Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Access to technology for all students is a major goal for many schools, companies, and organizations—yet access is only part of the equation. Other research (Holhfeld et al, 2017; Warschauer & Matuchniak, 2010) supports the idea that SES is a factor in how technology is utilized in classrooms. percent).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Some companies and services became obsolete without the availability of face-to-face experiences. The company, founded in 2015, had enjoyed steady, if not quite astronomical, growth prior to the pandemic. The company employed 25 people. Those students can choose from a cache of more than 140,000 courses.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2019

And yet just 62 percent of college students report having ever visited their institutions’ career centers or used their affiliated online tools, according to a 2017 Gallup survey. This week, the company announced plans to make its services available for free to all U.S. About 35 percent of seniors never have.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

A platform for students to create and run revenue-earning companies. A service for 24-hour tutoring for underserved high-school students. These are three of the eight companies in the fifth and latest class entering the AT&T Aspire Accelerator , now in its fifth year of operation. At least one—Earshot—has folded.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

When she became the district’s first educational technology director in 2017, Briana Allen looked for a better solution. She tried several options before jumping on a free trial of the wireless video streaming and screen mirroring technology by Vivi, an education-focused company founded in Australia.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In June 2017, Hero K12 , based outside of Miami, received $150 million from BV Investment Partners to acquire other edtech companies in an effort to create an integrated education data platform. It adopted the SchoolMint brand as the umbrella company. based company founded in 1998 that builds identity authentication software.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

Her books and resources are used around the world: THE WRITING STRATEGIES BOOK (2017) and THE READING STRATEGIES BOOK (1st edition) (2015) have been translated into French, Chinese, and Spanish. Let's take that engagement example. Her newest books are THE READING STRATEGIES BOOK 2.0 Well, then, what's next for that particular reader?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Three million frogs are harvested each year for classroom dissections in the United States, according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which partnered with the manufacturing company SynDaver to develop the synthetic frog. A lot of the jobs that other schools might hire people to do, we’ve invested in the students to do.”.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2018

What are the edtech trends to watch this year, and what are the key takeaways from 2017? In 2017, U.S. edtech companies raised about $1.2-billion I think the bar is a lot higher for edtech companies to raise money now. They’re saying, ‘What do I want to do with my classroom? With my kids? billion dollars across 126 deals.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Talladega County Schools is partnering with the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI) to deepen teachers’ content knowledge in STEM education and promote strong pedagogical and technological skills for student instruction. Forging meaningful partnerships with institutions of higher education.

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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

MAY 21, 2019

In our flagship program, which we started in 2017, we run AI summer camps for underrepresented high schoolers. How do you talk to young students about jobs that might not be there anymore in the future? How does your organization do that exactly? Yes, definitely. Learn more here.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Shmoop introduced a new service through which experts will read a student’s college application essay and provide detailed feedback and overall suggestions. All the student has to do is subscribe to Shmoop’s 12-month student plan between November 1, 2016 and January 15, 2017, and then email their essay to Shmoop HQ.

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techlearning

JUNE 25, 2018

The grant program initially launched in the UK in 2017 and received more than 250 entries from schools throughout the region. The ActivPanel continues to offer the best natural writing experience of any display worldwide, driving increased student engagement and instilling confidence in educators at the front of the class.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.

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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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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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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

He believes executive function skills should be taught early on through a “marriage” with SEL so that students have as many tools and resources as possible. His district now has student engagement specialists working in schools, where they serve as “relationship experts” who can help students, teachers, and parents work more effectively.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 10, 2017

This neuroscience and social benefit organization is transforming the way students engage with mathematics and support their interests in other STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields — the industries that are building a brighter future for us all. This is one of the main reasons why MIND first appealed to me.

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techlearning

AUGUST 20, 2018

This new collaboration will power the district’s movement to 1:1 learning by providing the dynamic digital content and sustained professional development educators need to make students’ devices come alive as powerful learning tools. Inspired by the global media company Discovery Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2018

We were inspired to make these changes to our program following our district’s close collaboration with School by Design , a software and services company founded by education leaders that partners with technology experts. Related: How high school would be different if students could design it.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 12, 2016

“With this acquisition, PowerSchool has invested over $100 million within the past six months to implement the K-12 education industry’s first unified classroom platform,” the company said in a statement. and Canada. In January, Jefferson Education formed a partnership with math and science curriculum and assessment provider Agile Mind. .”

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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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techlearning

MAY 16, 2018

This initiative features a renewed emphasis on Project-Based Learning (PBL) within instruction which will ensure academic rigor, student engagement, and relevancy across the curriculum. In 2017, Math Techbook was independently verified by EdReports.org to meet the highest levels of mathematical content and pedagogy.

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 26, 2017

line of books, we have formed a subsidiary publishing company, IMpress. July 24, 2016 11 Books To Further an #InnovatorsMindset October 27, 2016 Developing Innovators and Entrepreneurs February 28, 2017 The Fear of Sharing #IMMOOC August 3, 2016 “Did you fail school or did school fail you?”

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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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techlearning

AUGUST 21, 2018

The School Librarian of the Year is selected by a panel of qualified judges, including the 2017 honoree Tamiko Brown, and recognizes K–12 library professionals for outstanding achievement and the exemplary use of 21st-century tools and services to engage children and teens toward fostering multiple literacies.

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techlearning

AUGUST 23, 2018

Students benefit from access to a tool that will grow with them throughout their educational careers. Best of all, WeVideo constantly moves forward, adding new features and content that always keeps students engaged and challenged.” WeVideo and SkoleTube first partnered in January 2017.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Our guest, Danielle Johnson, Executive Director of the Texas Scholastic Esports Federation, shares how esports is not just about gaming but about boosting student engagement, improving academic performance, and building a more inclusive school community. Esports are rapidly growing in schools across the country.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

World Savvy programs provide support at three critical levels to deeply integrate global competence into teaching, learning, and culture: student engagement, teacher capacity, and school and district leadership support. Gray is an educational innovation consultant working with schools, organizations, and corporations.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Monday, September 11, 2017. So rather than telling students that as a result of this experiment or unit or activity, you’re going to find this out, it’s shifting the order and putting that purposeful play first, letting the students engage in that productive struggle first, and then coming together. Enhanced Transcript.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

But at an all-hands meeting at the company’s Washington, D.C. headquarters in June 2017, Planet3 executives laid off the staff. Some employees hoped the company could turn around and stayed on without pay. “We Fundraisers Sidelined There was just one problem—the company needed more money. Nineteen states and D.C.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

showed her students the 2016 documentary Before the Flood , featuring Leonardo diCaprio journeying to five continents and the Arctic to see the effects of climate change. “It is our intention to make our students engaged citizens,” Fisher says. Before the Flood has an action page and an associated curriculum.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cleveland recognized the need and became a strong advocate for Hazel Health, a telehealth company that provides mental health services to students at no cost to families. Students today are deeply ingrained in the “creator culture,” with one-third of children ages 8-12 aspiring to be a YouTuber or vlogger.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

That’s down 11 percentage points since 2017. “He In Arizona, 46 percent of high school graduates in 2020 went to college the following fall, a drop from more than 55 percent in 2017. Amanda DeBord, an Advise TN adviser in a rural part of Tennessee, says her students’ parents “just don’t value education the way they did in the past.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Friday, September 2, 2017. Vicki: Yeah, you know, teacher engagement comes before student engagement, doesn’t it? The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Enhanced Transcript. Shownotes: www.coolcatteacher.com/e140.

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