The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Five-year-old Mykell Robinson practices his reading on the Lexia software while a small group of classmates work with a teacher. What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The IBO traditionally connects instruction throughout different contexts with developing learners’ thinking skills (contextualized learning) (IBO, 2015). This is a core aspect of the constructivist approach: “Knowledge is seen as dynamic, ever-changing with our experiences” (Bada, 2015). London: Unbound. Gibson, K. Rimmington, G.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

They initially came together in 2015 when they created coding activities around Mattel’s Hot Wheels and Monster High brands. Writing again for Slate in 2016, Fiesler had a positive take on “Game Developer Barbie,” a doll released that year. We are purely” focused on software and content, he says.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. billion was spent on software. Photo: Jessica Huseman for The Hechinger Report. classrooms.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The IBO traditionally connects the instruction throughout different contexts with the development of students’ thinking skills (contextualized learning) (IBO, 2015). This is a core aspect of the constructivist approach: “Knowledge is seen as dynamic, ever-changing with our experiences” (Bada, 2015). London: Unbound. Gibson, K.

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Learning Strategy Assessment Course 60

Edsurge

JULY 22, 2016

Babson Survey , the proportion of academic leaders who report that online learning is critical for long-term institutional growth has grown from 49 percent in 2002 to 71 percent in 2015, and institutions are investing in edtech products to support digital learning. 08 seconds.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

percent of all school-age children in the fall of 2016, the last year for which such data is available. Even schools that manage to give all children access to devices and the internet cannot escape the fact that much of the educational software they’re using is not specific to the needs of ELL students, Sugarman said.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. acquisition by LinkedIn in 2015 shows that billion-dollar exits are not limited to companies in higher education.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 15, 2016

There are different software programs that will make “portfolios” easy to share, yet do we truly embrace the power that a digital portfolio can bring into our schools? Does the portfolio help in this endeavour when every student we work with now will be googled for jobs, university, or a myriad of other things.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Prior to the 2014-2015 school year, teachers also had access to Khan Academy, where math content is organized by grade level. version was a Google spreadsheet (shown below) that allows teachers to copy-and-paste their students’ MAP scores and generate an individualized Khan Academy playlist for each student. The resulting 1.0

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Eventually, the social network plans to make the software available for free to all schools in the United States. Google has an array of free apps for educators, including Classroom, Drive and Docs, aimed at making teaching easier and more organized. Two more Summit schools are scheduled to open in 2016.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

And we’ll pull up Google; you know, anyone can help. His approach to coaching the national Math Olympiad team received significant press coverage after the USA’s historic back-to-back #1-rank victories in 2015 and 2016. This makes Expii valuable for math teachers and students because of your flexibility in using them.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 7, 2016

A learning management system, or “LMS” is defined as “a digital learning system” that “manages all of the aspects of the learning process” (Amit K, 2015). Google Classroom , Schoology and Edmodo fall into this category. Facebook Helps Develop Software That Puts Students in Charge of Their Lesson Plans. References.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 7, 2016

A learning management system, or “LMS” is defined as “a digital learning system” that “manages all of the aspects of the learning process” (Amit K, 2015). Google Classroom , Schoology and Edmodo fall into this category. Facebook Helps Develop Software That Puts Students in Charge of Their Lesson Plans. References.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2015, it was named the No. Although we may make much of college dropout successes, remember this: The biggest Internet Age success of all — Google — was started within a graduate program, as a Ph.D. Or it will affect higher education in ways that we cannot even predict from the vantage of 2016. This is a vital issue.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 27, 2016

The employees had all taken a computer proficiency test, which assessed their knowledge of keyboard shortcuts, software programs, and hardware, as well as a timed test of their typing speed. Grant, 2016). The obvious answer was that they’re more tech savvy, so I asked Housman if he could explore that.

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ASIDE

DECEMBER 19, 2015

Source: scenes.https://vimeo.com/126733859 , WWF Brazil - Marine Program 2015 was a banner year for animations to engage students. Here are five favorite animations from the past year that will allow science and math teachers (as well as those in the Humanities) to kick off 2016 with a bang: 1. Entitled " Shut Up About The Y-Axis.

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STEM Case Study Video Software 72

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

But colleges and universities are turning out only about 28,000 computer-science graduates with bachelor’s and master’s degrees per year, based on the most recent figures from 2015, according to the consulting firm Deloitte. Related: How to save the humanities? Make them a requirement toward a business degree.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

That’s why he’s launching Rooted School, a high school that plans to train students to enter jobs in fields like 3D printing, software development and programming right after graduation. Rooted was supposed to open in the fall of 2016. Running a high school like the Google campus can be tricky, though.

