Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

It’s no secret that remote work is growing rapidly, thanks to advancements in communication and productivity tools. Key to assembling a high-functioning distributed team is hiring the right people and equipping them with the right tools and processes to succeed. days each week. Here’s how we did it.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2017

Edtech is a vital precursor to “work tech”—the tools that today’s students will need to leverage in college, career training and eventually the workplace. Students need access to tools that work. But today, the decisions educators make regarding the tools they use with students are based on hypothesis rather than solid evidence.

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EdTech Accessibility Future Ready Academic Standards 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2014

As more than 900 entrepreneurs and educators converge in San Francisco this week, some will talk academic standards, literacy and charter schools. That’s why after attending two major edtech conferences in a row ( SXSW.edu ) and ( ASU/GSV ), I’m heading straight for a panel entitled: “But How Do We Know What’s Working?’’.

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EdTech Blendspace Hapara Educreations 82

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. Its core offerings include formative assessment products such as Socrative (a startup acquired in June 2014), grading tools and reporting services. Another tool was a traditional online gradebook. billion in U.S.

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 109

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Founded in 2012, ThinkCERCA offers a set of digital tools and lesson plans to help educators teach critical thinking skills across a variety of subjects, including English language arts (ELA), math, social studies and science. According to her, the education industry looks at “reading and writing as two separate kinds of tools.”

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Instructional Materials Academic Standards Company Industry 211

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

With the addition of MasteryConnect’s formative assessment tools, Instructure aims to capitalize on what it sees as a “shift occurring at the state level as they replace high-stakes, end-of-year testing with innovative assessment models,” according to a prepared statement. K-12 market for classroom assessment tools is expected to reach $1.7

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LMS Assessment Company Comparison 104

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Education reformers and technologists often lament that the best ideas or tools don’t win. Might those failures have less to do with financial challenges or lack of product-market “fit,” than with a failure to understand the pieces and politics at play in the board game of education?

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Technology Education Academic Standards Advocacy 116

Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

In my view, at least four such assurances are needed in a digital age: One, we must ensure every student has access to the digital tools they need to succeed in school. The goal is to ensure that students can take best advantage of the powerful learning tools at their disposal wherever their academic and career aspirations may lead them.

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Instructional Materials Education Academic Standards Software 150

Hapara

AUGUST 16, 2023

Their tools should be focused on pedagogy. Educators can do this through consistent formative feedback based on academic standards so learners can progress toward more complex activities. Listen to an audio version of this post: Educators often hear that what they do in the classroom needs to be based on pedagogy.

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Gamification Learning Assessment Strategy 130

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

In today’s workforce, one employee backed up by teams of experts providing training, tools, just-in-time access to materials and data can perform work that once required dozens of line workers. In contrast, the American education system, despite efforts to centralize elements like academic standards, remains enormously fragmented.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

And it’s scenarios like this that put pressure on edtech companies to make their tools more interoperable. Eight years ago, some of its customers requested that Empower support the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) , an open data interoperability standard that was then in vogue with K-12 schools and districts.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 26, 2021

Katie Hansen, Staff Development Specialist for Phoenix Union High School District, said her district was not in a 1:1 space, so it was essential to build capacity and understand the tools available to everybody and think about how they should drive those learning outcomes.

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Professional Learning Academic Standards Outcomes Secondary 64

Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2023

Does your school district or higher ed institution use a learning management system (LMS), digital curriculum resources, learning tools, assessment applications, a badging platform, a single-sign-on application launcher or a student information system? In 2006 the consortium featured 50 member organizations.

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EdTech Student Data Privacy Academic Standards LMS 152

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

. – 1EdTech ® Consortium and Common Good Learning Tools announce a partnership to launch CASE ® Network 2. CASE Network 2 is a significant upgrade to the current CASE Network that provides access to K-12 learning standards in a digital format. and access revision histories of those standards.

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Academic Standards Tools EdTech Learning 56

eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps. ESSA encourages districts to bring edtech into the classroom. For over ten years, districts across the U.S.

