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From NewSchools Venture Fund comes this interactive K-12 education technology market map. Targeted at the entrepreneurial, philanthropic, and education communities, …

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Cool Tools | Vocab Videos: Just Say the Word

December 07, 2011

As part of its new curriculum to help middle school students learn vocabulary, textbook publisher William H. Sadlier wanted to …

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Cool Tool | M86 Mobile Security for Schools

December 05, 2011

With iPads all the rage at schools, administrators must figure out how to still ensure a safe learning environment without …

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Professor Disrupting Lecture Hall with Best Use of Skype Ever

December 03, 2011

GUEST COLUMN | by Jessy Irwin Through a YouTube request, professor John Boyer lands skype interview with Aung Sun Suu …

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EdTech Digest Awards 2011: Disrupting the Classroom

November 14, 2011

Finalists & Winners Congratulations to some of the best and brightest in the education and technology world! From a large …

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Cool Tool | Snap! Empower

November 07, 2011

Here’s an easy-to-use Flash interactions builder that may be just what teachers and students need. Most tools cost four times …

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Cool Tools | Common Core 360

November 04, 2011

There’s been a lot of people reaching for materials and resources on the Common Core Standards. School Improvement Network introduced …

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Interview | Greg Long: Opening up DreamBox

November 03, 2011

DreamBox Learning was created as an extendable platform to “radically transform the way the world learns.” But more importantly, the …

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Cool Tool | Wireless Generation's mCLASS Beacon

November 02, 2011

Wireless Generation’s newest assessment tool for grades Pre-K-12, allows educators to see student progress through an interactive Learning Map, an …

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Cool Tool | Friends with Brainefits

October 25, 2011

Students remember things that are personal. And who knows them best? Well their friends of course. This is the premise …

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Reach for the Cloud: Accessibility Everywhere

October 18, 2011

GUEST COLUMN | by Christina Murakami Paul is a high school student with a visual impairment. His acuity is diminished, …

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Tools for the Interactive Teacher

October 17, 2011

CLASSROOM 21 | by Greg Limperis This year, my district in Lawrence, Mass., has made a huge effort to supply …

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Cool Tool | Teacher Wall

October 12, 2011

What’s the biggest challenge you face in your classroom? How do you tackle it? What has been your greatest success …

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Cool Tool | Quipu Offers $30,000 to Smart Students

September 21, 2011

Here’s something for startup businesses as well as those on the college level. Quipu, a business, finance and enterprise application …

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Trends | Classroom Makeovers

August 29, 2011

Time for a makeover! eInstruction just kicked off its fifth annual Classroom Makeover Video Contest, inspiring teachers and students worldwide …

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Cool Tools | STEM: How to 'Change the Equation'

August 25, 2011

Take four visionary leaders—former Intel CEO Craig Barrett, Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt, Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, Eastman Kodak …

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Cool Tools | CoSN's 2011 Top 10 Back-to-School Tools for EdTech Leaders

August 25, 2011

Summer’s done but the work’s just begun: here’s a helpful list providing all kinds of cool tools for those dealing …

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Cool Tool | Connect from McG and Bb

August 23, 2011

Here’s a powerful online learning assignment and assessment solution from a couple of the top names in education: merge the …

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Cool Tool | Discovery Education Science Techbook

August 22, 2011

From Discovery Education comes a technology tool built from scratch to address state and core standards for science education. Discovery …

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Cool Tool | DreamBox Learning

August 22, 2011

With a rigorous math program relying on adaptive learning, DreamBox Learning executives believe that every student can become a proficient, mathematical …

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Cool Tool | One Idea for Learning = $5,000

August 20, 2011

You’ve got cool ideas—and you were going to make a video, anyway. So consider this: Pearson OLE (Online Learning Exchange) is giving …

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Cool Tool | Chegg Goes Digital

August 19, 2011

Students heading back to college and purchasing their books may have a slightly lighter load to carry: textbook rental giant …

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Cool Tool | Curiosity in the Classroom

August 19, 2011

What a concept: curiosity in the classroom—and that’s exactly what Intel and Discovery Education have teamed up for in launching Curiosity …

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Trends | EdTech Digest Awards Now Open

August 04, 2011

The EdTech Digest Awards Program is now open. EdTech Digest recognizes people in and around education for outstanding contributions in …

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Cool Tool: Epson’s DC-11 Document Camera

July 29, 2011

Got visual learners? Check out Epson’s DC-11 document camera. New audio and video capture tools and a split-screen feature enliven lesson …

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Cool Tool: Tinkerplots Dynamic Data Exploration

July 27, 2011

Interpreting data is an important skill in today’s world. However, mention data analysis and most student’s eyes glaze over. Key …

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Cool Tool | Brainscape Smart Flashcard Learning Platform

May 24, 2011

Here’s a cool tool that will help you become a better learner in less than half the time! Brainscape is …

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Cool Tools: Mizuni Dashboard Suite

May 05, 2011

Here’s a cool tool on the district level: Mizuni Data Warehouse. You don’t have to fully understand it to benefit, …

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Trends | Education Strategy, Global Take

May 04, 2011

A model is only as good as the people implementing it. Here’s an interesting one I found with some talented …

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Educating the Mobile Generation

May 02, 2011

What a delightful short video following two of the most prominent pioneers in mobile technology integration into education, Elliot Soloway …

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Cool Tool: ActivBoard 500 Pro

April 29, 2011

Billed as a ‘Next Generation Interactive Whiteboard with intuitive pen and touch’ — when you use it for yourself or …

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Trends: Lifelong Kindergarten

April 12, 2011

Here’s an interesting discussion from two leading minds in education and technology — the MIT media lab’s Nicholas Negroponte and …

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Cool Tool: CourseHero

April 11, 2011

Students can access excellent learning materials (more than 6,500,000 student-uploaded documents from over 5,000 universities worldwide all searchable by school, …

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Cool Tool: Illustrative Storytelling

April 06, 2011

Chalk one up for—er, well—squeak one up on a whiteboard—for visual learning. I mean, we all have eyes and of …

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Cool Tool: EchoSystem 4.0

April 04, 2011

It’s not a cloning device, but Echo360’s latest product line of lecture capture solutions is pretty close. The system dynamically records …

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Cool Tool: eBeam Engage

April 02, 2011

A teacher runs over to his computer, runs back to the electronic whiteboard, then picks up a peripheral device. He’s …

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Cool Tool | Turnitin

March 28, 2011

See something you like? Old-time research meant scouring microfiche, World Book and stacks of periodicals, using notecards and carefully paraphrasing, …

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