The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 14, 2017

And I did this routine for the very first time when I came back from Harvard’s Project Zero Classroom in 2012, and it’s an opportunity for the kids to really share what are they nervous about so that’s the N. Also the book Making Thinking Visible can help you with these concepts. The Book: Making Thinking Visible.

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Classroom Elementary Examples Company 558

eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Students across Indiana’s Vigo County School Corporation (VCSC) will add new, high-quality learning resources to their digital book bags this Fall thanks to a new partnership with worldwide edtech leader Discovery Education. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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Tools EdTech Schoology Social Media 78

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2019

In 2012, First Book , a nonprofit that provides affordable learning materials to kids in need, approached the publishers of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and asked: Can you make a bilingual version of the popular children’s book? At the time, the publisher sold English and Spanish versions separately.

EdTech 160

EdTech Survey Industry Company 160

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 23, 2018

In early 2012, my district decided to bring a 1:1 mobile device initiative to the middle school students and I was fortunate enough to get a cart of iPads in my classroom. I was lucky enough to be offered the position, and I left my classroom March of 2012. I am passionate about technology and its effects on teaching and learning.

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Classroom Personal Learning Network Elementary Course 153

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The yearbook company signed a three-year pledge, which will support Sandy Hook Promise’s ability to bring the life-saving, evidence-informed “Know the Signs” prevention programs into more K-12 classrooms nationwide at no cost to schools. Treering is a company that specializes in the design, creation, and printing of quality yearbooks.

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Elementary Smartphone Company Policies 78

The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 2, 2012

We are seeing more and more teachers, conferences, and companies embrace QR as another way to engage students, audiences and customers. Just my feelings from what I have been reading and seeing and what I believe will take a great hold in educational technology. So, how did I do last year? QR Codes- I said QR would take more of a foot hold.

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BYOD Tablets Social Media Moodle 196

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

As libraries work to scan their collections, they tread carefully around books published after 1923 and likely to still be under copyright. She and her husband, Ron Gard, founded a company called Limited Times that does the legwork to determine the copyright status of various works. One of them is Peter B. Public Domain.”)

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Libraries Software Policies Company 127

Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

In a now-famous 1997 interview , he candidly explained why Amazon started out by selling books. Books were simply a stepping stone, the “best first thing” to sell.) In 1994, hardly anyone was buying books on the internet. Bezos, more than any other tech entrepreneur, is known to play the long game, masterfully. But they are.

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Education Company E-rate Industry 218

techlearning

MAY 24, 2018

May 24, 2018—The Boston Business Journal announced that Curriculum Associates has been named to their 2018 “Fast 50” list of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Massachusetts for the fourth consecutive year. Companies that did not show growth from 2016 to 2017 were excluded. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.,

Company 40

Company Industry Instructional Materials Blended Learning 40

eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

This puts the combined company on the map as the leading provider of applications supporting the core fundamentals of education. With so many start-ups in the EdTech industry there will be inevitable consolidation and lots of elimination of fledgling companies,” adds Chris Twyman, founder of BoomWriter. ABOUT BOOMWRITER MEDIA, INC.:

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EdTech Gamification Education Company 92

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

education technology company has reached the billion-dollar valuation mark, and with that comes bragging rights to being a “unicorn.” NewView Capital also contributed $30 million in what’s known as an employee tender offer, a process in which NewView purchased company shares held by Course Hero employees. Another U.S. The valuation—$1.1

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Course EdTech Company Coursera 130

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Nearly 10 years later, Coursera has in fact become a unicorn, valued at well over the billion-dollar mark, and in March it started trading on the New York Stock Exchange as a public company. It’s a tale of two companies in terms of strategy.”

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Coursera MOOC Company Course 186

EdNews Daily

MARCH 29, 2017

I retired from the school district in 2012 in an effort to pursue my job as a published author. I was successful by having nine books published but I knew that writing wasn’t my only passion. One day I searched google for top, online teaching companies and 51Talk was one of the first companies I reviewed.

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Company Report Google Learning 100

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

and elsewhere regularly use software and curriculum developed within the past decade, often developed by small companies and former educators. Clever-2012. Nearpod-2012. Tynker-2012. Tynker-2012. These days, millions of students in the U.S. Ten K-12 School Technologies Created Since 2010. Class Dojo-2011.

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Learning Mobility Digital Citizenship Industry 121

Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In 2012, Chromebooks accounted for only 1% of the devices sold to US classrooms; now, they make up more than half of the edtech market. As Secretary Duncan’s chief of staff wrote at the time, the Common Core was intended to create a national market for book publishers, technology companies , testing corporations, and other vendors.”.

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EdTech Common Core Chromebook iPad 176

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 25, 2016

A company focused on improving K-12 literacy through ed tech has struck a deal with the Washington Post that will give the provider access to dozens of breaking news stories weekly, and hundreds of stories in the newspaper’s archives. Cross-posted from the Digital Education blog.

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Company Trends Assessment Software 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

For the third time this year, an American education technology company is laying claim to the magical “unicorn” status. To date, company has raised $138 million. Founded in 2012, Duolingo claims more than 300 million users, of whom 30 million are active on a monthly basis, according to the company.

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Coursera Company Mobility Exercises 93

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In 2012, 30 million primary-age children (or 1 out of 5) in sub-Saharan Africa did not attend any school. In return, Injini takes up to 15 percent of equity in each company. “We Yo Books , a company from South Sudan, aims to deliver and distribute books on low-cost devices across remote regions. Yet the U.S.

