edWeb.net

MARCH 20, 2019

Teachers have many edtech resources in their toolbox now. Director of Digital Learning and Innovation at Milford Public Schools, MA, talked about why they wrangled their technology and how having a defined edtech toolbox improved teaching and learning overall. More important, are the tools of equal quality? Joseph, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

In Germany, there’s #OERcamp , a series of informal meetups for educators that’s been running since 2012. The Open Textbook Network has curated the Open Textbook Library , which links to nearly 700 titles. In the U.S., But some institutions are up for the challenge.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Mention edtech, and the first thought that usually comes to mind is collecting data to evaluate students’ progress. By asking three key questions, leaders can get a better sense of their K-12 edtech ecosystem. Thus, while a school may think it has 20 official edtech tools in the classroom, the unofficial list could be over 200.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education , a global edtech company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. Back in 2012, I began to experiment with integrating interactive video into my classroom practice. together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”), announced it has acquired Minneapolis, MN-based Pivot Interactives SBC.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

APRIL 12, 2016

Edtech guru, Terry Freedman, introducing me to London’s digital library (2012). What factors led to this lesson succeeding or going awry? What did you learn from the experience? Get your copy of The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers !​. Book, and Coming of Age: An Introduction to the New World Wide Web.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Kolibri is the next iteration of KA Lite , an offline version of Khan Academy that Learning Equality Executive Director Jamie Alexandre debuted in 2012 while interning at the organization. “[Kolibri] is one of the bigger bets we are making,” says Hoyer-Gosselink.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Within educational contexts, inquiry-oriented instruction involves both teachers and students “asking questions that do not necessarily have known answers” (Shore, Chichekian, Syer, Aulls, & Frederiksen, 2012). The constructivist approach, that the IB broadly adopts, suggests that students construct their own knowledge. Chichekian, T.,

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Things move fast in the edtech world, and we hear all the time from teachers how hard it can be to keep up. This is why we've created the EdTech Eleven: our monthly list of noteworthy tools generating buzz in the edtech world. In edtech right now, there's nothing more novel -- or generating more buzz -- than BreakoutEDU.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

Founded in 2008, Knewton blazed its way into the edtech industry with bold proclamations about its adaptive-learning technology, which it then licensed to digital curriculum providers. Combined, the two companies say they will have 44,000 textbook titles, many of which are expected to be added to the Unlimited library.

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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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edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

Along with a 1:1 goal, comes the deluge of edtech tools, software, and applications into classrooms. With up-to-the-minute data analysis, districts can make informed decisions about critical components of edtech integration, including digital curricula, professional development, investment, and student data privacy. Suzy holds a B.S.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Within educational contexts, inquiry-oriented instruction involves both teachers and students “asking questions that do not necessarily have known answers” (Shore, Chichekian, Syer, Aulls, & Frederiksen, 2012). The constructivist approach, that the IB broadly adopts, suggests that students construct their own knowledge. Chichekian, T.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. The ALA Declaration for the Right to Libraries. See my notes below for my own thoughts on the importance of libraries.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The company, which was started by two Stanford University professors in 2012 and is now one of the most well-funded in the education industry , has always been highly picky about which colleges it works with to develop courses. Coursera is allowing free access to its fully hosted platform, though its code is not open.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Actively Learn’s library includes 30,000 digital texts on subjects covering topics across English language arts, science and social studies subjects. Where Achieve3000’s library skews toward nonfiction and informational materials (such as news articles), Actively Learn focuses heavily on fictional texts, including literary classics.

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RafranzDavis.com

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

This “game”, which received exceptional reviews AND AWARDS from teachers and media affiliates from all over the country, has been used in classrooms since at least 2012. School Library Journal – “Media Mix: ‘Flight to Freedom’ for Black History Month”. For that, I am still annoyed with the greater Edtech Community about.

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techieMusings

JUNE 2, 2015

2012 – began flipping Honors Algebra 2. Compilation of some student created content (video library + Socratic written responses). A very quick recap of my evolution: 2010 – started by making screencasts for my AP Calculus AB students. My mentality – if it was going to be purely lecture, offload that to video.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

The firm traces its roots to 2012, when Jennifer Carolan and Wayee Chu (now both general partners at Reach), started a $12 million “Seed Fund” at NewSchools Venture Fund, an Oakland-based education nonprofit philanthropy. -based firm has established itself as a familiar name within the education technology industry.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

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. He and Ryan Alexander, the company’s president, are no longer involved in running the company.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2018

In 2012, Age of Learning began piloting a version of its ABCmouse program with Chinese schools; today these institutions number in the thousands. children across homes, schools and public libraries last year. The ABCmouse program is free to use in libraries. But it’s not the Glendale, Calif.-based

