Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Emerging technologies have the potential to reshape the educational landscape. From the earliest stages, as Pre-K parents search for activities and resources to nurture their child's growth, to K-12 schools adopting technology to improve student outcomes and operational efficiencies, the impact of modern learning tools is undeniable.

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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. Hillary Scharton writes that children aren’t born knowing technology, and that the belief that digital natives excel at multitasking can be detrimental to their learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

education technology startups reached a record $2.2 billion in 2020. Across the globe, that figure surpassed $16 billion , marking a 32-fold increase from 2010. Billion in 2020.” Investments in U.S. Today, the San Francisco-based firm announced it has raised $165 million for its third fund.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, teens were spending an average of seven hours a day on their phones, as the journalist Paul Greenberg points out in his 2020 book, “ Goodbye Phone, Hello World.” A new study suggests that this sort of technology overuse doesn’t just pop up during adolescence.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2024

Those are vital questions for education technology innovators as they build ventures, secure funding and expand their impact. Since 2010, it has awarded more than $2 million to ventures changing the face of education for learners worldwide. If you build it, will it work? And how will you measure it? It’s been a wild ride.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Hunger Project PBL unit – designed for English, math, and science – is available for teachers starting today and the challenge runs through June 5, 2020. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy. For more information, visit www.pblworks.org. Find more at www.studentsrebuild.org and @StudentsRebuild.

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The Thinking Stick

MARCH 8, 2020

NCCE 2020 here in Seattle has just wrapped up. I have had experience with “Going Virtual School” three times in my career and every time it was similar and yet different due to the technology we had. Each one of these experiences was drastically different due to the technology that was available at the time.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

At a time when many organizations are slowing their 2020 plans and reassessing their costs and revenues, Bernadotte is doubling down. GradGuru’s chief technology officer, Kioma Valenzuela Aldecoa, and a team of five engineers based in the Philippines will also continue to work with Beyond 12. No financial terms were announced.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Hate it or love – technology in education is here to stay. Edtech is booming, with 40 times more venture capital invested in the sector in 2021 than in 2010. Close the Digital Gap for Students As technology becomes more ingrained in education, the digital divide is becoming an ever-larger driver of educational inequity.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2020

The maker kits were provided courtesy of Digital Promise, an education technology nonprofit, which saw these events as “a great vehicle to introduce teachers to making,” says Josh Weisgrau, its director of learning experience design. From a ‘Camp’ to a Movement The first Edcamp took place on the campus of Drexel University on May 22, 2010.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2024

Protective Effect Against Cognitive Decline and Dementia : Bilingualism has a moderate protective effect on the age of onset of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms and contributes to cognitive reserve (Anderson, Hawrylewicz, Grundy, 2020). 2020) – “Does Bilingualism Protect Against Dementia?” Anderson, J.A.E., Grundy, J.G.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020. College enrollment has been on the decline, dropping 7 percent between 2010 and 2018. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google.

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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. As part of the change, the Washington, D.C.-based

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2022

in 2010 to 3.36 The report examined data from more than 4 million high school students from 2010 to 2021 who took the ACT. It found that while ACT scores have remained flat during this period, cumulative GPAs have risen since 2018, jumping significantly since 2020. grade points, from 3.17

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2024

We’ve been talking about it for 15 years,” said Bonnie Bennett, who was mayor of Aurora from 2010 until 2022. million between 2020 and 2022 from pandemic-related federal funds. People with an inside track were well aware of the problems. “It It was the elephant in the room. They would say, ‘You’re anti-Wells.’”

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

But through a tender offer , in which the private equity firm directly purchased shares from shareholders, the acquisition was completed on March 23, 2020. Daly was formerly CEO of LANDESK, an IT and security software firm that was acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2010. Thoma Bravo then sold it to Clearlake Capital Group in 2017.)