EdTech 107

EdTech Pearson Company Industry 107

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

While companies that offer to sell students “custom term papers” are nothing new, college leaders say that the shadowy industry has become more aggressive at recruiting students as customers, using a mix of social media, direct email and even parties. But, luckily, I found Edubirdie.com.

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Industry Social Media Company Study 133

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

Come join us for an evening of informal networking, panels with hiring companies, and some light bites. Fill out this form and we'll get your information in front of attending companies. So go ahead and dip into a classic book or museum. San Francisco, April 10th. Boston, April 18th. Washington DC, April 19th. Can't make it?

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Robotics Software Company Data 84

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Some of these other examples appear in the introduction of my forthcoming book, which I won't spoil since I have to save a chapter like that for the book tour — if we can do book tours. A critic of the company, Linkletter posted links to unlisted YouTube videos — that is, publicly available information — on Twitter.

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Blackboard Coursera LMS ProctorU 96

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2019

Alan Aspera first learned he could go online to buy equity in private companies through, of all things, a book he read about a year ago. In February, the company hosted a crowdinvesting campaign on Republic, one of the more popular platforms to attract individuals like Aspera—unaccredited investors who chip in small amounts.

EdTech 122

EdTech Company Report Guidelines 122

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. With their combined backgrounds in business development and education, they founded Actively Learn in 2012 to give teachers the tools and models they needed to add more insight and depth to their classroom. .

Microsoft 100

Microsoft EdTech Company Study 100

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As demand for low-cost, high-quality materials increased during the Great Recession, the nonprofit project shifted from curation to creation, publishing its first five free textbooks in 2012. OpenStax textbooks are display in a room named for the author of one the nonprofit's economics books. / colleges use at least one. “Why

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Industry OER Course Company 111

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 19, 2016

GradeCam can also quickly transfer all of the scores into a grade book. He has been the recipient of the Twitterer of the Year Award, and in 2012 he was named an ASCD Emerging Leader, which recognizes young, talented, educational leaders in their field. If you visit Gradecam from this blog post , you can get a 60-day free trial.

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Assessment Smartphone Social Media Laptops 150

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

It’s also a time when companies of all sizes and ages announce their latest updates and tools. PHARRELL TEACHES GARAGEBAND: Apple has a new book on the shelf: Tuniversity , a project co-founded by Pharrell Williams that aims to “reinvigorate” music education by helping teachers use Apple’s Garageband in the classroom. classrooms.

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SchoolDude Microsoft Company Learning Analytics 134

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

A new book, “ Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education ,” looks at how to create systems that apply the science of learning into actual teaching. EdSurge: Although you describe yourselves as the “innovation” guys, you stress in your book that you’re not the “disruption guys.”

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MOOC Education Industry Course 186

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

For higher education, with smaller potential audiences and student outcomes at stake, companies are debating whether return on investment is there for game-based learning experiences. Triseum is a private company that spun out of Texas A&M University’s Live Lab in late 2014. Norton & Company. million in 2012.

Video 151

Video Game-Based Learning Company Survey 151

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2012 I took a job as a general education language arts teacher, working with at-risk youths. In 2012, I transferred to McClarin Success Academy in Fulton County School District. Personalized learning is the new buzzword—edtech companies are after it and teachers toss it around as often as possible.

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iPad Assessment Personalized Learning Libraries 129

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2019

Charter schools are one example of this phenomenon, as is the growth of a home-schooling movement which doubled in size between 1999 and 2012. be built around) those technologies perceived as representing the latest form of modernity. into a common identity.

Trends 160

Trends Education Analysis Robotics 160

Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 10, 2015

The National Association of Women in Technology reported 26% of the computing workforce in 2013 were women (5% Asian women, 3% African American women, and 2% Hispanic women) and there was a 64% decline in the number of first-year undergraduate women interested in majoring in Computer Science between 2000 and 2012.

STEM 150

STEM Adobe EdTech eBook 150

Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 10, 2015

The National Association of Women in Technology reported 26% of the computing workforce in 2013 were women (5% Asian women, 3% African American women, and 2% Hispanic women) and there was a 64% decline in the number of first-year undergraduate women interested in majoring in Computer Science between 2000 and 2012.

STEM 150

STEM Adobe EdTech eBook 150

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

A picture of books and text can be taken with a glance. Interestingly, Scott was cited amidst concerns that Oscar Pistorius’ gave him an unfair advantage in the 2012 summer Olympics. (A fact yet to be proven.). The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to edit and post it.

Education 360

Education Robotics Smartphone Google 360

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

based company now touts itself as a provider of adaptive-learning technologies for educational content providers. Kidaptive first entered the edtech market in 2012 with Leo’s Pad, a game-based learning app that offered mini-games and puzzles to assess cognitive skills in young children. operations by the end of the year.

Adaptive Learning 71

Adaptive Learning Knewton Pearson Company 71

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Last September, the company tapped Good Harbor Partners, a Boston firm that advises on business transactions in the education technology industry, to explore strategic and financial opportunities for the company. He and Ryan Alexander, the company’s president, are no longer involved in running the company.

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Course Company Education Android 67

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 28, 2018

Our first openly licensed college textbook was published in 2012, and our library since scaled to more than 20 books for college and AP courses used by hundreds of thousands of students. From their website: OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University, and it’s our mission to improve student access to education.

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OER Adaptive Learning Outcomes Libraries 60

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2019

The annual tradition dates back to 2012, and features early-stage companies showing off the latest efforts to solve intractable problems across the education landscape. The company offers a suite of administrative software to help daycare providers execute a variety of tasks, from managing government subsidies to financial bookkeeping.

Education 102

Education Company EdTech Robotics 102