Marketplace K-12

MAY 18, 2016

Cross-posted from the Digital Education blog. In 2015, 47 percent of K-12 teachers and almost two-thirds of K-5 teachers reported using game-based learning environments in their classes, up from 23 percent of K-12 teachers in 2010. Technology in Education: An Overview. based nonprofit Project Tomorrow.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 16, 2015

Welcome to a post and the summer of 2015… at least in the USA. They include ones that I feel educators might want to be a little more aware of. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Part 1: Forty Educational Websites For Your Summer 2015 Toolkit. 3-D Gallery Generator.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The first time I created Khan Academy playlists for each of my 100 fifth graders,” says Dong, “it took me 6 hours.” Today, KIPP Bay Area teachers can generate personalized Khan Academy playlists for their students in under 10 minutes using an automated tool. Teachers, by default, began creating their own solutions.

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Battelle for Kids

APRIL 13, 2015

April 14, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 5, Number 8. There is little doubt in my mind that the integration of online education in the classroom changes the role of the teacher in a fundamental way. The Khan Academy is right on target in its assessment of the structural changes required by the 21st Century classroom.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The constant game of education whack-a-mole. ” If you remember when Khan Academy first came out, many educators were extremely nervous that this would replace schools and were sick of that narrative. .” That is what makes educators amazing. Continue to create that meaningful change.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Education is no exception. Educators are striving to transform learning environments to meet changing needs. It's a survey of K-12 students, parents, and educators. In 2015, more than 90% of district administrators said instructional tech is important to achieving their core mission of educating students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2015

How flipped educators can create video tutorials a la Khan in no time flat. note : We’re counting down the top stories of 2015 based on popularity (i.e. website traffic).

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

It’s the percentage of students around the whole who lack consistent internet connectivity—and access to many of the tools and online courseware that some have hailed as the solution to education gaps. Rather than waiting for the internet to come to learners around the world, the education nonprofit based out of La Jolla, Calif.,

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

billion to buy three education businesses (both in the U.S. Byju’s growth demonstrates how the edtech market is truly becoming borderless,” says Isabelle Hau, a longtime global impact education funder who is working on a book on early childhood learning. “We Among them: Chinese education giants, including TAL and New Oriental.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The next game changer, according to education experts, will be digital textbooks. But there’s another side to the story of print vs. digital , one that is at the core of why 2015 e-book sales dropped in the United States and the UK. More on changes in education. 14 Education Advancements in a Year.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Earlier this week, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative named Sandra Liu Huang as its head of education, filling a vacancy created when Jim Sheldon, the former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, left the organization this summer. The development of the technology platform has been run by CZI since 2017.) This is hard work.

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EdTechnocation.com

JUNE 4, 2015

EdTechTidBits from last week include a vetted repository of student projects by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Khan Academy's search for new talent, a brand new Chrome extension by Google, and an update for Goobric. You can also join the Ning community and subscribe to the newsletter.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Prize in Education, which honors innovation and has become one of the most prestigious educational awards since its founding in 1988. The Prize is administered through an alliance between McGraw-Hill Education and Arizona State University , which began in 2015. K-12 and higher education, and international education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

When it comes to their children’s education, parents are like drug-sniffing dogs. Their changed view — and that of others who shunned Rogers and now want in — is driven by what seems to be a magic educational elixir: personalized learning. But personalized learning raises big questions about educational equity. When Dan D.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Be on the look out for future posts entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning and also 40 great education sites to discover in 2015. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

This week we’re discussing the first chapter of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ). A larger theme, hit more forcefully in the book’s introduction, is broadening access to higher education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

What’s life like after quitting a tenured job as a professor to become a freelance educator, making video courses and podcasts for a living? So we also asked deLaplante what he thinks about the broader landscape of online education that he’s part of. In 2015 you actually left your university job. Is it sustainable?

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 9, 2015

My friend Amanda Dykes , shared this slide from a presentation on Instagram: YouTube is the #1 educational site in the world. A photo posted by Amanda Dykes (@amandacdykes) on Jun 9, 2015 at 1:34pm PDT. As Amanda stated, for a site to be the number one “educational” site, schools wouldn’t block it.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In 2015, NPR came out with its tool , “Will Your Job Be Done by A Machine?” If we wish to meet the rapidly-changing demands of the workforce of the future, we first have to acknowledge that the educational pathways of the future might very well involve skills-based learning that does not necessarily add up to four years, or even a degree.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2019