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

SplashLearn was incorporated in 2010. In 2020, more than 10 million new users joined the SplashLearn program. In the latter half of 2020, SplashLearn expanded its offering beyond the math program to include reading and also launched a personalized tutoring product, owing to growing demand from parents and teachers.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020), you will probably have these characteristics: "You see roadblocks as opportunities, and you have tons of creativity that keeps you from getting bored. NG) This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Samsung today announced the launch of the 11 th annual $2 million* Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest , which challenges students in grades 6–12 and their teachers to use STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) to tackle local issues of national importance. Now through December 13, 2020, public school teachers across the U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Check the deals out today at www.dell.com/epp/coolcatteacher and enjoy some awesome new technology this holiday season! He spent twenty-four years as a classroom teacher in Colorado before becoming a technology facilitator in the Chicago suburbs. Click Here for Deals. Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

In mid-March 2020, schools in Lindsay Unified shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The role of technology. Lindsay’s ability to rapidly pivot to remote learning in spring 2020 was largely due to preexisting infrastructure. But educators say that technology by itself isn’t what makes Lindsay’s model work.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

It’s projected to further decline to 880,000 by 2040, according to the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The total number of births declined in nine of the 10 years of the 2010s and dropped even more sharply in 2020, before inching up by 1 percent in 2021, according to provisional estimates.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In 2020, just 6 percent of freshmen who enrolled at the university were Black, compared with 36 percentof the state’s publichigh school graduates. It made me think maybe UGA is not for me,” said Youssouf, who is in her second year at Georgia State, where, in 2020, 41 percent of students were Black. Credit: Matt Odom for NBC News.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

Use Media and Technology Thoughtfully In the age of technology, media can be a powerful tool in educating students about diversity and inclusion. link] The post Tips and Strategies to Talk about Race in Class appeared first on Educators Technology. Be consistent in enforcing these rules. Everett, S., & Carey, C.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

A company called UniversityNow—which attracted more than $40 million in venture backing and ran an experimental for-profit college—has been sold to the nonprofit National University system, which plans to use the company’s technology platform to deliver its online courses. The board has been great at investing in new technologies.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

On the one hand, China’s private education market is projected to grow 9 percent per year until 2020, reaching a value of $330 billion—an enticing market for many American entrepreneurs. When I asked if she uses any technology in class, I got a blank stare in return. There we encountered even harsher restrictions on technology.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The 2020 census is mired in challenges that could shortchange the official count by 1.5 But the 2020 census stands to amplify the problem of under-counting in very significant ways. Students in a federally funded Head Start program in Sacramento, California, on Aug. Photo: Randy Pench/Sacramento Bee/ZUMAPRESS.com.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 5, 2020

“ It was January 3, 2010, that I first created a blog post of this title. It was in 2010 that I invited educational bloggers to form an alliance with me (no need for secrecy). Without the 2010 blog alliance, I wouldn’t have started a school (it was their mentoring and inspiration that had me believing impossible things).

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 5, 2020

“ It was January 3, 2010, that I first created a blog post of this title. It was in 2010 that I invited educational bloggers to form an alliance with me (no need for secrecy). Without the 2010 blog alliance, I wouldn’t have started a school (it was their mentoring and inspiration that had me believing impossible things).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

If it seems baffling that companies with no revenue can raise money from private investors ( ahem , as some edtech startups did in the early 2010’s), then EdTechX Holdings might just sound outright crazy at first. EdTechX claims to be the first SPAC focused on the education technology industry.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Prior to that, he served as the 2020-2021 President of the American Library Association (ALA) having previously been on a number of critical ALA committees, including the Finance and Audit Committee, the Budget Analysis and Review Committee and the Intellectual Freedom Committee, serving as the 2010-11 Chair.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2010 he won the ISTE Award for Outstanding Leader of the Year. His passion remains to help teachers explore the affordances of technology for learning. As soon as this, you know, the pandemic hit in March of 2020, and everybody went online. His blog consistently ranks among the top educational blogs.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

Let me make sure I’m clear here – I’m interested in the “push,” in the stories we tell about machines more so than the technology underpinning the machines themselves. They’re part of our cultural imaginary as much as they are about a technological reality that we face today. A good myth.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 29, 2011

Today I gave testimony in favor of the passage of Texas SB 6 , which institutes an Instructional Materials Allotment (IMA) in lieu of the textbook allotment and the former Technology Allotment. According to the TEA Progress Report on the 2006-2020 Long Range Plan for Technology, released in December 2010, 59.3%

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2020

DATE AND TIME: Thursday, March 19th, 2020 | 4:00 pm US-Eastern Daylight Time | Live and Recorded OVERVIEW: Online conferences are an incredibly effective way to gather groups or learning communities around a topic. Will Play in Education" and "Modern Learning: Re-Discovering the Transformative Promise of Educational Technology."

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 6, 2021

March 2020 started the longest fifteen months imaginable. He was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker in 2010 and a member of the first class of WebJunction’s National Library CE Training Institute [2] in 2014. Steve Albrecht & Maurice Coleman OVERVIEW : A 60-minute training webinar presented by Library 2.0

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