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EdSurge Article Recommends Edtech Efficacy Portfolios - Here's Ours

MIND Research Institute

Over the past several years, MIND Research Institute has been endeavoring to change the conversation around edtech evaluations. A few weeks ago, EdSurge published an article that echoed many of those same sentiments, most specifically that the overreliance on “gold standard” RCT studies is the wrong approach for edtech.

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Strategy, Serendipity, Sleepless Nights: 3 Edtech CEOs on ‘Great Exits’

Edsurge

Todd Brekhus learned a lesson in effective communication back in 2003. At the time, he was part of PLATO Learning, a school instructional software vendor now known as Edmentum. PLATO had reportedly spent about $50 million to buy another company to expand the school grades it serviced.

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

Edsurge

Memories of the continual improvement he was able to do back then have stuck with him as his career has progressed, including jobs as a high school history teacher, an edtech consultant to schools, a doctoral student and professor, and director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab. And Reich has made it a personal goal to share the lesson.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

This article was modified and published by eSchool News. Arati Nagaraj is an education consultant, edtech advisor and school board trustee in the San Francisco Bay Area. Arati is currently on the edtech advisory board for Central Square Foundation in New Delhi, India. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Gaggle. About the Host.

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Speak Up 2021 Congressional Briefing: Lessons Learned from a Year of Virtual School

edWeb.net

Since 2003, Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up has collected data on the important issues facing schools. Choice—students want to have choices in their education from deciding what articles to read to investigating their own year-long projects. She was named in 2020 as the winner of EdTech Digest’s National Leader award.

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A Commitment to Confronting Our Bias and Privileges

Edsurge

This means all of us: students, teachers and administrations—and yes, entrepreneurs and investors in edtech products used every day. Avenue Q parodied this concept with the song “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist” back in 2003. How do the images that accompany these articles reinforce or reject assumptions and biases?

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3 Key Actions for 2021-22 You Can Take Now

edWeb.net

Previously, he served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow for the White House, and created several edtech learning platforms including eduTecher and eduClipper. As a classroom teacher, Mark was recognized as New Hampshire’s Technology Using Educator of the Year in 2003.