EdNews Daily

MAY 31, 2016

New investment into Triseum continues to provide growth opportunities for a company already breaking barriers with over 40 percent of its staff being female. million, on the heels of their official market launch and initial game release due June 1st, 2016, raising the total investment to nearly $2 million.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2019

To address the twin realities that many students worry about their employment prospects but don’t take advantage of traditional campus career resources, more than 800 colleges have adopted the job recruitment platform Handshake. This week, the company announced plans to make its services available for free to all U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2019

They’re more tactile, hands-on ways for students to learn computer science.” The STEM-related projects on DonorsChoose—which made up 13 percent of all requests in 2018, up from 10 percent in 2016—continue to shape and expand what it means to learn computer science, Rosen adds.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

“We want to build from the ground up an inclusive learning system for students and faculty, one that can recreate engaging, live learning experiences online,” says Dan Avida. million seed round for Engageli. It will be some time before the public can decide for themselves whether Engageli meets that vision.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 4, 2016

Presents: "Student Engagement Through Library-led Gamification" With: Tasha Squires Learning Resource Center Teacher at O’Neill Middle School Library Date + Time: Wednesday, August 17th 10am EST for one hour (Click on the time link to see the event time in your own time zone.)

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

“Imagine a breach like the Equifax one we just had, but occurring with students’ browsing history, the search strings of the school counselor or geolocation of all students in the school,” says privacy blogger Bill Fitzgerald, noting the risks companies are taking while gathering sensitive information on students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

Pear Deck files are also easily shared across teachers’ and students’ Drive folders. The impetus behind the company can be traced to the frustrations that two of Pear Deck’s co-founders—all former classroom teachers—encountered while trying to keep their students engaged.

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100mentors

JANUARY 23, 2018

This post will focus on the importance of reorienting education from knowledge acquisition to skill mastery, making what students learn at school more relevant to their lives outside the classroom, consequently increasing student motivation to learn and willingness to actively engage in lessons.

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2017

An early stage education technology company, Cignition, is attempting to break that trend through a summer program that keeps students engaged in mathematics through their online virtual world Fog Stone Isle. According to a newsletter from the Harvard Graduate School of Education [2], on average, students lose 2.6

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. As of spring 2016, the company has supported 100 districts nationally, representing 300 schools and 300K students. Stay tuned! He founded Education Elements to meet that need.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Makerspaces are expected to reach accelerated classroom adoption in less than one year, according to the K-12 Edition of the 2016 New Media Consortium Horizon Report. Shmoop introduced a new service through which experts will read a student’s college application essay and provide detailed feedback and overall suggestions.

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ASIDE

APRIL 4, 2016

Source: ASIDE 2016 We just finished attending the New York College Learning Skills Association ( NYCLSA ) Symposium in Saratoga. We met impressive educators who shared their expertise and resources, and we presented “Design Gives Context To Content To Engage Learners.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

When Subaru officially committed to moving its headquarters to Camden in 2016, we wanted to enhance our relationship with the community through increased support of children and young adults, as we believe that together we can help build the next generation of leaders,” said Thomas J. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

South Fayette Township School District , in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence, will begin planning for a student accelerator for public education to strengthen the district’s existing K-12 pathway for computational thinking and CS. Coordinating with the private sector.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

A groundbreaking 2016 study, underwritten by Reading Plus , an adaptive literacy intervention platform, found that contemporary silent readers are significantly less efficient than their counterparts from 1960—and the researchers suggested a direct link to the decline in the overall amount of time students spend reading.

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 26, 2017

line of books, we have formed a subsidiary publishing company, IMpress. You change the world by empowering your students to do the same. ” November 19, 2016 10 Things That Happen When Students Engage in Design Thinking.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 17, 2017

Global connectivity will continue to allow companies to outsource labor to other countries. Our current students will enter a workforce where instability is the new normal and where they will have to be self-directed, original, and creative in order to navigate this maze. Isn’t that what we want for our students?

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

The teachers manage which students’ screens are projected at any given time, up to four at once.” They create and present a 15-minute PowerPoint and then eat lunch catered by culinary students with the guests, to learn about their areas of engineering or the school/company they represent.”

