eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2023

MCHS’s leaders sought a new suite of high-quality, standards-aligned digital resources that could quickly be integrated into instruction and were adaptable enough to meet the needs of students’ varying learning styles. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2023

Charlotte, NC – Minnesota’s Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop Public Schools (GFW) today announced a new partnership with Discovery Education supporting the creation of engaging science lessons in K-12 classrooms districtwide. The Discovery Education Science Techbook series is a comprehensive, research-backed science solution for grades K-12.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To be sure, wearable technologies have many uses in the classroom an in our world. Soon this technology will be available in our classrooms. You might see information about a person as you meet them the first time. To extend this technology to the classroom, a search may be a moment away. Voice Activation and Interaction.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

I have had a Books to Africa program going since 2012. It’s a global collaboration project, where teachers can sign up and be part of a 5-week project, meet with one another via Skype, and investigate the whole idea of literacy/illiteracy and how that is different around the world. Julie: Well, at this point it’s threefold.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Naturally, technology plays a central role in scaling quality education supply to meet this demand. Almost half of all Ontario secondary school teachers report using YouTube or video elements in their classrooms. Traditional universities will find themselves obsolete, unless they adapt.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2021

23, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, today announced the formation of its customer advisory board, a group of key customers who will support the company’s goal of helping more learners read, write, and speak with confidence. “It The board’s inaugural meetings occurred on July 20 and 21. BOSTON (Aug.

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TeacherCast

JULY 18, 2022

The other day, I was having a planning meeting with a company about a future project. It’s true that you often find me sharing with others the importance of going where your audience is, building a community around a topic, and making sure you are meeting the needs of your audience. Step 3: Diversify Your Portfolio.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

To date, the New York-based company has raised nearly $16 million. It’s why he and co-founder Daniel Friedman took a different route when starting their company in 2012: making Thinkful coding courses completely online. The idea is also to meet new customers: “These attract existing students and prospective students.”

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) transfixed higher education in the early 2010s, so much so that The New York Times dubbed 2012 "The Year of the MOOC." At the time, many thought MOOCs might become a replacement for both classroom instruction and ingrained models of learning. It’s easy to see why.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Nearly a dozen entrepreneurs we talked to said they each received upwards of 20 emails from investment banking groups, inviting them to meetings in private suites. That’s generally how much companies have to generate for most major banks to consider working with them to find a buyer. Here’s a few of the things we noticed on Day 1.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 11, 2017

The basic premise (I suggest you read the whole article ) is that a 17 year old working at BlackBoard (a technology company), is ridiculed for using their phone during a meeting by some older adults, because it looks like he is texting, while he is actually taking notes. I believe this applies to classrooms and in employment).

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

He also knew that the notion of introducing what he called “learning engineers” would face resistance from faculty convinced they already knew perfectly well what they were doing in their classrooms. “A Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. colleges, but that has grown to more than 10,000 today.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

MOOCs have evolved over the past five years from a virtual version of a classroom course to an experience that feels more like a Netflix library of teaching videos. The change has helped companies that provide these courses find a business model, but something crucial has been lost for students taking the courses.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2017

Young companies, however, rarely have the luxury of a dedicated human resources team to give each application more than a cursory vetting. That’s the first thing Jamila Amarshi did when she saw a job post at Clever in December 2012. “I Knowing what makes a company click—and tick—can also quickly grab the staff’s attention.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

Most college classrooms had almost 40 percent of women in their CS classes. There’s not a moment of the day that goes by without a Girls Who Code club meeting in some town, some parish or some community center. We taught 20 girls in New York City in 2012. And there are so many more companies out there.

