Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 36 Edition). No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes.

EdTech 150

EdTech Student Data Privacy Industry Social Media 150

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 edtech startups raised last year. Increasingly, Asian companies are also investing abroad to find fresh ideas and tools to bring to their local markets. edtech investor, including. Based Company.

EdTech 94

EdTech Knewton Company Robotics 94

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Upon getting on Twitter in 2009, I was not only baffled about how to use the social media site but also about all the symbols associated with it. education, #edtech, #pedagogy, #teaching). There was no apparent rhyme or reason to using these in any messages whether long or short. One of them was the hashtag (#).

Social Media 326

Social Media Twitter Facebook Trends 326

MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 8, 2020

MIND Research Institute is a proud partner of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) and the Education Commission of the States (ECS) – two of the most prominent and important venues for edtech policy discussion. Hundreds of state commissioners and edtech policy leaders joined the ECS Live!

Policies 52

Policies EdTech Industry Guidelines 52

edWeb.net

MARCH 20, 2019

Teachers have many edtech resources in their toolbox now. More important, are the tools of equal quality? Director of Digital Learning and Innovation at Milford Public Schools, MA, talked about why they wrangled their technology and how having a defined edtech toolbox improved teaching and learning overall. Joseph, Ed.D.,

EdTech 41

EdTech Software Data Twitter 41

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This latest investment round—Duolingo’s eighth since it launched in 2011—continues a hot streak for the education market, which has seen new investors , new funds and plenty of venture capital flow into edtech companies with established businesses along with those that have yet to release a product. based edtech investment firm.

Udemy 162

Udemy Company EdTech Course 162

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

This case study was featured in Chapter 4 of EdSurge's "State of Edtech" report. During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs. We chose to go big.

Elementary 74

Elementary EdTech Case Study iPad 74

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

Amazon will be sunsetting TenMarks and its online instructional tools, which were once at the forefront of the company’s K-12 digital education strategy. Founded in 2009, TenMarks developed a web-based, adaptive K-12 math program that included lesson plans, curriculum and exercises. It had raised about $4.8 It had raised about $4.8

Tools 80

Tools Company Instructional Materials Tablets 80

Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2017

From there the tool spread via word of mouth, and within six months the pet project became a company, eduCLIMBER , where Matt was CEO. based provider of data, assessment and reporting tools for K-12 schools and districts. Close to 75 percent of the 250 districts using eduCLIMBER are in Wisconsin, where the tool was born.

Data 89

Data Tools Education Company 89

eSchool News

MAY 17, 2023

Composed of scenes from the 2009 historical drama “The Taking of Chance,” the film follows Colonel Michael Strobel, played by Kevin Bacon, a military officer who volunteers to escort the body of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps, who was killed in Iraq, back to his hometown in Wyoming for burial.

Resources 106

Resources Study Course Video 106

Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 27, 2017

Back in August of 2009 I created and organized #Edchat in a dm conversation with Tom Whitby. In his interview, Matt explains how he uses Flipgrid , a video discussion tool, to engage teachers worldwide in weekly educational chats about a topic. The teachers join the discussion by posting thoughts through a webcam video.

Video 186

Video eBook Twitter Tools 186

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Knack and NurseDash aren’t the first edtech deals for ETS, however. It bought Edusoft, an English language-learning tool, in 2011 and purchased assessment provider Questar for $127.5 One of these problems that ETS has identified—and invested in—has been popular among the edtech industry and its investors: Knack, based in Tampa, Fla.

Technology 106

Technology EdTech Education Assessment 106

Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Tools are getting better but skilled staff to make optimal use of the tools and monitor the network 24x7 is not increasing. Moving to the cloud can be good for both vendors and schools It is in the interests of the edtech industry for educators to feel confident about using technology.

EdTech 60

EdTech E-rate Symantec Data 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Back in the driver’s seat is Mick Hewitt, who co-founded the company in 2009 and served as its first CEO. Its core offerings include formative assessment products such as Socrative (a startup acquired in June 2014), grading tools and reporting services. Another tool was a traditional online gradebook. billion in U.S.

EdTech 114

EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 114

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Guidance on the Enhancing Education Through Technology (Ed Tech) Program: Funds Made Available Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (July 2009). FY 2009 $269,900,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). FY 2009 ( American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 special appropriation ): $650,000,000.

Policies 150

Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

With the addition of MasteryConnect’s formative assessment tools, Instructure aims to capitalize on what it sees as a “shift occurring at the state level as they replace high-stakes, end-of-year testing with innovative assessment models,” according to a prepared statement. K-12 market for classroom assessment tools is expected to reach $1.7

LMS 112

LMS Assessment Company Comparison 112

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Big numbers are nothing new to Quizlet , one of the most widely-used digital study tools in the United States. For the first 10 years the company remained small, and had been profitable since 2009. And according to one website tracker , it is among the most visited sites in the country (besting LinkedIn and Spotify).

Study 78

Study Tools Company Analysis 78

EmergingEdTech

JULY 24, 2018

Technology is by no means a panacea for all of the issues education faces … I started this blog back in 2008 (and formally launched as EmergingEdTech in April of 2009). I've read, learned, [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

EdTech 46

EdTech Technology Education Learning 46

Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

K-12 education system by open educational resources (OER) since 2009, although my first exposure to the ideas and leaders of the movement stretch back to the launch of the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative. K-12 OER Movement appeared first on EdTech Strategies. The post David, Goliath, and the Future of the U.S.

OER 170

OER Instructional Materials Advocacy Meeting 170

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

It accelerated our work around creating teacher tools. My oldest son, who’s 12 now, was born in 2009, and he kind of grew up on it. Duck Duck Moose was the first company that could come up with really compelling apps that were good—arguably good—for kids, in 2009, 2010, 2011. Khan Academy Kids is a relatively new program.

