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Classroom prizes and grants available!

Educational Technology Guy

All the details are available here: [link] speakup/speakupamerica.html They are also offering sneak peeks every day at the data from the more than 340,000 surveys completed so far by teachers, students, parents and more. You can see all the data reveals here: [link] speakup/speakupamerica_ snapshot2014.html. Since 2003, more than 3.7

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Parchment Merges with Credentials Solutions to Take On Transcripts and Certifications

Edsurge

Pittinsky also co-founded learning management services company Blackboard before co-founding Parchment in 2003. In this video from the 2014 ASU-GSV education conference, Matthew Pittinsky explains the thinking behind his company Parchment. Based in Scottsdale, Ariz., National Student Clearinghouse, based in Herndon, Va.,

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

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. Critics say there are potential downsides to monitoring student data so closely.

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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. Brekhus’ story was just one shared from the main stage during the last day of the Software & Information Industry Association’s Ed Tech Industry Conference in San Francisco this week.

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Insight works with education leaders on Microsoft Server security

eSchool News

Public Sector team will speak to the risks of failing to address the pending end of service for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. million instances of Windows Server 2003 were running on 11.9 Microsoft research in 2014 reported that 23.8

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The 9 Qualities of A Good Teacher

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

And since September 2003 the first time I stepped into a classroom as a teacher, a lot of things have changed in the field. Using video conferencing tools, teachers are now able to take part in global conferences, webinars, and workshops anywhere anytime. I often think that teaching has come to me and not the other way around.

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Students Today Are Learning All The Time. Can Schools Keep Up?

Edsurge

For more than 15 years, Project Tomorrow has run the popular survey effort called Speak Up , which polls hundreds of thousands of students and adults about learning trends and makes the local data available to individual districts. In the survey, you're using sixth graders as a representative group to represent today’s students.

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