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TeacherCast

JULY 18, 2022

Step 3: Diversify Your Portfolio The other day, I was having a planning meeting with a company about a future project. It’s true that you often find me sharing with others the importance of going where your audience is, building a community around a topic, and making sure you are meeting the needs of your audience.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

I want to make sure my undergrads are thinking about their impact outside of a formal classroom,” says Martina P. We are very much focused on classroom teaching.” They don’t have to start from scratch: Research about how to successfully teach kids in virtual classrooms has been underway for years. That’s not unique to Auburn.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 6, 2018

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edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

Along with a 1:1 goal, comes the deluge of edtech tools, software, and applications into classrooms. No matter how much time teachers are given to work in data teams, tables and graphs can be so complicated that they can lose sight of how the data relates to a particular child, specific classroom or grade level. Data Analytics.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

SPICE was meeting all of their learners’ needs except one, rural isolation, and this drove their focus on using technology to strengthen their program. The IT department partnered with Reaction Grid, a company specializing in virtual world projects, to create the first level in the Center.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

These meetings, she says, inform how they interact with entrepreneurs. Investing is humbling because we inevitably miss out on or pass on companies that go on to achieve great success in realizing their mission. It brought over the companies from the Seed Fund into its portfolio as well, and re-invested in 14 of them.)

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

I just stepped out of a meeting, actually, with two teachers helping them design a project that we hope will lead to the building of a food truck. That said, I try to spend most of my time in classrooms and in school buildings. I quickly evaluate if this is a person or company that’s worth a relationship. TR: Well, you said it!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

As college students click, swipe and tap through their daily lives—both in the classroom and outside of it—they’re creating a digital footprint of how they think, learn and behave that boggles the mind. McKay attended the summer meeting at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in California. The site launched Sept. For Stevens, his “aha!”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

Although Gordon longed to go back to the classroom, “I could do hybrid because I can see that students can benefit from a hybrid model,” she said. Community college student Jawanza Corbin in Camden, New Jersey, for example, joined a research group at Stanford that had moved their meetings online. I’ve used the time to find my path.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. Andrea, who earned her college degree in English literature in 2012, is a temp in a law firm and drives people around on weekday mornings and through the weekends.

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eSpark

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

In the fragmented edtech market, it’s all too easy for companies to build a shiny new product, attach a few buzz words to it, and start selling it to overwhelmed school leaders that need solutions fast. In 2012, I conducted my first academic efficacy analysis on our flagship product, eSpark, for a school district with 80 students.

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eSpark

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

In the fragmented edtech market, it’s all too easy for companies to build a shiny new product, attach a few buzz words to it, and start selling it to overwhelmed school leaders that need solutions fast. In 2012, I conducted my first academic efficacy analysis on our flagship product, eSpark, for a school district with 80 students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2018

He has been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Garg, who is now one of three finalists for the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching bestowed by Baylor University. Tell us how they put innovation, creativity, and collaboration into play in their classrooms.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

But there’s a challenge in getting those findings to folks at the front of the classroom. And it eventually will lead to those established industries falling away and the new industries and companies taking over. There’s actually more going on than in 2012 when the bubble happened.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Not even this summer’s NBA Finals, featuring the Golden State Warriors, could distract Bay Area sports fan Brian Grey from taking this meeting. Yet he was struck by Remind’s mission, along with the “immense capability and market positioning that the company has carved in the education ecosystem.” They’ve also raised more than $59.5

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techlearning

MAY 22, 2018

Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in occupations related to STEM—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—is projected to grow to more than 9 million between 2012 and 2022. That's an increase of about 1 million jobs over 2012 employment levels. The company’s mission is to champion learning by doing.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 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. My point was not to leave room to fail in that classroom,” says Ford. million in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The school is located on Carlisle Avenue, named after William Carlisle, the co-founder of the long-shuttered timber company that established this town. There are still a handful of timber companies in Onalaska, but the timber industry in Washington has been declining since World War II. Census data. The median age declined from 36.6

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

And career preparation here isn’t just a buzzword but more like a guiding principle: When the end-of-day bell sounds, some children transition from students to employees of the district, and earn $10 an hour for working on a variety of projects for local technology companies. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2015

Teachers are also leaders of their classrooms. Here are ten ways leaders become misleaders: First published May 16, 2012. When I think of this struggle for keeping the purpose of education versus popular opinion, I think of an interview with visionary superintendent Pam Moran on Every Classroom Matters.

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