The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2014

After Hastings sees DreamBox in action at a Rocketship school, he e-mails his friend Dan Kerns, DreamBox’s chief architect (the two worked together several years earlier; in Silicon Valley, all the best software engineers know one another) to say, nice job. But Danner couldn’t find that software, anywhere. This was 2009.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

That’s the pitch behind GitHub ’s announcement that, starting today, educational institutions will now be able to access—for free—its enterprise and business-level offerings as part of a new GitHub Education package. million companies across the world, GitHub is considered the standard when it comes to software development platforms.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

For decades, companies have offered more or less the same deal to Americans in search of office jobs: You pay for your own higher education and skills training, and then we’ll consider employing you. registered apprenticeship programs grew 73 percent between 2009 and 2019. they have mostly been reserved for the skilled trades.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Most people don’t consider education technology to be such an important industry, but it’s actually gigantic. Traditional education has always been based on the power of storytelling. This is why gamification plays such a major role in contemporary education.”. Let’s take a look! 3D learning. Game-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. In 2002, federal education law began requiring schools to spend federal dollars on research-based products only. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz. But they are all misleading.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

Founded in 2009 and based in American Fork, Utah, the company has amassed 1,500-plus games, quizzes and templates to sell to corporate clients in search of more compelling digital learning materials for employees. Trivantis has served businesses, government agencies and educational institutions in more than 125 countries.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

APRIL 25, 2016

I helped begin Edchat in 2009 and created this video for it. This was a video I created about 3 years ago with a simple editor and not in the best quality but still over thousands of educators have viewed it. Blender is free open software for creating awesome video intros. Craft your message according to the medium.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

But it could prove just as disruptive in the world of education publishing, where technology startups have been steadily taking market share from traditional incumbents. Rorhlich has not worked in an education business before, and while he may be lacking in industry experience, he is not short on capital.

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Kathy Schrock

JULY 6, 2020

IPEVO P2V CAMERA (2009) __ OVERVIEW Fast forward to mid-2020, and IPEVO has just released their 8th gen model, the newly updated IPEVO VZ-R HDMI/USB document camera. IPEVO offers two free software programs to support this: Visualizer and Visualizer LTSE (accessibility software to use with the document camera).

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2020

I wrote back in 2009 about how I had used the model to frame my own efforts to engage online learners, in wikis - collaborative web pages. Wheeler, 2009, p 487) Read more in the next post. International Journal of Educational Technologies , 1 (2/3), 147-166. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. Wheeler, S.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 12, 2020

Wheeler, 2009, p 487) Continues in the next post. International Journal of Educational Technologies , 1 (2/3), 147-166. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies. References Gunawardena, C. Wheeler, S.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 23, 2012

In addition to using Yahoo doodle, he began writing quiz software in 2006. He officially started Khan Academy in 2009 knowing that quality videos would withstand test of time. Sal Khan says his system is out of sync with that of traditional education systems that have become indoctrinated over many years.

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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

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Mike Silagadze isn’t shy about his desire to take market share from the largest college textbook publishers through his classroom software company Top Hat. Betting on Digital Founded in 2009, Top Hat claims that 2.7 He believes his company’s brand of digital textbooks beats anything Pearson, McGraw-Hill and their ilk can provide.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In today’s post, I am introducing you to blended learning, a concept that is now common parlance within the ‘education speak’ In crafting this comprehensive piece on blended learning, I delved deep into academic literature, drawing on peer-reviewed research papers to create an authoritative and informative post.

