EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

On Friday, March 13, 2020, we shut down, and within the first couple of weeks we were watching the usage patterns of students and educators in our learning management system,” he recalls. “We The Broward County Public Schools CIO vividly remembers the shift. “On We started seeing this weird, huge spike around 10 at night.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

In 2020, one survey found that approximately 5 million public school students were English learners–that’s over 10 percent of students. Some studies have suggested that non-native language speakers struggle to access effective healthcare, while others have found increases in negative interactions.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2023

And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. Public and private edtech companies felt the pain of these poor results, announcing more than 8,000 layoffs in an industry that only employs about 100,000 people. It’s a tough time to build or invest in an edtech company.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here is where the reach, flexibility, and familiarity of educational technology (edtech) can be leveraged. Among the many potential benefits of edtech use in SEL is cultivating students’ agency in their own learning experiences. Heartbeat works by regularly asking students to react to accessible prompts (e.g., “I Giovanelli, A.,

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Some may say 2020 is the year of educational technology. The “education system is evolving at an unprecedented rate, and making effective edtech investments will be critical in the year ahead,” according to a recent report by Promethean. Yet there are remaining challenges that need to be addressed.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Accessibility solutions that benefit all learners are built into the applications in Microsoft 365 for Education, including Teams, OneNote, PowerPoint, Minecraft and others. Las Cruces Public Schools is maximizing technology to increase equity and accessibility for all students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2024

To support the success of all students in the post pandemic world and to address the state of emergency in our students’ reading and math skills, our district has reviewed its edtech resources. We’ve decided to keep those that are proven effective in helping our students regain lost learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. What are the projections for edtech? We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2024.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Prior to 2020, Wi-Fi devices had access to only two frequency bands,… What sets Wi-Fi 7 apart is its ability to reach speeds of up to 46 gigabits per second, compared with a max of 10Gbps on Wi-Fi 6E, the previous standard.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

It’s got an effective mobile app that really changes the context in how people access language, a critical mass in consumer interest in learning applications and since the pandemic hit, it put edtech into the minds of investors as a real investable category,” says Trace Urdan, an edtech analyst and managing director at Tyton Partners.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

Lest 2020 be forgot and never brought to mind—a hope more than a few of us hold—existing trends that accelerated during the pandemic will continue in 2021. Disruptive innovation is a buzz phrase, but, used correctly, refers to technology-enabled offerings that are more affordable, accessible, convenient, and simple. Harmon concurred.

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Edthena

JULY 6, 2023

Nowadays, an important responsibility of administrating student and teacher learning includes implementing edtech for a school or district. Schools use many edtech tools and platforms, ranging from student-facing note-taking apps to teacher-facing AI-driven grading platforms. Check out the highlights of what we’ve been reading below.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Navigating this evolving landscape, edtech founders are confronted with many challenges in taking their products to market. In 2002, a critical transition occurred when 94 percent of public schools secured always-on broadband connections, granting educators and students increased access to rich media content.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 18, 2020

A version of this post was origianlly published on April 14, 2020, on FE News. However, the mere presence of edtech in a school setting doesn’t guarantee any results. However, the mere presence of edtech in a school setting doesn’t guarantee any results. 7 Ways an LMS supports a school’s edtech strategy.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 18, 2020

A version of this post was originally published on August 3, 2020, in Right Strat Online. Regardless of the chosen type of curriculum, how much edtech and distance learning will remain in use? Access to education — digital or otherwise — and opportunity gaps that existed before are widening. reopen and strive for normalcy.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In 2020 and 2021, educators pioneered ed tech tools for their classrooms at an overwhelming pace. Districts with more than 1,000 students accessed an average 1,449 ed tech products online each month during the 2020-2021 school year, according to research conducted by LearnPlatform.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

According to the report, the EdTech industry will reach a global value of $252 billion by 2020. The EdTech sphere is obviously developing quickly, so some things that seemed impossible only a few years ago have become a standard in the meantime. 5 New EdTech tools to watch. 5 New EdTech tools to watch.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

Without reliable access to the internet and devices like laptops or cell phones, college students probably aren’t going to succeed in online learning. At the heart of the study were inquiries about “edtech self-efficacy,” defined in the report as confidence in one’s ability to learn new technology. Photo by Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

All in this Edtech Reports Recap. But there’s still a ways to go to hit the FCC’s “longer-term” target of 1 Mbps, which was to kick in by now, for taking advantage of bandwidth-hungry edtech apps. It estimates another 4,300 districts could be upgraded in the 2020-21 academic year. That Broadband Gap Bar?

