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July 12, 2018

ARE WE PLACING TOO MUCH TRUST ON EDTECH?

Most edtech tools are gorgeous: they feature a clean design, intuitive interface, and attractive graphics in a way that puts most textbooks to shame. It’s easy to make the understandable leap from appreciating the appealing presentation to assuming that the content is just as attractive. But that isn’t always the case. We can think about

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WHAT IS CYBERLEARNING AND ELEARNING – IS THERE A DIFFERENCE?

If you are interested in the field of educational technology, you have likely come across the phrase ‘cyberlearning’. If you are anything like me, you likely assumed that it was just another word for elearning among the ever-expanding array of edu-tech jargon. This is precisely what happened to me when I first came upon the word ‘cyberlearning’. I

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HOW BLACK AND WHITE STUDENTS ARE RESPONDING TO TECHNOLOGY

The first attempt by the “nation’s report card” to measure students’ ability to think creatively and use technology found wide racial achievement gaps — and evidence that schools aren’t effectively teaching important skills. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, has long been the only way to compare student test scores in math and

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CAN GOOGLE AR AND VR PROGRAM PREPARE KIDS FOR FUTURE CAREERS?

Virtual reality has been the driving force behind Google’s Expeditions app since it launched three years ago. And recently it’s added another layer of “reality” to the virtual field trip tool—AR, or augmented reality to be precise, which take the form of features such as narration, annotations, and a new “solo mode,” going on virtual

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USING ROBOTS TO TEACH CHILDREN HOW TO CODE AND EXPLORE TECHNOLOGY

We don’t know what jobs today’s children are going to have when they become adults, but we do know that technology is going to play a major role in whatever jobs exist. According to research conducted by Dr. Marina Umaschi Bers at Tufts University, coding is fast becoming a form of literacy that students will need to

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