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Why It’s So Hard to Lower the Cost of Textbooks

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This week’s podcast sponsor is PowerSchool, now with Schoology, a unified platform that brings SIS, LMS and assessment together for blended, distance and personalized learning. It keeps everyone from administrators and teachers to students and parents connected from homeroom to home.

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No Kidding: This Pre-Revenue Edtech Startup Just Raised $15M in Series B Funding

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In the app, teachers can add students to their class, and assign custom streams of content, assignments and assessments to each individual learner. And in addition to a library of videos, lessons and activities from 16 providers, including CK-12 and Khan Academy, teachers can upload their own materials onto Kiddom and assign them to students.

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Need an LMS next year? Here are three to consider

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An LMS — Learning Management System — is a digital tool that tracks a wide variety of student-teacher interactions such as homework, grading, sharing of resources, parent communication, assessments, and more. tools to assess schoolwide progress and results. ability to send a message to one person or a class.

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How Educators Save Time and Energy in Their Content Creation and Feedback Loops

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Create digital lessons from a library Recommended Resources BookWidgets Blog BookWidgets Webinars BookWidgets Tutorials Teaching with BookWidgets | Facebook BookWidgets YouTube Channel Finding user-friendly online platforms to create projects and activities is crucial in our classrooms. The Widget Library. Image Credit: BookWidgets 2.

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Assigning Homework In the Digital Age: The Benefits of Virtual Classrooms

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Teachers can use Study.com’s virtual classrooms to create and grade homework assignments using Study.com’s vast library of content. Assignments from virtual classrooms can also be shared on other learning management systems like Google Classrooms, Blackboard, and Schoology. Virtual Classrooms Assess Student Comprehension and Progress.

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Preparing to Take School Online? Here Are 10 Tips to Make It Work.

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We are focusing primarily on communication—both delivering it and managing it—rather than learning or assessment techniques. If you don’t have enough of it, teaching and assessment won’t even be possible, let alone optimized. Formally measuring and assessing learning should not necessarily be a priority during this phase.

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Los Angeles School District Launched a Splashy AI Chatbot. What Exactly Does It Do?

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Designers tried to borrow tropes from video games, and in the demo, Ed enthusiastically says, “Alberto, you met your goal today,” and points to even more resources he could go to, including links to “Read a book,” “Get tutoring,” or “Find a library near me.” We will continue assessing the data and define those KPIs as we learn more.”

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