Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

In the last quarter of 2015, they released their findings in “ Students Computers and Learning: Making the Connection”. Ask questions that assess how a leader integrates and dictates technology into his/her projects and to those he/she leads. Digitally Mature Students. Robust and well designed infrastructure.

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Technology Classroom BYOD OER 120

100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The IBO traditionally connects instruction throughout different contexts with developing learners’ thinking skills (contextualized learning) (IBO, 2015). Their oral and written responses may not always reflect their level of understanding, but whatever they deliver should be assessed as it is.

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Learning Strategy Assessment Course 78

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

The students came up with the project themselves and designed a Google form to track their phone time, including which apps they used most. In 2015, Tom McCoy, then the assistant superintendent of education services, jokingly asked Sonny Sajor, the district’s math instructional specialist, “Can I get some math for poets?”

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Data STEM Course Report 137

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. The infrastructure just wasn’t ready. SchoolNet helped many of these districts—and benefitted as well.

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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). Their oral and written responses may not always reflect their level of understanding, but whatever they deliver should be assessed as it is.

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Learning Strategy Assessment Course 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Aparna is a doctor, and Deepak previously worked at Google. CSPA CSPA stands for “Computer Science Proficiency Assessment.” Cofounder James Lin likens it to an “SAT for software engineers.” Lin points out that while medicine, law and finance professions require certifications, software engineering doesn’t—but it should.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

A few years ago, she could see that some of her fifth graders struggled with second grade math skills, while others were capable of eighth grade content on the NWEA Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment. For example, KIPP students are assessed three times a year on the NWEA MAP test. The resulting 1.0

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Enuma $4 million (A) 2015 TAL Education, Softbank Ventures Korea Epic! million (Seed) 2015 Sinovation Ventures Ready4 $8 million (A) 2016 TAL Education, Yongjin Group, ZhenFund Securly $3 million (Seed) 2013 Sinovation Ventures, ZhenFund Swing Education $7.8 EduLab , a subsidiary of JIEM, a Japanese research and assessment provider. (It

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 6, 2016

In addition, PeopleAdmin, a talent-management software provider for the education sector, acquired TeacherMatch. ” The investment is a follow-on to Udemy’s $65 million Series D round of financing from June 2015. A number of ed-tech companies, including Udemy and Tynker, have raked in funds from investors over the past week.

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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). In addition, discussion boards and assessment tools are available for teachers and students in most systems. The teacher can assess learning online. The New York Times.

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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). In addition, discussion boards and assessment tools are available for teachers and students in most systems. The teacher can assess learning online. The New York Times.

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System LMS Schoology Edmodo 28

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. The company has raised some $77.5 If so, what are they?

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

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. If you were to assess our entire school, we have a lot of students reading at the second grade level in the eighth grade.”.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

Those funds have been crucial in supporting the work of PilotCity, which was officially established in 2015. Shuffling along the stations are adult professionals—among them city officials, including the mayor of San Leandro, and representatives from Google, Sony and Wells Fargo—who offer guidance and poke holes in the projects.

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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. The obvious answer was that they’re more tech savvy, so I asked Housman if he could explore that.

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Learning in Hand

MAY 18, 2015

Episode 31: Spruce Up Your Centers with Technology, recorded May 2015, happens now! You can make your own task cards in PowerPoint, Keynote, Word, Pages, or Google Slides. For inspiration, try searching Google for task card templates. Even if you don’t use PowerPoint, you can import these into other software.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Google Apps for Education. A collection of software bundled by Google that is available on a subscription model for schools and classroom. Services include Google Drive, Google Docs, Gmail, and more. Google Classroom. ” Heautagogy. Mastery Learning. ” (12). Model-Based Learning.

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Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Would 20 hours of one student logged into Google Classroom, or 20 students logged in for one hour, suffice? Textbooks have given way to Google Classroom and the Blackboard Learn management system, and lessons are assigned, submitted and assessed online. That’s a pretty amazing piece of self-directed learning.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – 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. In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. The quotation is from 2012.

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Trends Report iPhone Software 40

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 16, 2018

Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive. Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. It should be simple. So we use that a lot.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

They support single sign-on with Google and Clever. You can only do that if you know how to use technology, especially really fabulous software, which teachers who use technology know how to find. Learn more about formative assessment. Google Cardboard costs like, what — $12 – and every kid has a smartphone.

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Social Media Blended Learning Data Blackboard 242

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Perhaps we’ve grown too accustomed to paying for purchases with a mobile app, or booking reservations online, or using Google to plan our daily commutes. Can a student’s activity on Khan Academy offer any clues into why he or she did not do well on the problem-solving section of an online benchmark math assessment?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

He then opens up an assignment on a Google Doc and a grading rubric, reviewing the comments and feedback his teacher has left on his work. Yet getting students to make choices and direct their own learning is no easy task, even with the assistance of an online platform that has more than 50 software engineers maintaining it.

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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 future teachers and students will look back with fondness about the first time they ever held an iPad to look up their house on Google Earth.

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Common Core eBook Assessment Social Media 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Testing and Assessment ? Special Needs ? Strengths-based Education ? Student 2.0 ? Student Entrepreneurship ? Teacher 2.0 ? Teaching Online ? Temperament and Learning Styles ? Unschooling ? Virtual Schooling ? World Schooling See you “online!”

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Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

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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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. public high schools (42.5 percent offered ‘a majority of all classes online;’ and, 3.6

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. public high schools (42.5 percent offered ‘a majority of all classes online;’ and, 3.6

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

The state’s largest district, in Providence, has dramatically increased its spending on web-based instructional programs, from $158,000 in the 2011-12 school year to $928,000 in 2015-16, the latest data available. apps and software, with some classes much more tech-reliant than others. We use Google all the time.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Some of the best tools to create interactive presentations include Canva , AhaSlides , Pear Deck , Slido, Haiku Deck, Google Slides, and many more. Here are some great tools to help you create professionally looking visuals to use in your class: Canva , Flipsnack , Piktochart, Visme, Google Drawings, and more.

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Assessment Social Media Google Video 136

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

But most kindergarten-readiness and online preschool software is offered by for-profit companies. A 2015 research study showed that pre-K students who used Embark showed significant improvement in math and language arts and thus were better prepared for kindergarten than if they hadn’t used it,” officials said. For example, K12 Inc.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Via KPCC : “ Ref Rodriguez has given up the role of president of the Los Angeles Unified School Board – but is not resigning his seat on the board altogether – one week after the announcement he’d face felony charges for alleged campaign finance violations during his 2015 run for office.” million total. (No

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Education Knewton Kaplan Robotics 48

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

According to a 2016 poll by Gallup and Google , more than 90 percent of parents think computer science is a good use of school resources, but less than half of schools offer even a single class. In 2015, there were fewer than 100 programs in the U.S. Unfortunately, supply hasn’t kept up with demand.

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Training Software Comparison STEM 104

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

So instead of a zeppelin, we got to ride in one of Google’s self-driving cars, which was of course the project that Thrun had been working on when he gave his famous TED Talk in 2011 – and that, in turn, was where he heard Salman Khan give his famous TED Talk. Google versus Uber. Efficiency.

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Education Robotics MOOC Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” Microsoft acquired Minecraft in 2015 – which probably speaks volumes right there about its progressive potential – and in January of this year, Microsoft bought TeacherGaming, the maker of a Minecraft version aimed at classroom usage. Google’s Alphabet Inc. What it hasn’t delivered are many jobs.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) They cheat and they lie.

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