EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

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. Technology impacts instruction in a positive way, the report states.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Here’s what we learned. North Carolina has been supporting digital learning longer than many other states. It was among the first in the nation to draft a Digital Learning Plan , published in 2015. “We A Vision for Digital Learning. Melissa Thibault is all about collaborative learning.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

No matter what investments school districts make to create a modern learning environment, they likely won’t have much impact if teachers don’t use them. In their K–12 2017 Horizon report , the New Media Consortium and the CoSN predict that these technologies will have a significant impact on classrooms within the next five years.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 15, 2019

Rather than taking a traditional multiple choice test at the end of their unit on weather, sixth grade students at Gilbert Middle School in South Carolina created their own live weather reports—complete with green screens and fake snow. As powerful use of technology increased, student engagement grew as well.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This post is co-authored with Sheila MacNeill ( @sheilmcn ) is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Learning at Glasgow Caledonian University. She is also the current Chair of ALT (Association of Learning Technology). The process does have a logical structure – desk research, review, voting, final report.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Today, we released our third annual report on the state of connectivity in America’s public schools. Since EducationSuperHighway began, creating digital learning opportunities for all children has motivated us to ensure that digital equity is a nationwide reality in our education system. So where do we stand?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2017

The full Make Assessment Work for All Students report includes findings from a survey of more than 4,200 students, parents, teachers, principals and superintendents. It also forecasts that district spending on hardware, networks, and major system software will see a slight increase in 2017, rising to $16.2 Read more.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Each mission in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions , shares an example of the Mission in Action by a teacher I admire. Jon constantly strives to learn and share ideas with educators. My daughter, Savvy, got to meet Jon at ISTE 2017. Follow him @JonSamuelson.

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 18, 2017

We are proud to announce that EducationSuperHighway was selected by the San Francisco Business Times as a 2017 Tech and Innovation Award winner. The winners were selected by a committee of reporters and editors of the San Francisco Business Times, with input from an independent panel of advisors.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Inside Higher Ed (IHE) recently issued their 2017 Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology and we were excited about the big initial finding that more faculty are teaching online and that more are finding that online learning can meet the same outcomes. We have taken issue with other reports for similar issues.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 21, 2018

These web tools can be used to complete the Mission: Seek and Preserve the Truth in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning with EdTech Missions. Students can also use these web tools to design a class yearbook or end-of-year memories digital book! Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com !

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Vista purchased EAB in 2017 for $1.55 In 2017, Hobsons sold five of its products to Campus Management Corp. Hobsons also reported a profit of £6 million ($8.4 Hobsons was restructured in 2017 to focus on high-growth opportunities in Student Success.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

North Carolina’s brand new Digital Learning Plan is generating buzz in schools and at the capitol. Here’s what other states can learn. Like every state, educators in North Carolina are struggling with complex demands around digital learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The post The learning experience is different in schools that assign laptops, a survey finds appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

“The latest addition to EasyTech is designed to help both teachers and students navigate online learning this year, ensuring they are able to reap all of the benefits that online tools can provide,” said Keith Oelrich, CEO at Learning.com. “A Founded in 1999, Learning.com currently partners with one in six U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

That’s the conclusion of a new report from U.S. PIRG report, however, says the actual contracts tell a different story. These goals could “push the rapid adoption of access codes across the institution,” the report states. PIRG and author of the report.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

But as Lindsey Cook (Data Editor at US News & World Report) points out in this 20 minute talk, that data isn’t always accessible. When Public Education Data Isn’t Really Public : The U.S. government’s data center, Dava.gov, is a goldmine of open student and school data.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Reports from investment banks that cover Instructure called the deal fair to the company, and they do not expect a bidding war during the 35-day shopping period. In 2017, the private equity firm acquired Frontline Education , a provider of K-12 administrative tools. They are also watching the future of the Bridge product closely. “We

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2018

I am now on the other side of the equation as a district-level technology leader, and I want to apply the lessons I’ve learned from my experience as the "observed" to my practice as a supporter and observer in a constantly evolving learning environment. In 2017, our district began revising its 5-year strategic plan.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

“This milestone and the timing are where we wanted to be when we launched Brighteye in 2017,” says Benoit Wirz, a partner at Brighteye Ventures. “It Source: Brighteye Ventures: “ The European EdTech Funding Report 2020.” Others are building language-learning apps and toys that teach kids STEM concepts.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

Images credit: EVERFI Lessons on The State of Financial Capability The FutureSmart Digital program has an ambitious goal of reaching 2 million students by 2020. We recently released an interactive report that examined financial literacy data across the country, on a state by state basis.

