Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Here, find recommendations for articles, books and podcasts that have resonated with us — some related to education and others that extend beyond. But I somehow missed that he published a new, different kind of book in 2021 — “ The Anthropocene Reviewed ,” a collection of personal, contemplative, funny and deeply human essays.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Five years ago, I published a book on the future of university credentials, making some predictions about what seemed likely to come next in the market for degrees and emerging forms of alternative college credentials. In my book I might have been a bit overly optimistic about the resistance of traditional higher ed, however.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

All components: student books, lesson cards, digital learning, reading response journals, sound-spelling activities, and formative assessment cards work together to provide ample opportunities for children to read, talk, and write—all vital steps on the path toward successful reading. SoapBox is a privacy-first and equity-by-design company.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The Madrid-based company has announced $10 million in Series B funding from puzzle and game producer, Ravensburger. The company witnessed a 50 percent increase in engagement rates from users during 2020 and is on course to add 10 million families to the platform by the year’s end, Viedma said.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In its latest earnings update, the company confirmed that it is indeed moving ahead with such plans. If concluded, the sale would mark yet another major asset that Pearson has shed since John Fallon took over as CEO in 2013. a semester to access all of the company’s digital higher-ed materials. billion loss in 2016.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Building on the success of our Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiative and with the addition of a new, innovative staff member two noteworthy advancements have been made since September 2013. That new staff member is Laura Fleming and she has done nothing less than blaze a trail since joining the NMHS team. Jennifer Lyons, Ms.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2018

Last February, myON was sold by its parent company , Capstone to private equity firm Francisco Partners. Across these three main product lines, the company claims usage in one-third of all U.S. In 2013, Renaissance partnered with Capstone (then the owner of myON) to integrate its Accelerated Reader quizzes with myON’s digital books.

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Libraries Company Learning Assessment 67

Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2018

The Beijing-based company may soon receive a funding boost to further those efforts and grow its tutoring platform. The raise would value the company at more than $3 billion. Founded in 2013, VIPKID connects North American English teachers to Chinese students via a live video tutoring platform.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And in my book, that's an A+. The Framework for Teaching Evaluation Instrument: 2013 Edition. The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Danielson, C. Teachscape. Darling-Hammond, Linda, et al. ” Learning Policy Institute : 8.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

One of the most-cited versions of the critique is the 2002 book “ The McDonaldization of Higher Education ,” by Dennis Hayes and Robin Wynyard. The formulation is meant to provoke, and the authors boil their argument into four bullet points (adopting the style and spirit of the business books they critique).

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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. Enter Textbook Publishers.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

and elsewhere regularly use software and curriculum developed within the past decade, often developed by small companies and former educators. Kahoot-2013. Newsela-2013. These days, millions of students in the U.S. Ten K-12 School Technologies Created Since 2010. Class Dojo-2011. Clever-2012. Desmos-2011. Google Classroom-2014.

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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.

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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.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Report: Gates Foundation’s College Advising Initiative Had Little Impact on Students by Tony Wan Since 2013, the Gates Foundation has funded colleges and companies for its Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (iPASS) initiative, which supports data analytics and technology tools that help college advisors.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

She co-founded the institute in 2007 and served as its executive director through 2013. The experimental institution, called Quest to Learn , opened its doors in 2009 and became the subject of many books and articles. Starting in 2013, the Institute of Play scaled back its day-to-day involvement. UC Irvine, where Tekinba?

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Game-Based Learning Pearson Training Report 149

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 31, 2024

Mental Health and Wellness Series OVERVIEW Emotional Intelligence (EI) is how you manage yourself and your relationships with others, according to Daniel Goleman, who popularized the construct in his book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1995). Emotional Intelligence: A Masterclass with Loida Garcia-Febo The Library 2.0

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 21, 2019

Photo by Hence The Book on unsplash Today I was notified that this blog has been listed in the top ten of the UK's most influential education blogs by Vuelio for 2019. The PIE blog - The PIE company 2016 Top Ten 1. TeacherToolkit (ranked 1st in 2013, 2014, 2015) 2. TeacherToolkit (ranked 1st in 2013, 2014) 2.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

MAY 30, 2013

UPDATE AS OF 1/15/14: The company Gobstopper has changed its name to Curriculet, but this update hasn''t changed how I use Curriculet with my students. The stories and information in the below post still hold true despite the change in company name. The content creation is already done; all the teacher has to do is assign the books.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Analysis Assessment 162

Neo LMS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The deal saw the books delivered to over 600,000 government distributed teacher tablets across the country, amounting to over 40 million individual e-textbooks! The company’s extensive library of test prep materials and study guides — many of them video-based — offer a student-centric way to access the material and content they need.

