EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2018

What K–12 Administrators Should Think About When Integrating Classroom Tech. For K–12 school districts that want to adopt classroom technology to improve outcomes or better engage students , the first step is engaging teachers , says Shannon Tabaldo, founding director of the Innovation in Digital Education and Leadership institute.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 27, 2018

SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! Inspire Critical Thinking with Ed Tech. As innovation continues, teachers should be on the lookout for ways to begin integrating these tools to sharpen students’ minds. Motivate Creativity Through New Ed Tech Outlets.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: Current education trends point to personalization and accessibility Keeping up with current trends in education is essential for educators Learn more about K-12 Tech Innovation News In the dynamic landscape of K-12 education, several trends are shaping the way students learn and educators teach.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

Keeler's Teacher Tech blog helps make sense of the maze of updates the search-engine giant pumps out every few months. Class Tech Tips. Curriculum and ed tech consultant Monica Burns offers up her expert advice on the best ways to implement tech tools in the classroom. Pull Quote. Alice Keeler. Tim Stahmer. Mark Guzdial.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

After the year we’ve had, this is welcome news. Effectively review employee data to identify hard-to-find candidates across geographic and demographic lines. Use more ed-tech platforms, such as Tallo , a popular online networking tool, to digitally introduce students to college and career possibilities.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2022

At conferences and on calls I see innovative presidents, administrators and faculty sharing ideas and solutions that we all used to hold close to our chests. The data here is about as conclusive as it gets. From New America to Populace to College Pulse , I’m not sure I’ve seen a study where students don’t rank jobs No.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Trilogy’s certainty has been nearly 3 million data points in the making. Subscribe today! Tweet at @TaraGarciaM.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

14, 2021) – New Apprenticeship (NEW), the federally recognized digital apprenticeship solution that is bridging the tech skills and opportunity gap, announced today the close of a $2.5M said Brad Voeller, CEO, New Apprenticeship. San Antonio, Texas (Sept. seed funding round.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

School advisers drew on predictive analytics to point him toward a degree in respiratory therapy. Georgia State is one of a growing number of schools that have turned to big data to help them identify students who might be struggling – or soon be struggling – academically so the school can provide support before students drop out.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2017

From personalized learning to ethical analytics, what stood out amongst the conversations? Agarwal isn't the only TenMarks founder to have left the Seattle-based tech giant. However, an Amazon spokesperson tells EdSurge, "Amazon remains committed to K-12 education and innovating on behalf of students and teachers.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The three-year-old Reporting Collaborative includes AL.com, The Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, The Hechinger Report, Idaho Education News, The Post and Courier in South Carolina, and The Seattle Times. That’s much faster than most other kinds of jobs. Okay, now you’re talking math.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

. — The “Netflix for education” analogy has become somewhat of a cliché for edtech companies using student data to recommend anything from courses to textbooks. That idea relies on a technology known as predictive analytics, a statistical model that analyzes past data to make estimations about some future event or trend.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

With a huge shortage of college graduates in data and computer science, tech companies are taking matters into their own hands and providing education directly to prospective tech workers. Related: New research questions the value of certificates pushed by colleges, policymakers. CompTIA projects that 1.8

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

An innovative synthesis of instructional design, educational pedagogy, design thinking, learning science best practices, and UI/UX, LXD lets forward-thinking schools and teachers create flexible, accessible, customizable courses that today’s digital natives increasingly want—and expect. No problem.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2018

It’s been quite a year for education news, not that you’d know that by listening to much of the ed-tech industry (press). Some people think it’s hilarious that I’m ed-tech’s Cassandra, but it’s not funny at all. Typically, this has been a ten (or more) part series. And no one f **g listens.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

The college wanted to offer students a hands-on learning experience in a lucrative tech field blooming in the Bay Area. Make School, a San Francisco-based gaming company turned for-profit educational institution, was already offering a short-term tech boot camp, designed to meet that same goal. The news devastated Graziosi.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2017

But these are the ones I decided to analyze: Education Technology and Fake News. Education Technology, Betsy DeVos, and the Innovation Gospel. The Weaponization of Education Data. “Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs” “Robots Are Coming For Your Children” Education Technology and the New Behaviorism.

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My Paperless Classroom

JANUARY 1, 2018

In this episode of the Microsoft Innovative Educator, Spotlight Series Podcast, we speak with Principal Product Manager Mike Tholfsen from the Microsoft Education Team about his favorite moments from 2017. Biggest Innovation. Mike – Open Up Resources pilot – Content/Assessments/Analytics.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Clever techies have stepped up to the challenge with their ingenious gadgets, transforming remote students into tangible beings with a heartbeat, devising uncanny innovations, most now surprisingly part of mainstream education, right on campus. Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice."

