Ed Tech Ticker

Discovery Education and the National Afterschool Association have launched the Virtual Learning Response Fund.

Accelerate Learning announces the national release of its first coding program, STEMscopes™ Coding.

Gaggle will integrate its safety solution, under the name Gaggle Safety Management for Teams, with Microsoft Teams.

PBLWorks, provider of professional development for Project Based Learning (PBL), is transitioning many of its workshops and services to an online format through June 2020,

Lexia Learning reports that after seven months of using Lexia Learning’s Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) program, 3,250 K-3 students in 10 elementary schools throughout the state of Utah have made substantial literacy gains.

Follett and Baker & Taylor are collaborating to provide its public library partners with free access through June 30 to Lightbox and AV2 World Languages.

Each winning educator awarded with cash and technology prizes valued at $5,500

The cloud-based platform features a graphical simulation of LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robot and a CoderZ virtual robot named Ruby.

In response to COVID-19, Casio America, Inc. is offering free resources to help with distance learning.

Following reports of hackers breaking into lessons with racist, pornographic and harassing interruptions, several large districts are moving away from Zoom.

K-12 teachers can turn to interactive, standards-aligned programs to support remote learning

Common Sense has convened a group of education, media, and tech partners to launch WideOpenSchool.org.

New Social Distancing App, Social-Emotional Learning Tools

Google has announced Teach From Home, a temporary hub of remote teaching tools and information.

As schools across the country close in response to the COVID-19 virus, PBS and WGBH Boston have partnered to support distance learning.

ISTE 2020 in Anaheim, California has been postponed due to COVID-19 concerns.

Funding Will Help Support the Purchase of 50,000 Chromebooks by The Philadelphia School District for Online Learning