Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition). Tagged on: September 23, 2017 Lake Central again seeks state technology loan of $900k | NWI.com → Each school district is eligible to receive $100 per student as determined by the enrollment at the end of September. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

EdTech 150

EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

Here’s how the attendee demographics have grown from 2010 to 2018. Don’t compare yourself behind the scenes to everyone else’s highlight reel,” she said, pointing out that we see our own flaws but are rarely privy to the flaws of others when watching their Facebook, Instagram or Twitter feeds. Total Attendees: 350 to 4700.

Company 109

Company Conference Pearson Industry 109

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Around three-quarters of the schools in the 2017 RAND study were charter schools.

Personalized Learning 97

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 97

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

In less than two years, between 2015 and 2017, the district paid more than $4.5 One high-profile version of this type of event occurred in Newark back in 2010, after Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg gave a matching $100 million-dollar donation to the New Jersey school district.

Personalized Learning 122

Personalized Learning Education Elements Learning Outcomes 122

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

A 2017 Government Accountability Office report found that half of the colleges that had closed since 2010 had recently received passing scores. 2 post on its Facebook page read. This lag time is one of the biggest problems with the composite score, experts say. The ratings are also poor predictors of school closures.

Report 99

Report Policies Groups Assessment 99

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

edtech startups in 2017. More common in 2010 and 2011, the early days of the current edtech investment cycle, those deals were prevalent at a time that saw an abundance of new ideas, companies and investments. A “Facebook for education” is just no longer in vogue as it was five years ago. Last year, U.S. billion raised by U.S.

EdTech 145

EdTech Company Industry Edmodo 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

But in 2010, the school was closed down over a decline in student enrollment. Cruey’s wife, Cheryl, who was principal of Southside K-8 until retiring at the end of the 2017-2018 school year, mentors three siblings in the district. Occasionally we see him on Facebook. It was previously attached to Big Creek High School.

Dropout 111

Dropout Report System Social Media 111

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In 2014, Facebook appointed a team of six engineers to help the organization build a more robust tool. Last year, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the “venture philanthropy” affiliated with the Facebook CEO, took over building the technology platform. Summit officials say more than $20 million was invested into the tool in 2017 alone.

Personalized Learning 103

Personalized Learning Differentiated Instruction Elementary Data 103

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

A few years after joining Belmont-Cragin in 2010, she turned to the approach to help close achievement gaps at her school, where the student body is predominantly Hispanic and low-income, and roughly 68 percent of students are English language learners. That’s different from IEP meetings, which are led by adults.

Personalized Learning 145

Personalized Learning Education Learning Elementary 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

The entire system — the only public school system in America made up almost entirely of charter schools — had a wake-up call in 2010, when the Southern Poverty Law Center sued the Louisiana Department of Education over New Orleans charter schools’ treatment of students with disabilities. Nobles Minds charter school opened in 2017.

Education 75

Education System Report Meeting 75

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2017: The Stories We’ve Been Told. At the end of every year since I founded Hack Education in 2010, I’ve reviewed what I think are the most important and influential trends in education technology. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2010. The series kicks off on Saturday, 2 December. The Digital Library.

Technology 58

Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

A few years after joining Belmont-Cragin in 2010, she turned to the approach to help close achievement gaps at her school, where the student body is predominantly Hispanic and low-income, and roughly 68 percent of students are English language learners. That’s different from IEP meetings, which are led by adults.

Personalized Learning 45

Personalized Learning Education Learning Training 45

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In 2010, Rhode Island won a four-year, $75 million grant from Race to the Top. I kept thinking how much the physical setup of the classrooms resembled a Silicon Valley workspace — or is it that Amazon, Google and Facebook have tried to replicate grammar-school life? Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. There are no exceptions to this.”

Personalized Learning 96

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 96

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2019

Most of that cash — $20 million — came from Andreessen Horowitz, the influential venture capitalist firm co-founded by Marc Andreessen, the creator of Netscape and an early investor in tech successes including Skype, Facebook, Twitter and Airbnb. $20 Earn up to $100,000/year doing what you love,” their marketing materials say.

Company 70

Company Report Accessibility Data 70

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. with Pigeons.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Every year since 2010, I’ve undertaken a fairly massive project in which I’ve reviewed the previous twelve months’ education and technology news in order to write ten articles covering “the top ed-tech trends.” It’s a bit too early to tell what 2017 will bring.). More analytics. More data collection.

Trends 64

Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

But it appears that the massive growth that the sector has experienced since 2010 stopped this year. To the entrepreneur who wrote the Techcrunch op-ed in August that ed-tech is “ 2017's big, untapped and safe investor opportunity.” Funding has shrunk. ” You are a fool.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

And here’s how it differs from the one that Obama issued in 2010. ” Via The MIT Technology Review : “Big Questions Around Facebook’s Suicide-Prevention Tools.” Via Campus Technology : “ Augmented and Virtual Reality Spending to Double in 2017.” Congrats, Federalist. ” asks NPR.

Education 40

Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework.

MOOC 55

MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55