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 10, 2017

I joined MIND Research Institute in the fall of 2016 to work with a great team of passionate individuals who are changing the way our children learn math. As a father who’s watched three daughters grow and learn, I’ve realized that qualities like rigor and perseverance are not only for preparing students to take tests.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The video’s narrator explains: “School administrators can use big data analysis to determine when students are better able to concentrate.” The company says it has a working prototype and is in conversations with a Long Island school to pilot the headset. But the company has also faced less enthusiastic reviews.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Achieve3000 and Virginia Beach City Public Schools have partnered to create Smarty Summer: Diving into Early Literacy, a new kindergarten reading readiness initiative exclusively for Virginia Beach students. Virginia Beach already started using Smarty Ants for PALS-identified students in its elementary schools as of February 2016.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

This year’s Brightspace Excellence Awards , announced at FUSION 2016 by global learning technology provider D2L, recognized the promise of online learning and its ability to connect more and more people to high-quality educational programs. 2016 Brightspace Awards for Excellence Winners.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, students did not know what to expect (nor the teachers). However, on his first day using the lab, a physics student engage with virtual reality and expressed, “This is like hands-on learning, without wanting to let go.” Montour High School Student It was clear the risk was worth the reward.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

Educators are seeking the best hardware and software solutions to help them teach effectively, and to drive student engagement and learning outcomes,” said Keith Kratzberg, Senior Vice President, Epson America, Inc. By bringing together these leading interactive classroom technologies, we are providing the tools to meet those needs.”.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

When Jenny Billings piloted a digital textbook class and saw an immediate increase in engagement and retention after just one semester, she thought it must be a fluke. In many cases, the use of digital tools, platforms, and applications has helped to boost student engagement, grow pass rates, and increase retention.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Schools Full of Readers: Tools for Teachers, Coaches and leaders to Support Students , is also from 2019. In 2016, two books were published: The Reading Intervention Toolkit , by Shell Education and Read Talk Write: 35 Lessons That Teach Students to Analyze Fiction and Nonfiction , published by Corwin Literacy.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2016

The Learning Counsel’s 2016 Digital Curriculum Strategy Survey and Assessment Tool is now available online. Our friends—all the executives and instructors in education who we meet on the road—ask us pointed questions about strategy and tactics, which companies to look at and the best tools to use. Transition barriers.

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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. Nathan Levenson, former CEO at a crane-manufacturing company.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2016

The new 2016 curriculum adds 3 new Javascript courses, 12 STEM programming courses, and a course on drone programming in partnership with Parrot, one of the world’s leading civil drone companies. “To The drone, STEM and Javascript courses will be widely available for schools in August 2016. and Canada.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

Her work in blended learning, student engagement, and social media has been featured by EdWeek, NBC News’s Education Nation, Instructor Magazine, Intel, ISTE, ASCD, Tech & Learning and the NEA. He is passionate about working with districts as they move to the cloud and increase students’ access to technology.

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techlearning

JUNE 25, 2018

Delivering individualized resources that engage students in learning concepts, each Techbook includes rich digital assets such as virtual labs, video clips, hands-on activities, text, interactive glossaries, maps, and much more. million students in the 2016-2017 school year.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As she puts it, she was “leaving a cushion”—a steady job she’d held for 10 years at an e-commerce company in New York—“for a question mark”—running a child care program out of her home. All Our Kin equipped her with enough basic knowledge and confidence to open her program to the public in September 2016.

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techlearning

MAY 22, 2018

While Big Universe is a new addition to the Alabama Summer Learning Challenge this year, there was a 55 percent increase in Stride usage from summer 2016 to summer 2017. Last summer, Alabama students answered 6.9 million Stride skills practice questions in math, reading, language arts and science.

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Gaggle Speaks

JULY 22, 2016

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Rebecca Sadwick. Most educators have thought about integrating a robust technology program if they haven’t rolled devices out to students already. Ask an account executive or company representative to explain the full value and all use cases for the products that you’re considering. Get creative.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Students worked on documentaries about race and diversity and a Nobel Prize–winning poet, conducted science experiments, and designed things like a new food waste disposal system for the campus and a low-cost hand prosthetic. Students can get up to two full years of work experience while enrolled in college. He lives in New York.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

Mabry is one of the 20,000 educators working for VIPKID , China’s largest online English tutoring company. The Beijing-based company has now raised a total of $325 million.). Tutoring has become big business for VIPKID, which currently claims more than 200,000 paying students from 32 countries (mostly China).

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2016

Department of Education has increasingly encouraged and funded states to collect and analyze information about students: grades, state test scores, attendance, behavior, lateness, graduation rates and school climate measures like surveys of student engagement. Copyright 2016 NPR. “And it’s not even close.”

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