eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Arkansas’ LISA Academy public charter school district today announced the renewal of its partnership with worldwide edtech leader Discovery Education. Discovery Education is the global edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports instruction wherever it takes place. Mystery Science.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

One of the biggest concerns by college leaders about buying such tools from commercial vendors is whether colleges will have access to the underlying algorithmic logic—or whether the systems will be a “black box.” It’s an invitation to the educators of the world for us all to solve big problems together."

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow’s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings. The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype.

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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? What were two things that excited you about working with the company?

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TeacherCast

JULY 16, 2015

Thought the last 6 months, I have had the privilege of working closely with Microsoft Education to create some pretty awesome podcasts and promotional videos. During this time, I met some pretty awesome educators who are creating the building blocks for what education might look like for future generations. Microsoft Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

The launch marked the latest effort by the 5-year-old charter school, to expose students to the skills they’ll need to access high-tech jobs. The day after the launch, for example, Espino and classmate Jaime Sanchez were learning Python programming through Udacity, an online education platform that offers “nanodegrees.”

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2022

Most eLearning companies use the standard to develop SCORM- compliant content because it is interoperable. This helps to ensure that the courses launch seamlessly on the LMS and that you can access accurate engagement data. Online corporate training and the education sector are witnessing immense growth year on year.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 11, 2019

MIND’s Chief Data Science Officer Andrew Coulson has made the case time and time again that the “one good study” paradigm is insufficient for edtech practitioners to base decisions on, and that a model of repeatable results at scale is one that should be adopted across the education industry. Dietrich, 2004), to name a few.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

This story is a part of our Map to the Middle Class project, in which readers ask questions about educational pathways to financial stability and then we investigate. On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Joel Herbst, assistant dean of preK-12 schools and educational programs at Florida Atlantic University. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Like much of rural America, Garfield County is on the wrong side of the “homework gap” — a stubborn disparity in at-home broadband that hinders millions of students’ access to the array of online learning, collaboration and research tools that are enjoyed by their better-connected peers. Going without isn’t an option.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

I give the kids access to all the tools pretty much right off the bat,” said Eric Bredder, with a sweeping gesture taking in the computer workstations, 3-D printers, laser cutters and milling machines, plus a bevy of wood and metalworking tools that he uses while teaching computer science, engineering and design classes. “If

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

To watch the live show at 4:00 pm US-EDT, or to access the recordings afterward, please go to [link] (or [link] ). and the Chair and Co-Founder of Education Fast Forward (EFF), which brings together leading global experts and change agents from the world of education. Department of Education. and elsewhere.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Educators, researchers and advocates still quibble over the precise definition of personalized learning, but most agree on this much: In these classrooms teachers don’t pass out identical worksheets and tests to every student. The Horizon Report, as it is known, began in 2004 and is one of the longest-running publications of its kind.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 10, 2018

This is an excerpt from the sixth chapter of More Now: A Message From The Future for The Educators of Today by Mark Wagner, Ph.D., Technology and the infrastructure that enables it—from the devices to the networks to the cloud—are vital to modern education. our founder and CEO. Get your copy today. And to some extent, that’s okay.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

This story on STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about higher education. However, educators realize that getting students on track academically isn’t enough. SAN JOSE, Calif. —

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

Another persistent trend is challenges caused by growing user numbers and activites, including both generating and demanding more data, online behavior abuses, security threats, and challenges about accessibility. Another problem less well discussed is the challenge of accessibility. Can’t U’s use tech the same way?”