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The Electric Educator

MARCH 19, 2009

The annual MACUL conference is an awesome opportunity to hear how other educators are using technology in the classroom and to browse the latest in ed. hardware and software. educational technology MACUL' Conference attendance is expected to top 4,000 this year. Thanks for subscribing to my blog.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

Come June 30, operations at the Amazon-owned online education program will cease entirely. School and district users had ample warning about the demise of the adaptive K-12 math and writing software—the company issued a notice on its site 15 months ago—and yet many say that the off-boarding process was not a smooth one.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2021

But many of the industries needed to complete this work are already struggling to find skilled labor — despite relatively high salaries and comparatively good benefits — in a nation that has put more emphasis on bachelor’s degrees than vocational education. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2019

million seed round with participation from Bloomberg Beta, Rethink Education, Precursor Ventures, Betaworks and angels including Rob Hayes, Doug Scott and Jason Citron, the founder of Discord. But now, he has some good news to share with his mother and the world. Oyerinde’s New York-based startup, Campuswire , has raised a $3.6

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

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. With these laptops, many teachers rose to the challenge of using digital materials—a new concept back in 2009.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

based provider of instructional software and formative assessment tools that is on a buying spree. Schoolzilla’s life began in 2009 as a project within Aspire Public Schools, a charter network with schools across California and in Memphis. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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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. education strategy. It had raised about $4.8

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techieMusings

APRIL 9, 2017

My Math Classroom, Flipped: Saving Time and Empowering Learners , featured on McGraw-Hill Education. Back in 2009, I asked myself a question. I am a high school math teacher. When I began teaching AP Calculus, I felt tremendous pressure to get through material way too quickly. How could I shift class time back to the students?

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

In the world of education, some debates rage eternal. Other funded projects focus on ocean conservation, boosting girls’ education in rural India and combating child exploitation on the internet—the latter made to the Ashton Kutcher-founded nonprofit Thorn. How much testing is too much?

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. Four years later, the district was demanding a refund from Apple.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” Are any education technologies, for that matter? I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009.

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techlearning

MAY 17, 2018

During the National KidWind Challenge, EDP Renewables North America and Pattern Energy were awarded Educational Leadership Awards for their unwavering support of renewable energy education outreach. We could not be more proud of the students and coaches for making the KidWind Challenge what it is today.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

But the shortage of qualified science educators may be hurting efforts to help more Americans learn how science works. Department of Education. Department of Education nationwide report on teacher shortages, 20 states reported a shortage of middle-school science teachers during the 2017-18 school year. Kentucky isn’t alone.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Some of this is a result of an influx of Silicon Valley types in recent years — people with no ties to education or education technology who think that their ignorance and lack of expertise is a strength. Narratives about the “factory model of education” and whatnot. I mean forgetting what happened five, ten years ago.

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Kathy Schrock

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Animoto , the online video creation software app for desktop and iOS, has been around for a long time. I made my first video with a free account at Animoto, using my iPhone 3GS, on August 3, 2009. As educators, we are always looking for free or freemium tools and apps. And so have I! Here is that original video.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 20, 2019

Whether tracking software via spreadsheets or interviewing teachers, the current methods weren’t working. Now, once software is approved for the schools, teachers receive ongoing PD for the software so they’re comfortable integrating the app into lessons. Kyle is known as a transformer of educational technology.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Educators at those colleges hope so, too, although for different reasons. This fall it will host an esports academy to educate HBCU students about the industry. The Collegiate Star League launched in 2009, and now works with about 1,800 colleges and universities. Sixteen historically black institutions have signed on.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 8, 2010

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 29, 2021

He was founding chairman of the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition, founded in 2009, as a DC-based advocacy organization promoting government policies and programs to assure gigabit fiber to libraries and other community anchor institutions(CAI’s).

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

We’ll see big growth in higher education services from outside of the university sector, a continued gnashing of teeth from established providers. The focus is on tertiary education. It doesn’t matter because the changes to higher education are happening because of economics, demographics and, most of all, technology.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. He knew it would be easy; he said tests in his special education classes almost always were. Credit: Melissa Lyttle for HuffPost.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 11, 2018

(SALT LAKE CITY, UT) October 11, 2018 — Waterford Institute , the nonprofit provider of the Waterford UPSTART online kindergarten readiness program, today announced that it has been awarded an Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Expansion Grant from the United States Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement.

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