Baker's B.Y.O.D.

MAY 30, 2013

While I''ve written quite a bit about assessing writing (ad nauseum) via digital means, reading instruction and assessment have remained a primarily paper-based enterprise in my class. I signed out the mobile lab and a class set of headphones, and assigned an act a day. Gobstopper is MOBILE! A highlight of my experience!

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2018

EduLab Ventures is a new offshoot from EduLab , which is the parent company of JIEM, a Japan-based research and assessment group. education technology investments have largely simmered from its peak in 2013, when edtech-focused accelerators and seed deals flooded the market. Over the past few years, EduLab has invested in three U.S.-based

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Frontline’s Mobile App, in particular, has supported better outcomes for districts by filling more than 5 million absences in the last school year. Additionally, over the past two back-to-school months, 418K jobs were filled via the Mobile App. job applications, and provided 1.6M

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

I became a Strava user in 2013, around the same time I became an online course designer. I realized that I was recording hours of deliberate practice (my early morning runs), formative assessments (the occasional speed workout on the track) and even a few summative assessments (races) on the app. billion kudos on the platform.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2020

Founded in 2013, Preply employs 125 employees full time, and Bigai says revenue has grown tenfold over the last three years. Upcoming features will allow tutors to track learners’ progress with new assessments and homework. The company plans to improve its Android and iOS mobile apps, too. In the U.S., In addition to the U.S.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

Kinems : Founded in 2013, Kinems aims to use Microsoft's Kinect to develop games to support special education, particularly students in grades K-9 with dyspraxia, autism, and ADHD. SmartTrack : Mobile app created by Philadelphia-based former educators to manage school inventories using optical character recognition scanning software.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

based early childhood technology and services developer best known for its GOLD observation-based assessment system and its Creative Curriculum product lines for infants, preschoolers and kindergarteners. Any serious engagement of this demographic with educational technology tools must have a mobile-first strategy in place,” Roden says.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth. is a type of essentialist, behaviorist education based on the three Rs – receiving by listening to the teacher; responding by taking notes, studying text, and doing worksheets; and regurgitating by taking the same assessments as all other students in the cohort.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

Since taking the reins as CEO in 2013, he has aggressively shed assets considered tangential to the publisher’s digital transformation strategy. EdSurge: When you took over as CEO in 2013, there was much made about transforming Pearson’s digital transformation. The interview below has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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Educational Technology Guy

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Dedicated to the education industry, Livescribe is kicking off a pilot program with select school districts and higher education institutions to assess use cases, as well as the impact of using the Sky wifi smartpen both in and out of the classroom. Livescribe will officially launch the Sky wifi smartpen in the education market in early 2013.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

They are not good for fostering meaningful interactions and authentic assessment of learning, which is why more and more faculty turn to third-party tools to enhance their students’ learning in online and blended course settings. Time & Place Our mobile era is transforming the traditional workplace. Between 2013 and 2014, the U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Mobile app challenge focuses on college and alternatives. A new mobile app competition with backing from the Department of Education and the First Lady is hoping to promote enthusiasm for higher education, including career and technical schools. Supporting guidance counselors is another big goal.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

By the 2013-14 academic year, the large, distributed academic environment had begun to embrace personalized learning (PL) as part of a statewide initiative developed by the governor’s Office of Innovation and the (now former) Commissioner of Education for Rhode Island. Looking Ahead While Instituting Change.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

the game-based learning platform, is going mobile. REN FAIRE: K-12 learning analytics software, Renaissance , announced Renaissance Flow 360 , an assessment-based platform that aims to help teachers analyze differentiated student data to help determine what students are ready to learn next. WHO GIVES A KAHOOT?: According to Erik C.

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SchoolDude Microsoft Company Learning Analytics 117

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

Among the tools currently on Pearson Ventures’ priority list are those that expand access to higher education and employment, with a focus on next-generation assessments and credentials. In terms of technology, artificial intelligence, mobile delivery, remote proctoring, and augmented and virtual reality are of interest.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Back in 2013, approximately 60% of Maine's participating districts chose iPads. In 2013, school districts were given the option to participate in one of five solutions, which included Apple laptops, Hewlett-Packard laptops, and iPads. Here are five: Mobility: Students can take an iPad anywhere.

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iPad Laptops Classroom Report 90

Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Innovative Interactive Presentation Tools to Bring Your Classroom to Life by Bryan Miller Interactive response systems have evolved from the formal clickers, to now operating on mobile devices. Bryan gives you a head to head comparison of all of the popular interactive response systems that work on your classroom''s mobile devices.

