EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

Personalized Learning and Digital Tools Weave Strong Fabric for Student Success. According to Project Tomorrow’s 2017 Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning , 56 percent of parents of school-aged children are concerned that their child isn’t learning the right skills in school to be successful in college or a future job.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 1, 2018

Using Edtech to Enhance Learning. Bethany: You know, I think that’s one of the things that kind of scares some teachers a little bit when it comes to integrating technology tools in their classroom. Is the focus of the tool to enhance student learning? What kind of tools can we use to engage students in content?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2016

2017 is shaping up to be a big year of what-if’s. While device penetration is increasing and edtech products are proliferating, adequate infrastructure in schools lags behind. What if we could provide all schools with affordable consultants and researchers to aid in the edtech selection process? education technology agenda.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Where do you hope education technology will go in 2017? Dartmouth College) I took inspiration from Dr. Seuss, and immense liberty in adapting "Oh, The Places You’ll Go" into ‘Oh, The Places Edtech Will Go’ with dedication and thanks to two special six- and ten-year-old girls for their contributions to the rhymes. Edtech will be global.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 13, 2019

According to a 2018 research report , AI-based technologies are primed to grow within the edtech market by just under 47%. The program is able to assess not only wrong and right answers, but steps taken and hints used and then map that over previous tasks and assessments completed.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

All in this Edtech Reports Recap. But there’s still a ways to go to hit the FCC’s “longer-term” target of 1 Mbps, which was to kick in by now, for taking advantage of bandwidth-hungry edtech apps. But they may not have the tools they need. “Early childhood” videos on YouTube nearly all have advertising. That Broadband Gap Bar?

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Research continues to provide further evidence that the conventional wisdom about learning styles should be rejected by educators and students alike (Kirschner, 2017; Husmann & O'Loughlin, 2018; Riener & Willingham, 2010). There is little scientific support for this fashionable idea—and stronger evidence for other learning strategies.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

edtech companies in the first half of 2019. The two companies were also among the 10 companies that raised the most funding in 2017 as well. The high tally for venture funding this year is not unique to the edtech industry. edtech companies, but their counterparts overseas have also attracted plenty of venture capital.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Here are three different areas of connectivity K–12 IT teams may want to consider when deciding how to configure their schools’ networks: MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how K–12 schools are preparing their infrastructures for IoT integration! Video has proven to be an effective learning tool as well. Individual Classroom Technology Use.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Edtech gatherings that attract more than 1,000 attendees, such as LearnLaunch’s Across Boundaries Conference last week in Boston, are usually echo chambers of hubbub and hoopla about technology’s potential to transform education. How do we take smart tools and use them to attack that dataset?”

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 25, 2021

The post 4 Projects that Go Beyond Traditional Assessment – SULS0111 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Jen shares ideas that will help teachers go BEYOND traditional assessments like reports, essays, presentations, and cookie-cutter assignments. 4 Projects that Go Beyond Traditional Assessment with @virtualgiff.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

has been awarded the 2018 Tech Edvocate Award for Best Assessment Tool or App. has been awarded the 2018 Tech Edvocate Award for Best Assessment Tool or App. Every MobyMax product is rooted in teacher feedback, which we integrate into both the curriculum and the tools we design for teachers to use in the classroom.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 edtech startups raised last year. Increasingly, Asian companies are also investing abroad to find fresh ideas and tools to bring to their local markets. edtech investor, including. Based Company.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 25, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Monica Burns @ classtechtips talks about the hottest edtech topics right now (and those that aren’t so hot) in this candid and wide-ranging conversation. She also provides support to organizations using technology to reach children and families in need.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2017

note : Common Sense Education’s Edtech Eleven is chosen by Common Sense Education every month and helps educators find the best edtech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. January 2017 Updates. What left the list?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Yet in the education industry, these deals have been few and far in between, especially as many of these companies have opted to build their own edtech tools. According to The Baltimore Sun , the company claimed users in roughly 10,000 schools as of October 2017. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

Flocks of educators and entrepreneurs have made their way down to San Antonio this week for the mecca of edtech conferences, hosted by the International Society for Technology in Education—better known as ISTE. It’s also a time when companies of all sizes and ages announce their latest updates and tools. classrooms.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Here are EdSurge’s top stories of 2017 in chronological order—a healthy dose of optimism and skepticism, words of encouragement and caution for the year ahead. Goodbye ABCs: How One State Is Moving Beyond Grade Levels and Graded Assessments What happens when you take away grades and grade levels?

