Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

As a string of online-education companies have gone public, including Chegg, Coursera, Kahoot and others, it seems that investors have decided that there’s enough public interest in digital learning, and they want in. million in the three months ended March 31, 2020 and $55.4 million and $15.8 million, respectively.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t. The six public schools in Brunswick operated on a hybrid schedule for most of the 2020-21 school year.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

edtech companies raised over $800 million in the first half of 2020. Its revenue surpassed $100 million last year, and is on track to exceed that in 2020. Company officials say it has policies and processes in place to remove offending material (though the onus still falls largely on faculty to report them).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. education system.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

31, 2020 , and the platform will likely shutter before then, says Ben-Naim, who adds that he and a small staff will help customers transition and move their content to another platform. ACT, the group best known for its assessment used in college admissions, invested $7.5 Flash will be sunsetted on Dec. million in 2018.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Focusing on student engagement, student empowerment, and equity in education, they shared key lessons educators learned during the lockdown. Participating schools and districts receive free summary reports, including locally collected data plus state and national data for benchmarks. Student Engagement.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In their district-wide tech plan for 2016 to 2022 , Renton set a goal of reaching a 1:1 device-to-student ratio for all middle and high schoolers in the 2019-2020 school year. Everyone is saying ‘we are in a digital world,’ so how do we support every student, especially those that might not have WiFi access at home?”.

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 14, 2017

This is a critical resource now, because schools need robust Wi-Fi to keep up with rising digital learning demands, including 1:1 device policies and multimedia learning programs. Don’t focus only on your immediate digital learning needs; also consider future growth and expansion.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

On the one hand, China’s private education market is projected to grow 9 percent per year until 2020, reaching a value of $330 billion—an enticing market for many American entrepreneurs. As EdSurge and others have reported , these companies greatly concentrate in B2C English and tutoring services (and sometimes a combination of both).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students. I can see a world where we overcorrect, however, and start to view it in a very narrow way.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Pearson CEO John Fallon today announced plans to retire in 2020 after a successor has been appointed. Part of Fallon’s job was to trim the legacy parts of the business and reorient the company around digital learning services. In 2018, Pearson reported a profit of £546 million on £4.1 billion market value.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

Accounting for True Costs of Device Purchase When schools shut down in March 2020, leaders at the MDE began to take stock of the needs of students, teachers and school and district administrators and staff throughout the state. But how much money should the MDE request?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students. I can see a world where we overcorrect, however, and start to view it in a very narrow way.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The state superintendent, who has set a goal of getting a one-to-one computer to student ratio in grades 3-12 in all Mountain State schools by 2020, said he wants pupils to have devices with all their classes on them to use at school and take home. He also wants devices available for younger kids, but not to take them home.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

To meet this challenge, Jhone Ebert, Nevada State Superintendent of Public Instruction, in the summer of 2020 announced the launch of the Nevada Digital Learning Collaborative (DLC). Elementary and high school students from across the district were part of the initial program. NWEA MAP points on average. TEC) in Concord, NH.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

As part of this project, we interviewed product leads from 12 edtech companies during the spring and summer of 2020. Learn more about this EdSurge Research project.) Supporting Changing Needs As schools transitioned to remote learning in the spring, edtech companies noticed a significant increase in the usage of their products.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Since the shift to remote learning in spring 2020, schools in the U.S. Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, gave $10 million to a single school district in California, aimed at closing digital disparities. In 2020 alone, venture capital firms invested $2.2 Or their networks need an upgrade?

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Technology E-rate Laptops Digital Divide 174

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Data released at the end of the 2021-22 school year showed the district increased math scores by double digits in grades 3-8, outperforming pre-COVID levels. enVision offers an innovative math curriculum that helps educators teach with confidence and inspires students with hands-on, problem-based learning.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 31, 2020

With the possibility of remote learning returning this fall, the City of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the philanthropic community, and leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs) recognized a historic opportunity to eliminate broadband accessibility as a barrier to digital learning. On June 25, 2020, Mayor Lori E.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2021

billion )—may be unaware that there are more than 100 social media platforms for users to choose from to suit their digital engagement tastes. during the 2020-2021 school year, one of these students is bound to be on the same social media platform as their college instructors or university administrators. With the estimated 19.7

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Alexander inspires an innovative approach to learning by embedding interventions led by Istation’s assessment data into the school’s daily instruction. Inspired by Alexander’s success, educators at Morris Elementary also use Istation’s reports and printable resources to promote academic growth in reading and math.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JULY 11, 2021

If you can comprehend the above lines at a proficient reading level, you might be a teacher transitioning out of the 2020-2021 school year. Once class starts, the Agenda Slide lists the date and competency objectives for the day as the teacher connects them to what students have been learning.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Teaching and Learning. Cybersecurity and cyber safety impacts teaching and learning, especially in this era of digital learning. After the cyberattack, the crisis response is invaluable to assess why the attack happened and develop new protocols if necessary. “It’s The Threats.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 15, 2021

But even during the crisis, they dug in, designing creative digital learning experiences, using technology for enhanced remote engagement, and leveraging local phenomena and investigations for students and their families to do at home. Assessment. If you think of an old assessment item like, ‘How many protons are in hydrogen?’”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage. This tech must support all students so that everyone can learn not only WITH technology, but about it, too.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage. It is all about the balance. This emphasizes the need for tools and programs to support their well-being.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 73

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

For decades, advocates of competency-based education have been arguing that colleges should award credits based on assessing what students know rather than how many hours they’ve spent in class. To do competency-based education means unlearning the paradigms of education for faculty, the way they teach students, the way [students] learn.

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Education Conference System Report 108

Kitaboo on EdTech

JANUARY 6, 2023

eBook Apps Simplify the Process of Administering & Assessing Tests . Rising costs of printed materials, coupled with a growing sense of eco-consciousness amongst readers, made digital books and online readers more popular with the masses. Almost a decade later, 2020 saw over 191 million eBook titles sold in the US alone.

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2019

A McKinsey & Company study from 2014 suggested that textbook rentals would cannibalize new-textbook sales by 2017, resulting in a reduction in new-book sales of 5 to 10 percent by 2020. Related: 10 findings about K-12 digital learning. Related: New report reveals 10 ways students are outpacing their schools.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Well, it did–but it also didn’t. — Keith Look, Ed.D.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Well, it did–but it also didn’t. — Keith Look, Ed.D.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library. At the intersection of analog and digital learning opportunities, the value of school libraries has increased at all levels of education.

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 98

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Without them, even the most civic-minded will find it hard to assess and interpret the mass of information out in the world. Quick Digital Citizenship Activities, a collection of short, self-guided K-12 activities designed for digital learning: Middle and High School and K-5. Jennifer has a B.S. in educational leadership.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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