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Free Digital K-12 Academic Standards Registry Announced

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IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS Global/IMS), the non-profit collaborative for educational technology innovation, impact, and interoperability announced a new collaboration among IMS member organizations to launch a free digital registry of state K-12 academic standards.

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Instructure Acquires MasteryConnect for $42.5 Million to Expand K-12 Footprint

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This deal will mark Instructure’s third acquisition (after Practice and Portfolium ), and its first that focuses on the K-12 market. K-12 market for classroom assessment tools is expected to reach $1.7 Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The deal is expected to close by next Tuesday. billion by 2020.

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Understanding concepts: What is digital citizenship?

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Why digital citizenship is important Digital citizenship instruction should start in kindergarten and continue through grade 12. Digital citizenship curriculum for K-12 Educators can teach digital citizenship in the classroom with lessons or courses.

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Making the case for common K-12 standards

eSchool News

In order to innovate in ways that anticipate and serve the needs of teachers and students, standards are applied to how OER is tagged, how tags support one another, and the editorial style that is imposed upon all metadata. One of the most common sets of structures are academic standards. The Value of Common Standards in OER.

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Who Should Bear the Cost of Data Interoperability in K-12 Education?

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Eight years ago, some of its customers requested that Empower support the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) , an open data interoperability standard that was then in vogue with K-12 schools and districts. The company agreed—and made it happen.

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Adding a Computational Boost to Your K-8 Lessons

Digital Promise

How can K-8 teachers integrate computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) into classrooms? We also wanted to center each districts’ CS mission and vision and integrate the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Computer Science and the KAS for Technology. A bit of Appalachian ingenuity.

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Integrate OUR Curricula into Your Kiddom Digital Platform

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EL Education K–5 Language Arts. They received excellent ratings from EdReports , a leader in evaluating textbooks and curricula for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. EL Education Language Arts (Grades K-5). This curriculum is another top-rated K–5 ELA curriculum on EdReports. Who is Kiddom?