Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2022

Edmodo is permanently shuttering , the company announced late Monday. It’s no longer viable “for us to maintain the level of service you deserve and that we can take pride in ourselves,” the company wrote in an online explanation of its closure. Edmodo platform was one of my best app when I started teaching in 2013.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Some days when Steve Isaacs’ students walk into his classroom, they might have to deal with an earthquake that costs them health points. The company has raised a total of $11 million to date. The company offers monthly new storylines and scenarios educators can use to engage students in class. million Series A funding round.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 21, 2018

American poet and etymologist John Ciardi once remarked, “The classroom should be an entrance into the world.” Contemporary classrooms (from elementary school to graduate school) are structured similar to a manufacturing line and typically produce students who are full of information. Instead, it should use simple rules to guide it.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

SYDNEY – Canva , the world’s only all-in-one visual communication platform, today announced the launch of a suite of K-12 education products as part of its Canva for Education platform, making it the first company to introduce AI-powered educational tools at scale. Translate: Make teaching and learning easy in every language.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 2, 2017

Prepare to have your mind shift about how we sit in classrooms today! Getting Rid of Cemetery Style Steating in the Classroom with Bill Selak. VICKI: Happy Wonderful Classroom Wednesday. But he’s in Hillbrook Schools in California and they’re really reimagining the classroom. Transcript for Episode 118 .

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2022

Technology teams in schools are working with edtech companies to bring cutting-edge technology into the classroom, providing real-time solutions to long-term problems. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , during 2013–2015, 3.9 Modernizing the Classroom. Signing into a virtual classroom was unheard of.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2022

One such petition , signed by nearly 200 people, called the systems “creepy,” arguing that “students don't deserve the extra stress of considering how their bathroom break will be perceived by others when they leave the classroom.” We were always writing passes for kids. Now the teacher doesn’t have to stop class to write out a pass.”

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Philly Teacher

DECEMBER 31, 2013

As 2013 comes to a close, it is time to reflect on the past year. 2013 proved to be quite a transformative one. Spring 2013. 2013 began with the honor of being named PAECT ‘s Teacher of the Year in February. End of the School Year/Summer 2013. to a classroom where every student has his or her own device.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 25, 2018

Flipping Awesome Physics with an Asynchronous Flipped Gameful Mastery Learning Classroom. Now, Jon, you have recently implemented an asynchronous, flipped, gameful, mastery learning classroom. So I flipped my classes starting in 2013. That’s the basic idea of a flipped classroom. Link to show: www.coolcatteacher.com/e298.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 19, 2023

Stay tuned at the show's end to see how you can bring these free, awesome, inquiry-based science lessons to your classroom. 00:01:22:06 – 00:01:57:07 Misa: We gained authorization in 2013. We started with seven students in 2013, so we've seen some tremendous growth. Currently, we have about 175 students in the program.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 16, 2019

So, for Thought Leader Thursday, today, we’d like to challenge you to consider if you have areas to improve in your classroom relating to students of a different ethnic background from your own. Global Fellow (2013) and Maryland Teacher of the year (2012).

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

Nine edtech companies, nominated by the incubators that hatched them, will present to an audience of 25 education leaders. The Colorado-based company was formed in 2016 from the merger of two existing organizations: Digital Directions International (est. Listen Current: Current events podcasts developed for the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

To that end, his company built a new software tool designed for classroom use and piloted it in five school districts — including the massive Clark County School District serving Las Vegas and its suburbs — in the 2019-20 school year. . 30 minutes per week — recommended time students spend on classroom-based Khan Academy tool.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Yet in the education industry, these deals have been few and far in between, especially as many of these companies have opted to build their own edtech tools. Founded in 2013 (and originally named cwist), Workbench has raised $3 million in funding. This marks just the second “edtech” acquisition by Google in its history.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 15, 2019

Six years ago, mixed reality game designer Jane McGonigal ’s keynote at the 2013 ISTE conference focused on how video games can boost resilience in real life. In a recent study from educational nonprofit Project Tomorrow , nearly 62 percent of teachers reported using video games in their classrooms. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Philly Teacher

DECEMBER 31, 2013

As 2013 comes to a close, it is time to reflect on the past year. 2013 proved to be quite a transformative one. Spring 2013. 2013 began with the honor of being named PAECT ‘s Teacher of the Year in February. End of the School Year/Summer 2013. to a classroom where every student has his or her own device.

