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Can Amazon Overtake Google in the Education Market?
The top three tech companies, Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet (the parent company of Google) have been battling for first position as the most valuable tech provider ...
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Can Amazon Overtake Google in the Education Market?
The top three tech companies, Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet (the parent company of Google) have been battling for first position as the most valuable tech provider in education. In the first quarter of 2018, Amazon surpassed Alphabet/Google sales and came in at second place, just behind Apple. Amazon, under the direction of Jeff Bezos, isn’t ...How to Design a Digital Ecosystem that Works
Students today are learning in a fundamentally different way than prior generations did. With facts and concepts only a web search away and computing power in every classroom, if not every pocket, rote learning has never been less important and learning how to learn more important. To facilitate this type of learning, our school districts ...Tech Tools to Support a Mindful Classroom
Your students can walk into your classroom stressed out by academics, their home lives, or their social lives. How can you help them get ready to learn? Not just sitting in their seats, but ready to absorb the material of the day? Mindfulness exercises can help. What Is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is focus on what we’re ...- Digital & Mobile TechnologyEarly Childhood & K-12 EdTechFeaturedFreshHigher EducationHigher Education EdTech
How to Create Interactive Stories with Google Forms
The kids in your classroom may not have been around when the choose-your-own-adventure books were popular in the ‘80’s and 90’s, but the concept of an interactive story will still engage them. There’s something about taking charge of a story’s direction that has broad appeal, and your students will want to see if they can ... 3-D printers – A Buyers’ Guide
3D printing is hot technology. It engages students in the classroom in a way that few curriculum topics can. The technology is relevant to math, physics and art classes and can opens students’ minds to twenty-first century career paths. But can you get this equipment in your school without breaking the budget? If so, how ...Consequences of the New Digital Childhood
Think back on your childhood, and you probably remember hours spent in active, imaginative, and outdoor play. It’s likely that you rough-housed with friends or neighbors, engaged with nature, and built entire worlds from sheer imagination. The 21st century childhood is different. A 2010 Kaiser Foundation Study found that the average elementary school aged child ...
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