The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 3, 2021

She shares the WHO system for evaluating technology, tips for hybrid learning, and timeless principles for considering digital equity and relating to your students and colleagues in professional and respectful ways. Digital Equity: How to Understand The Problems Facing #Edtech. Teachers are stressing over so many things.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Teachers’ confidence wavers in using edtech for instruction. Perhaps (not) coincidentally, there is more spending forecast for education technology. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. Turns out that educators’ confidence in their ability to teach with edtech tools actually dropped as the pandemic settled in.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 8, 2021

At Kansas State University, academic integrity violations jumped from 97 cases in the 2019 fall semester to 238 cases in the online-only 2020 spring semester. At University in Florida, compared to the 2019 spring semester, academic integrity violations increased by 65% in the 2020 semester.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 24, 2020

Reopening schools during a pandemic will also require new investments in technology — from thermal body temperature scanners to sanitation tools — and additional staff hiring. Many districts are also expected to spend more for technology upgrades and service if they continue with remote learning or adopt a hybrid approach.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 23, 2020

Reopening schools during a pandemic will also require new investments in technology — from thermal body temperature scanners to sanitation tools — and additional staff hiring. Many districts are also expected to spend more for technology upgrades and service if they continue with remote learning or adopt a hybrid approach.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. The future of education is changing, and global workforce demands will be influenced by the need for knowledge around and skills in fast-growing technologies such as AI. What are the projections for edtech?

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eSchool News

JULY 9, 2021

Since schools transitioned to remote learning, districts have added or upgraded their IT education technology and monitoring tools to provide better outcomes for all. The saturation of edtech tools may be leading to wasted money, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities. But it’s not necessarily a good thing. education system.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Now, in 2020, as educators struggle to cope with the pandemic that forced K-12 schools to deliver instruction online, we should, like the leaders in New Orleans, take this tragic opportunity to think entrepreneurially about reopening public schools. Organizational change in education is often preceded by an action forcing event.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

Reopening schools during a pandemic will also require new investments in technology — from thermal body temperature scanners to sanitation tools — and additional staff hiring. Many districts are also expected to spend more for technology upgrades and service if they continue with remote learning or adopt a hybrid approach.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

We asked 49 edtech executives to look into their crystal balls and share their thoughts about what will happen in 2019. With 2019 here and 2020 in arm’s reach, there’s an ever-growing expectation that next-generation tech tools should do a better job of informing educators on which resources improve learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality. Our higher education system formed around libraries.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2022

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) was approved in three packages in 2020 and 2021. Fortunately, the market has developed some promising solutions around credentialing that leverage blockchain technology. A quick word of warning.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 27, 2019

To help coaches put the DLP’s challenge-based coaching model into action, we worked with expert technology coaches to create the DLP Strategy Menu —a new tool that helps educators explore common classroom challenges and find strategies and tech tools to jumpstart students’ learning. 3 Steps: How to Use the Strategy Menu.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 6, 2020

The 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference starts today! Here are the sessions that have been scheduled so far : Teaching Visual Literacy Through Fake News with Dr. Lesley S. Farmer, Professor of Library Media || Interested to learn new ways to communicate, collaborate, and connect?

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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 2, 2020

One of the sites badly damaged was Moore Public Schools’ (MPS) technology center – the technology hub for 24,000 students and 36 instructional buildings across the district. The district’s technology director, Jun Kim, knew the internal Wi-Fi network needed an upgrade even before the tornado.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Following an abrupt shift to remote learning this past spring, school and district administrators have had their fair share of summer homework as they prepare for a technology-first fall term. The key to investing in and maximizing edtech is to know which ones will work best for your district as there are so many to choose from.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 24, 2023

ESSER, which stands for Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief , was first established as part of the CARES Act, where additional funds were added to ESSER II and III. has provided three ESSER packages for public school districts to spend: ESSER I—approved back in March 2020 for $13.5 What is ESSER? To this day, the U.S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Students at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn had become increasingly frustrated with Summit Learning. The Secondary School for Journalism is one of about 380 schools nationwide using Summit Learning, a personalized learning program that involves the use of an online instructional software, called the Summit Platform.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Susan Gentz, a partner at K20Connect, provided a guide to the types of emergency federal funding that became available during the summer of 2020, as well as some of the issues that districts receiving funding will need to work through. Arati is currently on the edtech advisory board for Central Square Foundation in New Delhi, India.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Poor Internet Access Cripples Online Higher Ed When the pandemic careened across the globe in spring 2020, U.S. higher ed responded swiftly by opening online in a few weeks , a feat made possible only because privileged American secondary intuitions long ago introduced digital access in nearly every college in the nation.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. This is science education at its finest,” said Tia Clasen, Director of Teaching and Learning—Secondary, at SoWashCo Schools. “We SoWashCo Schools is a suburban district located southeast of St.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