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ProfHacker

JANUARY 13, 2016

” and Google didn’t seem to have an answer to that (some of us should probably do the world a favor and update the outdated wikipedia page comparing web annotation tools ). Some of us have written on web annotation here on ProfHacker (see Lee’s post last May and the comment thread).

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This is the last public talk I’ll deliver in 2016, and I confess I am relieved (I am exhausted!) ” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. Either way. as well as honored to be here.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2019

Initial enrollment numbers—more than 100,000 registrants per course in some of the first MOOCs—made online education seem like the next Google or Facebook. million learners who signed up for MOOCs from MIT and Harvard between 2015 and 2016, only 12 percent took an additional course the following year. For instance, of the 1.1

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

By 2015, the 72-year-old librarian knew she needed to make her scholarship data searchable online. When Young ran for president of the American Library Association for 2014 and 2015, she asked Schlachter to serve as her campaign treasurer. When Weber finds new information about a scholarship, he enters it into his database software.

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Libraries Company Data Tools 188

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Tagged on: March 18, 2017 G Suite for Education Now Open for Personal Google Accounts, Outside Domains | Campus Technology → Raises privacy questions. " says Google Family Link manager Saurabh Sharma.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

the national movement to redefine what it means for students to be college, career and life ready while serving as the 2015-2016 president of AASA, The School Superintendents Association. She started her career as a software engineer at NASA supporting Space Shuttle and Station Operations. Frankie Jackson.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 98

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

The Connecticut law outlines terms around the way identifiable student information can be used by vendors—anyone from yearbook publishers to niche apps to Google. I get an email a day from district tech directors asking about Google. Still, it has been an uphill battle to get edtech behemoths like Google to even bother. “I

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Technology Education Data Policies 103

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 18, 2018

He is a former teacher but spent 20 years away from the classroom working as a technology attorney and software executive. Juan was selected as 2015 Texas Latino Superintendent and was one of 100 Superintendents to participate in the National ConnectED Superintendents Summit at the White House. Join the Community.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 25, 2015

But in the here and now, the reality is less romantic, and as we head towards the 2015-2016 school year, it’s just might be that teaching is more difficult than it’s ever been before. Maybe Google Earth is the Oregon Trail of the modern generation. Everyone will have microchips and virtual reality and 3-D everything.

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Common Core eBook Assessment Social Media 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Steve Steve Hargadon steve@learningrevolution.com [link] @stevehargadon CURRENT SESSION LIST: Abigail Ekangouo Awanga : Emoji grading a fascinating effect on low proficiency learners AERO : Yong Zhao Keynote at the 2016 AERO Conference AERO : Peter Gray: Self Directed Education. What Is It, How Does It Work?

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Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Every year has its fair share of surprises, but this seems especially true for 2016. Here’s a chronological roundup of stories that made the biggest bang on the edtech industry (and to a similar extent, our web traffic) in 2016. A Timeline of Google Classroom’s March to Replace Learning Management Systems.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 25, 2015

What can we expect from the digital world in 2016? So, following up from Tuesday’s education and contexts post , here are some tech trends to watch in 2016. The sequence is, roughly, hardware to software, more or less: Automation and AI The number of projects and initiatives continues to grow. Administering anesthesia.

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Trends Technology eBook Social Media 40

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

I got my first taste of "making" in April 2015, when I attended a session on makerspaces at South Dakota's Technology and Innovation in Education conference. I also knew creating such a space could be pricey, especially when you start talking about robots, advanced software and 3D printers. Photoshop - paid software license required.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2020

These were the days before TurnItIn and other plagiarism checking software were widely adopted by schools. These were the early days of the learning management system software, however, and the UO was an early adopter of Blackboard — that's a different albeit related story.) During the 2015-2016 school year, some 1.6

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Software Company Data Laptops 78

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

LeMya is one of 156 4-year-olds in Mississippi who participated in UPSTART’s 2016-17 school year pilot program. But most kindergarten-readiness and online preschool software is offered by for-profit companies. In 2016, that average was $4,976 per student according to NIEER. By the end of the program, the family was hooked.

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Laptops Accessibility Online Learning Company 161

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales. public high schools (42.5

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales. public high schools (42.5

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150