Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

To help overcome this, we have adopted the Future Ready Schools Framework , a systematic approach to scaling innovative digital learning practices while promoting long-term sustainability. The team’s primary goal was to develop a shared vision for deeper learning through innovative uses of digital technologies.

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Future Ready Learning Digital Learning Assessment 135

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Instructure announced it has reached an agreement to sell Bridge to Learning Technologies Group, a London, U.K.-based based provider of digital learning and talent development tools for businesses and employees. And over the weekend, the company has finally decided where Bridge is going: across the Atlantic. million loss.

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LMS Moodle Blackboard Company 125

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 27, 2015

How To Design A 21st Century Assessment. Contemporary curriculum design involves multiple facets: engaging 21st Century skills, using digital tools, collaborating with others around the globe, performance tasks, and more. In a nutshell, those considerations include: Students must demonstrate what they’ve learned. by Mike Fisher.

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Assessment How To Equity of Access Strategy 40

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.

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Learning Microsoft Blended Learning Robotics 183

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 8, 2015

If the emphasis is on digital learning we must not get caught up in the bells and whistles or smoke and mirrors that are commonly associated with the digital aspect alone. Are they creating a learning product/artifact? What assessments (formative, summative) are being used to determine standard attainment?

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Learning Student Engagement Digital Learning Outcomes 150

Education Superhighway

APRIL 30, 2015

Last month, I attended the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. This event brings together some of the most innovative district technology teams, instructional technology directors, and digital education vendors from across the country. Devices make a difference. Management time is money.

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Survey Conference Assessment Digital Learning 40

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

In the C&I department, Katie supervises a team of 15+ instructional design coaches that serve about 20 school districts, oversees a national coach mentorship program, and also created and oversees Edge•U Badges, an anytime anywhere professional learning program for educators. To learn about Lumio and how to sign up for FREE, head to LUM.IO

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Technology Training Twitter Collaborative Learning 462

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

MARCH 4, 2019

Before we even got started, a team of us designed two Board Authority Authorized (BAA) courses for the school: Foundations of Inquiry and Digital Learning (digital literacy). Applications of Digital Learning 10 – BAA Course (2012). Applications of Digital Learning 10 – BAA Course 2018.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Wesley Fryer is a teacher, technology director, digital learning consultant, author, digital storyteller, and change agent. With respect to school change, he describes himself as a “catalyst for creative engagement and collaborative learning.” He is the Director of Technology for the Casady School in Oklahoma City.

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Trends Digital Citizenship Facebook Edcamps 241

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

How can school and district leaders leverage research-based practices and models of success to create an effective personalized learning ecosystem for all learners? These components are: Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment. Personalized Professional Learning. Budget and Resources. Community Partnerships. Data and Privacy.

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Future Ready Advocacy Strategy Assessment 60

Hapara

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed into law in 2015, and it encourages the use of OER. . Additionally, they can click on review sections for online formative assessments. It’s a great way to put your students in the driver’s seat as they learn, allowing them to customize content and become active learners.

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OER Differentiated Instruction Hapara Resources 157

Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Lumio is a digital learning tool that will transform your lessons into active, collaborative learning experiences. Boost your student engagement on any devices wherever learning needs to happen. To conclude the lesson, teachers can assign formative assessments. Engaging Lessons for the Next-Gen Connected Creators.

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Elementary Differentiated Instruction Assessment Training 87

eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2016

saw greater than expected literacy gains on the Spring 2016 Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP) for English language arts among middle school students regularly using one of Achieve3000’s differentiated literacy solutions. Seven months into its partnership with Achieve3000 , a Calcasieu Parish School in Lake Charles, La.,

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Digital Learning Resources Trends Learning 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The company was founded in 2008 and went public in 2015 (at $18 a share), and plans to continue to operate with its same management team after the acquisition. In recent months Instructure has faced tough questions about its corporate learning system, called Bridge, which has not lived up to internal expectations despite heavy investment.

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LMS Company Software Blackboard 139

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Part of Fallon’s job was to trim the legacy parts of the business and reorient the company around digital learning services. The asset sales peaked in 2015, when Pearson sold the Financial Times to Nikkei, Japan’s largest media company, and its stake in The Economist to existing shareholders.

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Pearson Company Report Strategy 133

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

During its heyday, Amplify touted its orange tablets as the tool that would transform digital learning experiences in school. based company invested more than $25 million to partner with talented developers who built 30 learning games covering math, science and English Language Arts. 2015 after News Corporation sold Amplify.

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Company Industry Game-Based Learning Tablets 141

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Originally designed for the K-12 market, Nearpod’s interactive lesson and assessment tools have unintentionally attracted some 200 higher-ed institutions that are already paying for the product, according to Felipe Sommer, the company’s co-founder and chief operating officer. K-12 districts.

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Education Company Laptops Assessment 121

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

FY 2015 $0. Obama administration FY 2015 request for a proposed replacement educational technology program (see page 5) : “ $200 million for a new ConnectEDucators initiative that would help educators transition to using technology and data to personalize learning and improve CCR [college- and career-ready] instruction and assessment.