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Some may say 2020 is the year of educational technology. The “education system is evolving at an unprecedented rate, and making effective edtech investments will be critical in the year ahead,” according to a recent report by Promethean. Yet there are remaining challenges that need to be addressed.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2020

For example, when a superintendent is asked about district cybersecurity, “The answer can no longer be, ‘Go ask my IT guy,’” consultant Ann McMullan said at the 2020 Future of Education Technology Conference in Miami. MORE FROM EDTECH: Read these tips on discussing technology with your K–12 superintendent.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2020

For example, when a superintendent is asked about district cybersecurity, “The answer can no longer be, ‘Go ask my IT guy,’” consultant Ann McMullan said at the 2020 Future of Education Technology Conference in Miami. MORE FROM EDTECH: Read these tips on discussing technology with your K–12 superintendent.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2020

For example, when a superintendent is asked about district cybersecurity, “The answer can no longer be, ‘Go ask my IT guy,’” consultant Ann McMullan said at the 2020 Future of Education Technology Conference in Miami. MORE FROM EDTECH: Read these tips on discussing technology with your K–12 superintendent.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2020

For example, when a superintendent is asked about district cybersecurity, “The answer can no longer be, ‘Go ask my IT guy,’” consultant Ann McMullan said at the 2020 Future of Education Technology Conference in Miami. MORE FROM EDTECH: Read these tips on discussing technology with your K–12 superintendent.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

Braced for the next wave of edtech? The most recent player to step into the edtech spotlight is India’s Byju’s. Byju’s growth demonstrates how the edtech market is truly becoming borderless,” says Isabelle Hau, a longtime global impact education funder who is working on a book on early childhood learning. “We It will be big.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Soon, schools would be inundated with sales pitches from edtech companies, and it didn’t take long before they started pushing back against those that seemed predatory. For the edtech industry, the pandemic poses a paradox. Yet this reality seems not to have dampened investor enthusiasm for private edtech companies.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Arkansas’ LISA Academy public charter school district today announced the renewal of its partnership with worldwide edtech leader Discovery Education. Discovery Education is the global edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports instruction wherever it takes place. Mystery Science. Discovery, Inc.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

billion in 2020. Few investors have watched, and fueled, the growth of the edtech industry as closely and consistently as Reach Capital , one of a handful of venture firms that has focused its investments in education technology startups for the past 10 years. From EdSurge: “ A Record Year Amid a Pandemic: US Edtech Raises $2.2

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Some may say 2020 is the year of educational technology. The “education system is evolving at an unprecedented rate, and making effective edtech investments will be critical in the year ahead,” according to a recent report by Promethean. Yet there are remaining challenges that need to be addressed.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

There was a significant problem in Argentina with access to instruction because of connectivity, which was also endemic to the community I served here in the states. Reliable access was such a problem in Argentina that students did not even bother to attend classes. 2020, [link]. Benigno, Vincenza, et al.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. education system.

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Neo LMS

JULY 15, 2021

Despite the growing demand for edtech and online learning, face-to-face lectures and on-campus activities remained the core part of how students accessed their education. However, the events of 2020 have put HE on a fast track to digital adoption. Read more: 3 Ways in which edtech enables hybrid learning.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

There’s no doubt that education technology or ‘EdTech’ is an important and fast-evolving entity in the digital age, and one that is having a dramatic impact on the quality of students’ learning. The Rise of Hybrid Environments. Introducing Asynchronous Learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Edtech is booming, with 40 times more venture capital invested in the sector in 2021 than in 2010. There is no question that edtech has brought new ways to support the learning process and was used extensively by schools to connect remotely to students who could not attend classes in-person during the worst parts of the pandemic.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

And at least one edtech company is making a similar offer: Instructure, the learning management system provider that runs Canvas, is encouraging its employees to volunteer as substitute teachers for districts. The staffing shortages “got really acute” at the end of last year, says Steve Daly, who’s been CEO of Instructure since 2020.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! You will have to sign up for a free account to access and edit the templates. As the first semester ends this is the perfect time to send a newsletter showcasing the amazing learning that takes place in your classroom! Tools to Create a Newsletter.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2020

In the middle of the abrupt changes to the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year, edtech companies offered resources and access to help educators, students, and parents make the best of at-home learning. Here is insight from a select few of those edtech leaders.

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