Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

After a career working at tech-centric companies including Google and Quora in product roles, Liu Huang joined CZI in 2017 to oversee the product development, notably the Summit Learning platform. The development of the technology platform has been run by CZI since 2017.)

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

That means that investors may not reap financial returns at a multiple they’d like, as far as ideal outcomes in the venture capital world goes. Rosabal had joined Galvanize in early 2018, after a turbulent 2017 that saw layoffs and leadership changes. Galvanize announces its income share agreement option.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. In less than two years, between 2015 and 2017, the district paid more than $4.5 Of course everything is driven by student outcomes, but do I think that Education Elements is responsible for those?

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Personalized Learning Education Elements Learning Outcomes 122

Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2023

Elizabeth Neilson, a semifinalist for Minnesota Teacher of the Year, in 2017. In a private Facebook group with more than 76,000 members, called Life After Teaching , current and recovering educators seek counsel, share progress reports and offer words of encouragement. “I wanted to be good at it. I wanted to serve my students well.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Parents created Facebook groups to oppose the changes. Recent national data show the same downsides to ability grouping: In the National Assessment of Educational Progress study for 2017 , elementary schools that reported using reading groups “almost always” scored lower on average than those that used them “hardly ever.”.

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Groups Study Report Facebook 90

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

The ASU GSV conference stands out for being unabashedly capitalist, in the sense that everyone believes that delivering on profits and student outcome can go hand-in-hand. In 2017, Frontline sold to Thoma Bravo for $1.3 How times have changed. Here’s how the attendee demographics have grown from 2010 to 2018.

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techlearning

JUNE 25, 2018

Districts in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina and Tennessee piloted creatED Professional Learning programs during the 2017-18 school year. For more information, visit www.crayola.com/education and follow creatED by Crayola on Facebook , Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Professional Learning Classroom Learning Facebook 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2019

K12 reports that the outcome won’t have a material impact on its operations. In July, K12 President Kevin Chavous posted a message on Georgia Cyber’s Facebook page accusing the school of misspending public dollars and turning struggling students away. An arbitrator is appointed to the case and proceedings are ongoing.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Parents created Facebook groups to oppose the changes. Recent national data show the same downsides to ability grouping: In the National Assessment of Educational Progress study for 2017 , elementary schools that reported using reading groups “almost always” scored lower on average than those that used them “hardly ever.”.

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Groups Study Report Facebook 76

EdTechTeam

APRIL 6, 2017

Lindsey Blass & Cate Tolnai SAN JOSE, April 4, 2017 -- Across the world, educators and students are uniting with one simple goal: to complete and share one drawing a day. EDUsketchers and Doodlers Join the #Sketch50 Movement ! It all started with an email titled, “I have an idea :).”

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Digital Badges Social Media EdTech Twitter 41

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

For now, students have to sign into Facebook Messenger to use Edwin. based company wants to help K-12 schools and districts tackle an age-old problem: leverage data from disparate sources to help educators better align their spending and resources to improve student outcomes. The company also has a free vocabulary course.

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Technology Education Company Pearson 112

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 9, 2017

In 2016, Sue Considine received the PLA Charlie Robinson award for innovation and excellence in public library leadership and finally in 2017, Sue received the Business of the Year award on behalf of the Fayetteville Free Library from the FM Chamber of Commerce.

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Libraries Conference Outcomes Secondary 34

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Leaders in the education program have worked to promote stories about the teachers they’re training in the media (including local NPR interviews ), by producing video stories (such as one about a bus driver-turned-teacher ) and through social media posts on Twitter, TikTok and Facebook (like these posts about that former-bus driver ). “As

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Training Trends Social Media Policies 148

MIND Research Institute

MAY 13, 2020

The study looked at data for over five million students in grades 3 through 8 who had taken NWEA’s MAP Growth assessments in 2017-2018. We already had a thriving teacher community on Facebook, and have recently created a new group for families as well. From good intentions to real outcomes: Equity by design in learning technologies.

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Meeting Digital Divide Education STEM 61

The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Get clear on your vision and outcome. The first step in overcoming procrastination is to identify a goal or outcome for your work that you care deeply about. If you have the right priorities and projects on there, the outcome will be something you care about and really want to make happen. Checking social media! Even better?

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Outcomes Facebook Social Media Exercises 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Think Facebook.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

State colleges are often compensated based simply on attendance, giving no incentive for outcomes. In 2017, about quarter of place-based, private non-profit colleges in the U.S. What colleges don’t need to do is to create entrepreneur programs obsessed with launching the next Facebook. trillion overhang in student debt.

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Training Facebook Industry Outcomes 139

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2019

That’s intentional, given the high profile accorded to its co-founder and board chair Priscilla Chan, whose husband is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. According to a school official, total operating expenses for East Palo Alto site the 2017-2018 year came out to about $5.5 CZI also provides grant support to EdSurge.)

