NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

As school leaders, you’ll want to dig into the NMC/CoSN Horizon Report: 2017 K-12 Edition. The annual K12 Horizon Report regularly identifies and profiles six key trends, six significant challenges, and six developments in educational technology likely to impact teaching and learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In 2017, the CTTL’s student research fellows began collecting qualitative and quantitative data by surveying the ultimate end users of our daily schedule, the students. Two of the most intriguing pieces of data collected during student surveys related to class period length and homework.

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Unfortunately, high-speed Internet wasn’t available at Garrison School until 2017. Prior to the 2017-2018 school year, the school received a fixed amount of Internet access every month. There, she could use the restaurant’s free Wi-Fi to file state reports from her phone. The challenge. “I had no other options,” Ms.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. million (Seed) 2017 EduLab Brightwheel $10 million (A) 2017 GGV Capital ClassWallet $1.5 Demand for these services run fierce; individual tutors report making as much as $8 million a year.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Credit: Austyn Gaffney for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Austyn Gaffney for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Austyn Gaffney for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Austyn Gaffney for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Austyn Gaffney for The Hechinger Report. Their home was barely spared by the rising flood waters.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Those activities often leave data trails, making it possible to quickly measure how well, say, a section of an online textbook is conveying the knowledge a teacher hopes to impart, or whether the material needs to be revisited and revised. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Her friends wanted to try robotics, so she tagged along. Robotics came easily to her, so she began helping others in her club and teaching her 2-year-old sister the basics. “I They also added a school support coach to help teachers improve their lesson plans and use more data to track students’ progress. Kids are excited.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report. The Gates Foundation is among the funders of The Hechinger Report.). “I Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report. Supporters in New Orleans say that, so far, personalized learning has been transformative. Aaaaaaaa ,” the kids chanted.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Kim Raff for The Hechinger Report. EAW’s University of Utah graduates end up with half the student loan debt of their peers, the organization reports. 700,000 — The amount of tuition assistance received by some 325 Utah students since EAW began operations in the state in 2017. . Kim Raff for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

It adds some 11,000 books every week, and fielded a million reference requests in 2017. Jason Rhody, a former ODH program officer, tweeted that Kirschenbaum’s modest grant “led to a report that has been downloaded thousands of times, cited hundreds, & led to future projects like @BitCurator , and informed his future work.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Education technology accelerator programs are often studded with robotic kits or educational games. MeasureOne, a San Francisco startup and data analytics firm thinks so. The Whether was the 2017 winner of the SXSW EDU startup Launch competition and has partnered with more than 500 colleges and universities.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In fact, according to the global staffing agency Ranstad, “many workers are seeking project or consultant-based work, with as much as 61 percent of the workforce choosing agile* careers by 2019” Greater use of Big Data in HR. Expect to see people and predictive analytics move beyond HR-specific data.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The Hechinger Report visited Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School in January to hear students present their ideas for a new high school of their dreams. School leaders wanted to include their input as they plan the opening of a new high school in 2017 (check out the story here ). appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Credit: Photo: Sophie Kasakove for The Hechinger Report. This story also appeared in The Huffington Post.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

They settle in at the computers where Caine teaches coding and software, such as Illustrator and Photoshop, or they head to the back room for the 3-D printer, vinyl cutter and robotics kits. In total, the homework gap hits some 12 million school-aged kids nationwide, according to a 2017 congressional report, “ America’s Digital Divide.”.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. Platforms are “an extractive apparatus for data.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Students sit at desks wearing electronic headbands that report EEG data back to a teacher’s dashboard, and that information purports to measure students’ attention levels. The video’s narrator explains: “School administrators can use big data analysis to determine when students are better able to concentrate.” million.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Doug Levin (@douglevin) March 17, 2017. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition). The thread on this tweet has the details. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While regular public high schools report graduation rates and scores on standardized tests, the same data isn’t widely available for recovery schools, because many are so small they fall below the threshold for reporting. Data on just how effective recovery high schools are in helping students stay sober is complicated.

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

I delivered this talk today at the NMC Summer 2017 conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I know there have been lots of murmurs about what it means that someone who’s been quite critical of the Horizon Report project would be invited to speak, let alone to get to offer the closing remarks. We will be raised by robots.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In the afternoon she accompanies the group of primarily African-American and Latino kids for the return trip, while many of their classmates at Rooftop School in the San Francisco Unified School District stay behind for after-school activities like French, guitar and “Lego robotics.”. It’s boring; it’s bumpy,” Bui says: “Traffic happens.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Education Department civil rights data, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor Scott Peters found that on a state level “equity got worse” in gifted education from 2016 to 2018, with underrepresentation of Hispanic children in a majority of states and of Black students in three-quarters of states, he wrote in an email.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Not quite enough time for our robot overlords to overtake us, but both distant and soon enough to make us wonder. It should also be supported by data and demonstrable behaviors. In 2017—the last full year for which it publicly released numbers— Futuresource Consulting estimated that Chromebooks had 58.3 Let’s pick three.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Richard Labbe Johnston County Public Schools Nominated by: Savvas Learning Company While recent statistics from NAEP (The Nation’s Report Card) show significant declines in math scores across the country, Johnston County Public Schools in North Carolina has defied that trend. Smart transportation, and VR, among others.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year. announced the U.S. K-12 market.

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2021

Education Department civil rights data, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor Scott Peters found that on a state level “equity got worse” in gifted education from 2016 to 2018, with underrepresentation of Hispanic children in a majority of states and of Black students in three-quarters of states, he wrote in an email.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. In addition, Alma will continue to provide its own set of robust reporting tools to meet many needs and budgets.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

I mean, 2017 really sucked, and we’re all feeling it. It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us. ” “ Can Grit Be Measured? .”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

She implements programs like Istation to give her teachers an advantage in providing data driven instruction and strong, effective interventions. Alexander inspires an innovative approach to learning by embedding interventions led by Istation’s assessment data into the school’s daily instruction.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. public high schools (42.5

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. public high schools (42.5

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. But skeptics warn that underneath the language of “student-centered” pedagogy is a tech-intensive model that undermines communal values, accelerates privatization and turns public schools into big data siphons. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Via The Huffington Post : “ White House Quietly Removes Sexual Assault Report From Website.” Testing, Testing… Via The LA Times : “ California ’s standardized test score results delayed indefinitely due to ‘data issue’ ” More on testing (and fraud) in the courts section above.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

From the press release : “FBI Releases 2017 Hate Crime Statistics.” ” More on the report from Pacific Standard. There’s more data about online education down in the “research” section at the bottom. ” Via The Verge : “An academic reported sexual harassment. on Coursera.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

. “Researchers say removal of an IRS tool for financial aid applicants may have slowed FAFSA submissions, while college aid groups warn that affected students could already be losing out on aid,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Sante Fe University of Art and Design will close at the end of the 2017–2018 school year.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week about privacy, data, monopoly power, and regulations. “Publishers Wiley , Cengage , Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education have won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a seller of fake textbooks ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. National) Education Politics.

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