EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2018

Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017. Digital citizenship was at the forefront in 2017, with schools looking to help their students identify everything from fake news to phishing attempts.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

Have a great classroom library. UNESCO (2017, September 2017). December 18, 2014. RESOURCE: See Laura Robb’s The On-Your-Feet Guide to Student-Led Discussions Larry Ferlazzo “ A Look Back: A New Study Finds a Specific Form of “Collaboration” Gets The Best Results “ 7:31 Idea 4: Vision. No trinkets.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

These include big-name sponsors, competitive pro leagues, college competitions and, in 2017, more global viewers than the 2016 NFL regular season. In 2014, Robert Morris University was the first to offer an esports scholarship. Published May 12, 2017. Scholarships for Esports. Accessed 4.17.18 at: [link]. Keilman, John.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 27, 2016

In 2014, he was part of a team that discovered a near-Earth asteroid during a nationwide asteroid search. January 30, 2017 • 9:00am | 8:00am CT. Browse the Nepris video library for archived industry chats and make any of your lessons come alive! [This is past, but you can still view the event in the Nepris archives]. No worries.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

First announced in 2014, the challenge invited organizations to submit open-source software that showed potential to help children in developing countries improve basic reading, writing and math skills. In September 2017, five finalists were chosen to field test their tools with thousands of children across villages in Tanzania.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

There is also a library of over 15,000 pre-made lessons from third-party providers including Amplify, Desmos, iCivics and Teaching Tolerance. In 2014, it was acquired for $1.1 Its largest institutional shareholders are Insight Partners, which led its $21-million Series B round in 2017, followed by Reach Capital.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 15, 2017

We're getting close to our Library 2.017 mini-conference: "Expertise, Competencies and Careers," which will be held online (and for free) March 29th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). How can library and information science schools and professional development programs prepare library professionals?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 26, 2017

We're excited to announce our first of three Library 2.017 mini-conferences: "Expertise, Competencies and Careers," which will be held online (and for free) March 29th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join this Library 2.0 Please register as a member of the Library 2.0

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Around this time of the school year, it’s not uncommon to see sleep-deprived students slumped over library desks studying late hours in preparation for final exams. Smathers Libraries at University of Florida, has a clear view of the futuristic egg-shaped pods from her office in the university’s Health Science Center Libraries.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2020

But students at some colleges and universities still rely on print , which is a problem when bookstores and libraries have closed. Academic libraries have huge physical collections,” says Sherwood, 28. Founded in 2014, the London-based company provides digital content from 2,000-plus publishers.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

based company last raised money in 2014 , when it was best known as an online destination where students could share notes, assignments and other course materials from classes they have taken. Users who upload class materials can access the full library for free. The Redwood City, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2019

In late 2017, as the company began shifting to this new strategy, it also axed some staff. LearnZillion amassed a library of lessons, videos and assignments. A 2014 profile from The Washington Post estimated that the company charged about $5,000 per school. This is the second round of layoffs for the company in as many years.

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Learning in Hand

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Sticker Library ? See previous Best Of posts from 2020 , 2019 , from 2018 , from 2017 , from 2016 , from 2015 and from 2014 for more links, tips, and ideas. Registration is open, and the workshop begins Jan 20th: [link] pic.twitter.com/BXh3ATUXFC — Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent) January 19, 2021. ? ✏️ Weekly Journal ?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 28, 2017

Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 29th, is our Library 2.017 mini-conference: "Expertise, Competencies and Careers," which will be held online (and for free) from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). The list of scheduled presentations, plus keynote bios, are below! Abels , John Bertot , and Valerie J.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2019

Last August, littleBits acquired DIY , which offers a library of do-it-yourself maker projects and instructional videos, as well as an online community where kids can share their creations. Sphero was part of the inaugural class in 2014; littleBits joined two years later.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 30, 2021

From 2015 to 2017, she led the national partner engagement program at Enroll America, a nonprofit created to ensure that members of often-underserved communities were able to enroll for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Dr. Cathy Collins has worked as a library media and technology specialist for 23 years at the K-12 level.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2018

billion in 2014. This acquisition will expand Renaissance’s library of digital content for its Accelerated Reader 360 program. Revenue increased by just under 30 percent in 2017 as well, he claims. Last February, myON was sold by its parent company , Capstone to private equity firm Francisco Partners.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Like the flu and MRSA, complications related to foodborne illness are on the upswing, almost doubling in frequency from 2014 to 2017. When cleaning textile-covered surfaces like carpeted libraries or fabric-covered cubicles, opt for a dry polymer cleaning system that uses little moisture.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

Launched in early 2017, the basic game is geared toward 3- to 8-year-olds and available free to schools. Squiggle Park, which is based in Nova Scotia, Canada, prefers to compare itself to the likes of Supercell, the maker of Clash of Clans that raked in $810 million in profits in 2017, rather than fellow game-based learning companies.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Funded in 2014 with $100 million from the Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation, inBloom intended to collect massive amounts of personally identifiable student data and use it to “personalize” learning to each student. The story of inBloom is a cautionary tale.

