The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2020

Superintendents and principals will have to find ways to trim after they’ve already made their purchases and hired their teachers for the school year at a time when schools need extra money for masks, disinfectants, janitors — and remote learning technology. The last time that schools had to slash spending was after the 2008 recession.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2023

Founded in 2008, Instructure reports having more than 6000 customer organizations with more than 35 million users around the world in both K12 and higher education. Drop the company name Instructure on the average educator and you may get a blank stare in return.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

And yet, it has long been reported by Brookings (Loveless, 2008) and others like the Algebra Project (Moses, 2001) that Algebra I is the gatekeeper to higher level math classes, higher education success, and careers in the technical fields. “When will I ever use this?” Disruption. Enter stage left, a worldwide pandemic.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Axios reported that venture firms have cumulatively raised $100 billion over the past two years, and many are “ open for business ” and actively investing. School budgets may well soon dip too, as they did following the last recession in 2008. According to PitchBook, private equity firms are sitting on $2.4

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Classroom Motivation Strategies Drawing upon the insightful work of Guilloteaux & Dörnyei (2008), specifically from pages 63-64, this section delves into a variety of motivational strategies, enriched with my own examples and explanations to illustrate their practical application in educational settings. link] Guilloteaux, M.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2024

A separate survey found that 26 percent of teachers are “afraid for their physical safety” while at school and report “dread” when the new school year starts in August. As the halfway point approaches, there have already been 69 shootings this school year, up from 18 in all of 2008. There are many reasons for this.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. We’re doing a disservice if we’re not teaching the next generation how to use technology. Using long-term debt to pay for technology that may be obsolete in a couple of years, he says, is “like taking out a mortgage to buy groceries.” SAN JOSE, Calif. — billion in bond sales.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report Back in 2006, when Luciano was researching degrees that would lead to a good job in the fashion industry, she came across the website of the now-shuttered International Academy of Design and Technology, or IADT. I just thought I needed to try harder, keep searching.”

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

The term was coined by author Marc Prensky to describe a person who grew up surrounded by technology and is familiar with the Internet from an early age on. The “accent” of a digital immigrant (preferring a printed report rather than one online, for instance) strikes digital natives as odd.[4]. What is a digital native?

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Neo LMS

MARCH 26, 2019

Reading the report (now 17 years-old) is an exercise in digital whimsy; an almost amusing retrospective on how institutions of the day regarded digital media: “Reading a book requires a degree of active attention and engagement. They reported significant upward trends in literary reading among all age-groups and demographics.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

For the last decade, some of the most common initiatives have been about increasing personalization and using technology. . However, educators need to tread carefully or run the risk of technology making teaching and learning less student-centered instead of more and failing to prepare our students to be successful adults. .

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 22, 2023

According to a study conducted by the Dana Arts and Cognition Consortium (2008), engaging with music and art has been linked to improved spatial-temporal reasoning, collaboration, and creativity in children. Learning, Arts, and the Brain: The Dana Consortium Report on Arts and Cognition. Teachers College Press. Dana Foundation.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

One of the documents I would recommend as a “must-read” for administrators is the annual Horizon Report, developed ever year by the New Media Consortium. While this report is not predictive, it does provide valuable information that administrators can use to develop a vision for technology’s role in their schools or districts.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Government Accountability Office issued a 2018 report on food insecurity among college students, stating that “increasing evidence indicates that some college students are experiencing food insecurity, which can negatively impact their academic success.” For example, the U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2022

Throughout the years of coverage, journalists, bloggers and commentators alike have each taken to their respective channels and platforms to identify their own Theranos stories in different sectors, while investors reported that likely half of other startups prove eerily similar to the rise-and-fall storyline. Money came flowing.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

In its most recent earnings report , which covers the three months ended July 31, 2019, Wiley disclosed that it had “spent $73 million in total on acquisitions in the quarter, including zyBooks and Knewton.” That’s a hard hit for investors in the New York-based company, which had raised more than $180 million since its founding in 2008.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The benefits of PA instruction, according to the report, weren’t limited to a specific demographic; they spanned across various groups including normally developing readers, at-risk readers, disabled readers, and children from different socioeconomic backgrounds and grade levels. 393, cited in Freebody & Byrne, 1988). Manyak, P.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That's an all-time high, and a big increase since the fall of 2015, when only 3 percent of students reported downloading free course materials. The percent of students who reported downloading free materials has increased each semester since. The top reason why?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2017

Education critics often see technology as unnecessary bells and whistles to a curriculum that has sufficed for decades. But the reality is that technological innovation today is opening the door to entirely new methods of teaching that have never before been feasible. Credit: Getty Images.