Khan Academy 163

Khan Academy Learning Meeting Company 163

The Web20Classroom

APRIL 8, 2013

one of the largest member communities for educators anywhere on the Internet, has been doing these Saturday live webinars since 2009. This archive is a place I regularly go to find information on tools, trends in instructional practices and just to learn something new. Classroom 2.0 Live! ( [link] /) Classroom 2.0, Miss a show?

Course 251

Course Twitter iPad Trends 251

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

based startup, which offers data warehousing and visualization tools for schools and districts, has acquired Decision Science Labs. Questions she believes Schoolzilla’s tool can raise include: Which schools are spending less than their peers but getting better results? The Oakland, Calif.-based Financial terms were not disclosed.

Outcomes 126

Outcomes Company Analysis Data 126

Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2021

He climbed up the ladder and became its CEO in 2009. The company provides the tools and processes for managing HR, marketing and other administrative functions required to run a school. Many companies in edtech take the Netflix approach. That experience would come in handy.

Education 157

Education Company Training Industry 157

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Much of the momentum behind myON’s launch was spurred by the popularity of iPads, recalls Todd Brekhus, myON’s President, who joined Capstone in 2009 to expand its digital offerings. These additional resources will help myON add updated assessment and reporting tools, along with additional content such as news.

Pearson 65

Pearson Company EdTech Libraries 65

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

Since 2009, Omidyar Network has invested $200 million in 100 educational for-profit and nonprofit organizations, according to Klement. the fund will continue to support education-to-career pathways for parents, and quality early-learning tools and access to childcare programs. They include Andela, Khan Academy and Code.org. In the U.S.,

Khan Academy 83

Khan Academy Education Company Technology 83

Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2016

According to Hewitt, who co-founded the company in 2009, the money will go towards fine-tuning MasteryConnect’s core products, which he describes has four parts: formative assessment, benchmark assessment, curriculum planning and teacher collaboration. Today there are 60 employees. The company currently claims more than 2.5

Company 60

Company Assessment EdTech iPad 60

The Web20Classroom

JULY 18, 2013

These are short posts with tools, tips and resources for you to try something new this summer or something you can take to the classroom in the Fall. We had our first real chat in July 2009. The topics here center around everything Edtech and learning. This is the fourth post in my Summer Learning Series.

Twitter 246

Twitter Learning Edmodo iPad 246

ViewSonic Education

MAY 31, 2019

Give them the tools. To prepare students for career and college readiness they need to be using tech tools. And they need to be using these classroom tech tools in ways that develop these critical skills. EdTech provides abundant ways to create effective feedback. That was in 2009. Some teachers love edtech.

Education 165

Education Tablets Software Groups 165

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Among the offerings on display at its demo day on June 13 were a structured gap year program, a tool for pronouncing names correctly and financial lending based on academic merit. The four-month program is capped with a pitch night in front of edtech investors. Gooroo is aiming to close a $1 million round by June 30, 2018.

Khan Academy 75

Khan Academy Company Adobe Data 75

Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2017

If students are truly “customers,” as some developers of higher-ed tools services have argued, then it’s no surprise that the biggest customer relationship management (CRM) provider is throwing its hat—and money—into the education industry. To date, Viridis has raised nearly $7.5 million of venture capital (the last coming in a $3.2

Software 74

Software Training Data Industry 74

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

LearnLaunch Institute , the Massachusetts Personalized Learning Edtech Consortium (MAPLE) functions as a professional learning community for 32 district members that aim to implement personalized learning. It implemented a 1:1 device-to-student model in its middle schools in 2009, and expanded that to high schools in 2013.

Personalized Learning 73

Personalized Learning Learning Moodle Secondary 73

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

I think that they might have come about in the next few years anyway though in 2009 when, in Paraguay at least, when the One Laptop per Child laptops were given out, the first round of them, less than 10 percent of the Paraguayan population had computers. That said, they were not popular, and they were not seen as a great tool in education.

Laptops 107

Laptops Chromebook Company Technology 107

Tech Helpful

MAY 9, 2019

Simon Sinek originally published his book Start with the Why in 2009. Our desire to set skill lists and minimum usage requirements for teachers is a feeble attempt at best to reform education with a tool. According to wikipedia, the first iPad was released on April 3, 2010 ( [link] ). Oh to have read that book then!

Technology 72

Technology Chromebook iPad Outcomes 72

eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

The effects of a digital formative assessment tool on mathematics achievement and student motivation: Results of a randomized experiment. Providing both visual representations and a range of examples instills a deeper understanding of mathematics concepts and develops strong mathematical knowledge in students (Gersten et al., Luyten, H., &

Learning 52

Learning E-rate Elementary Outcomes 52

The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 3, 2011

I wrote a post on December 28, 2009 where I talked about tools that I thought would have a break out year. There was a lot of buzz about it every now and then on Twitter but I still don''t see it''s widespread adoption as a great storytelling tool and feedback tool. How did I do? Need ideas? So there it is.

Tablets 100

Tablets Edmodo Wiki Facebook 100

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

But for small, innovative edtech companies that can really hurt the bottom line. I’m really excited about programs that are acting as middlemen, to connect educators to tools that are a good fit for them. During his tenure as principal, the middle school was named a Pennsylvania Donald Eichhorn School to Watch in 2009 and 2012.

Company 120

Company Conference Trends Outcomes 120

The Principal of Change

JULY 28, 2016

Also, when talking about student engagement as a result of technology, it can be compared to one of the main reasons why punishment should not be used as a classroom management tool. In both of these instances, the intended effects will eventually wear off once the students grow accustomed to what is going on around them (Vargas, 2009).

Technology 28

Technology EdTech Student Engagement Google 28