Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 20, 2018

At the OpenEd Conference in 2013, Nicole Allen and I challenged the OER community to save students one billion dollars. Five years later, SPARC have collected a significant amount of data in order to answer the question of whether or not we have achieved that goal. Exploratory Data Analysis. Quite the task! Type of Materials.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2022

Those with data on Edmodo should remove it by the end of the day September 22nd if they don’t want to lose it, officials stated. Edmodo platform was one of my best app when I started teaching in 2013.” What Happens To The Data? This means that the companies end up with large amounts of sensitive data. It's so sad!”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Almost a decade after Lynzi Ziegenhagen began work on tools to help K-12 schools with data analysis and visualization, she faced an important decision. It spun Schoolzilla out as an independent company in 2013. This was a top request from school administrators—to make our data more connected with their data,” Brekhus says.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2017

What began as a husband-and-wife skunkworks project in rural Wisconsin four years ago has now become absorbed into an education data company that boasts millions of users across 44 states. In 2013, systems engineer Matt Harris wrote a program to help his wife, a school psychologist, collect and analyze data to help her students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

Research consistently shows a link between greater social support and increased well-being (Batool & Ahmad, 2013). Schools and colleges can work with a trusted third party to host the survey on the third party’s server, to ensure student confidence in their data remains unassociated with their academic records. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01855.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Tactical student data privacy questions like “What can I do right now?” should be asked by all CIOs, teachers, administrators, and policymakers in this changing landscape of data access, student privacy, and interoperability. The data balancing act. Student data privacy: It’s what you don’t know.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In 2013, just months after I started working as CIO of Bridgeport School District in Connecticut, my biggest fear about the job became reality: The district firewall was attacked. School districts collect gobs of data, much of which is required by law. Every state has laws about data retention. marquita.brown_tC0Z.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2023

an innovator in advanced audio conferencing solutions, announces that its Information Security Management System (ISMS) has received ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification , the world’s best-known standard for information security management. Today, risks to data and information are top of mind for many organizations.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). 2013) investigated the impact of instructional adaptations on student literacy achievement. Innovative teaching, as Zhu et al (2013) confirm, “is a necessity for all teachers in order to meet the educational needs of the new generations.” Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 5, 2021

Leila Nuland, Managing Director of the K-12 Research Team at Hanover Research, explained how district leaders can compile and utilize data on educational equity. Starting with the Data. The committee can then use district data to illuminate inequities and inform policies, while also looking at other districts’ strategic plans.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The short answer to the title of the post is “no”, you can’t be both “Child-Driven”and “Data-Driven” Here is the long answer. Let me make this clear…Data is not a horrible thing. Being “data-driven” is my concern. to finish their math work. Again, I will say it.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In 2013, just months after I started working as CIO of Bridgeport School District in Connecticut, my biggest fear about the job became reality: The district firewall was attacked. School districts collect gobs of data, much of which is required by law. Every state has laws about data retention. marquita.brown_tC0Z.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Tactical student data privacy questions like “What can I do right now?” should be asked by all CIO’s, teachers, administrators and policymakers in this changing landscape of data access, student privacy and interoperability. Fruth describes this new data access landscape as a teeter-totter effect. The Balancing Act.

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techlearning

MARCH 26, 2018

Worries over personal data are not restrained to Russians and Facebook. This weekend’s reading of the Tech&Learning news feeds indicates that the issue is an edtech sore point as well. Edweek surveys privacy experts on what the Cambridge Analytica fiasco means for schools. But there isn’t.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2017

Dealing with school data can be a beast. But Schoolzilla , an edtech company that aggregates and helps analyze student and district information, is trying to change that—and make large gigabytes of data a little bit easier to digest in the process. Based in Oakland, Calif., Based in Oakland, Calif.,

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2021

an adaptive learning platform company with industry-leading expertise in learning science, early learning, and data analytics worldwide. The acquisition of Kidaptive is one of several McGraw Hill has made since it became an independent company in 2013, with a focus on strengthening the company’s capabilities in adaptive and digital learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2023

.” Sibme AI automatically transcribes a video or audio recording and then uses data from the transcription and video to generate reports on a variety of quantitative metrics about classroom instruction. Sibme was founded in 2013 by David Wakefield, a Houston-area teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Critics disparaged the findings and hounded her to release her data. Tens of thousands of teachers and parents flocked to her 2013 online course on how to teach math. It emphasized “social justice” and suggested that students could take data science instead of advanced algebra in high school.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2017