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 25, 2017

I think 2017 is going to be an exciting year, there’s going to be a lot more cloud based technology than there was before and when classes and content are delivered in the cloud and via browsers, it means kids can access the same experience and content at home as they can in the classroom.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

We’ve rounded up our 10 most popular articles from 2017, as picked by our readers. Microcredentials, and controversial moves and pivots by edtech companies hoping to disrupt the higher education landscape. Here’s the 2017 countdown, from #10 to #1. So what were some of the most popular themes?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

ETS is best known for offering assessments like the GRE and TOEFL exams. And ETS contracts with OECD, which creates the global education assessment benchmark test known as PISA. Knack and NurseDash aren’t the first edtech deals for ETS, however. million in 2017. million in 2017. With more than $1.3

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). Yet edtech investors remain uncertain whether to invest in K-12 curriculum products. “Curriculum is becoming commoditized.” And he’s not alone.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Today Jon Corippo @jcorippo talks about one of his favorite tools, Quizizz. He shares how you can use this tool to teach vocabulary and save time for other things! Unleashing students to help with this tool. Want to hear another episode on technology tools? VICKI: Happy edtech tool Tuesday.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

edtech industry, that’s no big deal: In the first six months of 2018, 62 companies raised $739 million in venture capital. This year’s first-half funding total marks a lull from the same period in 2017, which totaled $887 million spread across 58 deals. The full-year tally for 2017 reached $1.2 But for the U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Renaissance Learning , a provider of K-12 software and assessments, including the widely used STAR tests, has agreed to acquire Nearpod for $650 million. Nearpod offers some of its content and tools for free and sells licenses to individual teachers, schools and districts. The company has changed hands several times.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

She authored Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education (published by ISTE in 2008), Cell Phones in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for the K-12 Educator (published by ISTE in 2011), Help Your Child Learn With Their Cell Phone and Web 2.0 Liz runs a blog at [link]. The post Are Smartphones in the Classroom a Smart Move?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2019

Already, one New York-based edtech company has raised $100 million. It launched in 2015 with $100 million , and re-upped in 2017 with a $185 million coffer. Department of Education has been embarking on a listening tour to help educators make sense of edtech research. Expect more dollars to flow. The research arm of the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

Since its first cohort in 2015, AT&T’s edtech accelerator has graduated 27 companies and nonprofits. Two organizations have been acquired (EMC School bought Zulama in February 2018, ExploreLearning purchased Cogent Education in November 2017). Cognitive ToyBox (Brooklyn) a game-based assessment platform.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Its latest act: making a strategic investment in Open Assessment Technologies (OAT), a San Francisco-based startup that offers open-source tools for building and delivering digital tests. Besides just being an assessment company, we’re also becoming a learning and navigation company,” Roorda tells EdSurge in an interview.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 11, 2019

Over the past several years, MIND Research Institute has been endeavoring to change the conversation around edtech evaluations. A few weeks ago, EdSurge published an article that echoed many of those same sentiments, most specifically that the overreliance on “gold standard” RCT studies is the wrong approach for edtech.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

I found what they had to say about formative assessment and their use of technology inspiring, and have included their videos below. The extraordinary teachers featured below would be effective with or without edtech tools, but all of them have figured out how to use technology to impact their students in meaningful ways.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 16, 2017

Today Mari Venturino @MsVenturino talks about breakout edu digital for edtech tool Tuesday. Mari was awarded the CUE Outstanding Emerging Teacher of the Year in 2017. A conversation with Mari Venturino on episode 77 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2019

For example, as global investment in the education technology space is on a meteoric rise ( exceeding $9 billion in 2017, and then $16 billion last year) less than 1 percent has been invested in the Arab region. Finally, there was also room for more use of artificial intelligence technologies to improve outcomes.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 29, 2017

It's not easy to stand out among the the giants of edtech like Google, Apple, or Microsoft. Still, smaller developers are innovating at a rapid pace and are creating some truly exciting tools. Now that the conference is over, we've done some of that work for you: Check out these tools that you may have missed at ISTE this year.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

When I started graduate-level work with machine learning tools at UC Berkeley in 2011, few people outside academia were discussing artificial intelligence. Come 2017, and AI—or at least the buzz about it—is everywhere. Commercially-viable AI still seemed pretty far off. Accuracy is a complex criterion to satisfy.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 4, 2023

The panelists delved into several key themes, encompassing an exploration of the CITES framework’s essence, a spotlight on its leadership tools, and insights from districts that have successfully embraced the framework in their educational settings. Sharon Smith, Director of Special Education at Hampton Township School District (PA).

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 11, 2017

The post How to Easily Assess Student Writing in Google Docs appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Assess Student Writing in Google Docs with WriQ. WriQ is currently a FREE tool that helps teachers assess writing in Google Docs. Learn all you need to know about the trainer assessment and application! Enroll Now!

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