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More Verbs

OCTOBER 5, 2016

We are excited to have added Amanda Nguyen and Sean Malone to the Learning Through Technology Team. Each is a Maine native, a veteran educator, and a leader in learning technology. The very first thing we aligned the Framework to was the District Learning Technology Plans. 2016 Apple Refresh and Collection Update.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 26, 2019

Zuoyebang, a web and mobile platform to assist K-12 students on homework assignments, received $500M investments over 2 rounds of funding in August 2017 and July 2018; an additional $500M of developmental capital from Softbank is said to be upcoming. valuations, led by ICONIQ Capital and Bertelsmann Digital Media, respectively.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

So to help faculty, instructional designers and college leaders better understand what students have said since the program launched, a former cohort leader Rory Foulger, recently completed a comprehensive report highlighting the most popular topics and trends that have come up. Download out the full report here.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Note that the last category is the most subjective and one might reasonably argue some reports (including those conducted under contract with the U.S. Federal Program Evaluations and Program-Related Reports: The First-Year Implementation of the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund in Five States (American Institutes for Research, 2000).

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Every day at Digital Promise, we work with leading educators, researchers, and developers across the country to help close the Digital Learning Gap and improve learning for all. Take a look below at our proposed sessions, and click each link to vote now through August 25, 2017.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

In the conversation around digital learning, there’s a sobering statistic that often goes overlooked: 74. Others, like Learning Equality , have taken a different route. aims to make digital learning content available to students whether or not they have web access.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The speakers all pressed that digital learning, and in particular online charter schools, are falling short for students and teachers. There has been a huge explosion of online learning and edtech in our schools… and online education is privatizing education through for-profit companies and their apps,” said Haimson.

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Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 31, 2017

As a result, 35 million more students have been connected to digital learning and educational opportunity. We have connected significantly more schools to the broadband they need for digital learning than was expected prior to E-rate modernization. Read the full report. Why has E-rate modernization worked so well?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Kahoot , an Oslo-based developer of a digital quiz tool popular with teachers, just started making money this year. In 2017, Kahoot joined the Disney Accelerator , a program run by the venture capital arm of the media juggernaut. TechCrunch reports that the deal gives the company a $376 million valuation. It also reports that 4.5

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2018

Ninety-nine percent of surveyed educators also said they need more professional development and different types of learning materials to properly support ELL students and meet their needs, according to the 2017 EL Education Report from McGraw-Hill Education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Adoption of digital learning resources is taking hold in schools and districts across the United States. Public schools now provide at least one computer for every five students and spend more than $3 billion per year on digital content, according to Education Week.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 4, 2017

Educators Share How Seating Choice Leads to Student Engagement in Learning. Overwhelmingly, educators report that student choice empowers them to take ownership of their classroom and their learning. Christie Bray Burns, Digital Learning Coach, Brazosport ISD, TX. March 31, 2017.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

and Pearson, reports the Snapshot 2020 annual report from the Digital Learning Collaborative. Additionally, the 2019 version of the report noted that about 420,000 students in more than 20 states participate in state “virtual schools,” which primarily provide courses but don’t usually award credentials.

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techlearning

MARCH 8, 2018

and Project Tomorrow in their latest trends report, Trends in community engagement: Text, Twitter, email, call—new expectations for school-to-home communications. Parents value email messages, auto phone messages and text messages for receiving non-student specific information such as announcements and alerts.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

The challenge puts a focus on so-called “lifelong learning,” the idea that gaining skills and knowledge doesn’t happen only in a college or school setting. And as digital learning has expanded over the years, educational institutions increasingly include online courses, short-term credential programs or skills-based bootcamps.

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techlearning

MARCH 29, 2018

An AdvancED external review team recommended the academy for accreditation after reviewing the school on May 31 - June 2, 2017. An AdvancED external review team recommended the academy for accreditation after reviewing the school on May 31 - June 2, 2017. has received accreditation from AdvancED.

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