Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Paula Stamey, a seventh-grade social studies teacher in Benton, Tennessee, taught for 20 years before her school became a Verizon Innovative Learning School and adopted one-to-one technology in 2017. Educators require support in harnessing technology for diverse student needs, emphasizing digital competencies and 21st-century skills.

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 1, 2017

A recent victory for Arkansas’ public school system shows that these collaborations can yield tangible and meaningful results, particularly for rural communities. On July 13, 2017, Governor Asa Hutchinson announced that the state had connected Glen Rose School District, the final Arkansas district awaiting high-speed Internet connectivity.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2017

It also forecasts that district spending on hardware, networks, and major system software will see a slight increase in 2017, rising to $16.2 AASA , The School Superintendents Association, announced the finalists for the 2017 National Superintendent of the Year. Read more.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

PowerSchool is best known for its K-12 student information system, which is the most widely used of its kind among U.S. The two most recent acquisitions are Hoonuit , a set of data management and analytics tools, and Schoology , a learning management system. Vista purchased EAB in 2017 for $1.55 schools and districts.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2016

Tennessee’s Wilson County Schools and Discovery Education announced a new six-year partnership supporting the creation of authentic digital learning environments in classrooms district-wide.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The update of the policy document by the DOE’s Office of Education Technology is the first since 2016 (parts of it were revised in 2017). District leaders – including those overseeing academics, special education, finance as well as technology – need to come together to “build systems that empower every learner,” he wrote.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Yet, there is clear value in digital credentials within higher education and job-embedded professional learning. 1EdTech inherited Open Badges from Mozilla in 2017. Digital credentialing is an electronic means of transferring data about an individual’s accomplishments, resulting in a PDF, image or other digital learning record.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

To help overcome this, we have adopted the Future Ready Schools Framework , a systematic approach to scaling innovative digital learning practices while promoting long-term sustainability. The team’s primary goal was to develop a shared vision for deeper learning through innovative uses of digital technologies.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 17, 2017

With many competing opinions on how to implement digital learning effectively, compelling stories can influence decision-makers and inspire people and communities to action. What are some of the ways successful school systems are communicating with diverse audiences in their local communities? initiative.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Public Private Partnerships - The K-12 Funding Gap : Many inequalities in the American education system can be attributed to massive funding gaps between schools. And now, many schools are turning to private-public partnerships to fill those shortages.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 8, 2019

Now, more than ever, we need an Educational Moonshot: A pedagogical breakthrough so extraordinary that student learning and achievement are exponentially boosted in such a way that assures our students are fully prepared for the VUCA future. 40 (Hattie, in Magana, 2017). Research Matters. Education research matters.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The 2016-2017 school year began with 100 percent parent participation in an orientation training to support parent understanding of the one-to-one Literacy Initiative. 1] “Closing the Digital Learning Gap – Digital Promise.” Citations. [1] ” [link]. Accessed 2 Oct. ” [link]. Accessed 29 Sep.

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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. Evans said sending those emails indicates students are independent learners who have the benefit of a school support system.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Instructure, best known for its Canvas learning management system, announced Wednesday that it is set to be acquired by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo for approximately $2 billion—unless a better offer comes along in the next 35 days. Canvas has the largest market share in the U.S. Customers are indeed watching warily.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Back in 2017, a startup named Coursetune began selling software tailored to a very particular niche: designing curriculum. Some of the learning management systems that colleges already use do have features that help professors make course objectives clear to administrators and students.

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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. The question was only posed to faculty and not to digital learning leaders.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013. The organization’s blog offers useful insights and advice on classroom technologies, digital citizenship, personalized learning and more. Keller ISD Digital Learning Blog. Jaime Donally.

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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. Explore cataloging options within those platforms.

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Learning Confluence

JULY 1, 2018

When designing online learning consideration should be given to how a community can be built around subject content and objectives and how students will interact with the academic and with each other. The institutional learning management system affords a safe and reliable albeit often less than inspiring space for learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2019

Urkund: Today’s Sponsor Urkund is great as a plagiarism prevention tool and connects with most common Learning Management Systems like Google Classroom, Moodle, and Canvas or as a stand-alone web tool or by email. The Urkund system is highly accurate, cost-effective , and even better, doesn’t sell licenses to students or others.

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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. Founded in 2006, AdvancED is a non-profit organization that conducts on-site reviews of a variety of educational institutions and systems. Learn more at MassachusettsMayflowerAcademy.org.

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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. Maker Learning and School Leadership.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The Student Access to Digital Learning Resources Outside the Classroom Report , by the Department of Education, identified the three main causes of digital inequity as access and cost of high speed broadband and the lack of understanding by school families as to the importance of internet to support their students’ education.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

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. According to 2017 data from the Federal Communications Commission: 2 million students and 2.6 So where do we stand?

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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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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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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.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In the summer of 2017, the head of Edge, Rick Singer, sent an email to Littlefair letting her know that they “had someone to take the classes” for her son and that he would let her know “what it would take to complete so we can bill,” according to the court filings.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

She served on the leadership team for the EdTech Coaches Network of ISTE from 2015-2020, was a Future Ready Schools Instructional Coaches Thought Leader from 2017-2020, is a cohost of the Restart Recharge Podcast for coaches, and is a Google Certified Innovator, Coach, and Trainer. Lumio sponsored this episode. Katie finished her Ed.D.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 16, 2020

The digital diffusion of education enabled the development of the collaborative economy, which refers to an economic system in which companies and several independent creators and producers aggregate and create value jointly in freely interconnected networks. “Co-creation, 5 Educational Technology Trends for Digital Classrooms.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2018

Karen Cator, who leads Digital Promise will share ideas at the forefront of building a strong research base for practice. We'll unpack the complexities of how to make different technology systems work together with Dr. Rob Abel of IMS-Global and Troy Wheeler of Ed-Fi. The list of speakers is growing daily.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2017

She found in a school survey that nearly 90 percent of the elementary teachers weren’t aware that the district was teaching digital citizenship, despite the fact that every student was receiving instruction on it. For the 2017-2018 school year, Ellington trained all the teachers on the basics of digital citizenship.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

When colleges sign deals with publishers to sell digital textbooks and homework systems directly to students, they’re required by federal regulations to offer those materials at discounted prices. They also must allow students to opt out of buying bundled books so they can find resources on their own if they prefer.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In its current form, our higher education system amplifies national inequities—when it could be doing the opposite. These programs aim to support students who face financial or academic stresses, especially low-income, first-generation students who are not well served by the postsecondary system. Next Steps. Organization. Year Founded.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2020

The platform also works with most learning management systems used by higher-ed institutions. Audio readouts of platform content has proven more popular than expected, with a per-reader increase doubling since its introduction in 2017. Sherwood is also interested in updating features on his platform.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2016

In addition, 35 teacher leaders and their principals, representing five elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school, will participate in Discovery Education’s Digital Leader Corps.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

If computer systems are able to perform tasks that humans have performed for thousands of years, will it render teachers and administrators a thing of the past? Not so fast argues Chris Gosselin, a Digital Learning Coach at Sanborn Elementary School.

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