Doug Levin

JULY 5, 2015

Most mornings, over a cup of coffee, I do my daily reading of news about trends and issues related to education and technology – a practice I have more or less followed for at least the past 20 years. I proactively search the internet for recent news stories and information that may not be being picked up by other sources.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 6, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Post-pandemic, districts are looking to eliminate the edtech bloat and determine which products they should keep and which ones to scale back. Of course, educators and administrators could look at past success stories, research data, etc. But what about how the programs are impacting current students?

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

The informal learning on social media has a very real impact in my classroom. Top Education Tweets of the Week, November 7, 2015. #1 — Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) November 7, 2015. #2 u5zoR1QYNx #edtech pic.twitter.com/g2aLfnVRhv. — Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) November 5, 2015. #3 It is in our DNA.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Consider this statistic: As many as 8 million students were chronically absent from school during the 2015–2016 school year, up from 7.2 MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Technology can vastly scale these interventions. Immersive Classroom Technologies Can Improve Attendance.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Consider this statistic: As many as 8 million students were chronically absent from school during the 2015–2016 school year, up from 7.2 MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Technology can vastly scale these interventions. Immersive Classroom Technologies Can Improve Attendance.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Consider this statistic: As many as 8 million students were chronically absent from school during the 2015–2016 school year, up from 7.2 MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Technology can vastly scale these interventions. Immersive Classroom Technologies Can Improve Attendance.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Consider this statistic: As many as 8 million students were chronically absent from school during the 2015–2016 school year, up from 7.2 MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Technology can vastly scale these interventions. Immersive Classroom Technologies Can Improve Attendance.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Consider this statistic: As many as 8 million students were chronically absent from school during the 2015–2016 school year, up from 7.2 MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Technology can vastly scale these interventions. Immersive Classroom Technologies Can Improve Attendance.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Consider this statistic: As many as 8 million students were chronically absent from school during the 2015–2016 school year, up from 7.2 MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Technology can vastly scale these interventions. Immersive Classroom Technologies Can Improve Attendance.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Consider this statistic: As many as 8 million students were chronically absent from school during the 2015–2016 school year, up from 7.2 MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Technology can vastly scale these interventions. Immersive Classroom Technologies Can Improve Attendance.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2023

You know how we’re always on the hunt for that perfect EdTech tool that’ll make our lives just a tad easier? Let’s dig into what makes Google’s Education App Hub a potential game-changer in the EdTech world. Being able to filter apps by subject, category, and even compliance information? Feskens, R.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 16, 2017

This post will outline the aims of the PYP (the Primary Years Programme of the International Baccalaureate) and the role that technology plays in helping teachers and students to achieve those goals. For more information, please refer to the IB website. What does the PYP say about technology? Making the PYP Happen).

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 3, 2017

Murray @thomascmurray is the 2017 US “Thought Leader of the Year” and shares what actually works in edtech. For information on the guests and items mentioned in this show, scroll down to the bottom of this post. *. What Actually Works in Edtech? link] So, Tom, what actually does work in Edtech? Today Thomas C.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Two news stories this week have turned my attention (again) to the issue of conflict of interest in education, technology, and public policy. I’d hazard that most anyone who has worked in the education and technology arena for any length of time has had to navigate conflict of interest issues. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 26, 2019

The SaaS subscription revenue model that works for many online education products, coupled with the large market sizes these technologies can serve, has driven interest from venture capitalists and private equity firms for decades. EdTech is not unique in this trend of bigger, but less frequent, deals. compared to $76.4B

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2016

Most educators–and parents–focus technology benefits on how it helps academically, but efriend Joe Peters reminded me the other day that there’s more to it than that. Technology also helps to prepare students for the future and improves the retention rate of information.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Edtech for early learners has come a long way since then, but our just-released compilation of research—what we call a Market Gap Snapshot —makes clear there is still a lot of room to expand and improve edtech solutions to address obstacles facing our youngest students. What's New at NewSchools.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

With the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016. As districts became more in tune with these issues in 2015, the move to Chromebooks continued to grow. For more information, check out how to ‘ Equip Your School for the 21st-Century with a Solid Foundation. Commit to Long-term Sustainability.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2024

Satya Nitta But in the end, Nitta decided that even though the generative AI technology driving excitement these days brings new capabilities that will change education and other fields, the tech just isn’t up to delivering on becoming a generalized personal tutor, and won’t be for decades at least, if ever. What does a human tutor do well?

