Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We need to make sure we never forget and educate our children about what happened. I'm also very proud that my company, CDW , is a sponsor of 911day and supports the military, first responders, and all affected by 9/11. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy. Take them to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in NYC.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And while many educators believe that word problems in math class are tougher for students to grasp than ones with mathematical notation, research shows that the opposite is true. Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Nation is in the initial stages of “higher education-massification” according to recent reports. India is closer than ever in reaching a Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) of 30% in higher education. GER between 15% and 50% is regarded as a mass system, where higher education is seen as a right for those with certain formal qualifications.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2021

Thursday, August 26, 2021) — To welcome K-12 students and teachers back to school, Discovery Education—the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art K-12 digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place—and leading corporate and community partners proudly introduce four new engaging, no-cost virtual field trips (VFTs).

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 17, 2018

The most successful companies are successful because they are always looking for ways to improve. for feedback in his synthesis of 800 meta-analyses of education research studies; in fact, feedback ranked among the highest of hundreds of education practices he studied. The same philosophy can be applied to our schools.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Thursday, September 2, 2021) – To honor the 20 th anniversary of 9/11, Discovery Education and the 9/11 Day nonprofit invite students to join the engaging new 20th Anniversary of 9/11: Paying Tribute Through Good Deeds virtual field trip (VFT). Silver Spring, Md. 911day.org. .

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Founded in 1997, Powerschool was first bought by Apple in 2001, and then by Pearson in 2006. Since 2015, PowerSchool has acquired eight companies. Executives from both companies were unavailable when reached by EdSurge (but we will update the story with additional details and commentary when available). and Canada. and Canada.

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100mentors

JANUARY 23, 2018

This post will focus on the importance of reorienting education from knowledge acquisition to skill mastery, making what students learn at school more relevant to their lives outside the classroom, consequently increasing student motivation to learn and willingness to actively engage in lessons.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2019

But the announcement fails to mention that the University of Massachusetts already runs an extensive online-learning operation, known as UMassOnline , which was started in 2001 and currently serves more than 20,000 students. Make no mistake—this is an existential threat to entire sectors of higher education.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 26, 2022

In this episode, Kasey interviews Doug Roberts, CEO, and Founder of the Institute for Education Innovation. While looking for a way to supplement his income, Doug took a summer job working with a friend of a friend who had begun an online school in 2001. That model became the Institute for Education Innovation. – SULS0155.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. put $150 million in Hero K12 , and Bain Capital, whose Double Impact Fund is on the hunt for promising (and lucrative) education teams. Several private-equity-backed companies have invested heavily in the “platform” approach.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

For higher education, with smaller potential audiences and student outcomes at stake, companies are debating whether return on investment is there for game-based learning experiences. Can the time, team-based expertise, and financial outlay for creating video games in higher education bring a positive return on investment?

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 4, 2017

Upon completion I was offered a job teaching English to business managers at an international company and worked there for a few months before being offered a job teaching children and young adults. After finishing I decided I still had a lot of the world that I wanted to see, so I enrolled in a TEFL course in Guadalajara, Mexico.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. Since its inception over 33 years ago, Reading Horizons focus is building the awareness of their educational products that center on the Reading Horizons Method. By Kenna McHugh.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

A company called UniversityNow—which attracted more than $40 million in venture backing and ran an experimental for-profit college—has been sold to the nonprofit National University system, which plans to use the company’s technology platform to deliver its online courses. Kennedy University.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

When those of us in higher education talk about the future of education, we tend to jump quickly to forecasts that reveal our fears, pessimism and anxiety about what seem like tectonic shifts in the sector. PwC explains that the cost of DNA sequencing per genome has fallen from $96 million in 2001 to less than $6,000 in 2013.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

51Talk is China’s leading online English education platform. The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. Can you tell us about your education background? Can you tell us about your education background? Inkeri, you’ve been teaching for 15 years.

