Edsurge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. Witnessing a classroom buzzing with excitement and brimming with knowledge was an educator's dream come true.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

In collaboration with HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom Initiative, Digital Promise Global is launching two new programs that celebrate teachers and schools who demonstrate powerful teaching and learning with technology. Powerful use of technology contributes to closing the Digital Learning Gap. Halloran School No.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Imagine a one-stop shop where you can find carefully curated educational apps that not only play nice with Google Classroom but also offer a range of functionalities, from School Information System (SIS) integrations to hassle-free app licensing. Now, let’s talk Classroom add-ons. Feskens, R. C., & Eggen, T.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2022

I thought I was ahead of the times when I acquired virtual reality headsets and other mixed reality technology via a grant award in late 2019. Once a novel technology, the current mindset seemed to be that VR was just another toy used to consume games and other media. I was not looking to use VR to gamify my classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2019

1, 2019, World Read Aloud Day celebrates the pure joy of oral reading with kids of all ages. I know — you’re convinced but don’t know how to blend read-alouds into your busy classroom schedule. When you have classroom reading time, kids can pair up and read to each other. Simon & Schuster, 2015.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

The pace of change, driven predominantly by the rapid encroachment of digital and now AI technologies, has accelerated dramatically. The fast-paced evolution in educational technology and methodologies necessitates a fresh look at what features teachers should exhibit to be effective and relevant in this ever-changing environment.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The New Media Consortium , which publishes its annual “Horizon Report for K-12” previewing the technologies likely to impact education in the coming five years, forecast back in 2015 that by 2019, we would see drones playing a role in education. . Drone Competition Creates Fun STEM Opportunity.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

That’s why, in 2019, Discovery Education conducted a comprehensive research study—including a literature review, focus groups, interviews, surveys and an analysis of data usage—across our digital products and platforms. Teaching in a Digital Age: How Educators Use Technology to Improve Student Learning. Educational Technology Support!

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I think most teachers can agree with me when I say: It’s a super complex process to establish a positive classroom culture. Whether it’s where we live, in our classrooms, or even in our own home, we all have a desire to feel safe and heard. I spent most of that year figuring out how to create a positive classroom culture.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In this article, we’ll explore how you can both prevent bullying in your classroom and handle it when it occurs. What You Can Do to Prevent Bullying in Your Classroom. While children may use technology in schools, most use technology outside the classroom, too. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2015, 100, pp.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Now, in 2019, that’s dropped to about a third. The most visible example of this was the Parkland School Shooting in February, 2019. Many schools that tried to ban them are now lifting that ban (like New York City did in 2015) opting instead to allow schools to establish policies that work for their unique student group.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. They were the outliers, those willing to open up their classrooms to try new things. At the same time, we knew that technology was nowhere near a silver bullet. Fast forward to 2019. Not the other way around.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

Print textbooks are the eternal punching bag for the things people think technology should render obsolete. The newest voices in that choir come from Bill and Melinda Gates, who declared that “ textbooks are becoming obsolete ” in their 2019 annual letter. classrooms from kindergarten through high school.” billion to $3.3

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

After 13 years of teaching, I’ve had just over 1,700 students walk in and out of my classroom. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. Victoria Kosiba: a current seventh, eighth, and ninth grade U.S. and World History teacher at Art in Motion School in Chicago.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

percent (about 11,000 students) in 2018-2019. By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Its contract with Long Beach Unified for the 2019-2020 school year is for $21,110. Simon was confident that her team’s efforts would help.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. More than $1 billion in headline-grabbing transactions are likely to be announced at the event.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In 2015, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) had just embarked on its first research project to understand the attitudes, perceptions and beliefs of likely voters about early childhood education, and specifically the role of early childhood educators.

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ViewSonic Education

APRIL 10, 2019

Between 2018 and 2019 the number of leagues that facilitate esports in schools nearly doubled. Team sports provide an arena for teaching important lessons and life skills beyond the classroom. Students who are drawn to gaming are often equally captivated by the broader technology ecosystem. Esports are no exception.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2019

All the time she normally spent idling throughout the day was now filled with technology—namely, the distraction of her phone. Starting in 2015, Zomorodi decided to do some unplugging, and she invited listeners of her podcast, Note to Self, to go on the journey with her in a challenge she called “ Bored and Brilliant.”

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EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

The Washington Post reported (July 16, 2019) that a report filed by the National Center for Education Statistics, that online bullying and texting is the rise among middle and high school students. That was a jump of 15 percent from the 2014-2015 school year. Forty-two percent say it happens in classrooms. What can parents do?

