EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The method teaches children to read by providing training and direction instruction materials for teachers and individualized software instruction for students. Smith assumed his role at Reading Horizons in October 2001 and since has overseen steady sales growth and a multitude of improvements to their line of products.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. If few students answer the question correctly, the software can flag the professor, or the textbook author, to consider revising the content to make it clearer.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

FY 2001: $450,000,000. Legislative Authorization: Title II, Part D (Sections 2401-2422) of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort (Mathematica Policy Research, 2007). FY 1998: $425,000,000.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. Most analysts -- and the school district itself -- blamed the failure on buggy software. Four years later, the district was demanding a refund from Apple. So, what can be done?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

In addition to an increase in the number of poor students, the funding for schools declined, Common Core standards were introduced, the use of educational software increased, and, in many schools, time spent on test preparation expanded (which often detracts from learning). We’re not moving much in fourth-grade reading.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 22, 2018

20 years since I coined the term “open content”, created the first open source style license for content (as opposed to software), and started advocating for open education. For me, 2018 marks: 25 years since I made my first webpage. 20 years since I started grad school. 20 years since I started blogging.

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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. For Valenza and a growing number of instructors, the answer is video.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 23, 2015

As it migrates to a new platform, using the Open Journal Systems software, ALA Publishing is currently offering a generous deal on its archive of Library Technology Reports. You’ll also find this past year’s titles (as well as an archive reaching back to 2001): David Lee King’s Managing Your Library’s Social Media Channels.

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techlearning

JUNE 26, 2018

The deal pairs ENA's comprehensive infrastructure technology and support services with CatchOn's unique software as a service tool that delivers essential data about ed tech usage in U.S.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Charlie Fitzpatrick is a K12 education manager for Esri, maker of geographic information system (GIS) software. He supports Esri’s offer of free GIS software and learning resources to every K12 school and formal youth club for instructional use.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Texarkana College adopted new enterprise software and other edtech tools like an early-alert system, but technology was only one aspect of the school’s effort. Things changed in 2001, when then-president Carl Nelson died unexpectedly, leaving the campus and its leadership in shock. It was just like everything was fine and dandy.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

PrepareRI has asked banks, construction firms, software engineering companies and other types of businesses to develop internships for high school and college students. The state is creating new ways students can receive high school and college credits: through internships as well as through traditional career and technical programs.

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Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

This has implications for agency and ownership as knowledge that is created by and for the organization may be perceived as being owned by the organization (Ende & Lungsford, 2001). Through group filtering and curating, documents become a record of the group’s content knowledge or shared cognition (Cannon-Bower & Salas, 2001).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Passionate about education but unsure if a traditional teaching path was for him, the Brooklyn native was uncertain of his next step after graduating with an English degree from Wesleyan University in 2001. I think that's why Clark —the software I use to manage my business—is so exciting.

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Software could be developed to help people access those pictures easily and assemble them in ways that could be used to communicate. Modern technology could make the Pictorium easier to manage. They ended up with thousands and thousands of pictures, all displayed in various ways. References: Plato, G., & Jönsson, B.

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Linways Technologies

MARCH 16, 2020

2001), is that people act with intentionality and values. learners for this phase include training them on new tools (software or. Humanism: This paradigm was first brought to the. spotlight in the 1960s. It focuses on freedom, dignity, and potential of the learner. A central concept of this theory, in the words of Huitt. Evaluation.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 13, 2011

Archipelago created hundreds of films, videodiscs, software programs, book series for many of the largest educational publishers in the United States, including Harper Collins, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Saunders, and Prentice Hall. NETg was acquired by Thomson Corporation in 2001.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

In 2001 we described the reinvention of the traditional high school as the “clarion call of our new century.” This principle recognizes that our students will not only be doctors, police officers, and software engineers. Indeed, communities across the country are talking about how to reimagine high schools.