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edWeb.net

JUNE 30, 2018

Mark Ray is Director of Innovation and Library Services for Vancouver (WA) Public Schools and Future Ready Librarians Lead at the Alliance for Excellent Education. In addition to blogs, he has also written for School Administrator , eSchool News , and School Library Journal. Mark has presented at ISTE, SXSWEdu, FETC, CUE, and AASL.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

She pointed out that currently there are 3,500 edtech apps available for classroom use, but there are many more tools and apps that teachers and students are finding on their own. Monica Cougan joined ENA in 2012, where she currently serves as the product marketing manager. About the Host. Join the Community.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2017

For us, it was at EdFoo 2017 , an un-conference of teachers, edtech gurus, funders and others gathered at Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters for three days of spontaneous learning. It’s a far cry from 2012, when then-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told teachers , “At the federal level, we spend $2.5 The list goes on and on.

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Kathy Schrock

JUNE 1, 2020

I appreciate the support of Discovery Education, the DEN, and the readers of this blog from its inception in September of 2012. It was a super team of very smart educators, all of whom you will likely recognize since they are still active in the edtech space! Perhaps it will be back in another form at some point.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 25, 2016

Follett Acquires Baker & Taylor and Bookmasters: The education materials and technology provider bought Baker & Taylor, LLC , a wholesaler and distributor of books, video and music products to public libraries and institutions.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

MARCH 9, 2015

It also emphasizes the power of libraries in schools. Congrats to our good friend @plemmonsa on being named in the '20 to Watch' #edtech leaders by @NSBAComm #innovation pic.twitter.com/TfPgVHFK7s. Plemmons was also a finalist for School Library Journal School Librarian of the Year, sponsored by Scholastic Library Publishing.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Then you won’t want to miss the advantages (and disadvantages) to modern EdTech. 2012 – The iPad brings tablets into public perception. Click here for a more complete timeline on the history of EdTech. While interesting, the history of EdTech probably doesn’t help your students very much in the here and now.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

Customers can now pay a monthly fee to get access to a library of content. As MOOCs surged in popularity from 2012 to 2015, universities, nonprofits, schools and companies all jumped into the game of developing online courses, and giving them away—often at the promise of no cost—to the world.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

To continue encouraging teachers to find tools while still keeping tabs on what they’re using, Racine has asked them to turn to another destination: the Clever Library. Provisioning apps quickly and securely has been core to Clever’s business since it was founded in 2012. That effort wound down by the end of that year.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

That is, until researchers at EducationSuperhighway closely examined the program back in 2012. “We School leaders working with public charter schools, private schools, libraries or schools administered by Bureau of Indian Education won’t find their data on the site. But all of that data was kept private. The Commission was hesitant.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

And particularly for those teaching middle- and high-school students, tens of thousands have turned to one of the quietest but steadiest edtech entrepreneurs, Neeru Khosla. She was shaken in 2012 when her co-founder, Pal, passed away from ALS. They could also fold their own curriculum materials back into the CK-12 library for others.

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The 21st Century Principal

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Here’s my 2012 Edublog nominations. Best EdTech/ Resource Sharing Blog Free Technology for Teachers : Very reliable and consistent resource on web and technology tools for the classroom. Thanks to all! New Blog Diane Ravitch’s Blog : Diane Ravitch’s new blog gives voice to public education advocates everywhere.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Strategic planning for edtech is an endless journey—and not just because of constantly evolving hardware and software. Similarly, Ann Linson, Superintendent, East Noble School Corporation, IN, said that understanding the total cost also means having a focus for the edtech initiative. Department of Education Secretary in October 2016.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2018

Founded in 2012, Kiddom’s initial offering was a competency-based gradebook that simply recorded data about how students performed on content from third-party content providers. Students can see their assignments and due dates for each class, as well as their grades and feedback from the teacher.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

Normally, many rural districts work with local libraries and businesses to provide students with WiFi hotspots. While they may be proficient in using edtech, they don’t know how to create comprehensive lessons to use it in the classroom. Most important, be understanding of different families’ predicaments.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Arlington Independent School District is an edtech integration leader both districtwide and in the classroom, and other districts can look to AISD for inspiration. To better understand edtech use across the district’s system, the district’s tech team set up a district Inventory Dashboard, provided free from LearnPlatform.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 1, 2020

The budgeting team needs to understand the many roles of edtech as well. Edtech needs sustained funding over time because once tech initiatives are started, they can’t be stopped. Moreover, the tech team also needs to understand how assessment and instructional needs fit together. About the Host.

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