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8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Wally Clipper, has a great run-down on 8 trends you’ll want to watch in 2020: 8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020. With more educational institutions adopting virtual learning management systems (such as Moodle, Edmodo, etc.), Being a teacher and a learner today is awe-inspiring.

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With a New CEO, Can Edmodo Regain Its Ed Mojo?

Edsurge

“What really drew me to Edmodo was the opportunity to use technology to provide a much better learning experience for everyone,” says Kim in an interview with EdSurge. In September, Kim took over as CEO of Edmodo , the San Mateo, Calif. They do not use Edmodo at their school—yet.)

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Edtech Has Grown More Common, More Global and More Sophisticated. What’s Next?

Edsurge

And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. Dozens of companies raised venture funding at equal or lesser values —“down rounds”— compared to rounds raised during the pandemic-induced edtech boom of 2020 and 2021. This shift makes sense in a lot of ways—the Zoom classes of the early pandemic stunk.

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What U.S. Companies Should Know About Asia's Edtech Market

Edsurge

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. a good number of edtech products, such as Google Classroom and Edmodo, are designed exclusively for in-school use, and cannot survive without a B2B market.

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Many Online Education Marketplaces Have Sputtered. Will Quizlet’s Pass the Test?

Edsurge

That’s a lesson that the team behind Edmodo, a classroom management and collaboration platform, quickly learned. If the marketplace goes according to plan, the company expects it to generate up to 30 percent of its overall revenues by 2020. But a large teacher following is no guarantee of success. Quizlet is currently not profitable.

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How SBG Led Us to Empower: The Tyranny of 82% (Part 1 of 2)

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

Happy holidays and welcome to 2020! While we found some tools that were decent digital gradebooks, few were able to offer the ability to do what a typical learning management system like Schoology, Google Classroom, Edmodo, etc. Hope you enjoyed some well deserved time off during winter break.

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PROOF POINTS: What happens when private student information leaks

The Hechinger Report

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school. Attacks by cyber criminals were rare, the GAO found.

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