EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Thu, 02/28/2019 - 15:20. A study conducted at Georgia Tech found that students who used mobile augmented reality platforms to learn coding performed better on assessments than their counterparts. . “We K–12 Teachers Use Virtual and Augmented Reality Platforms to Teach Coding. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

The United States ranked 36th in math and 13th in reading among 79 countries and regions that took the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2018. Our district, which started the 2019-2020 school year with 750 openings, has hundreds of vacancies each year.

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Educational Technology Guy

APRIL 2, 2019

New Analytics Tool From CDW, Lightspeed Systems Helps Schools Optimize Tech Use Today at COSN 2019 , CDW, in partnership with Lightspeed Systems , introduced Analytics Powered by Relay, a dashboard solution enabling K-12 schools to make informed decisions about their use of educational technology devices, applications and websites.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

A version of this post was originally published on August 6, 2019 in Education HQ Australia. Google Expeditions , Discovery VR or NYTVR are just a few examples that allow that to happen. Smart speakers like Google Home , Amazon’s Echo Dot or Apple’s HomePod find their way into more and more households. Smart speakers.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. Where School Safety, Security, & Surveillance Meet Happy hour will have to wait, as we kick our sessions off with a sobering and important conversation that warrants your attention.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2019

AltSchool, a developer of personalized learning software that once operated a chain of “microschools,” is getting a major makeover. Ventilla was formerly a Google executive (after selling his social-search startup to the internet giant) who left in 2013 to learn about the education landscape.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 14, 2019

A 2019 Common Sense survey found that only four out of every 10 teachers consider the professional development that they received on the use of technology in the classroom to be effective. Then he uses the collaboration mode in software called MimioStudio to display the lists on the interactive whiteboard at the front of the room.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

Since the beginning, the tool has focused on mobile delivery on a smartphone, and the company claims it is the leading mobile learning platform globally , with more than 500 million downloads between the Apple App Store and Google Play, and 40 million monthly active users. Duolingo has a few things going for itself. million and $15.8

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In February 2019, an IBM AI supercomputer named "Project Debater" was pitted in a competition against a human national debate champion Harish Natarajan. A quick Google search resulted in no immediate hits of others writing such an essay. For the entire text of this example lesson plan, click here to view as a Google Doc.).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2020

We are interested in just-in-time training ( SV Academy offers sales training for new hires paid for by employers) and last-mile training ( Pathstream offers employer-branded digital skills training for software platforms) that are tied into strong job placement prospects. Tech-enabled apprenticeships and high school-to-workforce pathways.

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PlagiarismCheck

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

When we have Google on every cell phone, copy-pasting is even easier than collaboration. Even if you do not have any sophisticated anti-plagiarism software, you can check your student’s essay using Google search at any time. It is easy to use the old ways of assessment to evaluate students’ performances.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Whether you are brand new to Google or a seasoned user, there are probably a few things you don’t know about G Suite for Education. If you want to become a Google Certified Educator or Trainer, you need to learn the basics of G Suite for Education. (It Get This Information in a FREE Google Doc. 24/7 Access. Collaborative.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

In 2019, over $88 billion was borrowed to pay for medical costs and these were not necessarily related to lack of health insurance. Founded in 2008, EVERFI is fueled by its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) community engagement platform and has reached more than 41 million learners globally.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

He’s started working with more schools and districts—instead of reaching students mainly at home—and has partnered with assessment groups, such as the College Board and, most recently, the NWEA for personalized test prep materials. The latter group administers the MAP Assessment—a test designed to measure growth in reading and math.

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Khan Academy Common Core Assessment EdTech 127

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Districts expressed interest in additional DreamBox products that address other pandemic-related problems, like its new predictive analytics tool, designed to assess student progress and learning loss in lieu of now-canceled standardized tests. Between 2016 and 2019, online tutoring services raised more than $1.2

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Nearpod seized an opportunity to help the classroom teacher deliver tailored lessons and assess learning in real time. Shauntel Garvey (General Partner, Reach Capital): The launch of the iPad and Chromebook ushered in the age of devices in the classroom. But the consultant was right.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Their oral and written responses may not always reflect their level of understanding, but whatever they deliver should be assessed as it is. It is important that learners develop their skills through a universal perspective that goes beyond the information that their textbook – or Google and YouTube – provide.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

As we think about our work in the past 2019-20 school year, we should reflect on the online learning that had occurred for those of us fortunate enough to have the necessary technology—both at our schools and in our students’ homes. What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place?

