eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Company’s assessment-driven, integrated instructional ecosystem enables schools and districts to benchmark student progress; teach, plan, and respond to students’ needs in real-time with personalized instruction; and offer supplemental student literacy and math learning software solutions. Goldman Sachs & Co. About Francisco Partners.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2017

Education Dive , quoting a Renaissance Learning’s 2016 report, said: “high school seniors are reading at a 6th-grade level, and only 9% of students in high school read texts above a middle school complexity level of 8, leaving students ill-prepared for college-level reading at about 13.”. Everyone deserves to have fun while learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Although the divide between the haves and the have-nots in this country has been widening for years, the 2016 presidential race and, in particular, the surprising victory by Donald Trump underscored the growing discontent caused by unequal access to the American Dream. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Second Coming of Edtech Education technology resurged around 2010 as software applications moved to the cloud (and could be administered and maintained by a handful of people), and as startup entrepreneurs began designing software specifically for classrooms and schools, not just repurposing products originally created for industry.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

According to the fact sheet that the White House recently released, here’s what we know: Adobe has delivered creativity and e-learning software to over 950,000 students and teachers at more than 1,450 schools and launched more than 20 district-wide Adobe & ConnectED programs. Take Adobe , for example.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In their district-wide tech plan for 2016 to 2022 , Renton set a goal of reaching a 1:1 device-to-student ratio for all middle and high schoolers in the 2019-2020 school year. One unanticipated consequence of opening up the WiFi network, Dorr notes, is that both teachers and students can more readily find and use online software.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2017

It operates 79 elementary schools and 20 secondary schools in the 12 municipalities of the Niagara region. Every day the service desk receives calls about password resets, printer issues, faulty Wi-Fi, new phones or software installations. The district serves more than 36,000 students from Kindergarten through grade 12.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Tagged on: March 17, 2017 Meet the West Virginia teen taught himself how to build a rapping AI using Kanye West lyrics | Quartz Media → To upend the perceived shortage of talent, tech companies have begun to evangelize for open-source AI code, or software that’s free to use, modify, and improve upon.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 15, 2016

Consider: when will we have robots (or whichever hardware-software combination you like) that are better than some humans as assessing and reacting to human emotions? Think about upper primary and early secondary school students having access to – indeed, coming to expect – emotionally responsive computing and robots.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

After a lull in 2016, venture activity for U.S.-based By contrast, in 2016, investors put $1 billion into 138 deals. MOOC companies typically account for the bump in the “Post-Secondary” category, but aside from Coursera’s $64 million Series D round, few other companies focused in higher education scored a large deal.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn. So they turned some of their research on pattern-matching of brainwaves to create a piece of software that would identify patterns in texts. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

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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. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2016 $0 (President Obama’s request: $200,000,000).

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Additional resources such as ViewSonic’s myViewBoard software , can be used to combine content into a single presentation, which can then be shared with children online. Dr. Neelam Parmar; Director of E-learning for Primary & Secondary Schools. Enable students to work at their own pace where feasible.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A Proof-of-Concept Study of Game-based Learning in Higher Education,” published in the August 2016 issue of the journal Simulation & Gaming. As part of their research in the field, Crocco, Offenholley and Hernandez conducted a study on GBL and co-wrote. “A Some Practical Advice.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Strategic planning for edtech is an endless journey—and not just because of constantly evolving hardware and software. Most educators look at the cost of their device and software, but what they need to understand is that the total cost includes PD, tech support, sustainability. Department of Education Secretary in October 2016.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Formed in December 2016 by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MESE) and the. Kenneth Klau, Director of Digital Learning, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. You can personalize learning just fine without technology. Sometimes, it is just a distraction.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

