Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

TenMarks’ co-founders Andrew Joseph and Rohit Agarwal, joined Amazon Education after the transaction but left , respectively, in 2016 and 2017. Last August, the team unveiled an instructional writing tool for students in grades 4 to 6. Still, the TenMarks team continued to push ahead with new product lines.

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Tools Company Instructional Materials Tablets 85

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Teachers often spend many hours at night or on weekends searching the internet for good instructional materials – or just good ideas about how to meld online learning into their classrooms. The post How to sort the good from the bad in OER appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 28, 2016

Of critical importance is the fact that neither MIT nor any of the hundreds of other schools that launched OCW initiatives has ever reported suffering a decrease in enrollments because of its program of open sharing. 18) for the creation of OER-based degrees (see SEC.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

in English literature and was the lead reviewer in a December 2019 study of online instructional materials. “But you have to have the excitement of digging into the text. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank. Fordham Foundation.

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techlearning

APRIL 19, 2018

The news of being named a preferred vendor comes after a recently released report showing that students in Utah who were using Lexia Reading Core5® during the 2016-17 school year realized significant literacy gains. The most compelling findings in this year’s ETI report point to the connection between strong usage and final results.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide.

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director of SETDA, offered highlights from the report, and Ryan Kocsondy, Director of Connecticut Education Network (CEN), gave an inside look at why Connecticut schools don’t worry about running out of bandwidth. Christine’s background includes experience in education and consulting.

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Broadband Accessibility E-rate Mobility 41

EdTechTeam

AUGUST 28, 2017

23, 2017—Today Legends of Learning (LoL), which helps teachers make classrooms fun and productive learning environments through research-driven, curriculum-based games, announced that its games meet science standards for Texas and Georgia middle school students, bringing the total number of states where the games comply with standards to 21.

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Game-Based Learning Meeting Learning Instructional Materials 40

EdTechTeam

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Cross-posted from Observer-Reporter. Typically a seventh- and eighth-grade science teacher, Engler is strictly a technology instructor at McGuffey Middle School for the 2017-18 academic year. Teresa Engler goes over instructional material. By Rick Shrum. Celeste Van Kirk. Teresa Engler’s job hasn’t changed. Or has it?

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Learning Instructional Materials Google Technology 40

techlearning

MARCH 13, 2018

Performance was captured with RIT (Rasch unIT) scores, which measure student achievement on an equal-interval scale across all grades, and researchers compared students’ fall and spring levels in Core5 to their fall 2016 and spring 2017 MAP RIT scores. “We

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. For supporting 1:1 environments : By creating cross-device palettes or dashboards, librarians ensure apps, instructional materials and all digital assets are available at learners’ fingertips across devices.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

While teachers may understand the need to collect the information, they resent inputting the same data over and over again in every learning management system, educational application, and state and federal accountability report. Maureen Wentworth joined the Ed-Fi Alliance team in June of 2017 as a manager for strategic partnerships.

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Data Report OER Policies 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Only 21 states have any kind of dedicated state funding for technology, and this can range from just digital instructional materials (e.g. Department of Education in 2017, recommends districts make sure students have equitable access to technology through an unspecified mix of federal programs and reliance on nonprofit organizations.

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Technology E-rate Laptops Digital Divide 176

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2020

According to an EdSurge/Social Context Labs analysis of 196 school district policies published during spring 2020, nearly two-thirds offered printed instructional materials to families to use for schoolwork, a figure that was higher among high-poverty districts than low-poverty districts. Savannah’s experiences were not atypical.

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Elementary Analysis Guidelines Instructional Materials 160

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Ebert, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Nevada Department of Education Nominated by: Discovery Education The shift to distance education precipitated by the COVID pandemic highlighted challenges including access to technology, professional learning for educators, and high-quality instructional materials.

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Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary 132

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The committee approved the plan in March 2017, with the school’s opening date set for August 2019, but union negotiations consumed almost two full years. This story about XQ was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. It is a beautiful vision.”.

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Meeting Outcomes Study Groups 106

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

The Evolving Economics of Educational Materials and Open Educational Resources: Toward Closer Alignment with the Core Values of Education. Dempsey (Eds.), Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology (4th ed.). In no instance did a majority of students or teachers report that the OER were of inferior quality.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2017

The 2017-2018 school year budget will be a continuation of what was set by Congress under the previous administration. However, as Politico reported , documents have surfaced showing the Trump administration’s desire to cut an additional $3 billion from the 2017-2018 year budget.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Read the page one story in The New York Times on North Dakota third-grade teacher, Kayla Delzer, who according to the reporter is one of the “tech-savviest teachers in the United States.” Reporter Natasha Singer says: Her third graders adore her. That is the value conflict that the Times reporter hits.

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Social Media Facebook Instructional Materials Report 75

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2016

The goal is to have the subject taught in every public school by December 2017. Department of Labor reports that the median annual wage for computer and IT jobs is about $80,000. “We ‘CS4RI’ initiative aims for computer science to be taught in every R.I. public school by Dec. Rhode Island Gov.

Microsoft 40

Microsoft Instructional Materials STEM Training 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

To the entrepreneur who wrote the Techcrunch op-ed in August that ed-tech is “ 2017's big, untapped and safe investor opportunity.” Remind co-founder Brett Kopf was replaced as CEO by Brian Grey, formerly CEO of the Bleacher Report. These are just the ones that were reported by the press, of course.).

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

pic.twitter.com/gOvmSOjcSf — Shelly (@ShellySometimes) February 14, 2017. ” asks The Hechinger Report. Edsurge reports that NewSchools Venture Fund is running another competition – this one to fund entrepreneurs who build PreK–12 special education apps. ” asks The Hechinger Report.

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