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Marketplace K-12

JULY 26, 2016

. “This will be more true than ever going forward,” Hoverman told more than 125 education business leaders attending the event sponsored by the Education Technology Industry Network of the Software & Information Industry Association. Google for searches, Google Classroom and Google Docs. percent to 3.5

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100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Their oral and written responses may not always reflect their level of understanding, but whatever they deliver should be assessed as it is. As IB learners, it is important that students develop their skills through a universal perspective , one goes beyond the information that their textbook – or Google and YouTube – provide.

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techlearning

JULY 18, 2018

This year alone 613 booths crowded the floor, from mega-booths like Google and Microsoft to tiny, easy-to-miss tables. Many of the latter often hide the up-and-coming tools for 2019 and beyond. Want to speed up fluency assessments and free up time for instruction? Looking to go beyond the multiple-choice assessment?

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Software & Online 3DBEAR AR INNOVATOR PROGRAM ( 3dbear.io/product/ The program runs from May 2018-June 2019. The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions. The program includes in-classroom professional development sessions.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

This year alone 613 booths crowded the floor, from mega-booths like Google and Microsoft to tiny, easy-to-miss tables. Many of the latter often hide the up-and-coming tools for 2019 and beyond. Want to speed up fluency assessments and free up time for instruction? Looking to go beyond the multiple-choice assessment?

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Assessment Robotics Tools Digital Citizenship 40

Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

This year alone 613 booths crowded the floor, from mega-booths like Google and Microsoft to tiny, easy-to-miss tables. Many of the latter often hide the up-and-coming tools for 2019 and beyond. Want to speed up fluency assessments and free up time for instruction? Looking to go beyond the multiple-choice assessment?

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Assessment Robotics Tools Digital Citizenship 40

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

PilotCity students pose with MC Hammer (center) at the 2019 East Bay Innovation Awards ceremony. Shuffling along the stations are adult professionals—among them city officials, including the mayor of San Leandro, and representatives from Google, Sony and Wells Fargo—who offer guidance and poke holes in the projects.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The teachers already have to do all that work for the academic standards in that week’s pile to narrow-cast what chapter or software module, discussion questions, what to write a paper on, etc. Denying that to students in the age of Uber, Amazon, Google and more seems sort of an awkward and wrong-headed thing to do. Data entry.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2019

MTI 563 starts in one week–Monday, June 10, 2019! Ideas include visual, audio, video, mindmaps, infographics, graphic organizers, charts and tables, screenshots, screencasts, images, games and simulations, webtools, and hybrid assessments. Google account (can be your school account or your personal one). What is it.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Tue, 10/01/2019 - 16:36. Offerings from industry leaders such Google are feature-rich and unlikely to suddenly close their doors and leave your data in limbo. Keys obfuscated and stored in Software as a Service (SaaS) applications aren’t secure, Clyde says, and “losing the key is just as dangerous.” eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Data Student Data Privacy Pearson EdTech 182

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

In regard to Creativity, check out my last post, which covers facilitating and assessing Creativity in the classroom. He attributes this theory to the role Asia now plays in the global economy with automation being software driven, and abundance of material in the market place. In essence, routine work is disappearing!

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online ACHIEVE3000 & ICIVIC ( www.achieve3000.com The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions. The application is free to download from the App Store or Google Play.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

Depending on where you start the timeline, this summer (2019) the OER movement will be 21 years old. assessment banks, assignments, online homework tools).) The Linux operating system is one of the most incredible success stories of the open source software movement. First point. We’ve been at this for a while. Second point.

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techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

Educators can use the assessment data to identify students’ SEL strengths and areas in which they may need additional support. released several upgrades for the 2018 - 2019 school year. Schools, districts and out-of-school-time organizations can also use the data to measure the effectiveness of their SEL programs.

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TeacherCast

MAY 8, 2019

They are all coming to your blog or website to learn something and the best way to keep them coming back is to ask them questions, possibly through a Google Form Survey, to get a better sense of topics that you may wish to turn into podcast or blog topics. February: Google for Education. Week 1: Google Docs Tips. Rendezvous.

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2019

Q: What’s your take on Bill and Melinda Gates’ 2019 annual letter regarding the point “textbooks are becoming obsolete?”. Every day, people are having conversations with their Alexa or Google Assistant, requesting knowledge from endless databases of information. This is just a taste of what’s possible.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

I won’t write the series in 2019 either, so this is the very last Hack Education Weekly News. Several “rethinking assessment” stories, sponsored by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, in Edsurge this week. Via Techcrunch : “ Holberton brings its full-stack software engineering school to Colombia.”

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). public high schools (42.5

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). public high schools (42.5

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