But all of the 19 states that did make information readily publicly available in 2016 reported higher dropout rates for students in special education than for all students. By 2016, the district had reduced its dropout rate for students in special education to fewer than 5 percent and increased the graduation rate to 85 percent.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While these roles were drafted to appeal specifically to university and college librarians, they are universal enough to be relevant to school librarians working in primary and secondary school media centers, too. Why Are School Libraries Important in the Information Age? Libraries across the country are modernizing in unexpected ways.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Fifth graders Davonayshia Hollis, left, and Denaya Rippey, review a group entrepreneurial project for a parent-approved music device, developed in a mentorship program, Thursday May 19, 2016, at Brooklyn’s P.S. 307 in New York.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2016

note : Joelle Bejarano will present a session related to this topic, called “Touch-Interactive and Digital Signage Displays for Parent and Community Engagement in Education,” at DSE 2016 on Wednesday, March 16 in Las Vegas. For more information, visit www.dse2016.com.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 24, 2017 $1M wasted in questionable practices by Dallas ISD's IT and procurement departments, report finds | DallasNews → A questionable software purchase has led to the discovery of over $1 million in waste in Dallas ISD's information technology and procurement departments.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Closing that gap and getting kids to continue their training after high school is especially important here: 74 percent of jobs will require post-secondary education by 2020. In a 2016 poll , just 6 percent of respondents rated school counselors as a top priority for education spending. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 10, 2018

For the 2016–2017 school year, Jamie received an Excellence in Teaching award and was one of three finalists for Teacher of the Year in Oakland Unified School District. The company has evolved to become one of the world’s largest software companies with more than 18,500 employees in more than 50 countries.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 24, 2017 $1M wasted in questionable practices by Dallas ISD's IT and procurement departments, report finds | DallasNews → A questionable software purchase has led to the discovery of over $1 million in waste in Dallas ISD's information technology and procurement departments.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 3, 2018

I’ve done this once before, in 2016 ). Sketchup seems to have been the main software for this year. One last point: here’s what I said in 2016. Last Saturday I helped judge a Vermont 3d printing contest. This is an annual event, whereby middle and high school students create 3d models of historical buildings. (I’ve

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2015

I am now booked through the end of December and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. is made possible by the Entertainment Software Association, which serves the business and public affairs needs of companies that publish video and computer games for video game consoles, handheld devices, personal computers, and the Internet.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion. In 2016 it was 79 percent. Related: DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: Students drown in debt despite a $524 million state surplus. million during the economy’s recovery.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2016

After numerous classroom projects and strong demand from their students, they decided in the spring of 2016 with the support of the school district to massively elevate 3D printing by installing a MakerBot Innovation Center, making MOHS the first secondary school worldwide with such an offering.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

” The details: “The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruling came after a secondary school student in Germany downloaded a photograph of Cordoba from a travel website to illustrate a presentation which was then published on the school website.” ” The Business of Financial Aid. ” asks The Outline.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this year – from the University of Northern New Jersey too ITT, from Trump University to DevSchool – we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works. million ads for software-developer jobs nationwide. Jobs for Grads.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Nearly half of first-generation students who did continue went to community colleges, which spend less per student than many public primary and secondary schools , and where the odds of ever graduating are also comparatively low. “The scope of this problem is huge.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Under a Trump administration: I very much want ed-tech companies and schools to reconsider collecting so much data about students — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) November 10, 2016.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 11, 2016

Engage students with Sim City Software, model building, and a new curriculum designed to integrate disciplines. Best of all writing will be involved for students at both the elementary and secondary level. I am now almost booked through October and the rest of the 2016 calendar is filling fast. Check out my Booking Page.

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

According its January 2017 report, the FCC’s modernization push enabled some 77% of school districts to meet the minimum federal connectivity targets by the end of 2016; just 30% had met those requirements in 2013. A $3 million settlement paid by the New York City DOE in 2016 over accusations of mishandling the bidding process.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. David Homa Teacher, Los Gatos High School David Homa has been a teacher for 24 years both at the University and Secondary level.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

With software like Tango, a new AR technology that changes the way you interact with the world via its ability to understand space and motion like humans do, you can expect your experience to feel futuristic. EdTechTeam produced professional development experiences in 10 languages for over 88,000 educators in 2016. Learn more > goo.gl/Utbuim

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