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. Digital-only textbooks accounted for 29 percent, while digital-and-print bundles accounted for 26 percent. “I Gartner projects that spending on U.S

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Chegg Software Industry Pearson 150

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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Course Dropout Blackboard Survey 60

eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2015

Florida’s Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth largest school district in the United States, is implementing myON in all 250 of the district’s K-8 schools for the 2014-2015 school year. Embedded Lexile assessments measure and predict student reading growth. Digital Learning and Tools News Top News'

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Outcomes Digital Learning Assessment Accessibility 40

edWeb.net

MAY 14, 2020

As recent as three months ago, school districts had robust, successful adapt and adopt methods for new curricula and programming, which included the collaborative process of assessment, observation, and reflection. Learn more at www.net-ref.com. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by NetRef. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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EdTech Future Ready STEM Smartphone 54

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Because of this, we added a learning strand for principals to provide them with a rich and engaging blended experience where they learn to transform their schools with blended and digital learning to personalize education for their students. Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.

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Blended Learning Learning Training Assessment 106

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Ever since Pearson sold PowerSchool in June 2015, the two companies have embarked on very different paths. The once venerable publisher axed several high-profile (and profitable) businesses in the Financial Times and The Economist as part of efforts to transform itself into a digital learning business.

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Haiku Learning Pearson Company LMS 60

Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

In 2015, we launched the FutureSmart Digital program—a gamified, web-based financial education course, in partnership with education technology company EVERFI. We’ve seen social studies teachers include personal finance in their civics curriculum and math teachers use digital courses to teach topics like unit cost.

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Report Course Outcomes Assessment 145

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Despite the emergence of digital courseware offerings from publishers and startups alike, printed materials remain a stubborn reality in American colleges. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company.

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ASIDE

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Source: ASIDE 2015 This week we were asked to share our philosophies of education. Even though like most teachers we’ve gone through many versions of these philosophies over the years, it was thought-provoking to reframe our tenets as both learning and we have evolved. In this vein, teaching and learning is a partnership.

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Education Social Media Assessment STEM 72

eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2016

BenchPrep, a digital learning platform company, will work with ACT to leverage technology to bring personalized, web- and mobile-based ACT test prep to all ACT test takers. million students in the US high school Class of 2015 took the ACT test—approximately 59 percent of all high school graduates in the United States.

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Assessment Mobility Tablets Industry 40

Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The total volume of PC sales in that market fell by 12 percent in the first half of 2016, compared to the same period in 2015, despite solid numbers in the U.S. percent in all of 2015 and only 0.2 market from 6 percent of the total shipments of non-desktop PC devices in 2015 to 18 percent in 2017. million shipments from 5.7

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Digital learning not only plays a crucial role in preparing today’s students for the jobs of tomorrow, it also has an important role in providing equity and access to education, especially in smaller and remote school districts. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Broadband Accessibility Instructional Materials Education 62

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Bob Lenz became CEO of Buck Institute for Education PBLWorks in 2015. Before taking on his role at PBLWorks, his familiarity with Project Based Learning (PBL) matured as the co-founder of Envision Education and served as its CEO and Chief of Innovation. By Kenna McHugh.

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Learning Common Core Training Outcomes 138

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Can a student’s activity on Khan Academy offer any clues into why he or she did not do well on the problem-solving section of an online benchmark math assessment? Is the student an English language learner who does best with visual and verbal cues not included on the assessment? But it’s not as simple as pulling the data.

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Report Khan Academy Data LMS 65

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 5, 2015

This level of connectivity isn’t dependent on anything external that one might have to wait on: published books, future scheduled workshops, year-end assessment data, etc. As we begin Connected Educator Month, blogs are a wonderful way to connect, interact, learn, and share as a Networked Contemporary Educator.

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Professional Learning Assessment Strategy Digital Learning 40

ExcelinEd

AUGUST 5, 2015

A lot has happened in the world of digital learning since ExcelinEd’s Digital Learning Now initiative and Getting Smart released the first Smart Series paper in August 2012. ” Blended Learning Implementation Guide 3.0. Originally published September 2013, updated & re-released Summer 2015.

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Blended Learning Case Study Learning Digital Learning 28

eSchool News

MAY 7, 2015

The goal is for participants to learn from each other as well as from the educational technology veterans in attendance on how to create, implement, and sustain a thoughtful plan to use technology to effectively improve student learning. The road trip for organizers began with the first event held in February in Raleigh, N.C.

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Future Ready How To Advocacy Assessment 40

eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2016

The Learning Counsel’s 2016 Digital Curriculum Strategy Survey and Assessment Tool is now available online. The survey tool was created to assist executives and curriculum and technology directors in assessing their readiness for a greater transition to digital curriculum and content. Transition barriers.

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Survey Learning OER BYOD 40

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

September 14, 2015. Montana Governor Steve Bullock announced today his commitment to connect every K-12 classroom in the state to high-speed Internet in order to support digital learning and equal opportunities for all Montana students.

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