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The setting is the Sandbox ColLABorative, the innovation arm of Southern New Hampshire University, on the fifth floor of a downtown building with panoramic views of the sprawling red brick mills that date from this city’s 19th-century industrial heyday. But this scenario is based on technology already development.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

But sometimes we fail to realize that the platforms and data that push us to interact don't always do it in objective ways. Our interactions are increasingly shaped by algorithms, and those codes are designed by humans—people who literally write the script for the ways that tech will make us tick, for better or for worse.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 5, 2016

In the latest dealmaking news, Workday acquired online learning platform Zaption, while Blackboard teamed with Dreamit to support ed-tech startups. have formed strategic partnership “focused on driving innovation in education technology” according to a statement.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

To top this off, if you're interested in how these streaming services compare in terms of user's data privacy, check out our report: Privacy of Streaming Apps and Devices: Watching TV That Watches Us. If this is from a teacher (or school-owned device and account), then students' data privacy probably won't be a concern.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Data show that nursing is among the highest-demand professions in the state. It’s a scientific projection using data from employers and state agencies to help determine which subjects colleges should and shouldn’t teach and steer students to the highest-paying occupations that the state most needs to fill. Photo: Kristine T.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 9, 2016

The investment company Weld North Holdings LLC today announced its acquisition of Performance Matters, a student assessment and data analytics company that it will merge with Truenorthlogic, a K-12 ed-tech business focused on continuous educator improvement. See also: Fast-Growing Private Education Companies Make Inc.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Every year in March the edtech world descends on Austin for SXSW EDU, a conference that’s become as much about classroom practice and implementation as entrepreneurship and tech innovation. The Tough Love Advice Edtech Needs to Hear : Higher ed’s risk-averse culture can stifle efforts to experiment and innovate. 2:00 p.m.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

is a for-profit company that sells data analysis to public schools. The company hired Ryan Baker, director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics , and another data scientist to mine the data and create a national snapshot of technology use for the 2017-18 school year. BrightBytes Inc. Here are the takeaways: 1.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 25, 2016

The latest round of deals in the school marketplace underscores investors’ and ed-tech providers’ burgeoning interest in data analytics and instructional technologies. AT&T Opens Application for Ed-Tech Accelerator: AT&T is inviting ed-tech ventures to apply for the AT&T Aspire Accelerator.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The institute, which opened last year in borrowed space with sweeping views of Casco Bay in Portland’s fast-developing East End, is offering master’s degrees , certificates and professional training in computer science, data analytics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cybersecurity and other subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Tyler Littwin, art director at a Boston tech company, moved to Burlington, Vermont, and started telecommuting in 2013. “We There are also more ephemeral reasons people move away from big tech hubs. Sierra Allred, a machine-learning engineer for a tech company in Utah who moved to Burlington, Vermont, this year.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 6, 2016

A pair of grant programs for ed-tech providers—one directed by the U.S. Department of Education, the other led by a self-described venture philanthropy—have announced awards for companies designed to produce innovations. The SBIR gives money to small businesses trying to develop commercially viable ed-tech products.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2017

Faculty at the 175-year-old liberal-arts school, which has about 1,700 undergraduates, are preparing new majors in high-demand fields including data analytics and computational neuroscience. The data also showed that students wanted internships and international study. Both have been expanded.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2020

Congress spends three times more on the Pell Grant program to help undergraduates get degrees than it does on the nation’s principal workforce development program , the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, noted Jason Tyszko, vice president of the Center for Education and Workforce at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Bottom line: This is a pretty nice all-in-one solution for extra math support and practice with solid adaptive tech, but students might need help with the interface. Bottom line: Rich with content-aligned assessments, printable worksheets, and progress analytics. Solid adaptive instruction in reading and math, with data at the ready.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

school district was the toast of the ed tech community — acclaimed as a shining example of how laptop computers could improve education. But the absentee data bounces around a lot. The post Putting an ed tech darling in context appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Their numbers are growing, they face fierce market pressures to compete for teaching spots, and there’s evidence they are more likely than their fellow employees to try innovative teaching approaches. The forthcoming Horizon Report thinks BYOD is one of the two major tech trends for 2016. Let’s see how this unfolds in 2016.

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