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 25, 2019

For this, blogging is a great tool not only to synthesize your learning but to also catalog it into a type of library. When I read an excellent article or see a video I like, I want to commit the idea to my library of learning further. If you are looking to read, how will you connect the information you consume and dig deeper?

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Since establishing Learning Equality in April 2014, KA Lite has been installed in more than 175 countries, where the nonprofit claims at least 4 million learners have been able to access Khan Academy’s instructional tools without internet. Looking ahead, Google.org is already scouting for its next round of projects to invest in.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

News and World Report’s list — but he didn’t feel at home when he toured in 2014. But Lockett’s older brother had enrolled at LSU in 2010, liked the school, and was close to finishing his bachelor’s in electrical engineering when Lockett visited in the spring of 2014. The number of Latinos rose, too, from 313 to 421, a 35 percent gain.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2018

Rather, it's centered in the popular E-Rate program, which has provided billions of dollars in broadband discounts and infrastructure upgrades to schools and libraries. In 2014, the program was modernized, raising the overall annual funding cap to nearly $4 billion. billion has been committed for 2017.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

They might assign resources from the campus library, which students experience as being “free” since the fee they pay in support of the library is bundled with their tuition. Another example of a study with stronger controls is Robinson, Fischer, Wiley, and Hilton (2014). For example, in Robinson et al.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

So far the app, which includes a library of games, songs, videos and books in English and Swahili, has been tested with about 1,200 children across schools and community centers in Tanzania and Kenya. “The Field tests for this final round will start in November 2017 and run through February 2019. children enjoy.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

And potential students are taking campus tours, imagining themselves burning the midnight oil in the library and meeting their new roommate in dorms. Since 2014, Green has worked with CampusBird , an interactive map and virtual tour platform, to build 3D maps and virtual tours of Texas A&M. Image Credit: CampusBird.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 3, 2017

But, there is NOT just one right way to do library. But should a formal makerspace need to be a part of every school library? . At conferences, librarians share with me that their administrators insist they devote significant library real estate to 3D printing and a variety of other maker equipment.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Common Sense Kids Action, the advocacy arm of Common Sense Media, and SETDA will work together this year and in 2016 and 2017 to encourage digital leaders to file applications for E-rate program funding. Common Sense Kids Action and SETDA will collaborate to help connect every U.S.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we interviewed across library land curated in several different ways and we used the term curation differently depending on current community needs or where they were in any particular project.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

By 2014, when ChiTech applied for its five-year contract renewal, it was a low-performing school, with just 57 percent of students graduating after four years and less than half going to college. From 2014 to 2016, the percentage of ChiTech freshmen on track to graduate in four years rose from 63 to 78 percent.

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Educator Innovator

JANUARY 8, 2018

In October, we launched Writing Our Civic Futures , a collaboration of the National Writing Project and Marginal Syllabus that supports conversations about civic engagement and learning over the course of the 2017-18 academic year. Educators will meet for an NWP Radio show on January 11th to discuss “ Night Teaching “; stay tuned!

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Next Generation Courseware Challenge project in fall 2014, and began implementing Smart Sparrow ’s BioBeyond technology in spring 2015. Starting in spring 2017, BioBeyond’s exploration-based course will be used as a supplement in half of our Principles of Biology sections—reaching nearly 360 students each term.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

New York: Routledge Teachers Have an Important Role There are activities in which teachers of subjects such as social studies, language arts, and library could engage their students. Pahlke, Bigler, & Martin, 2014 ; Puchner, L., 2015) ; Wade, Wilksch, Paxton, Byrne, & Austin, 2017 ). Markowitz, L., & & Hedley, M.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

It eyed the edtech industry as early as 2014, says Elizabeth Fisher Marshall, a managing director at Hall Capital, but “our concern at the time was the depth of the opportunity set and the unproven exit market.” New investors include the Los Angeles Police and Fire Pensions fund. Yet not all investments pan out.

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The Daring Librarian

AUGUST 25, 2018

Three years ago I shared with you what I was buying to boost our Makerspace area using four empty Library study carrels that no longer held desktop Macs. Our MHMS Makerspace How it works: Kids can come in before school, during lunch, or when they've finished their work to explore, craft, and create in the Library Media Center.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools. OAKLAND, Calif.

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