eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2022

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — March 3, 2022 — Savvas Learning Company , a leading provider of next-generation learning solutions across all K-12 grade levels and disciplines, announced today its acquisition of Rubicon Publishing, Inc., the developer of Canada’s most widely used all-digital math program. About Rubicon.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2023

Through expanded, lasting partnerships with Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom, Schoology, Canvas, Brightspace, and Clever, integrating Discovery Education’s K-12 learning platform into existing IT architecture is easier than ever.   Pivot Interactives.

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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. Discovery Education is the worldwide?EdTech?leader

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, February 17, 2022) — Discovery Education and leading social impact partners are offering engaging, no-cost digital learning resources to students, teachers, and families to support National Engineers Week nationwide. Competition entries are accepted until April 26, 2022. .

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

The collaboration produced the Reclaiming Digital Futures toolkit , a free web-based guide designed to help educators at out-of-school youth organizations integrate technology and digital learning into their programming and practices. Kolos’s Go-To Digital Learning Resources. Connected Learning Lab at UC Irvine.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. 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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I teach an elementary STEM class called iCreate in South Haven Public Schools. My STEM class, iCreate, is a part of our K-12 STEM continuum. While I have long been a proponent of game-based learning, I had (up until this past year) been skeptical of the role of esports in education.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Discovery Education and select social impact partners are offering engaging, high-quality digital learning resources to students and teachers to support observances of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. . Charlotte, NC.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

Our own venture capital firm, New Markets Venture Partners, rode these tailwinds ourselves, successfully selling four companies in Q4 2021 and Q1 2022 at generous valuations. Credly, for example, was acquired for $200 million in January 2022, which represented a valuation multiple of 15.1x billion as of Wednesday, March 30, 2022.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Kajeet , a provider of IoT connectivity, software and hardware solutions that deliver safe, reliable and controlled internet connectivity to nearly 3,000 customers, announced the launch of its 2022 Homework Gap Grant Program. Kami demonstrated its all-in-one digital learning platform.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2022

The program blends hands-on investigations, literacy-rich activities, and interactive digital tools to empower students to think, read, write, and argue like real scientists and engineers. Amplify Science was developed by the science education experts at UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science and the digital learning team at Amplify.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2023

Explore ways to deepen STEM concepts, fulfill TEKS, and increase collaborative thinking and creativity. We’ll look at strategies for helping students share what they’ve learned, in big and small moments, and in ways similar to how they share in social spaces online. Related : 9 new digital learning resources from TCEA 2022.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Let’s take some time to reflect on the positive and make 2022 the best year yet! Reflection is a critical part of the learning process for teachers and students, so I like to take a look back. This list helps me decide what content to create and how to best help teachers in 2022. What Do YOU Want to See in 2022?

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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). After months of research and a successful pilot, the district chose enVision because of its rigor, digital learning components, and engaging lessons.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Wednesday, January 19, 2022) — Shawnee Mission School District (SMSD) in Johnson County, Kansas has initiated a new partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education. Mystery Science features ready-to-teach multimedia science and STEM lessons for K-5 students.?Each Mystery Science.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2023

Explore ways to deepen STEM concepts, fulfill TEKS, and increase collaborative thinking and creativity. We’ll look at strategies for helping students share what they’ve learned, in big and small moments, and in ways similar to how they share in social spaces online. Related : 9 new digital learning resources from TCEA 2022

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For The Win Robotics focuses on fostering critical thinking and lifelong curiosity through the power of experiential STEM and computer science education through drone technology. The platform recently won the 2022 Supes’ Choice Award for best LMS from the Institute for Education Innovation.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The school recently built a new center for science and arts outfitted with new, cutting-edge Samsung solutions that provide an ideal space for students to foster STEM skills, such as critical thinking, communication, and creativity. The positive results in the classroom have led to other expansion opportunities across the CCHS campus.

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2022

COPENHAGEN and BOSTON – April 6, 2022 – Labster ( www.labster.com ), the world’s leading platform for virtual labs and interactive science, has raised $47 million in additional funding to support massive growth opportunities worldwide. Science education is traditionally so ineffective that 60% of STEM students drop out.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Friday March 11, 2022) — Discovery Education and leading social impact partners are offering engaging, high quality digital learning resources to students, teachers, and families to support Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Day nationwide. Discovery Education currently serves approximately 4.5

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Lumio is a digital learning tool that will transform your lessons into active, collaborative learning experiences. Those ideas, stemming from the Mystery Skype concept, included: a mystery animal connection, a mystery number connection, a mystery geography connection, and reading your favorite book. Click To Tweet.

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MindSpark

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What these educators learned during their externships goes beyond the classroom to include new ways for teachers to collaborate, on-board colleagues, and integrate industry practices into their schools to modernize and update practices as well as make said collaboration more effective. Externships bridge that gap.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

As we closed the door on 2022 , we approached 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

JUNE 8, 2022

But declining student participation may also stem from the challenges inherent to remote and hybrid learning. It’s often said that online courses offer students increased flexibility—supposedly a positive quality.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As part of the partnership with the Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund, and for the first time ever, Discovery Education will collaborate with local organizations in Lebanon to provide access to high-quality digital learning resources aligned to the Lebanese curriculum for students in Grade 8 – 12.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

National data show that almost 70 percent of eighth graders are not considered proficient in reading based on 2022 test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as The Nation’s Report Card. Schools will also start to encounter new risks stemming from AI use by staff. Diane Myers, Ph.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The implementation also helped address challenges with certifications and staffing for their early college high school and STEM high school–when they no longer had a university partner providing physical education credits, Edmentum filled that gap with highly qualified, state-certified teachers and award-winning curriculum.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

During the 2021-2022 school year, the Reading School District saw over 13,000 ebooks and audiobooks checked out through the Sora K-12 reading app. 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.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

National data show that almost 70 percent of eighth graders are not considered proficient in reading based on 2022 test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as The Nation’s Report Card. Schools will also start to encounter new risks stemming from AI use by staff. Diane Myers, Ph.

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