eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. Renaissance displayed its literacy solutions.

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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. And now, we head into our third year of learning during a global pandemic.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

A less frothy but steadily growing edtech market is emerging in Europe, where investment check sizes often have fewer zeros. Case in point: Brighteye Ventures, a Paris-based edtech investment firm, has raised $54 million in the first close for its second fund. Source: Brighteye Ventures: “ The European EdTech Funding Report 2020.”

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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. And now, we head into our third year of learning during a global pandemic.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! My students love doing any learning when they get to brainstorm on their desks with a dry erase marker. The digital whiteboards and brainstorming tools below provide features for students to create sketchnotes and concept maps. No registration required.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. This year’s 5th most-read story focuses on expert predictions for edtech. As we closed the door on 2022 , we approached 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2020

Two private equity firms are combining three education technology assets into a new company—one that its CEO jestingly likens to a “greatest hits album” of software for higher-ed institutions. It will offer 14 administrative software tools to help college officials attract, support and engage with faculty and student communities.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. What are the projections for edtech? This begs the question: What’s next for education?

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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. software and electronic textbooks, as is the case in New Mexico ) to physical devices (e.g.

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edWeb.net

MAY 14, 2020

As of March 29, 2020, school closures due to COVID-19 have impacted at least 124,000 U.S. However, due to the current school closure situation, most school districts are forced to use an adopt and adapt method for online and remote learning software and curricula. Learn more at www.net-ref.com.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

This recognition will inspire the Discovery Education team to continue to create innovative services that support the creation of the dynamic digital learning environments today’s educators and students demand and deserve.”. The lesson concludes with a hands-on activity designed to bring learning to life.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Artwork submissions for this free youth art contest are accepted this year from November 1, 2019, through January 31, 2020. Ideas to Promote Creativity in Your Classroom – Show Notes 1 – Make a Digital Learning Launchpad Hyperdocs.co Just make a copy and adapt it for your use or print it.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Hobsons , which offers a suite of software for college and career planning, admissions and enrollment, and student success and advising, will be broken up and sold in a pair of transactions totaling approximately $410 million. times that of Hobsons’ 2020 revenue of £85 million (approximately US $119 million). schools and districts.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And in the aftermath of the switch to distance learning during the pandemic, district administrators may also want to use data to develop a more coordinated approach to tech usage. If there are variations among schools in software usage, for example, the next questions may be why and what usage issues need to be addressed.

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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. Q: How is edtech preparing Generation Z students to survive the future of work?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It may be the biggest question in college edtech during the pandemic: Should tests be allowed to robotically watch students? The more recent rise of automated proctoring tools replace those humans with software robots, thereby reducing the cost. But the level of outcry is unusual for an edtech product.

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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. Founded in 2008, EVERFI’s Impact-as-a-Service TM solution and digital educational content have reached more than 45 million learners globally. Currently, more than half of U.S.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

As we close the door on 2022 , we approach 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole. 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.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It offers fewer courses than Coursera—in 2020, edX listed 3,090 courses and Coursera about 4,600. It [can] create this cycle that naturally leads to the winner-takes-all,” says Phil Hill, a longtime edtech consultant. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. Downsides of Openness?

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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. So what else is next for the Salt Lake City-based edtech company? I guarantee that will come at an opportunity cost.”

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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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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

When we support parents’ learning, they create a culture of learning at home.” Edtech programs that mirror video games were also brought in, building student confidence as learners won badges and advanced through the levels of the adaptive programs. Google Classroom —Digital learning management system using Google apps ?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Want to learn more about Seattle’s burgeoning edtech scene? EdSurge will be hosting hundreds of local teachers and administrators, along with dozens of edtech companies from around the country, at our Summit on Dec. The event is free for all educators—sign up here! They might inadvertently expose sensitive data.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

It is back to school time 2020 for many of us in the United States and beyond. Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. Perhaps a digital learning journal could be employed to promote reflection. Thanks so much.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

By 2020, 65 percent of U.S. With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, this summer we launched the preliminary version of what we call the Digital Learning Network —a place that aims to link the scholars, practitioners, institutional leaders and entrepreneurs driving these changes.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

While educators and school district administrators have grown used to reviewing assessment results and other forms of student data, they may not yet be looking at newer and increasingly important metrics such as online engagement, trending use of apps, and the return on investments in software.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

School libraries have evolved from strict, quiet, hush-hush rooms to more interactive spaces with flexible seating, readily-available edtech tools, and educators on hand to help with research, critical resource evaluation, makerspaces. Why Are School Libraries Important in the Information Age?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). And “free” doesn’t last.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

I wrote about social-emotional learning (algorithms) as a “trend to watch.” ” Elsewhere in algorithms… Via The New York Times : “Sent to Prison by a Software Program’s Secret Algorithms.” The latest report formerly known as the Sloan Survey of Online Learning has been released.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JANUARY 6, 2023

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. The Coronavirus pandemic further propelled reliance on digital learning solutions.

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