence in the U.S.

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The publicly traded, game-based learning company announced Thursday that it was acquiring Clever, a digital learning platform used widely among K-12 schools in the U.S. Clever, a private, California-based company founded in 2012, claims to have served half of all U.S. Kahoot, it seems, is just heating up.

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The Second Year of The MOOC: 2020 Saw a Rush to Large-Scale Online Courses

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Of all the learners that ever registered on a MOOC platform, one third did so in 2020 , making 2020 MOOCs’ most consequential year since 2012, which has been dubbed “ Year of the MOOC ”. 2012, the “ Year of the MOOC ” was characterized by media hype. In one day we received more traffic than the entire month of February.

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