eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The massively popular digital learning program for reading and math, SplashLearn has benefited over 40 million children internationally. The company is also home to the creator and serves as the production studio behind the hit Netflix series Sharkdog. SplashLearn is available across all digital platforms (iOS, Android and Web).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2024

From idea to scale, Catapult helps companies shape, develop and deploy innovative, proven solutions to meet critical educational challenges. When schools shuttered in the spring of 2020, more than 1 billion students worldwide shifted to online instruction in less than one month. It’s been a wild ride. Now, the industry is in a reset.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 25, 2020

Distance learning is a crazy time for many, but we can celebrate the way various companies are offering very cool and engaging tools, resources, and activities for free. For more information about this class, click here. Video labs, along with accompanying teacher and student guides, covering key science topics.

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2023

The Advisory Council members help inform the company’s future development plans for the ParentSquare platform and serve as a peer-to-peer forum for discussing best practices and pressing issues in school communications and family engagement. The ParentSquare Advisory Council was formed and began meeting in summer 2020.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2023

“By partnering with TeachingBooks and Sora, we’re bringing free, ready-to-teach literacy lessons to teachers and learners, furthering Pear Deck’s mission to create powerful learning moments for every student, every day,” said Stacy Yung, a former teacher and Senior Instructional Designer at GoGuardian, parent company of Pear Deck.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2021

Twenty-five years after the Internet became commercially available, post-high school learning—which for adults is now truly often a life-long endeavor—is now a diverse ecosystem of options. Beginning in 2020, the digital transformation of the economy and labor market took a giant leap forward.

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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. But it has been actively expanding its portfolio, purchasing nearly a dozen edtech companies over the past five years. based company claims it serves more than 45 million students in more than 80 countries.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2022

EVERFI collected anonymous survey responses from students who participated in one of three EVERFI financial education courses during the 2020-2021 school year. To learn more about EVERFI’s Financial Literacy offerings, please visit the EVERFI website. Currently, more than half of U.S. About the survey. About EVERFI, Inc.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

Head to Lumio for more information and to sign up for FREE. 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.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

SplashLearn, the US-headquartered learning company began 2021 on a high note raising $18 million in Series C funding round led by Owl Ventures. In 2020, more than 10 million new users joined the SplashLearn program. SplashLearn is available across all digital platforms (iOS, Android and Web). About SplashLearn.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

In 2020, one survey found that approximately 5 million public school students were English learners–that’s over 10 percent of students. Technology companies have, and will continue to, build products to support classrooms, but ultimately there is a policy call that must be made on the public end.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, June 16, 2022) – The Discovery Education K-12 learning platform won the Best Education Platform award for PK-20 and the Mystery Science service earned the Best Science Instructional Solution award for Grades PK – 8 as part of the recent 2022 SIIA CODiE Awards. For more information, visit siia.net/CODiE.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2023

Driven by their vision to create 21st century learning environments that offer opportunities for all students to pursue higher education and develop skills that meet workforce needs while producing informed, conscientious, and productive citizens who give back to their community, GCSS fosters a culture of continuous assessment and improvement.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

According to BOOKR Kids Founder and Chief Executive Officer Dorka Horvath, BOOKR Class underscores the unique effectiveness of ability digital media as ESL learning tools for the classroom. Immersive and interactive, digital learning tools can encourage new levels of creativity and concentration in the classroom,” said Horvath.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Wednesday, July 20, 2022) —Hawaii’s Kihei Elementary School today announced that it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education, which has supported the school’s educators in creating engaging digital learning environments since 2015. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

Part of the issue when designing assignments and exams to deter cheating is recognizing what cheating in 2020 looks like. Preventing cheating becomes a game of cat-and-mouse, said Ashley Norris, chief academic officer at ProctorU, a company that provides secure live and automated online proctoring services.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Future of School (FoS) today announced that Microsoft has joined as a partner in the Resilient Schools Project (RSP) to provide access to valuable training sessions from Microsoft Store aimed to support educators with remote and hybrid learning. Learn more at www.futureof.school. About Microsoft.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 13, 2020