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

While creators in the edtech space often feel they’ve made something patent-worthy, two problems usually stand in the way. She opened up to EdSurge about the process she went through to give would-be edtech inventors a glimpse into the trials and tribulations involved in getting a patent. The History of Edtech via Patent Applications.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. In the mean time, my “take home” point is that skepticism of claims about the future of technology in education deserve a greater voice. We need other better stories about the future of technology in education.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2019

For almost a decade, selling edtech products to schools and districts has felt dangerously like selling a home over the internet. We describe edtech products with all the excitement and adjectives of a fresh listing on Zillow. Now the good news: Over the past year, we’ve seen a broader set of research practices applied to edtech.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 21, 2018

SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! time-bound dayparting information. time-bound dayparting information. Klein ISD , one of the fastest-growing districts in Houston, recently adopted 50 large-format TVs for digital signage as part of a three-year technology growth plan.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. In the mean time, my “take home” point is that skepticism of claims about the future of technology in education deserve a greater voice. We need other better stories about the future of technology in education.

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Doug Levin

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

K-8 Market (2015-16 School Year). The top line finding is eye-opening: The 2015-16 school year will mark the first time that the majority of state mandated summative testing in U.S. elementary and middle schools will be administered via technology and not in a paper and pencil format.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Since the last edition of a ‘Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News”: I’ve joined efforts to support Net Neutrality protections ; Written further about the prediction made in the book, “Disrupting Class.” A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 and 29 Combined Edition).

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition). No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

New York City never sleeps and, apparently, neither does its effort to galvanize the education technology startup ecosystem. Something that’s fundamentally shifted in the last decade are the private equity firms and their interest in edtech companies. Intel has hit pause on its edtech accelerator.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

(Mostly) back from my August hiatus, I’m pleased to offer up the next edition of A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News. The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning , which offers my sense of what those interested in K-12 educational technology can and should take away from this annual polling about schools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Illuminate Education will stop support for its student information system in two years, before the 2021 school year. In an email sent Tuesday morning, the company notified customers to plan for a replacement for the Illuminate Student Information product, also known as ISI. Illuminate , based in Irvine, Calif.,

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 5, 2019

The 2019 Honor Roll: EdTech’s 30 Must-Read K–12 Education IT Influencers. Educational technology is changing rapidly for K–12 school districts, which can make it difficult for even the savviest educators to keep up. Look here for the real-time updates you’ll need to make well-informed IT decisions. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Two news stories this week have turned my attention (again) to the issue of conflict of interest in education, technology, and public policy. I’d hazard that most anyone who has worked in the education and technology arena for any length of time has had to navigate conflict of interest issues. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

It is my great hope that our nation will commit to educating our youth about civics, and to helping young people understand their crucial role as informed, active citizens in our nation,” she writes. “I Students need to learn how to consume information, think critically and independently, find evidence and construct arguments, she says.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2021

It’s a return of the INST ticker symbol for the company, which first went public in 2015 , but then was taken private last March when Instructure was purchased by private equity firm Thoma Bravo for nearly $2 billion. Season of IPOs The IPO is part of a trend of edtech companies going public, though.

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Doug Levin

JUNE 1, 2015

Consider these key findings: 73% of college and universities collect high school disciplinary information as part of the admissions process. 89% of colleges and universities that collect high school disciplinary information use it to inform their admissions decision making, including to deny admissions.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality. Our higher education system formed around libraries.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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