eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Tuesday, August 17, 2022) — Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. As part of the Discovery Education family of services, DoodleLearning will continue to apply its educational ability to building and deploying affordable learning solutions for students worldwide.

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Waterford

MAY 11, 2020

But even over summer break, students still need educational opportunities so they can return to school strong and ready to learn more. Because at-risk students don’t always have educational resources over the summer, they are particularly vulnerable to losing knowledge gained over the school year.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Secretary of Education Richard W. ” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. On November 22, 1996, U.S. House of Representatives or Senate.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are down after the pandemic. How many kids, families, and educators were ill, recovering from being ill, or still traumatized from loved ones’ deaths, illnesses, or long recoveries? Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, said about these results.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

More formally, “metacognition was originally referred to as the knowledge about and the regulation of one’s cognitive activities in learning processes” (Veenman, Van Hout-Wolters, & Afflerbach, 2006, p.3). FlipGrid is one of those free tools in education that can be used for just about anything!

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education , a global edtech company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. Pivot Interactives is Discovery Education’s second acquisition this month, having also acquired DoodleLearning. . We’re thrilled to be joining the Discovery Education family,” said Mr. Bohacek.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 15, 2019

As a result, lectures are discarded in lieu of class-wide discussions, and the rows of seats facing the front are thrown out in favor of seat clusters that enable the room to resemble a restaurant much more than a traditional education setting. As much as students may loathe it, assessments are an essential part of the education process.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

It looks like the company, which offers student information systems for schools, will raise about $711 million, with shares priced at $18 each (some thought the price could be as much as $20). Then publishing giant Pearson bought it from Apple in 2006. PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. Tech giant Apple bought the company in 2001.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Just as “turnt,” “on fleek,” and “adulting” have become trending words in pop culture, so too has “spaced repetition” become a buzzword in education. Some educators are obsessed with it. And yet it remains the most underrated and underutilized learning principle in the history of education. So what’s “the tea?”

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

Differentiated instruction is an educational strategy in which teachers adapt their instruction to meet the needs of their class. In a survey from the International Journal of Education, 97% of teachers reported never or seldom using a flexible curriculum for their students.[2] Content : How the student will access the information.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

How is AI currently utilized in higher education? Thinking about how information production and knowledge holding have shifted in just a few decades, I think there are lessons to be learned for higher ed. But the idea of the flipped classroom is credited to Jonathan Bergman and Aaron Sams in 2006.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2022

Scott Kinney, CEO of Discovery Education, will continue to lead the Company supported by the existing management team. The Company’s integrated learning platform empowers teachers by offering easy lesson creation, ready-to-use formative assessments, and personalized, data-driven recommendations from a library of educational resources.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Fennell, a current professor of education at McDaniel College, has provided his endorsement of hand2mind’s Hands-On Standards product line, which helps K-8 educators and parents teach math with manipulatives to build problem-solving skills. In 2006, Fennell was appointed to the National Mathematics Advisory Panel by President George W.

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MIND Research Institute

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

They need to be given the opportunity to engage in meaningful content, make predictions, test those predictions, receive immediate, informative feedback as a result of their testing, and analyze that information to refine their thinking around the content. Department of Education (p. Department of Education. Www.Ted.Com.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2023

History curriculum will be complemented by a self-paced micro-credential, designed to equip educators with the instructional skills to support primary source analysis. The primary source analysis lessons and professional development resources developed in these efforts will be offered freely to benefit the larger educational community.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2021

—June 21, 2021 — DreamBox Learning ®, the company that pioneered Intelligent Adaptive Learning technology, today launched DreamBox Lesson Recommendations, a new offering that gives educators real-time student progress insights with actionable next steps to meet student learning needs. To learn more about DreamBox, visit [link]. ###.