Distance learning is a crazy time for many, but we can celebrate the way various companies are offering very cool and engaging tools, resources, and activities for free. For more information about this class, click here. Video labs, along with accompanying teacher and student guides, covering key science topics.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2019

Founded in 1992, the organization regularly surveys its network about what materials they want and shares this information with publishers. That’s how First Book first learned about the demand for a bilingual version of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” says Jane Robinson, its chief strategy and financial officer.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2023

Mystery Science, which joined the family of Discovery Education services in 2020 and recently won SIIA’s Best Science Instructional Solution CODiE award for Grades PK – 8, provides K-5 educators simple to use, open-and-go, hands-on lessons that inspire students to love science. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The platform could pair them up for projects, and students would end the project with a presentation of their findings and work to companies in exchange for course credit. “It The new round of funding will help Riipen hire more sales and marketing staffers to grow the company’s presence in the U.S., office in 2020.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Discovery Education and leading corporate and community partners are offering engaging, no-cost digital learning resources to students, teachers, and families to support Human Rights Day observances. Social & Emotional Learning Topic Videos. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Companies like Noodle Partners say the pandemic has significantly accelerated interest in its services, as universities prepare for a scenario where remote learning remains the only option. Tyton Partners, a strategy consulting and investment banking firm, puts the OPM market at $8 billion in 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2020

As the start of the 2020-21 school year approaches, states and school districts are wrestling with decisions about when, how and whether school will take place inside brick-and-mortar classrooms. No matter the Day One plans in your local area this fall, every school district must be ready for partially or fully remote school days.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2019

A third shareholder in Instructure , the publicly traded provider of the Canvas learning management system used by colleges and K-12 schools, has come out against a proposed $2 billion sale of the company to a private equity firm. Blackboard itself went from a publicly traded company to private equity owned in 2011.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

Even without a pandemic, Instructure faced a transformative 2020. The learning management system provider—best known for its Canvas product popular among colleges—is officially under private equity ownership. That information might have scared stockholders months ago. The company is also on the search for a new CFO.

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MindSpark

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The World Economic Forum predicts that 85 million jobs in roles like data entry, accounting clerks, and secretaries are likely to be displaced from 2020 to 2025, 97 million new jobs are likely to be created, such as artificial intelligence specialists, data scientists, and information security analysts. Externships bridge that gap.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2022

Working at the intersection of education leaders, researchers, and technology developers, Digital Promise seeks to improve learning opportunities for all and close the Digital Learning Gap. . In February 2020, Digital Promise released the first of its edtech Product Certifications.

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, March 3, 2022) — Discovery Education and leading social impact partners are offering engaging, no-cost digital learning resources to students, teachers, and families to support Women’s History Month observances nationwide. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2021

Through this new collaboration, educators and students in 28 CPS elementary schools will receive access to a suite of Discovery Education’s award-winning digital learning resources. Teacher editions also provide flexible pacing options, embedded teacher notes, and Pathways for Learning to address diverse learners.

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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

JUNE 8, 2022

These interventions are informed by more than just human compassion. There’s a lot to learn from the totally online environment for the on-the-ground campus, about how we can use data and some of these digital interfaces to see students maybe even better than when we’re staring them right in the face,” Baker Stein says.

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eSpark

AUGUST 4, 2021

Digital Promise is a nonprofit organization at the forefront of accelerating innovation within education and closing the digital learning gap. Only 50 products have received the certification since February 2020 when it launched.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

times higher in March and July 2020 compared to the same period one year earlier; suicide attempts were 2.34 Even as COVID-19 infection rates decline and schools move to reopen, students face extraordinary challenges adjusting yet again to hybrid learning schedules, altered school environments, and new classroom health requirements. “We

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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. It has to be a collaborative effort,” says Mark Racine, chief information officer for Boston Public Schools. “I

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2021

Even start-up companies should perform some form of research to show that their product can meet students’ and teachers’ needs. Professional learning needs are changing too. Dr. Evans serves on several boards and advisory councils and is a frequent speaker and writer on digital learning. Join the Community.

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