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PlagiarismCheck

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Cristiane Serruya, a Brazilian novelist, allegedly plagiarized most of her latest book. The problem is, as Roberts claims, that not only did Serruya plagiarize her book, but she created a patchwork of 93 books of 41 authors. This time it is Jill Abramson and involves her recent book Merchants of Truth.

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PlagiarismCheck

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Cristiane Serruya, a Brazilian novelist, allegedly plagiarized most of her latest book. The problem is, as Roberts claims, that not only did Serruya plagiarize her book, but she created a patchwork of 93 books of 41 authors. This time it is Jill Abramson and involves her recent book Merchants of Truth.

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Company Training Twitter Examples 64

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 25, 2020

Farenga’s books include The Beginner’s Guide to Homeschooling (Holt, 1998); Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling (Perseus, 2003); The Legacy of John Holt: A Man Who Genuinely Understood, Trusted, and Respected Children (HoltGWS, 2013); and his latest publication, How to Report Unschooling to School Officials (HoltGWS, 2015).

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 3, 2016

In recent dealmaking news, McGraw-Hill Education acquired Redbird Advanced Learning, LLC, a digital personalized learning company; in addition, educational content company Cengage acquired WebAssign. This is the fourth acquisition McGraw-Hill Education has made since becoming an independent company in 2013, the company noted.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

The new book was written by Stanley Litow, a former vice president of IBM and architect of the school model, and journalist Tina Kelley. “If The book is being published this month by Teachers College Press; The Hechinger Report is an independent unit of Teachers College). Its 266 schools now operate in 12 U.S. Credit: Liz Willen.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

So, Chris, I know that you have a lot of research and information in your book. So I said, “If you don’t think he can have compassion — you know those pigeon books, the pigeon that rides the bus? She was the first one in a September 2013 article. So the book is The Compassionate Achiever by Chris Kukk. Blog: [link].

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

While there are high-profile examples of companies enhancing their tuition assistance benefits—such as the Starbucks deal with Arizona State or Chipotle’s work with Guild Education —that is not the norm (even though it represents a trend worth watching). But wait, didn’t companies say they see talent as a top priority?

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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. Professor Neil Garg and his students developed an app to make organic chemistry less "scary."

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

The “Netflix for education” analogy has become somewhat of a cliché for edtech companies using student data to recommend anything from courses to textbooks. News and media quickly latched on: “Students who follow its course recommendations increase their number of credit hours and gain better grades,” the Economist wrote in 2013.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Magical Workshop contains a collection of 4 games and the box contains: 1 Mixing Mat; 2 Sticker Sheets; 1 Spell Book; 28 Counting Cubes; 6 Counting Rods. The company brings physical tools into the digital world through augmented reality and its proprietary reflective artificial intelligence. The 4 games are: Potions!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

I work on a freelance basis, turning your company's data into earned media coverage by telling compelling, data-driven stories through graphics and text. Her broad experience in the education field has included sales, marketing, and administrative positions with prominent companies such as Kaplan, Inc.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. One feature of Netflix in particular seems to have captured the imagination of edtech companies. It will not push you to go read a book, even if it is better than the movie.

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Education Udemy EdTech E-rate 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Join me Thursday, February 28th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with return guest Roger Schank to talk about his book Teaching Minds : How Cognitive Science Can Save Our Schools , why MOOCs won''t save schools or the world, and why everything you think you know about education is wrong. psid=2013-02-28.1721.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

In 2013, there were some 29 million students who had left college in the last two decades before earning a degree. An education technology company called Course Hero surveyed students last month about their financial needs; among the more than 14,000 who responded, rent and food were nearly tied for first place.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 15, 2023

In her job, she helps libraries, companies and organizations strategize programs, services and strategies in areas related to these topics and many others. She published more than 30 research papers and two books. Garcia-Febo has a Bachelors in Business Education, Masters in Library and Information Sciences.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

I’ll shelve books. Students in the Math, Engineering and Science Academy earn an average of $24,000 per student in academic scholarships; the Health and Medical Sciences Academy became a Governor’s Regional Health Academy in 2013 and in 2015, a new Environmental Studies Academy began operations. Pam: Vicki, always a delight.

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