But too many have also had a chilling moment when they realized their bandwidth infrastructure couldn’t begin to deliver on their technology goals. Want to learn more about Seattle’s burgeoning edtech scene? asks Ellen Dorr, Renton’s Director of Instructional Technology. “We The event is free for all educators—sign up here!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

While student-facing edtech companies, colleges and even educators looking to reach this group may know that appealing to Gen Z is essential, many don’t know where to start. There’s no question that Gen Z is a financial powerhouse, or that educators and companies in the edtech space need to tap into technology to reach them.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

Let’s take a deep-dive into meaningful technology integration supported by our favorite Google tools. I prefer to think of technology integration like a continuum where we progress from one end to the other. Most teachers begin by using technology at the substitution level, and that’s OKAY! © Shake Up Learning 2020.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 26, 2019

To help coaches put the DLP’s challenge-based coaching model into action, we worked with expert technology coaches to create the DLP Strategy Menu ? Click here to learn how to join for the 2019-2020 school year. We built this tool based on one key belief: teaching and learning is primary, technology tools are secondary.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2022

Like tech stocks in general, edtech has taken a nosedive over the past six months or so. It showed the industry, Batra says, that consumers have become agreeable to purchasing edtech. And with universities and schools being given extra funds by the federal government, they'll likely invest in more edtech resources, he says.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

We are a keystone investor in Learn Capital [an education technology investor], so we continue to invest in early-stage education technology, partly because we want to encourage the sector, and partly because we want to also identify innovative ideas that will scale over time, to benefit from them both in economic terms and from strategic terms.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 5, 2021

Mike attended UW Madison where he received his degree in Secondary Education in Broadfield Science and Biology with additional certifications in chemistry and physics. © Shake Up Learning 2020. Mike Mohammad has been teaching high school science for 17 years. He has been teaching at Brookfield High School for the last 14 of those.

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 2, 2020

Self-directed and self-paced learning can also be helpful for secondary students or students who need less support. But secondary students should be creating and maintaining these themselves. © Shake Up Learning 2020. You can also direct students to special accommodations and differentiate for students. Self-Directed Learning.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Educators can learn more about tools for increasing accessibility and supporting students who struggle with reading and writing in her presentations at FETC 2020 in Miami. . Learn her insights on tech tools for supporting dyslexia in her upcoming sessions at FETC 2020. Additionally, visuals are helpful. Michele Haiken, Ed.D.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

DATE: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 COST: Free REGISTRATION: To register for the mini-conference, join LearningRevolution.com. Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Plus: printers, smart speakers and privacy (oh my!) — all in this Edtech Reports Recap. That Horizon Seems to Be … Closer “Higher education may never be the same again after 2020, and that will be an exciting prospect to some.” EDUCAUSE: “ 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Information Security Edition.”

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edWeb.net

MARCH 5, 2021

Edtech is no longer a one-time purchase or a luxury item—it’s integrated across every system in school districts from the central office to classrooms to school buses. Show stakeholders that when investing in technology, you need to examine all costs from the impact on bandwidth to teacher training and student-home access.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 5, 2020

In secondary, this is most likely by subject. © Shake Up Learning 2020. Depending on the requirements of your school, this could be a daily checklist or a weekly checklist. The latter seems to be more prevalent and succinct. For elementary, this may be an all-subject checklist. How you create your checklist is up to you.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

DATE: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 COST: Free REGISTRATION: To register for the mini-conference, join LearningRevolution.com. Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Alex Seage built a career leading technology and innovation in the cruise industry, which also provided him with a deep understanding of the technology needed to improve the experience for cruise guests. Nominee: Alex Seage, Christopher Columbus High School Nominated by: Samsung Electronics America.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Tamiko Hatcher, a dedicated educator and the director of Special Programs at Akron Public Schools in Ohio, displays visionary leadership and steadfast commitment to implementing innovative education technologies to transform the educational experience for the students in his district.

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