eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Series A equity funding, led by a UK-based EdTech investment fund with participation from Mesoamerica’s Alexandria Corp., This latest round of financing follows Knowledgehook’s 2016 seed round that included John Abele’s North Point Ventures. In 2021, its leadership aims to extend its solution’s reach to 50,000,000 students globally. “We

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2021

Osmo for Schools , the educational division of Tangible Play that promotes in-classroom usage of Osmo’s award-winning educational systems, celebrates its fifth anniversary March 30, 2021 and highlights recent achievements. Projector App is the 2020 recipient of EdTech Breakthrough Awards’ “eLearning Innovation of the Year.”.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021 —For decades, districts, schools, and teachers used different tools to communicate with families, making it confusing and difficult for parents and guardians to keep up. It was named a winner of the 2020 SIIA CODiE Award s, 2020 EdTech Awards, and 2019 Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence. SANTA BARBARA, CALIF.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Parent builds edtech. It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. Koller, who left Coursera in 2016, is currently CEO of Insitro, a drug-development startup that raised $143 million in May. Remote classes falter. Child is disengaged.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

A handful of other universities (and even preschools ) now accept Bitcoin for tuition, but that’s hardly the extent of how blockchains and tokens are weaving their way into education: Educators and edtech entrepreneurs are now testing out everything from issuing degrees on blockchains to paying people in cryptocurrency for their teaching.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm that specializes in partnering with technology businesses, acquired the Company in 2018 and will remain a major shareholder. Blackstone’s investment is a continuation of the firm’s high-conviction thematic focus on the fast-growing education technology industry.

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myViewBoard

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

On January 1st, 2021 all applications using Flash will no longer find their programs being maintained. CVE Details ,a trusted source for security vulnerability data, identified hundreds of severe security vulnerabilities in Flash each year between 2015 and 2016. Adobe Flash software after 2020. This means: . No bugs being fixed.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A decade ago, I was a high school English teacher blissfully naive to what radical changes were coming thanks to edtech. Consider the following developments in artificial intelligence: In 2016, the Associated Press began outsourcing its minor-league baseball dispatches to a company called Automated Insights.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 25, 2021

In this episode, Jen discusses how technology has truly stepped up the teacher collaboration opportunity in sharing ideas for student engagement. Jen first started sketchnoting in 2016 as a way to keep track of her own learning during professional development. Jen is a Teacher Librarian and EdTech Consultant. 3 Sketchnotes.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 27, 2021

Mote (@justmoteHQ) April 23, 2021. Spring semester applications for the Mote Ambassador program are now closed, but we’ll be re-opening applications for the Fall cohort in August 2021. © Shake Up Learning 2021. It’s easy to use and is launching today in beta. As always, we look forward to hearing your feedback.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

” Competency-Based Education isn’t necessarily an innovation, but a move to Competency-Based Education can lead to other innovations–using technology to personalize a student’s navigation of to-be-mastered content, for example. And anymore, they end being the punchline of edtech jokes, somehow. An example?

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

billion drop in worldwide revenue from 2015 to 2021. The product has reached the end of its product life cycle and simply cannot compete with new learning technology products on the market.”. billion in 2021 from $2.7 billion in 2016. percent for self-paced courseware, translating into an anticipated $13.3

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eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 20(1), 61–72. Retrieved June 13, 2021, from [link]. By verbally responding to a prompt, students are able to become the teachers and are much more likely to be able to transfer what they have learned (Rittle-Johnson, 2006). Review of Educational Research, 79(3), 1202–1242. Deijkers, L.,

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Last week, the “Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News” was on vacation, amongst the tall trees of the northwestern coast, and mostly off the grid. This week, I also enhanced the K-12 Cyber Incident Map by adding video clips of news reports of select incidents since 2016. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition).

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Last week, the “Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News” was on vacation, amongst the tall trees of the northwestern coast, and mostly off the grid. This week, I also enhanced the K-12 Cyber Incident Map by adding video clips of news reports of select incidents since 2016. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition).

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

In Florida, The School District of Palm Beach County launched its Cybersecurity Academy in 2016 as a ­single course in an existing IT program. Since January 2016, there have been more than 350 cyberincidents targeting K–12 schools in the United States, according to EdTech Strategies. by David Hutchins.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

That’s something you shouldn’t be seeing,” replied Parkville technology teacher Nicholas Coppolino, who runs the high school’s Cisco Networking Academy program. million unfilled jobs by 2021 , analyst firm Cybersecurity Ventures reports. SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks!

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Districts and technology leaders may be held liable for network-security incidents, and the costs of these incidents can be extremely high. Therefore, school districts must do everything in their power to make sure that technology just blends into the background and helps, not hurts, teaching and learning.

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edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2020

In addition, the current reliance on distance learning—and the potential to need it again—has opened many families’ eyes as to why school are spending many on edtech. As schools prepare for the 2020-2021 school year, the presenters have had many opportunities to listen to their stakeholders. About the Presenters.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2018

However, the market is starting to shift in favor of technology solutions that make such administration a lot easier. billion in 2016 to $7.64 billion in 2021. SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! What Schools Need to Know About Hyperconvergence. meghan.bogardu…. Pull Quote.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

That decrease neared 40 percent from 2016 to 2019, according to one report. Davidson likewise questioned whether 2U can become free cash flow positive in 2021, as promised by 2U CFO Paul Lalljie on the earnings call. “On It will launch five new programs in 2020 and expects to launch at least 10 in 2021.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 3, 2016. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The vice chancellor and principal of the University of the Witwatersrand , in Johannesburg, on Monday issued an unusual plea for help to ‘save the 2016 academic year.’” Education Politics. ” Mindset all the things.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

School libraries have evolved from strict, quiet, hush-hush rooms to more interactive spaces with flexible seating, readily-available edtech tools, and educators on hand to help with research, critical resource evaluation, makerspaces. What are the emerging technologies in a library? What are the new trends in libraries?

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

on Election Day 2016, closed at post-election high of $17.85 ” Via EdScoop : “ USC launches edtech research center focused on underrepresented youth.” ” Via Education Week : “In hurricanes ’ aftermath, technology eases return to school.” Shares closed at $13.46

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