Educational Technology Guy

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Neverware, a startup that has developed a software product, CloudReady , in partnership with Google, which turns almost any computer from the last 8 years into a full-fledged Chromebook. The paid version of CloudReady, which offers dedicated support and integration with Google’s device management console, launched in spring 2015.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

If few students answer the question correctly, the software can flag the professor, or the textbook author, to consider revising the content to make it clearer. But Newkirk wanted to improve students’ motivation as well, so he brought in Mark Lepper, a psychology professor at Stanford who has studied how best to keep learners on task.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

With the availability of eBook creation software, it has become very easy to create an interactive textbook. Here’s our list of the 8 best eBook creation software. These software tools also allow you to publish the content. They are more interactive and intuitive, and keep the students engaged in the learning process.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

The Administration’s proposal for College- and Career- Ready Students also will promote the development of State capacity to support district efforts to use technology to improve instruction.” FY 2015 $0. ” FY 2012 $0. FY 2013 $0. FY 2014 $0. ” How would the program operate?

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Along with a software engineer, he started a nonprofit, EdNudge , to build tools that would help schools deliver personalized nudges to students and parents via text automatically. Based in Boston, AllHere has developed tools to help schools track and improve student attendance.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report Across town, students in Ruben Jacquez’s class at Rio Mesa High School use coding software to compile and clean data they’ve collected on student stress levels. Still, current data science students, like Emma-Dai Valenzuela, say the class in its current form has been invaluable.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

While qualitative data can be collected to measure progress around such things as changes in instructional practices, increases in student engagement, decreases in office referrals, etc., the changes in student achievement occurs more slowly over time. Evaluate the impact.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

These digital tools help students master course learning goals by using data generated from students’ interactions with the adaptive software to predict what students should view or do next online. And as faculty become more comfortable with the software, we are finding that more students are completing lessons.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

– Between 2005 and 2015, STEM employment grew by 24.4 The company improves student engagement and learning outcomes by providing educators the products they need for the 21century classroom. percent, over five times more than non-STEM employment over the same period.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Brown’s virtual students aren’t required to turn on their cameras, so he can’t tell whether they’re paying attention. In person, his classes are fun, and the students engaged: “I relate whatever it is that we’re doing to something closer to real life,” he said. Few speak up. The effects are showing up in test scores.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 8, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. The Connectory – This is a new STEM opportunity that will open in April 2015, so visit the sight and sign up for their newsletter now. Student teams address a challenge that confronts our nation’s leading industries. Sign Up Now!

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Yet…students need to know stuff. The challenge is teaching students how to take these disparate pieces of information and skills, analyze data to make complex decisions, and innovate when a solution is not apparent for a problem. We live in the information age. National Education Policy Center. Halverson, R., Barnicle, A., Hackett, S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

While credit recovery is one of the fastest-growing fields in online education, many programs are little more than diploma mills hastening students through the curriculum with insufficient support. Critics complain that the schools lack rigor and often use software programs vulnerable to cheating , such as Edgenuity.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. When I started Gaggle back in 1999, we were free email for students. Almost all of those companies went out of business. The list goes on and on.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. When I started Gaggle back in 1999, we were free email for students. Almost all of those companies went out of business. The list goes on and on.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Yet…students need to know stuff. The challenge is teaching students how to take these disparate pieces of information and skills, analyze data to make complex decisions, and innovate when a solution is not apparent for a problem. We live in the information age. National Education Policy Center. Halverson, R., Barnicle, A., Hackett, S.,

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Soon, her students were frustrated and so was she. Baker was excited about the opportunity to meet fellow teachers at the Ohio ST Math User Summit in October of 2015, and hoped she could figure out how other teachers were engaging and motivating their students with ST Math. They were not having fun anymore.

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MindShift

JULY 13, 2021

Brown’s virtual students aren’t required to turn on their cameras, so he can’t tell whether they’re paying attention. In person, his classes are fun, and the students engaged: “I relate whatever it is that we’re doing to something closer to real life,” he said. Few speak up. The effects are showing up in test scores.

