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Renaissance Learning Buys Freckle Education to Expand Math Offerings

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At a time of major change at educational software and assessments provider Renaissance Learning executives decided to add one more item to their to-do list. Freckle can group students of similar learning levels for small group activities. It was spring 2018. A year of vetting math tool after math tool came to an end Monday.

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Integrate OUR Curricula into Your Kiddom Digital Platform

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It makes learning organic, part of life rather than something that must happen from a certain book or room. The problem is trying to blend them effortlessly into a class LMS or learning platform without lots of extra clicks and logins. Kiddom is an easy-to-use education platform designed as a centralized hub for teaching and learning.

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Blending Art and Algorithms, Desmos Sets Out to Reimagine Math Curriculum

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“Looking at these projects, it’s clear that some kids have been so motivated to make beautiful graphs that they’re going out to learn math that most kids don’t learn until college,” says von Oy. “We We see 13, 14-year-olds going online and asking their peers to learn about things that are beyond what they’d normally learn in class.”

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

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They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge. This is the role that would typically be used for accepted facts like multiplication tables and vocabulary lists that will be used as the building blocks of other learning.

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Open Up Resources Takes A Digital Leap Through Kiddom Partnership

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Open Up Resources offers two of the highest-reviewed curriculum for middle-school math and K-5 English, according to EdReports, which evaluates textbooks for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. The system can also recommend follow-up activities and exercises specific to areas where a student may struggle.

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The heart of the loop: Reattempts without penalty

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Grades are not primarily based on "one-and-done" assessments, and early missteps can be corrected and improved without cost to the student's grade. Won't this just allow students to not take assessments seriously? One-and-done assessment is clearly a terrible way to measure student learning.

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

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It proved useful in finding teachers to help develop our lesson plans, assessments and professional development. We learned this lesson early on when we had employees with dogs barking in the background, kids running up to them to sit on their laps, and, yes, even a parrot on screen. We covered topics such as number of U.S.

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