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Arkansas’ LISA Academy Renews Partnership with Global Edtech Leader Supporting Student Success

eSchool News

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. Discovery, Inc.

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Utah’s Edtech Unicorn, Pluralsight Files for Initial Public Offering

Edsurge

Founded in 2004, Pluralsight currently offers more than 6,000 online courses on a variety of technical, business and design skills—from architecture to manufacturing, game development and software engineering. edtech industry since Instructure, another Utah-based company, went public in November 2015.

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Use Personalized Learning Tools to Boost Classroom Equity

EdTech Magazine

MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out where teachers can turn to fund personalized learning initiatives! The number of states with policies in place to promote and facilitate competency-based systems has grown from just a handful in 2004 to 43 states in 2018. Classroom Technology Strengthens Competency-Based Assessment. by Wendy McMahon.

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Grad Seminar on EdTech Part 2: How Can Digital Audio Enhance Teaching and Learning?

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Bryan Alexander Audio has a long history that is important for edtech folks to understand. I described the form’s birth circa 2004, with creators quickly inventing ways of telling stories by digital audio, which echoes of radio theater. It’s clear how varied and mainstream portable digital audio is today."

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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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The Surprising History of Google's Push to Scan Millions of Library Books

Edsurge

We came away wondering why people don’t talk more about this bit of recent edtech history, and what lessons could still be learned from it. So remind us what Google did back around 2004. Schonfeld is a longtime leader in the library community and is a program director at Ithaka S+ R a nonprofit education consultancy.

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10 great virtual field trips to check out in 2017

Ditch That Textbook

In 2004, I was about to start my first teaching job. That’s when I got introduced to the world. I went on a 10-day mission trip to Uruguay. We drove the streets of Montevideo, a world capital that reminded me a lot of life in the United States. We walked through centuries-old Colonia del Sacramento, [.].

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