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edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

Reid emphasized the importance of listening and grounding equity work in the voices of the students and other community members, and also making sure achieving educational and racial justice is a process of removing barriers for all students, rather than taking something from one group and giving it to another.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025), you are likely to have these traits: thoughtfulness and a profound sense of decision making, you mean what you say, a smart communicator, "you always have the facts to defend your what you think—and rarely back down." If you were born in the Dragon year (e.g.,1928,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Earlier this year, the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company released the report “ The Future of Work in Black America ,” on the potential impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and automation on specific racial groups — and it spells gloom and doom for African Americans. workforce in all industries since 2001.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. Working in the gig economy as a contractor with a ride-share company precludes the kinds of deep relationships that lead to professional advancement.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 25, 2020

Pat Farenga describes himself as a “writer and education activist who addresses academic and general audiences about working with children, not on children, to help them learn.” Farenga is a writer and education activist who addresses academic and general audiences about working with children, not on children, to help them learn.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

“The threaded discussion felt always like the wrong medium for learning,” says Joyce Valenza, an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, who has been teaching online since 2001. Most teachers use the free version, but the company offers a more full-featured product that costs $65-per year.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

The disruptions and changes during the past year have made a return to the industrial education model of the 19th and 20th centuries problematic for school districts committed to preparing diverse students for 21st century careers. By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Creating a Framework for Innovation.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 11, 2020

Originally, we intended to produce an episode about media's role as an educator, but that was before we started discussing the episode with Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein , two names you may recognize from the production credits on numerous Ken Burns documentary series including The Vietnam War, Jazz, Baseball , and The War.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning. “I Prepping for the new school year, Narumi Wigandt, an educational technician, unpacks chargers and cords for the new Macbooks that line the shelves next to her, on Aug. Read the series.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

And as technology platforms have accelerated over the years, her job has increasingly involved keeping up with the ways young people use social media, and advising parents, teachers and even tech companies about what they need to know. Can tell us a little bit about that process and working with the company?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

Thank you Karen for not only being an amazing educator but a kind, thoughtful person. And by that time, there were pretty much just pictures of educators with them in their shopping carts everywhere, you know. Karen is a 2007 Apple Distinguished Educator. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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techlearning

JUNE 14, 2018

Today, The Drug Enforcement Administration and Discovery Education name grand winner of Operation Prevention Video Challenge. -- Utah teen to receive $10,000 for his public service announcement on dangers of youth opioid misuse -- Washington D.C. and Silver Spring, Md. To learn more about Operation Prevention, visit operationprevention.com.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

Specifically she worries that some companies have made their products a “black box” that professors and researchers can’t understand or control. Thille, an assistant professor of education at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education who previously worked in the private sector, stresses that she’s not against software companies.

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techlearning

JUNE 7, 2018

June 7, 2018 — GreyED Solutions announced today their acceptance into the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) Emerging Private Sector Partners Program, which launches this month. GreyED Solutions is a small group of innovative and dedicated leaders who understand education technology as both end users and as developers.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Major online education provider K12 Inc., based company by serving as executive chairman of its board of directors. In 2014 K12 suffered a big blow when the 10,800-student Agora Cyber Charter School in Pennsylvania ditched the private management company in favor of managing its own operations. Udell as its CEO. The post K12 Inc.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

of Education, author of 12 books including the recent Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Danger to Our Public Schools; Cindy Cisneros , Vice President of Education Programs at the Committee for Economic Development at The Conference Board; and Gavin Dykes , from England, Managing Director of Cellcove, Ltd.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 28, 2012

Join me Tuesday, May 1st, for live and interactive Future of Education conversation with Larry Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium (NMC). Its hundreds of member institutions constitute an elite list of the most highly regarded universities, museums, research centers, and companies in the world. Laurence F.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

When the kids showed up, educators could see even more clearly how uneven their learning has been during the pandemic. Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Read the stories.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director of SETDA, offered highlights from the report, and Ryan Kocsondy, Director of Connecticut Education Network (CEN), gave an inside look at why Connecticut schools don’t worry about running out of bandwidth. Christine’s background includes experience in education and consulting.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. An increasing amount of data around personalized educational models like "blended learning" and content-specific software suggests that edtech makes instruction in diverse classrooms more efficient.

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