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Waterford

AUGUST 6, 2021

You could give students three options to demonstrate their knowledge: write a book report, draw a scene from the book with a short analysis, or write and perform a skit showing an alternate ending for the book. Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) and Understood. December 20, 2008. Identify and Address Learning Barriers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2018

China’s NetDragon has gobbled up another education technology company. The deal could mark the beginning of the end for the “free” model of education technology, at least for standalone education companies without other strong revenue streams to support them. In 2017, NetDragon reported that education delivered 54 percent (or ¥2.1

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

A section of the Higher Education Act has reserved $100 million annually in competitive grants for HSIs to increase the number of Latino students with bachelor’s degrees in science, technology, engineering or math. The HEA itself has not been reauthorized since 2008, but this week Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.),

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2020

Credit: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. The causes of our impending recession are more akin to what happened in the Gulf South after Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005 than to the housing crisis, sparked in 2008: An unprecedented, singular natural disaster forced multiple cities to shut down schools and businesses for months.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

According to a survey administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, 37 percent of high school students said they experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness and 19 percent reported suicidality. In 2008, a little over 180,000 students took three or more AP exams. In response, more than half of all U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. When the pandemic struck, districts around the country, especially those in low-income areas, were still recovering from economic losses sustained during the 2008 recession, when nearly 300,000 teachers and other school staff were laid off. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

” Competency-Based Education isn’t necessarily an innovation, but a move to Competency-Based Education can lead to other innovations–using technology to personalize a student’s navigation of to-be-mastered content, for example. Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends. An example? Digital textbooks.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Behind the scenes, there’s accreditation reporting, tracking and organizing work around tenure, plus managing and supporting students while staying on top of new technologies and instructional practices. The first centralizes faculty data for activity reporting, which administrators gather for accreditation. Washington D.C.-based

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Credit: Meenakshi Van Zee for The Hechinger Report. Following the Great Recession of 2008, college students turned away from the humanities, as expected. However, this same report noted that 40 percent of humanities graduates said they would not choose the same major again. That’s true for college students too.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

In the 2020 Netflix documentary series “ Babies ,” a University of California, Merced, psychologist explained a startling discovery he made in 2008 as a graduate student: early walkers not only have more advanced gross motor skills but also larger vocabularies than babies who are only crawling. (Photo by Lisa Wiltse/Corbis via Getty Images).

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Connecting 2 the World

MARCH 22, 2014

If technology or even a vital member of the group was missing, the work of the group could be delayed for days or even weeks. My role as Project Director was mostly administrative: financial approvals, budgets, report writing, communicating with the funding agent, writing contracts, making travel arrangements outside of Paraguay.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2019

When “ Disrupting Class ” was published in 2008, we caused a stir by predicting that by the fall of 2019, 50 percent of all high school courses would be delivered online in some form or fashion. That suggests that more than half of the teachers polled use technology frequently in the classroom.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

As temperatures began to dip this fall, Allen Blackwell III says he and his colleagues at Baltimore City Public Schools kept watch on weather reports hoping to see it hit 32 degrees. million, the report estimates that 420,000 fewer homeless students were identified and enrolled in school compared to the fall of 2019.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

In the second eye-raising deal for the higher-ed publishing industry in as many weeks, Wiley, a major textbook publisher, has agreed to acquire the assets of Knewton, a provider of digital courseware and adaptive-learning technologies. 1, 2019), the company reported a more than 20-percent decline in this division. 1, 2018 to Jan.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2022

The survey found that these students — nearing their transition to adulthood — report low levels of readiness to take on potential near-term financial tasks, from evaluating financial products to establishing and maintaining credit to understanding how to pay for college. . To view the report, click here. About EVERFI, Inc.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

In addition, an extensive report from the RAND Corporation and The Wallace Foundation found that “many interviewees viewed the development of adults’ abilities to establish and maintain their own healthy relationships as the fundamental precursor to those adults effectively teaching their students how to do the same.”. Technical Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

When low-income students get a need-based grant, in addition to other financial aid, they are more likely to study science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) than are peers who don’t receive this boost in aid, according to a recent study from the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice. Department of Labor report.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is). Are any education technologies, for that matter? And accordingly, platforms are the underlying trend that ties together popular narratives about technology and the economy in general.

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