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Epic Outages of Edtech Tools Show K-12 Schools Are Vulnerable to Cyberattacks

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edtech: Information technology for K-12 public schools in America is a $760 billion sector, affecting over 50 million students. Many districts are small, and may only have a handful of staff for all of their technology operations. What schools can do, experts say, is to diligently vet the edtech they use.

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Empowering Educators and Elevating Equity at ISTE 2022

MIND Research Institute

It was a homecoming of sorts this summer at the 2022 ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Conference and Expo! If you've been reading our blog for a while, you might remember my first trip to ISTE back in 2019 when I took in the edtech landscape between viewing the Liberty Bell and chowing down on cheesesteaks.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

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The Hiring Process Has Become More Technology-Driven A key factor I’ve been studying is how employers are thinking about talent and changes in the hiring process, including shifts in their perceptions of college and university and other credentials. workers should be worried about their skills becoming outdated over the next few years.

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Kahoot Earns a $376M Valuation After Disney Investment—and Is Looking to Acquire

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Launched in 2013, Kahoot offers a web-based and mobile app that allows anyone to create and partake in multiple-choice quizzes, which are accompanied by playful animations and sounds reminiscent of a game show. Kahoot currently has 60 employees, and expects to nearly double its headcount to 110 staff in 2021.

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Getting Stakeholders to Back the Edtech Budget

edWeb.net

Edtech is no longer a one-time purchase or a luxury item—it’s integrated across every system in school districts from the central office to classrooms to school buses. Show stakeholders that when investing in technology, you need to examine all costs from the impact on bandwidth to teacher training and student-home access.

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Kahoot Acquires Clever for $500M, Hoping to Expand Its Presence in the U.S.

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Kahoot will snap up Clever for a combination of cash and shares, at an enterprise value between $435 and $500 million, depending on the latter company’s performance and revenue in the 2021-22 school year. and Motimate to its portfolio—will unite two giants in education technology. It’s so confusing,” Hill says. Students get lost.

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Data Dump

eSchool News

The Report: CoSN 2023 State of EdTech Leadership Survey Highlights: Cybersecurity As it has since 2018, cybersecurity continues to rank as the number-one concern for EdTech Leaders. Digital Equity Students are less likely to receive support for off-campus broadband access than they were in 2021.

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