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100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This post is part of a 6-part series highlighting how we, as IB teachers, can bring Approaches to Teaching to our classroom and challenge learners to engage in Approaches to Learning. The IBO traditionally connects instruction throughout different contexts with developing learners’ thinking skills (contextualized learning) (IBO, 2015).

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100mentors

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This post is part of a 6-part series highlighting how we, as IB teachers, can bring Approaches to Teaching to our classroom and challenge students to engage in Approaches to Learning. We bring ATLs to our classrooms all the time, but we may not do it intentionally. Believe it or not, you are.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In fact, many school technology plans fluctuated depending upon the latest fads and what someone learned at a conference and had little connection to curriculum or learning goals. The Five Imperatives of Technology Leadership , the presenters explored how they have shifted their approaches to integrating edtech in the classroom.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

based early childhood technology and services developer best known for its GOLD observation-based assessment system and its Creative Curriculum product lines for infants, preschoolers and kindergarteners. Its platform costs between $200 and $350 a year per classroom, with lower prices if several classrooms sign up.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A classroom using the Teach to One math program. In the fall of 2015, five schools in the industrial port city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, dumped their usual math curriculum and started teaching their middle school students through a computerized system called “Teach to One.” Photo: Nichole Dobo. See Figure 1 on p.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2019

Why can’t classroom teachers integrate computer skills into their curriculum? The Consortium for School Networking reveals the extent of these gaps in its 2018-2019 annual infrastructure survey. Since 2015, 10% or fewer school districts have reported that all of their students have internet access via non-shared devices at home.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Mike Silagadze isn’t shy about his desire to take market share from the largest college textbook publishers through his classroom software company Top Hat. Union Square Ventures, Emergence Capital and Leaders Fund also provided equity funding while BMO Technology and Innovation Banking Group provided debt financing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In 2019, a full year before the pandemic, the American Psychological Association reported new research showing a dramatic increase in the rates of depression among young people aged 18 to 25, surging 63 percent from 2009 to 2017 (from 8.1 For years now, in college campuses across the U.S., percent to 13.2

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

With interest in the teaching profession waning , many feel that it’s irresponsible to turn away those who are inclined to enter the field, especially before they’ve had a chance to undergo the very training that is intended to make them successful in the classroom. We don’t need a standardized exam for that.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2019

As a classroom teacher, you know the way devices and media dominate kids' attention. You're out there every day managing student cellphones in the classroom, patiently listening to them share about their latest Fortnite accomplishments, and catching glimpses of TikTok memes between classes. Digital Passport™?.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 2, 2019

The first time I saw video being used in a classroom was in 1973. Today, video use in the classroom is more commonplace. Present-day students, who interact with a steady stream of digital media throughout the day, are generally unsurprised by video in the classroom; if anything, they expect it. The future?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

A mounting body of evidence indicates that technology in schools isn’t boosting student achievement as its proponents had hoped it would. The more students used technology in schools, the lower the nation ranked in educational achievement. Bouygues wants schools to pay more attention to how they are using technology.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2022

In 2015, I wrote a book responding to the declining-enrollment crisis faced by many small liberal arts colleges throughout the country. There are costs and demands associated with its infrastructure to keep buildings, classrooms, streets, dining facilities, science labs and athletics departments updated and operating well.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2017

If you have been to an educational technology conference in the last 5 years, you have seen more and more emphasis placed on coding and robotics with robots making an appearance in conference sessions, at after hour gatherings, and certainly in the vendor hall. This is simply a reflection of what is happening in the private sector.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

That tool is data, and it marks the focus of Microsoft’s first edtech acquisition of 2019: DataSense , a data management platform developed by Brightbytes. million in venture capital, the latest of which came in a $33 million Series C round in 2015. Company officials declined to comment on this deal.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 30, 2021

Presenting with them were Dr. Cathy Collins, a technology teacher and librarian at Sharon Middle School, Dr. James Stancil, Academic Support Specialist at Prairie View A&M University, and Jeff Kaufman, a computer science teacher at a Title 1 School. She was a member of the state’s literacy, social studies, and technology leadership teams.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The publisher sold the PowerSchool to private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in June 2015. Since 2015, PowerSchool has acquired eight companies. Schoology trails Google Classroom, Canvas and Moodle in terms of adoption in large districts, but is the only one of the four that offers a paid offering focused on K-12. and Canada.

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