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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

Examples from The Hechinger Report’s collection of misleading research claims touted by ed tech companies. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz. All three of these companies try to hook prospective users with claims on their websites about their products’ effectiveness. Some companies are trying to gain a foothold in a crowded market.

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Top Hat Raises $55 Million to Take on Big Textbook Publishers

Edsurge

Mike Silagadze isn’t shy about his desire to take market share from the largest college textbook publishers through his classroom software company Top Hat. He believes his company’s brand of digital textbooks beats anything Pearson, McGraw-Hill and their ilk can provide. The company has raised $90 million to date.

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What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?

The CoolCatTeacher

In 2002, Jon received the Presidential Award for Excellence for Math and Science Teaching; and in 2010, he was a Semi-Finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year. And so that's the big idea of mastery learning, is that if a student fails a test, right, so summative assessment, then they take it again until they reach mastery.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. The web was increasing its use of graphics, but had barely adopted video. More than 80 percent of the edtech startups created in the past five years will not survive through 2020. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. I use this tool when students are making Scratch video games for them to record their games and explain their scripts. They flipped to one-to-one sometime around 2002. So, that’s kind of cool.

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Impero Software Announces Philip Walters as its New Chairman

techlearning

These are important tasks and I look forward to working with the company as we move forward with this work both in the UK, and the U.S.” It released a video in 2017 highlighting the dangers of bullying and sexting, and how online monitoring software can help schools detect problems before they escalate.

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Reflections on 20 Years of Open Content: Lessons from Open Source

Iterating Toward Openness

I’ll be writing a range of essays this year reflecting on two decades of work toward opening the core intellectual infrastructure of education (textbooks and other educational materials, assessments, and outcomes / objectives / competency statements) in order to increase access to and improve the effectiveness of education.

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