I have spent the past 30 years working at the intersection of poverty and education, and the question that has vexed me the most has been how to widen the doors of opportunity when confronted with such entrenched inequities. Since 2015 I’ve led the college and career access division at The College Board. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Education technology accelerator programs are often studded with robotic kits or educational games. But the latest cohort at Michelson Runway, an startup accelerator geared towards higher-ed companies, highlights a broader approach to innovation in education.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

These are my prepared remarks, delivered on a panel titled “Outsourcing the Classroom to Ed Tech & Machine-learning: Why Parents & Teachers Should Resist” at the Network for Public Education conference in Indianapolis. First, the role that corporations and philanthropists play in shaping education policy is not new.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 28, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Code Academy – If your students are into coding… this maybe the place to go. With a mission set on teaching the world how to code, Code Academy just might be the right program. This link leads to the education page.

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 7, 2015

Never before has there been a time in education where students possessed a device so powerful that it allowed them to be graphic designers, movie makers, editors, directors, authors, developers, music makers and more. Salman Khan, creator of Khan Academy recently shared, “ Why I’ll Never Tell My Son He’s Smart.”

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

The Horizon Report: 2017 K–12 Edition, the goal of which is to identify technology that’s likely to impact teaching, learning, and creativity, identifies makerspaces as having “potential relevance to teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in K–12 education” within the next year. At first, students were at a loss for what to do with it.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 28, 2020

You may have a short video clip that highlights a character setting and achieving a goal, or you may have a video clip that explicitly teaches about goal setting, like these Khan Academy or BrainPOP videos. Katie Christie is a Google Certified Educator, Innovator, Trainer, and past LearnZillion DreamTeam member. Accessed 11 Jan.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 4, 2015

There are a lot of folks on the vendor floor at national conferences who will sell you products that supposedly personalize learning, and much of the buzz around something like Khan Academy is that it personalizes the learning for kids. Copyright © 2015. It still assumes that kids have to learn everything we want them to learn.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

All of this created a spiral of stress for both the educators and students. At its core, the issue was resolving one of the toughest situations in education: effective co-teaching. An example of this kind of platform is Khan Academy. However, the educator is constantly looking at two things.

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Adam Welcome

JUNE 13, 2016

Cool Coding Apps and Websites for Kids from Common Sense Media HyperDocs: Coding lessons and activities created by educators. Khan Academy has an Hour of Drawing with Code that teaches drawing using JavaScript and ProcessingJS. which gives a MUCH better explanation for why we should begin with blockly coding.

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Adam Welcome

MAY 15, 2016

Cool Coding Apps and Websites for Kids from Common Sense Media HyperDocs: Coding lessons and activities created by educators. Khan Academy has an Hour of Drawing with Code that teaches drawing using JavaScript and ProcessingJS. which gives a MUCH better explanation for why we should begin with blockly coding.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 20, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. In this day of what appears to be numerous educational initiatives, it is exciting to see how two are able to work in harmony with each other. In closing, we just may wish to ask, how many educational initiatives there really are?

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

In a fast-moving field like education technology, it’s worth taking a moment to take stock of new developments, persistent trends and the challenges to effective tech implementation in real classrooms. This macro trend to shake up typical ways of schooling is opening new opportunities for technology to play an even bigger role in education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2019

What that means: expanding partnerships with organizations like Khan Academy and the Coalition for College Access; simplifying the multi-step college application process and easing the financial burden of applying to colleges. When asked, Singer hedges: “We focus more on partnerships,” he says, naming off Khan Academy, Pearson and AIR.

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Mobile technology was becoming more pronounced in the educational arena and I was asked “can we do without a lab?” In the 2015-2016 school year, in decision with our fifth grade teachers, the fifth grade became a 1:1 required BYOT iPad grade. We needed 4 classrooms for all the kindergarten students that wanted to come to our school.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Schools Improvement (@SchoolsImprove) February 10, 2015. For context, we need to go a little father back, to the piece last week on Wired– The Techies Who Are Hacking Education by Homeschooling Their Kids –that is getting a lot of run on twitter recently. Khan Academy. In 2015, it’s breathtaking.

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MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I began to think about the 15 years in education and my various experiences. As an educator in this digital age, that’s one of my biggest challenges. As educators, we need to embrace this reality, and allow our classroom learning experiences to mimic what our students encounter everyday. So why not use it.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Many educators are observing that the students of today prefer to learn differently. Jukes, Schaaf and Mohan (2015) identified nine key learning attributes of the digital generations. Ask your specific school system for what resources they provide to educators and students. An excellent source for WebQuests: [link].

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