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

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

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Education Secretary Arne Duncan onto its board of directors.) 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. That year, it also added former U.S.

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The Lessons Learned Online That Will Shape Education After the Pandemic

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Last year presented many challenges and accelerated a number of shifts that were already underway in K-12 education. The pandemic, however, brought all these innovative, yet still considered by some to be “alternative” education methods to the forefront in ways that our team could have never predicted.

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

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Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. Not yet convinced?

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Use Personalized Learning Tools to Boost Classroom Equity

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more states, districts and schools are moving toward a competency-based education system that focuses on individualized learning and classroom equity. But what exactly is a competency-based education system, and what role does technology play in the design and support of this system? by Wendy McMahon.

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

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Schonfeld is a longtime leader in the library community and is a program director at Ithaka S+ R a nonprofit education consultancy. 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.

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

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This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. 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.

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