Interoperability, defined dryly, is the seamless, secure and controlled exchange of data between different applications and technologies. Data is fragmented across different systems that don’t “speak” to one another. Many times, products don’t even record student or achievement data in the same format.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2022

But some digital-privacy advocates worry that the trend may create data trails that could be used against underprivileged students and ultimately create oppressive school environments. She worries that absent such clear guidelines, the new data could be used to unfairly target students based on the biases of officials.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 27, 2018

classrooms, it’s critical to keep student data safe. Current Federal Laws Guiding Student Data Protection. Hawes added that there are a number of state , local and tribal data privacy laws for districts to consider as well. “At At last count there were 119 state privacy laws passed in 39 states since 2013,” he said.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2024

The standards , released in 2013, are based on up-to-date scientific research and aim to give teachers more flexibility when creating learning experiences, yet some schools have been slow to implement the standards due to a lack of funding earmarked for teacher training and textbooks.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 3, 2017

Anyone have more recent data? Shockingly similar digital divide findings from 1998 and 2013. www.edtechresearcher.com/2013/06/shockingly_similar_digital_divide_. Thought I’d make a slide out of one my favorite digital equity reports. Download this slide: jpg.key.pptx. Source: Reich, J. Available from Education Week at.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2022

Devil’s in the Data Details There are around half a million Native children under 13 who need child care, not only for their development but so their families can work, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center’s estimates. Why is the data so sketchy? “I Even that number is just a guess, Smith says. million in mandatory funding.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Colleges have turned to predictive analytics—using past enrollment data to make predictions about future enrollment trends—to make tough decisions about who to actively recruit, admit, and support financially. However, predictive data may be driving them to do just the opposite. Looking Beyond the Predictions.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2024

The Skills Employers Demand: An Analysis of the Research summarizes 10 years of studies, from 2013 to 2023, and analyzes job postings in the 16 SREB states. In addition to course standards, research suggests these strategies: Tailor success skills to high-demand industries in your state or community by examining local job data.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

The ratio of students to school counselors in the United States continues to narrow, with data released this month showing it has reached the lowest point since 1986, the year the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) began tracking student-to-counselor ratios. I didn't base what I did on student data or school data.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

She has been instrumental in the design of software using artificial intelligence for data-driven decisions in all content areas and the suite of services to facilitate the implementation of those products. Furthermore, in May 2013, they obtained a certification in Gamification through Coursera Course Certificates.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

million two years earlier, according to national data released in 2018 by Attendance Works. MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Data Analytics Can Get to the Root of the Problem. In 2013, only six states kept records of chronic absenteeism, notes the Johns Hopkins report.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

million two years earlier, according to national data released in 2018 by Attendance Works. MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Data Analytics Can Get to the Root of the Problem. In 2013, only six states kept records of chronic absenteeism, notes the Johns Hopkins report.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

million two years earlier, according to national data released in 2018 by Attendance Works. MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Data Analytics Can Get to the Root of the Problem. In 2013, only six states kept records of chronic absenteeism, notes the Johns Hopkins report.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

million two years earlier, according to national data released in 2018 by Attendance Works. MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Data Analytics Can Get to the Root of the Problem. In 2013, only six states kept records of chronic absenteeism, notes the Johns Hopkins report.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

million two years earlier, according to national data released in 2018 by Attendance Works. MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Data Analytics Can Get to the Root of the Problem. In 2013, only six states kept records of chronic absenteeism, notes the Johns Hopkins report.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2024

The use of probeware and other data-collection technology is another way to reinforce key concepts being taught and to get students familiar with technologies they’ll experience in college labs and in STEM fields. Without the hands-on component, these types of lessons would not be nearly as impactful.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

million two years earlier, according to national data released in 2018 by Attendance Works. MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Data Analytics Can Get to the Root of the Problem. In 2013, only six states kept records of chronic absenteeism, notes the Johns Hopkins report.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

million two years earlier, according to national data released in 2018 by Attendance Works. MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Data Analytics Can Get to the Root of the Problem. In 2013, only six states kept records of chronic absenteeism, notes the Johns Hopkins report.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2019

He was honored at the White House as a Champion of Change in 2013. For example, w e’re rolling out a virtual solution where kids can do data processing in virtual reality. Osborne is also president and co-founder of the nonprofit citizen-scientist organization Paleo Quest.

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