Always looking to make our Thursday nights better, Christopher Nyren of Educelerate (far left in the photo) managed to round up a posse of of Chicago's sharpest shooters in the world of tech-equipped K-12 classrooms. Who knew that Chicago was home to at least three of the world's top mobile K-12 edtech platforms for the iPad? The event was hosted in the snazzy confines of the tech incubator 1871 in the Mechandise Mart (we keep ending up there for some reason...). Repping their wares were: Andrew Rowland, founder of Classkick: "Classkick brings real-time feedback and teacher-made assignments to the iPad." David Vinca, Founder of eSpark Learning: "eSpark enables teachers to bridge the gap between engagement and academics on the iPad. Their platform curates the best iPad educational apps available and personalizes a plan for each learner's unique needs." Christopher Hull, Co-founder of Otus: "an easy-to-use, yet powerful classroom tool that brings the best iPad and Chromebook education features together into one secure environment, and uses a single login." Dealing out the questions and weighing in with wisdom as moderators were K-12 consultants Lucy Gray and Marci Goldberg. In the room were the founders of Edmodo, an older app (from way back in the stone age of 2008), and they offered more wisdom on getting your technology into classrooms, and making it be more useful to students and teachers. And to top it all off, the view was pretty nice, too Yesterday I took a few members of my Instructional Design, E-Learning & Edu-Tech Meetup group to the ginormous Merchandise Mart to ogle some great design and be wowed by technology for the built learning environment, and then we moseyed on down the street to the IBM building to be immersed in the work of two different local companies that develop gamified learning in responsive formats.
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