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PowerSchool to Acquire Schoology, Pairing Major K-12 LMS and SIS Providers

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Founded in 1997, Powerschool was first bought by Apple in 2001, and then by Pearson in 2006. The publisher sold the PowerSchool to private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in June 2015. Since 2015, PowerSchool has acquired eight companies. Its last influx of funding came in the form of a $32 million Series D round in 2015.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

One of our portfolio companies LearnPlatform publishes a regular “ Edtech Top 40 ” list of the most used edtech products in K12 schools nationwide: perhaps unsurprisingly, Google products take 8 of the top 10 spots. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). 9) Teaching and education in general are, as Pai, Adler, and Shadiow (2006) put it, inherently a “sociocultural process” (p. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. Madda et al., 2011, Nurmi et al., xii cited in Gay, p. link] Richardson, D. Leijten, P.,

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive. Moran has served as the Superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools since January 2006. This multi-part series will run over the next several Mondays.

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

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My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. acquisition by LinkedIn in 2015 shows that billion-dollar exits are not limited to companies in higher education.

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Educating Kids for Life not for Tests

The CoolCatTeacher

Simple Virtual Reality in the Classroom with Google Streetview and Google Cardboard ” or. Moran has served as the Superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools since January 2006. Under her guidance, Albemarle County Public Schools was selected in 2015 for membership in the League of Innovative Schools., Dr. Pamela R.

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Celebrate the National Day on Writing and Hangout with Author Kate Messner

Shake Up Learning

Google Hangout with author Kate Messner Register Now! On October 20th, connect your classroom with author, Kate Messner through Google Hangouts. Kate also spent 15 years teaching middle school and earned National Board certification in 2006. Connect Your Class with Author Kate Messner!

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