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The Electric Educator

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

On November 4-5, 2013, Brighton High School hosted the 2013 Michigan Google Education conference. Sessions on project based learning, the flipped classroom, Google Drive, Chromebooks, and more were offered. I was honored to plan and coordinate this conference and am thrilled with the feedback and energy that it has generated!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Since its founding in 1984, Lexia has grown from a small home-based business in Lincoln, Massachusetts, to a company with nearly 1,000 employees currently serving more than 6.8 It was out on the fringes,” said Lexia President, Nick Gaehde who joined the company as its head in 2005.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Teacher professional development needs to be practical, fit your schedule, and improve your classroom — and I’ve found professional development from Advancement Courses that does just that! The content focus with an active learning approach made the Advancement Courses class valuable for my classroom.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

A crop of startups have embarked on the laudable task of ridding the classroom of stale PowerPoint slides. The tool is also tightly integrated with Google tools—G Suite for Education and Google Classroom—which allows students to log in with their Google accounts. The Iowa City-based startup has now raised $5.2

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

Although Joel passed away in 2013, Sunseed Food still exists in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Jay sits on the board. “He Silver was enigmatic in his description of the GameBender offering, preferring to keep details under wraps until May 29, when he says the company will unveil the final product and pricing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 28, 2018

TIG was awarded the 2013 Intercultural Innovation Award by BMW and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. In the past, he turned his interest in technology into several successful online companies, including MyDesktop.com, which sold to Internet.com in 1999.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

These companies are hiring now. ™ is the proud recipient of the 2013 MCEEA Employer of the Year. Varsity Tutors is a nationally recognized company that connects students with personalized tutoring services in both academic and test prep subject areas. Summer is here. School is out. Apply now: [link]. Read More and Apply Now.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2018

With the need for more experienced coders in the future, Code Kit by littleBits will be a useful addition to the K–12 classroom. MORE FROM EDTECH: How teachers can integrate robotics and coding into their classrooms. I’ve been using littleBits kits since 2013, when the company first released the Base, Premium and Deluxe Kits.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

But in the classroom, their appeal is much more limited. For its next title, the San Francisco-based company is sheathing the swords and shelving the spears. Other investors include Extol Capital, OceanOne Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, which also contributed to the company’s previous fundraise.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

More than 600 exhibitors and 34,000 attendees are expected to descend on London this week for the annual Bett show , where some companies come with a barrage of updates befitting one of the biggest education technology trade shows in the world. Its interface resembles a mashup of Slack and Google Classroom.) Or so it feels.)

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The Denton, Texas-based company is also growing up itself. ReadyRosie founder and CEO Emily Roden says helping children by engaging their parents has helped her company grow to serve 6,500 Head Start programs, childcare centers and elementary schools. The company has raised no outside capital since its start.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Since 2013, Salesforce.org has donated more than $50 million to the two Bay Area school districts. Students there have the option of getting help from mindfulness coaches, and she said the school has seen a decrease in absenteeism, bullying and classroom behavior incidents. Last year, it donated $12.2 So did Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

Sarraf hopes the robot and her company of the same name can reach homes and families, just as they have reached the wallets of two angel investors who have injected $4.2 The company did not disclose their names. The robot is not yet available; when it is, the company says it will retail for $299. Courtesy of Roybi the company.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2016

McGraw-Hill Education has acquired Redbird Advanced Learning , a digital personalized learning company that offers courses in K-12 math, language arts, and writing and virtual professional development programs for educators. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2019

He left in 2013, a couple years before the company went public.) Math classrooms are continuously evolving to help today’s students succeed,” Overland said. Among her wishes is that the company continues to grow its content library, and add a graphing feature to support more types of math exercises.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Last year the company added Oakland to the list with a $2.5 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 $2.7M $5M $6M $6M $7M. In addition to providing money, Salesforce has committed its staff to volunteering 40,000 hours in the classroom during the 2017-18 school year. million gift. Of the $12.2 Salesforce giving to SFUSD.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

In education, the shuttering of campuses and classrooms has been a windfall for purely digital companies—some of which are attracting plenty of private capital. Substitute teacher services company Swing Education is creating private homeschools. Even before then, the company had already taken a big hit. “We

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The San Francisco-based software company will continue a four-year partnership with San Francisco Unified School District. Salesforce has increased its donation each year since piloting the donation program to school districts in 2013. Salesforce on Thursday announced a donation of $8.5 million, $6 million goes to San Francisco and $2.5

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ProfHacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Back in June of 2013, I wrote a brief post about Haiku Deck , which at the time was simply a free iPad app for creating and showing presentations. The company has provided this 3-minute screencast explanation of how to set things up: Are you a Haiku Deck user? What’s been your experience?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

According to a 2018 study from the Center for American Progress , “if Black and Hispanic bachelor’s degree recipients were as likely to major in engineering as white students, this country would have produced 20,000 more engineers from 2013 through 2015.”. In 2013, only 6 percent of professors were black.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

A Microsoft spokesperson says over email that this technology is publicly available, and that the company is aware of dozens of K-12 schools that are using it in the classroom. The company says its transcription technology is also useful at a broader level. NTID is one of RIT’s nine schools.

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