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edWeb.net

MAY 22, 2019

Classroom teachers are embracing the technology as a means to provide immediate feedback, assess student understanding and interact with both parents and students. Laptops, Chromebooks, iPads, and even cell phones are providing students with opportunities to access the internet for researching, communicating and social learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 27, 2015

Our recent study found that 81% of college students use mobile devices (such as smartphones and tablets) to study, the second most popular device category behind laptops and up 40 percent in usage since 2013. Further, research validates the use of mobile technology in education.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

FY 2013 $0. Obama administration FY 2015 request for a proposed replacement educational technology program (see page 5) : “ $200 million for a new ConnectEDucators initiative that would help educators transition to using technology and data to personalize learning and improve CCR [college- and career-ready] instruction and assessment.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Although enabling the “flipped” approach to instruction using Edmodo has transformed the way material is taught and comprehended by students, it has been difficult to find resources that combine curriculum delivery, real-world examples, and assessments in a cohesive manner. So what did you do on Digital Learning Day 2013?'

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In 2013 our school decided to start doing computer-based testing of our lower school students. I was excited about having options for instruction and learning more about mobile learning. At the end of the 2013-2014 school year CCS had a marvelous “problem.” So many schools didn’t have related arts computer teachers.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Differentiation puts the focus on learners, and it is a learner-centered approach that is aimed to help learners succeed regardless of the differences” (Bajrami, 2013). Most of the time, it is related merely to assessment. . Homework is used for practicing their knowledge of the topic you have delivered. Bajrami, I.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Michelle describes herself as "curious and engaged in learning about making thinking visible, assessment, electronic portfolios, maker spaces, innovative learning, collaboration and creativity." Mobile users : You can join live sessions from iPhone, iPad, or Android device (including Kindle Fire HD). Log in at [link].

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Blackboard Classroom iPhone iPad 57

Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

That is, we are less likely to use ed-tech to rethink assignments or assessments than we are to use ed-tech more closely scrutinize student behavior. Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work?

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Software ProctorU Company Data 141

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Project Connect brings together leaders from school administration, library and instructional technology fields to provide models of success connected to mobile computing, digital resources and instructional practice. Links to download the mobile apps can be found at [link]. Here are directions from Blackboard''s Support site.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2015

Ed note: This post has been republished from a 2013 article. This is a tone that is becoming increasingly important in the 21st century as access to information increases, as the updating of information happens more naturally, and as blended and mobile learning environments become more common. by Terry Heick. The Tone of Learning.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Differentiation puts the focus on learners and it is a learner-centered approach that is aimed to help students succeed regardless of the differences” (Bajrami, 2013). Most of the time, it is related merely to assessment. Homework is used for practicing their knowledge of the topic you have delivered. Bajrami, I.

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Flipped Classroom Differentiated Instruction How To Learning 68

EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2019

In 2013-2014, the real beginning of the digital transformation, schools mostly stumbled about as they either considered or implemented a widespread acquisition of computing devices. Most of the education industry is consumed with testing and assessment. There is an abiding fear of ever-more analytics.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Classrooms are embracing interactive whiteboards and mobile devices with enthusiasm. Assessment is subjective. The Need for Autonomous Assessment. Teachers’ observation skills and subjective judgment are used quite frequently in terms of assessing students’ behavior and performance in the classroom.

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Learning Analytics Gamification Assessment Industry 40

Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 1, 2014

First published in the AWSA Update Bulletin , October 16, 2013. The second way infographics can be incorporated into teaching and learning is by having students create an infographic as a formative or summative assessment. Some information has been updated below. Overview Infographics are everywhere! CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8

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EdTechSandyK

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Best Twitter Hashtag: #txed Educators across Texas are sharing resources for teaching and learning and sharing political insights as our biennial legislative season ramps up in 2013. Formative assessment using "on the fly" questions is also possible. Accounts are easy to set up and quizzes are easy to create.

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Camtasia Android Edmodo BYOD 63

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

According to Common Sense Media’s study “ Zero to Eight: Children’s Media Use in America ,” the percentage of children ages eight and under who’ve used a mobile device nearly doubled from 2011 to 2013, from 38 percent to 72 percent. What’s more, about two in five children under the age of two have used a mobile device.

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Digital Citizenship Mobility iPad Social Media 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

This is Camus’ second startup after he built TouristEye, a trip planning tool for which Camus raised over $500,000 and sold to travel guide publisher Lonely Planet in 2013. The school doesn’t assess students with letter grades and has grown to 80 schools throughout Arizona. Prenda This Mesa, Ariz.-based

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

SchoolMint Secures $8 Million: San Francisco-based SchoolMint , a provider of mobile and online enrollment and school choice systems for Pre-K-12 public, charter and private schools, said their recent Series A round brings total funding to close to $8 million. million PreK-12 students.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 10, 2015

The most recent data from the National Association of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed that 58% of US fourth grade students are below proficiency level in mathematics (The Nation’s Report Card, 2013).

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Common Core iPad Digital Learning Professional Learning 40

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

For Lee, it began with a pair of glasses—or rather, the ones he forgot to bring to an urban planning conference in 2013. Among them are mobile homeless shelters, smart homes for pets, vape alarms for school bathrooms and fare evasion detectors for BART, the local rail service. Altogether sixteen projects are on display.

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