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 20, 2012

Kolb's model was categorised by Mayes and deFreitas (2004) as an individual constructivist theory, in that it features a number of components that reflect solo learning activities. Available online at: [link] (Accessed 20 June, 2012). 2004) Review of e-learning theories, frameworks and models. and Smith, T. Prentice Hall.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

It’s out of the ordinary when Nearpod buys a company. The Brooklyn-based company best known for fusing hip hop with educational content in music videos and instructional activities, has been acquired by Nearpod , which helps educators beam digital content to students’ devices. We asked, but he declined.) school district.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

Join me Wednesday, June 1st, for a live and interactive Future of Education panel discussion on "unschooling." In particular, we''ll look at the innovative methods of education that can be found in home-schooling and unschooling, and how those principles could be applied to public school settings. psid=2011-06-01.1633.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

In addition to the housing development falling through, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, one of the region’s major employers, pulled up stakes in Ann Arbor. Even in states that allocate education funding for capital construction the money is typically a limited pot of funds rather than a guarantee. million annually. million annually.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.). Any day now.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

There are hula-dancing and lei-making lessons and outposts of Hawaii’s iconic Honolulu Cookie Company and ABC convenience stores. Las Vegas, by comparison, “is for all practical purposes an education desert. Not just an actual desert, but an education desert,” Walsh said. More than 40,000 have stayed permanently.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Department of Education maintains that avid reading lays the groundwork for improved grades and acquisition of skills in school, and points to quantifiably better outcomes in adult life for children who read versus children who do not read, as measured by income, chosen profession, and employment. Independence and access matters, too.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 26, 2022

Just think of the most innovative companies in the world. However, the educators we speak with time and time again tell us that conventional algorithmic approaches are leaving students behind. So how can we make math learning more intuitive and accessible for students? The jobs of the future are in STEM. Bar Graph Bridge.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

So it and other schools in the region have started trying to recruit Hispanics, who — like Barrera Cantu — increasingly want college educations. How well they do has implications for all of higher education. Their parents think education is key, but don’t always know how to make that happen.”. percent from 5.7

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2021

One way or another, she hoped to keep educating young kids. And more than a third of early childhood educators recently reported that they were considering leaving their programs, or the field itself, within the next year?—?a Martha Christenson Lees, former director of the Smith College Center for Early Childhood Education.

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

I will not be assigning penance today – although as a scholar of history and culture, I do want you (all of us, really) to think about what we’ve done; to think about what we’ve said; to think about the stories we tell about the future of technology and education. But that’s not new.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2021

As part of their efforts to develop a skilled workforce, Philly Shipyard created an apprenticeship program in 2004, which has since graduated over 300 workers, and which has recently been supported by a $720,000 grant from the U.S. Maritime Administration. The government must do its part, too. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 3, 2020

As protests against racial injustice spread to communities large and small in this year, many educators have been pushed to examine how systemic racism harms students. public school students are children of color, but Martin’s exhortation is for educators in majority-white schools, too. “If More than half of U.S.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

The answer to these questions is yes, so said educational leaders and edtech specialists in an edLeader Panel, sponsored by Gaggle and CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate. Educational leaders and teachers have improved processes to improve instruction, learning and institutional systems. It’s said that COVID has changed education forever.

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edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2021

The changes altered the educational landscape, inspiring educators to embrace new instructional methods and carry them over to their classrooms once they returned to normalcy. Access and connectivity must be equitable. The solutions are reflective of what high-quality education should look like. Professional Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes. Maybe they shouldn’t choose between education and business.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

For over a decade, North Carolina has been the site of one of the most sustained, successful initiatives in education: giving all students in all schools access to broadband internet with WiFi in every classroom by 2018. Among its several objectives, BETA decided in 2004 to launch a statewide school connectivity upgrade.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

.” This was what the mother of a nineteen-year-old killed by a bomb in Kirkuk said on an HBO documentary quoted by Bob Herbert in The New York Times on the morning of November 12, 2004. I want to start this year’s review of education technology acknowledging grief. Education Technology and (Decades and Decades of) Quackery.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But you can own access to the full library by buying the Summit all-access pass, which is $99, a $50 savings from the price after the 25th. Buy the all-access pass here and have access to all the sessions and bonus materials forever. He has been recognized as one of the most influential education scholars.

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