eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2018

In a 2017 study by the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), 53 percent of technology leaders held senior-level titles (CTO, CIO, district technology director), as opposed to 43 percent in 2012. Connecting technology to performance. The CTO position in K-12 is becoming more prevalent in the United States.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2020

Based in San Francisco, Getsetup connects seniors with their peers for private, online lessons about frequently used online tools. Often that entails keeping up with the latest tools to stay connected with friends and family, or to build their own businesses and consulting gigs, he adds. Then the coronavirus hit.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

Cialfo started in 2012 as an independent in-person education consultancy, later adding the software side of the business. Pasari sold the consulting business to ChangedEdu in 2017 for an undisclosed amount. One of those parchments led Jeff Neill to discover the company in 2017.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

The company offers a three-tier partnership program that offers partnering companies different marketing and sales perks based on how tightly their tools are integrated with the Microsoft products such as Azure (its cloud computing platform), School Data Sync (its rostering system) and Edge (its successor to the Internet Explorer web browser).

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

Schultz has taken a career in building special needs software and games for people who are blind or have low vision into ObjectiveEd, a new endeavor at a time when investor interest in educational tools and investor interest in assistive technology are apparently on the rise. million across 38 deals in 2012 to $276.5

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The company’s latest deal involves something a little bit more invisible and behind the scenes, but what it calls “one of the most powerful tools we have in modern education.” That tool is data, and it marks the focus of Microsoft’s first edtech acquisition of 2019: DataSense , a data management platform developed by Brightbytes.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2019

If colleges start offering juiced-up early decision, which dangles the best dorm on campus or an early move-in date in front of families, it will be a powerful recruiting tool. percent of four-year, nonprofit colleges) in 2012 to 179 (12.4 percent) in 2017. We know which students they mean.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Now that content knowledge, such as computing a formula or remembering historical dates, is easily accessible through online tools, the demand for skills needed by employees shift to collaboration, iteration, critical thinking, and persevering through challenging and novel problems--all skills listed above or adjacent to skills listed above.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Mountain Heights Academy in Utah, the 2017 Student Voices Award winner, encourages students to participate in the instructional design process using an OER curriculum. Although they aren’t in the classroom together, the students stay connected on their project leveraging tools like G Suite for Education or Blackboard Collaborate.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

This book (called #tlap by those who follow its guidelines) is like an overstuffed tackle box for teachers full of useful tools, ideas, and tips for engaging kids and staging exciting experiences. Participants will leave with a tool-box full of dynamic presentational ideas that they can immediately use to improve their lessons.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

” FY 2012 $0. 2012 and 2012 (ARRA case studies). Appropriations: FY 2017: (in process) (President Obama request: $500,000,000). Note: The Obama administration request for FY 2017 was below the authorized FY 2017 maximum amount of $1,650,000,000. FY 2013 $0. FY 2014 $0. FY 2015 $0.

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Learning Confluence

JULY 1, 2018

tools (tools that allow for multimodal communication, interaction and collaboration as well as online publishing and media creation), or the ‘collaboration web’ (Harasim, 2017) as a design feature for online subjects in higher education. tools shared via the Case Study of INF537 – Digital Futures Colloquium.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

It’s the percentage of students around the whole who lack consistent internet connectivity—and access to many of the tools and online courseware that some have hailed as the solution to education gaps. We know digital tools and online materials have added a lot of value to students who have access to them.

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eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

In demonstration of this theory, one study found that students who receive adaptive testing paired with individualized instruction show significantly better performance than their peers who receive more generalized instruction (Huey-Min, 2017). #3: 3: Student Engagement Increases Motivation. & Martinez, 1992). Luyten, H., &

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

based developer of a communication and collaboration tool popular among K-12 educators. A mother of two, Kim reflected on how her children interacted on digital tools, recalling how her normally shy daughter became more engaged with her teachers after getting a school-issued email account. million and revenue of $1 million in 2017.

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Boston, a center of history and scientific innovation, is the perfect location for exploring connections between language intervention and these content area contexts, with picture books and apps providing tools for linguistic interactions.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Now that content knowledge, such as computing a formula or remembering historical dates, is easily accessible through online tools, the demand for skills needed by employees shift to collaboration, iteration, critical thinking, and persevering through challenging and novel problems--all skills listed above or adjacent to skills listed above.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2017

She is not alone, as educators around the United States get ready to start the 2017-18 school year, supplies—particularly technology—can cost classrooms hundreds of thousands of dollars. Ellen Goodman Luckily for educators, there are ways to get tech tools into the classrooms that don’t involve panhandling. It was awesome and free!

