Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Initiative 1: Open Up Networks — Prior to 2014, only “registered users” could access the district’s WiFi networks. Initiative 2: Reconsidering Internet Filtering — Filtering policies had originally been set up to protect students, but they often frustrated secondary educators and students alike.

EdTech 122

EdTech Accessibility Policies Equity of Access 122

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2014 $0. FY 2003 $700,500,000. ” FY 2012 $0.

Policies 150

Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

MOOC companies typically account for the bump in the “Post-Secondary” category, but aside from Coursera’s $64 million Series D round, few other companies focused in higher education scored a large deal. We’ve seen the most interest in SaaS (software-as-a-service) models where the product is complementary to an existing platform.”.

EdTech 85

EdTech Pearson Company Knewton 85

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn. So they turned some of their research on pattern-matching of brainwaves to create a piece of software that would identify patterns in texts. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

Robotics 83

Robotics Software Company ProctorU 83

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The non-profit organization Mentor, which works to ensure that everyone “has the supportive relationships they need to grow and develop,” conducted a national survey in 2014 of youth aged 18 to 21 and found that one in three reported growing up without a mentor of any kind.

Company 106

Company Academic Standards Report Secondary 106

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

Frontline Seeks a New Frontman Frontline Education, which offers a slew of administrative and human resources software for K-12 districts, is seeking a new CEO. When its previous owner, Insight Venture Partners, acquired the company in 2014, it was worth about $130 million. These deals also pumped up its valuation as well.

Company 99

Company Conference Pearson Industry 99

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

Thursday, April 10th in Milfold, MA CoSN - 2014 Massachusetts CTO Clinic , Join the Massachusetts Educational Technology Administrators Association (METAA) for their 5th annual CTO Clinic. Library 2.014 , October 8th + 9th, 2014 Upcoming deadlines: Presentation proposals will be accepted between now and October 1st for Library 2.014.

Conference 53

Conference Digital Badges Libraries Education 53

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2014

Saturday, March 8th at 12pm CR20 LIVE - DonorsChoose: Tips for Success , If you have important learning projects, tools, books or even technology hardware/software you need for your classrooms and can''t find funding to purchase them, this is a show you won''t want to miss. For more information, click here. Thanks, Karen!

Conference 50

Conference Education Learning Google 50

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Stevens (2014, p.162) This event is brought to you by GlobalEd Events and TakingITGlobal. L2g derives from the ongoing Webheads in Action (WiA) community of practice and professional development movement, [link] which has been putting teachers and students in touch with one another digitally, at a distance, since 1998. In Son, J.-B.

Secondary 73

Secondary Conference Survey STEM 73

edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Strategic planning for edtech is an endless journey—and not just because of constantly evolving hardware and software. Most educators look at the cost of their device and software, but what they need to understand is that the total cost includes PD, tech support, sustainability. Are they prepared to adapt to other systems?

EdTech 57

EdTech Digital Badges Software Outcomes 57

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 In Smart School money, districts find different approaches to tech | The Daily Gazette → Every school district in the state gets a cut of the $2 billion NY state bonds approved by voters in 2014 to enhance technology in schools. But school district leaders are not of one mind of how to best spend the money.

EdTech 170

EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

And while many novel and useful experiments are occurring outside formal education, the degrees, certificates, and other credentials awarded by formal institutions are still critically important to many people… My long-term goal is to create a world where OER are used pervasively throughout primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools.

OER 102

OER Secondary Software Outcomes 102

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Closing that gap and getting kids to continue their training after high school is especially important here: 74 percent of jobs will require post-secondary education by 2020. As of the 2014-15 school year, Colorado’s student-to-counselor ratio was 383-1, a marked decrease from a 2007 level of 500 students per school counselor.

Dropout 110

Dropout Report Training Outcomes 110

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. David Homa Teacher, Los Gatos High School David Homa has been a teacher for 24 years both at the University and Secondary level.

Learning 48

Learning Conference Social Media Secondary 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Michael Teitelbaum, a scholar on the history of STEM, said in 2014 to an audience of education reporters that the post-war U.S. This represents a 30% year-over-year decrease in the number of female-led companies that raised an A in the Bay Area compared with 2014,” as Female Founders Fund’s Claire Burke wrote in January.

Technology 85

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. billion by 2025.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this year – from the University of Northern New Jersey too ITT, from Trump University to DevSchool – we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works. million ads for software-developer jobs nationwide. Jobs for Grads.

Technology 40

Technology Education Secondary Pearson 40

Hack Education

JULY 8, 2016

.” “ Safety, Risk, and Informed Decisions ” – Common Sense Media’s Bill Fitzgerald writes about how to evaluate the privacy of ed-tech software (and how to evaluate Common Sense Media’s privacy evaluations ). ” Like, 99%. Via NPR : “ Babies Of Color Are Now The Majority, Census Says.”

Education 49

Education Report Company Coursera 49

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The move away from the Common Core consortia for assessment and towards the (Common Core-aligned) SAT has been a boon for the College Board, no surprise, which reported over $840 million in revenue in 2014 (the last year it’s tax forms are available online). ” So congrats, ed-tech vendors.) The Procurement Problem.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011. ” Oh.

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

In 2014, the FCC undertook a “modernization” plan for E-rate in part to address the changing demand for telecommunications services. Commissioner Pai had voted against those efforts, for what it’s worth, back in 2014, saying that the FCC order did little to curb bureaucracy or waste. A Brief History of E-rate Fraud.

E-rate 49

E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Both had been acquired by for-profit college companies, a convenient target – no surprise – for entrepreneurial blame at the bootcamps’ failures: Dev Bootcamp was bought in 2014 by Kaplan Inc and Iron Yard was acquired in 2015 by the Apollo Education Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix. ” (Ha.

Robotics 59

Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59