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PlagiarismCheck

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

one of the most watched TED talks of all time, creativity expert and educator Sir Ken Robinson stressed the importance of fostering out-of-the-box thinking back in 2006. Educators need to ensure they dedicate efforts to the actual student’s work, not the copied one. In “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying. Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

DreamBox Learning ®, the K-8 digital math company that pioneered Intelligent Adaptive Learning technology, announced today that the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) has selected DreamBox Learning Math to support teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate student learning loss.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Analyze a situation and the information available before making a judgment or decision. To help cultivate responsible decision-making in classrooms, educators should consider the following questions: How can I help students evaluate situations to identify the potential benefits and consequences of different decisions?

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 16, 2016

Today, parents and students have the ability to access endless amounts of college and career planning information. Discovering reliable and valid resources online can be a challenging and exhausting endeavor in a super space filled with endless amounts of information. From 2006-2011, I supported and advised over 2,500 teachers.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2021

Educators, academics, and industry experts are invited to apply or nominate others for a paid one-week Design Studio to create inclusive, future-oriented content maps across 25 discipline areas. Founded in 2006, reDesign partners with schools, districts, and states throughout the U.S., About reDesign.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2021

COVINGTON, KY: October 21, 2021 – A new website launched by a collaboration of leading technology experts, STEP CG and Cradlepoint, is providing information and educational resources to help K-12 schools ensure their students have access to the technology they need to succeed.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying. Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

Virtual Libraries: Their Influence on High School Students’ Information Seeking and Use. Youth Information Seeking Behavior. 2005/2006) “The Virtual Library.” Educational Leadership , 63 (4), 54-59. . Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1999. It’d be Really Dumb Not to Use It. Chapter in Mary K. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Sandra Paul doesn’t typically don a safety helmet and work boots to perform her job as director of information technology and operations for a 7,200-student school district in New Jersey. In education, the internet of things is big business. But the field has already seen big wins.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

higher education system is fair had evaporated. Education as the great equalizer ? In 2006, journalist Daniel Golden exposed how President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, found his way into Harvard despite lackluster grades with the help of his dad’s $2.5 Transparent admission standards? million donation.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Drawing from peer-reviewed research papers, I’ve made sure to include diverse and illustrative examples that showcase how blended learning is being implemented across different educational contexts. Stay tuned for further discussions and explorations in the realm of modern educational methods. Moore et al.’s

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2018

In his 2006 TED Talk —still the most-watched of all time—he claimed that “we are educating people out of their creative capacities” and charged the current education system with being too rigid in adhering to traditional academic subjects. But he hasn’t given up on schools or education—far from it, in fact.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2017

Lack of focus plagues almost every aspect of education. For more information on simplicity, listen to the Innovate Like a Turtle episode. The post Improve Your Teaching By Doing a Few Things Well appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day. Too many ideas.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 14, 2017

After seeing droves of people flock the EdTechTeam booth at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference, I finally decided to look into what might be getting so many people excited! I learned that it is possible to become a Certified Google Educator and thought, “I love to use Google tools for Education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

What was once the premier, must-go conference in the education technology industry is now going away. Last week, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced that its education technology group will no longer operate as its own division beginning July 1.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Discovery Education —the Charlotte, North Carolina based global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms—today announced the appointment of Scott Kinney as its new Chief Executive Officer and Kelli Campbell as the company’s new President.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

September 15, 2021 — DreamBox Learning, the leading education technology provider that in 2006 pioneered intelligent adaptive learning, today announced new expansions and partnerships with school district customers, including Prince George’s County Public Schools and East Baton Rouge Parish School System. BELLEVUE, Wash.

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our Vision : To bridge information equity gaps for K12 students in New Jersey (and beyond!) Our Mission : To ensure students, educators, and parents have easy access to the quality information resources they need to enhance teaching and learning and to enrich literacy experiences. What’s next?

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Waterford

JANUARY 10, 2020

Educators thought for decades that learning two languages at once would hinder a child’s literacy development.[14] Often educators of English-language learners exhibit a monolingual bias while teaching. All of this adds up to a greater engagement from parents in their child’s education and a greater learning environment at home.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

Strong readers who had higher scores on the PISA reading test also read on screens at home, but they tended to use their devices to gather information, such as reading the news or browsing the internet for school work. Across OECD countries that participated in both assessments, reading performance fell back to what it had been in 2006.

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