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Heard, Overheard and Announced at ISTE 2016

Heard, Overheard and Announced at ISTE 2016

Source: edSurge

The ISTE conference isn’t the biggest edtech conference in the world by sheer luck. It brings together K-12 educators, companies, reporters, university professors, and students to talk about product announcements, implementation strategies and edtech trends.

This year’s gathering, spread over several hotels and the Denver Convention Center, drew over 15,000 people into to these conversations. We caught a few tidbits—take a look below.

ABCMouse, who’s grouped in with the “big guys” because of its record-making $150M fundraising round, released its flagship K-12 product, ABCMouse for Schools. David Samuelson, Age of Learning's head of global schools, told EdSurge in an interview that the product (currently geared at Pre-K, kindergarten and first grade) is essentially the ABCMouse consumer product—a collection of multi-subject learning activities—with all the necessary K-12 add-ons, like curriculum and professional development. “It’s rare that you have the ability to to take consumer technology and offer it to schools,” he said.

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