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Highlighting rows in Google Sheets, Twitter for new users, and Google Slides timers – Top 3 for the week
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The Inconvenient Truth About Personalized Learning – Education Next : Education Next
In a new white paper out last week, “A blueprint for breakthroughs,” Michael Horn and I argue that simply asking what works stops short of the real question at the heart of a truly personalized system: what works, for which students, in what circumstances? Without this level of specificity and understanding of contextual factors, we’ll be…
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ViewedIt, another option for creating screencasts with Chrome
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Create 3D scans with your smartphone’s camera
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