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EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 23, 2011

I knew from experience that an overview of digital storytelling (at a high level) and the basics of the software could be covered in three hours. For example, last summer we offered a session on digital storytelling using Microsoft PhotoStory. So I asked if we could have an all day session - six hours.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 12, 2010

In short order, ILS had nearly 200 employees and had attracted various government sponsors (the Army, the EPA, the National Guard) and other corporate sponsors (IBM, who sponsored software for children, Ameritech, and others.) The software that was built allowed a student to play a role in a simulated world.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

by hackers canvassing the internet for software vulnerabilities). Image credit: “hacker” by Dani Latorre, 2001. These acts may be undertaken by those connected to the school (such as administrators, teachers, or students) or by actors with no relation to the school at all (e.g.,

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Connecting 2 the World

JULY 6, 2012

The use of distributed groups has allowed for both collaboratively constructed knowledge, also referred to as a shared mental model (Mohammed & Dumville, 2001) and the distribution of knowledge throughout an organization (Nonaka, 1994; Raelin, 2008) However, there is no term for knowledge that can be both shared and divided for future use.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

Their message was simple: Think creatively about hardware, much like people think about software. It was still recovering from the economic crash in 2001. Dougherty had spent most of his professional career publishing books about software and the internet. Imagine something new from old parts. Mash up ideas.

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Fractus Learning

AUGUST 17, 2016

If you buy software and it doesn’t work, you get your money back or at least software that works, right? Without further ado, I am going to share the five main answers that my students came up with between 2001 and now to the question “ What is wrong with the curriculum in your school? ”. The answer is yes. That is right.

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Connecting 2 the World

MAY 26, 2011

2001; McGrath et al., 2000; Moreland & Levine, 2001; Skitka, 2003; Whitworth et al., This description of collaboration aligns closely with small group research and literature (Jarvela & Hakkinen, 2002; Levesques, Wilson, & Wholey, 2001; Lowery, Nunamaker, Curtis, & Lowery, 2005). Levesque, L., Wilson, J., & Wholey, D.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

A collection of software bundled by Google that is available on a subscription model for schools and classroom. Livingstone 2001). (13). Genius Hour. The allotment of a specified amount of time in a formal learning environment for the purpose of self-directed learning. (23). Google Apps for Education. Google Classroom.

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techlearning

JULY 3, 2018

Insight Venture Partners, a New York-based venture capital and private equity firm focused on software investing and majority owner of Illuminate and KDS, facilitated the combination. About Illuminate Education Illuminate Education is a leading provider of K-12 software and services. For more information, visit www.schoolcity.com.

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edWeb.net

MAY 5, 2019

The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit membership association launched by state education agency leaders in 2001 to serve, support and represent their emerging interests and needs with respect to the use of technology for teaching, learning, and school operations.

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Fractus Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

First of all, it was 2001. At the time, there were more and more software developer/biotech people moving in. My first year teaching, a lot happened to me. I started the school year on September 7th. I believe they are calling this era of mistrust and doubt in one’s fellow human “ the new normal ”. Their town was changing.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Electronic Village Online (EVO) has developed as a community of practice that in 2001 facilitated a program of online discussions and workshops that have been held every year since then each January-February. Join us at [link] Zoom is a videoconferencing software and that’s our starting point. DIRECTIONS: 1.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 30, 2015

The Webinar will be held using Google Hangouts on Air, and it shouldn't require any special software. Farenga continues Holt’s work and published Growing Without Schooling magazine (GWS) from 1985 until it stopped in 2001. Those who are able to join the Webinar live will be able to ask questions in the chat during the Q&A period.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The Webinars are held using Google Hangouts on Air, and shouldn''t require any special software. Farenga continues Holt’s work and published Growing Without Schooling magazine (GWS) from 1985 until it stopped in 2001. Each is free to attend live and to watch in recorded form for the next 24 hours.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Bush and Obama administrations, with initiatives such as No Child Left Behind (2001) and Race to the Top (2009), spurred what’s been called a “ nationalization of education politics ” and, many teachers say, a relentless cycle of shiny fads promising to revolutionize the field. The George W.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

She is the author of "Doing School": How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students (Yale University Press, 2001), which was awarded Notable Book in Education by the American School Board Journal, 2001.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

We can speculate, I suppose, about what the analogous battles might be in education – which corporation will sue which corporation, claiming they “own” learning data and learning roadmaps and learning algorithms and learning software IP. Anyone with car insurance. You can (ostensibly) move in the direction you choose.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Jose is 21-years-old, a junior studying software engineering. Jose is majoring in software engineering because he’s always loved computers and math, and he wants a career that can provide for himself and his mom financially. Then in 2001, two huge earthquakes shook El Salvador, and then-President George W.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2017

n2y, a company that makes educational software for people with disabilities. Apollo Investment Corp, whose subsidiary Apollo Global Management recently acquired the University of Phoenix. SoFi, the student loan company. Media Source, a company with several library-related products, including the publication School Library Journal.

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