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The Electric Educator

APRIL 15, 2015

Accessibility Teacher access is a critical component to student engagement and learning. The design of traditional software and devices makes them difficult to update. If you like Chromebooks and believe in their classroom potential, you might want to contribute to the Chrome Lab conference and project on June 24-25, 2015.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Collaborative software. How Classroom Design Affects Student Performance. Without a doubt, classroom design has a big effect on student engagement and academic performance. These spaces offer convenient seating plus tech like audio, display, and sharing software. Interactive Software. The internet.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Summer courses or educational camps for younger students could also be covered, said Matt McCarter, the director of student engagement and postsecondary readiness for the state’s Department of Education. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 18, 2017

District leaders in Elizabeth Forward, a small, rural school district in Pennsylvania, are seeking to support student engagement and learning by bringing in edtech. Intending to provide students with the best programs and products, district leaders found themselves grabbing any app or software they heard about from other districts.

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Doug Levin

JUNE 17, 2015

When we talk about school districts ‘buying’ textbooks under this traditional model, however, I think we need to unpack that in a way that makes sense for the digital and open content world of 2015. Update the examples and sample questions to improve student engagement or the quality of instruction? Image credits.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2017

Middle school math students ready to save the world What may seem like an odd day in a “typical” math class is just the beginning. The Army commander and his instructions mark the start of Project Z, a 3-Act story problem and a new approach to math that’s designed to increase student engagement and make math more personal.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

In 2015, the Idaho state legislature approved 19 incubator programs to explore the practice inside its schools. It’s no surprise that schools adopting the method are often the same ones that have invested heavily in education software and computers. Ten school districts in Illinois, including Chicago, are piloting the approach.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

Stacy Stewart, principal of Belmont-Cragin Elementary School, credits personalized learning for helping to improve student engagement. Students David Diaz and Emani Torres had been using Summit software at CICS West Belden since sixth grade. “It’s always evolving; it’s a very living document.”.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Richard Del Moro, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, adds that Middletown works hard to make their students “feel good” by providing opportunities beyond academics, including extracurricular activities, athletics, music, and the building environment. Some teachers also have students assess their own mastery of skills.).

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

” As a result, students engage in academics, athletics and extracurriculars because they “know you care.” Eastwood wants each student to be proficient in math and reading before finishing 5th grade. Class sizes are kept low, and students remain with the same student cohort. Why does that matter?

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2016

Attendees registered for more than 12,000 seats at InfoComm University sessions throughout the week, more than double the number engaged in training and education in 2015. The software and hardware-agnostic touchscreen. The show overall welcomed more than 38,833 visitors, 4.8 Elmo’s not-on-market Huddle Space.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

Stacy Stewart, principal of Belmont-Cragin Elementary School seen here before the COVID-19 pandemic, credits personalized learning for helping to improve student engagement. Students David Diaz and Emani Torres had been using Summit software at CICS West Belden since sixth grade. Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

hours a day. and MAIT : Beyond the Buzzwords: How to infuse SEL, flipped learning, & more into everyday activities Kate Baker, M.Ed What You Say and What They Hear: A Challenge for Teachers and Instructional Coaches Sugata Mitra : Can Kids Teach Themselves?

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MindShift

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Basically it means big data goes to college , as software and digital platforms collect and sort academic data that teachers can then use quickly as an intervention strategy. “And to to get that data to people who need it most — the faculty, students and advisers.” ” Copyright 2015 NPR. Both are from Civitas.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

His activities with teachers and students are guided by a focus on learning-by-doing. Denise Pope Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University Dr. Pope specializes in curriculum studies, service learning, student engagement, school reform, and qualitative research methods.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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

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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2017

Via Boing Boing : “Automated book-culling software drives librarians to create fake patrons to ‘check out’ endangered titles.” “Student engagement platform” ClearScholar has raised $1.25 Company housing has long been a great way to make sure your employees are compliant. JOY has raised $1.5

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Thiel joined the tech accelerator program Y Combinator as a partner in 2015. Knewton (adaptive teaching software). Declara (adaptive teaching software). AltSchool (private school that relies heavily on data surveillance and software). Uversity (student engagement platform, formerly Inigral, acquired by TargetX).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

“The 2015 PISA Results: What Do They Mean?” million in charges from a Minnesota company over a software system that repeatedly failed during mandatory statewide elementary school testing.” ” Via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : “Former Pitt student, key figure in Chinese-U.S. “U.S.

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