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Policies Blended Learning Education EdTech 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

My question comes at a time when states like Louisiana are imposing academic standards for preschool education, and as the state education department there is giving $265,000 for technology to 29 parishes participating in a pilot program. Knowledge pills, robo-graders, brain implants and other dystopian edtech.

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Guidelines Coursera Academic Standards Blended Learning 82

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2018

curriculum market shifted towards purchasing materials aligned materials to Common Core and state academic standards, the organization began building new offerings based on these U.S. Much of this work was done by a team in Moscow, while those in the U.S. office adapted it for use by American students. Later, as the U.S. and Russia.

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Kaplan Common Core Education Company 64

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

It takes lots of time for a teacher to read through a Lucy Calkins unit of study, let alone incorporate a new digital tool into their lesson. Even in districts without 1:1 devices, digital content can be used to provide context for academic standards and spark classroom discussion and inquiry. Teachers have a lot on their plate.

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Technology Differentiated Instruction Broadband Academic Standards 104

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

And 2: Many scour the web to find tools to use on their own—often without the knowledge or approval of school leaders. To continue encouraging teachers to find tools while still keeping tabs on what they’re using, Racine has asked them to turn to another destination: the Clever Library.

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EdTech Libraries Software Company 109

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

The company remains best known for its interactive graphing tool that works on popular web browsers and devices. Luberoff has been vocal about wanting to give companies like Texas Instruments, the biggest producer of such tools, a run for their money in this market. Luberoff says that end-of-year assessments in 35 U.S.

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Company Exercises Common Core Academic Standards 214

eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

At the end of the day, edtech can feel like one more thing on a teacher’s plate. And although digital curriculum and technology might temporarily engage students, most of the time the design of these tools fails to support teacher practice, enrich instruction, and accommodate time constraints in the classroom.

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EdTech Academic Standards Chromebook Analysis 52

eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

At the end of the day, edtech can feel like one more thing on a teacher’s plate. And although digital curriculum and technology might temporarily engage students, most of the time the design of these tools fails to support teacher practice, enrich instruction, and accommodate time constraints in the classroom.

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EdTech Academic Standards Chromebook Analysis 40

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

Throughout the speeches, presentations and product showcases, company employees and Apple touted how their tools can offer “creative” learning experiences that no others can do. Rather, the most important updates may be upgrades to collaboration and management tools that could make those devices much easier to deploy and use.

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iPad Chromebook Education Company 121

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

So recruitment may have a slight edge, which supports the increasing reliance on hiring tools such as Revature. EdReports has become a real big deal in K-12 publishing,” he said, referring to the nonprofit that reviews textbooks for alignment to academic standards. But both levers are important. What’s impact?

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Industry Student Data Privacy Education Company 106

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

For example, specific policies regarding academic standards, testing requirements, and charter school authorization caps can give rise to specific types of products. To illustrate this dynamic, consider the market for teacher evaluation tools. Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, etc.). K-12 landscape.

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Policies Academic Standards Common Core Exercises 60

eSpark

APRIL 18, 2022

Rather than relying on a static curricula built on textbooks and worksheets, many districts are taking a more dynamic approach to teaching students academic standards and essential real world skills for student progress. No single tool or fixed curricula can accomplish these goals for every student.

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Comparison Academic Standards iPad Resources 52

techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online GOOGLE FOR EDUCATION UPDATES ( edu.google.com ) Google for Education announced updates and new tools to help teachers keep innovation alive in their classrooms. SECOND NATURE QWERTYTOWN 2.0 ( qwertytown.com ) QwertyTown 2.0

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Chromebook Pearson Student Data Privacy Data 47

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

We were similarly awed to get a firsthand look at the work of educators from more than 10 districts—from Los Angeles to San Diego and up to the Inland Empire—who are devising smart ways to deploy new tools and practices in their schools. The first session focused on one tool—Google Slides—and ways to use it creatively to enhance a lesson.

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Technology Education EdTech Future Ready 60

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

School libraries have evolved from strict, quiet, hush-hush rooms to more interactive spaces with flexible seating, readily-available edtech tools, and educators on hand to help with research, critical resource evaluation, makerspaces. What are the emerging technologies in a library? Evolve your programming.

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 94