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Education Meeting Facebook Company 150

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 123

The Innovative Educator

MARCH 8, 2017

The #1 skill for #Students today is becoming comfortable w/discomfort + dissecting that says @tferriss at #SXSWEdu pic.twitter.com/3p2UPd8USr — Lisa Nielsen (@InnovativeEdu) March 8, 2017 He shared his strategies for doing that. He also shared that most things don’t have irreversible, negative outcomes. A surprised audience looked on.

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Outcomes Social Media Facebook Strategy 43

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 12 Edition). Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Are computers teachers? Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Arizona lags behind in schools' internet access, but change is coming | Tucson.com → “Urban Arizona keeps progressing and keeps getting access to better technology,” he said.

EdTech 170

EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 170

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 12 Edition). Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Are computers teachers? Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Arizona lags behind in schools' internet access, but change is coming | Tucson.com → “Urban Arizona keeps progressing and keeps getting access to better technology,” he said.

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EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 150

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In 2017, I began a position at UNC Chapel Hill directing the new M.A. Facebook events. Our challenge is to create a customized curricular experience for each of our students given their diverse backgrounds, as well as their unique interests and the outcomes they are seeking from the degree experience. UNC MEITE website.

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Gamification How To Education Game-Based Learning 110

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Cruey’s wife, Cheryl, who was principal of Southside K-8 until retiring at the end of the 2017-2018 school year, mentors three siblings in the district. Occasionally we see him on Facebook. The district has worked hard to improve its academic outcomes, and there certainly have been improvements. Photo: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost.

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Dropout Report System Social Media 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Courtney Jorgensen, pen in hand, wandered the courtyard, searching for the unlikely individuals who didn’t use Facebook and didn’t like dessert. “I Close to two-thirds of students who completed one of 25 federally funded programs between 2015 and 2017 found paid work within a year, according to a recent survey. I know one we both have!”

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Report Course Smartphone Facebook 84

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Whether you consider people sharing billions of popular memes and photos on platforms like Facebook or Tumblr, or teachers swapping syllabi and lesson plans with each other, all of these materials are automatically and fully copyrighted by their creators and sharing them is illegal without a license granting you permission to share.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Related: The ‘forgotten’ part of special education that could lead to better outcomes for students. a father with an autistic son at Cypress, on Facebook. “If Nobles Minds charter school opened in 2017. That number is expected to grow as more students are evaluated, according to the school’s COO, Kristine Barker.

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Education System Report Meeting 75

Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2017

If we look back on 2017 in educational technology, some of the biggest surprises were political and cultural. In 2017 the Trump administration did not embrace free tuition, to put it mildly, but localities did in various forms, from New York state to Providence, Rhode Island.

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Trends LMS Social Media Education 113

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Two school districts in two states are scaling back their use of the Facebook -built Summit Public Schools ’ learning management system. ProPublica with more news about Facebook and discrimination : “Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads.” Billion in 2017.”

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Education Robotics MOOC Facebook 46

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Almost 76,000 black students account for 90 percent or more of the enrollment in more than a fifth of the state’s schools, and the gulf in academic outcomes is indisputable. She resorted to an English major and returned to Holmes County in the summer of 2017 with her bachelor’s degree. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Outcomes Elementary Report Resources 140

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Congratulations, STEM folks and learn-to-code evangelists, for being featured in President Trump’s list of his 2017 accomplishments. Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share.” ” Also via Techcrunch : “ Facebook brings Messenger Kids to Fire tablets.”

Education 43

Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition). Tagged on: March 5, 2017 Global Evolution of EdTech | Navitas Ventures → A look at over 20 years of edtech company evolution through $16b of investment around the world. No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes. government.

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EdTech Coursera Data Case Study 170

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

“Mark Zuckerberg just unveiled Facebook ’s new mission statement,” says The Verge. Via Buzzfeed : “ Violence On Facebook Live Is Worse Than You Thought.” ” Because, you know, Facebook’s mission is “community.” ” Upgrades and Downgrades. Study Shows Choices Are Slim.”

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Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

It’s a bit too early to tell what 2017 will bring.). Turns out that “free” might not be the best business model for a for-profit company, particularly one that cannot rely on advertising the same way that other “free” products like Facebook and Google can. The number of investments fell by 11%. (It’s

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Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Via The Student Loan Report : “Halfway Through 2017, Here Are the Best & Worst Student Loan Servicers.” The Flatiron School has released its latest “outcomes report.” ” “Facebook is not introducing people to open internet where you can learn, create and build things.

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. with Pigeons.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 11, 2018

” That’s Steve Lamey, who ran the British loan company, and who was fired for “gross misconduct” in late 2017. ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Postscript on Rio Salado Coverage: Clarity about different outcome types.” Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Adds A.I.

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Education Company Robotics Report 42