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

And fall-to-fall retention for first-time college students showed no signs of improvement, dipping from 58 percent in 2007 to 53 percent in 2012. In the fall of 2012, the institution experiences a 10 percent enrollment decline,” said Sheri Rowland, vice president of student affairs at Tallahassee Community College. Going For Three.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Founded in 2012, Duolingo claims more than 300 million users, of whom 30 million are active on a monthly basis, according to the company. Today Duolingo numbers 200 employees, up from 95 in July 2017, when the company last raised funding. To date, company has raised $138 million. Top grossing education apps, according to Sensor Tower.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Like the multiple intelligences theory , learning styles can be a practical tool but not a fully-backed theory. Personality and Individual Differences, October 2017, 116(1), pp. Computers & Education, March 2017, 106, pp. Educational Technology Research and Development, August 2012, 60(4), pp. and Carr, M. Davis, S.E.

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techlearning

MAY 24, 2018

In 2017, Curriculum Associates placed 48th on the list. Only those firms with a headquarters in Massachusetts and revenue of at least $500,000 in 2014 and $1 million in 2017 were considered. Companies that did not show growth from 2016 to 2017 were excluded. Together, they account for more than $134 billion in revenue in 2017.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2018

TEXARKANA, Texas — “Hope” was a popular word during the 2012 election season. But a money crisis wasn’t the only challenge Texarkana College was facing in 2012. Students at the college also now have access to a tool called “Connect,” which shows them their degree pathway and progression towards graduation.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

Declara launched in 2012 to considerable funding and fanfare—including a shoutout from former President Barack Obama. The cognitive graph [that the company built] is a powerful tool to understanding human behavior,” he says. As a result, Declara was “a solution in search of a problem,” says Gonzalez. But for what?

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Insight Education Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In South Carolina, for example, there were simply not enough qualified teachers to fill positions during the 2017–2018 school year: 6,700 South Carolina teachers left their positions after the 2016–2017 school year, with 4,900 leaving teaching altogether. 2017) The Nation's Teaching Force Is Still Mostly White and Female.

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Veative

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

AR has come a long way since then, emerging as a powerful tool that can radically transform educational practices by cultivating an experiential mode of learning from an early age. Insider , Aug 25, 2012. Springer, 2017. www.nationalgeographic.com , 2017. Through AR in education, as Sheehy et. References. Breeze, Mez. ‘

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

With $600 billion in assets as of 2017, the combined value of U.S. No, but some virtual tools will stick around. To weather this crisis and speed a national recovery, universities also need to use some of our nation’s biggest untapped rainy-day funds: their endowments. Related: Will this semester forever alter college?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Take Milpitas Unified School District in the San Francisco Bay Area, which proposed a bond measure to pay for technology remodeling school spaces back in 2012. Educators can apply between January 15 and April 15, 2017. Applications are due May 5, 2017. It eventually passed —a total of $95 million.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Camera (@laurenonthehill) December 19, 2017. Richard Culatta (@rec54) December 19, 2017. Take Chances, Make Mistakes and Get Messy—Just Not in the Classroom Throughout multiple panel sessions, educators came back to the question of where technology belongs in schools, and how to work collaboratively with educators to create new tools.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In the meantime, Norton will officially launch it in January 2017 at no additional cost as a supplement to an introductory textbook of the same title. million in revenues in 2017, up from S15.5 million in 2012. At Play in the Cosmos will sell for $35 when it is slated to become a standalone computer or tablet app next fall.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Source: EdSurge Last year saw four mega-rounds (exceeding $100 million), compared to two in 2018, three in 2017 and one the year prior. million students in fall 2012, with traditional public and private nonprofit universities accounting for over 80 percent of the fall 2018 total. A retention of talent is going to matter.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

Still, the deal is less than the estimated $168 million that Galvanize has raised since it started in 2012, according to Crunchbase. Rosabal had joined Galvanize in early 2018, after a turbulent 2017 that saw layoffs and leadership changes. times that. Galvanize announces its income share agreement option. million in cash.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2019

We've been offering EBT interventions as part of that model since the 2011-2012 school year. That ultimately led us to adopt AcceliPLAN in 2017, a customizable special education management system. This tool quickly puts behavioral data, intervention-specific data and outcomes data into providers’ hands.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In general education, where the IB Diploma Programme (DP) belongs, we have to teach “students with learning difficulties, gifted students, and students with no identified exceptionality” (Altemueller & Lindquist, 2017). We can’t turn a blind eye to this learning diversity in our classroom. Bergmann, J., & Sams, A. L., & Yore, L.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Multiple sources confirmed to EdSurge that these layoffs happened across two rounds over the 2017 holiday season. Founded in 2012, LightSail Education offers a digital library of reading materials, along with annotation features and quizzes that test for a student’s understanding of the content. Newsela is still around.

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SpeechTechie

JULY 24, 2018

Although I do not currently do telepractice, I have worked over the last several years with Amy Reid and Nathan Curtis and their staff there on the potential of tech tools within telepractice environments (e.g. One is a collaboration with two wonderful colleagues from Waldo County General Hospital in Maine.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And as they revise, they can see how long learners spent looking at that passage and other details about how they moved through the digital tool, since every action leaves breadcrumbs to analyze. Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. For students, this is a discouraging engagement, Lepper says.

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