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Discovery Education’s EdTech News Roundup – May 15

Discovery Education

Check out what’s trending in EdTech news! from 2023 to 2030. The Simplest Elementary School Science EdTech Every day, educators are using digital resources to meaningfully support science teaching and learning—and the best EdTech tools are the ones that are easy to use. The industry is set to grow by an impressive 13.6%

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The number of public school students could fall by more than 8% in a decade

The Hechinger Report

What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? But in order to predict high school graduates, WICHE’s statisticians also projected student enrollments for first grade through 2020 to 12th grade through 2030. Department of Education, shows an opposite trend.

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OPINION: The pandemic will leave the next generation of Black tech talent behind

The Hechinger Report

Tangled up in the daily knot of bad news, reports of these worrisome trends are easy to wave away. Students who fall behind academically are very likely to remain behind — and elementary school test scores are a strong predictor of meeting future milestones like high school graduation. percent in 2019 to just 1.8 percent in 2021.

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Change Agents: Tech & Learning?s Most Influential People in EdTech In 2018

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The second a new trend changes, our generation is the first to know about it, before adults. Chatterbox is receiving rave reviews at many schools and top universities across the UK, and Hedayat would love to extend that reach to elementary and high-school classrooms, as well as higher education, across the US.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “In my book, there’s no reason why children in elementary schools can’t be launching their own businesses,” [says founder] Rebekah Neumann. As I’m working on that series, I can see how certain “trends” in ed-tech are being carefully cultivated by ed-tech companies and the ed-tech press.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Getting Smart : “Using Robots to Teach Elementary Students About Human Nature.” ” Getting Smart’s Tom Vander Ark on a new report from Pearson : “ The Future of Skills : Employment in 2030.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” (Venture) Philanthropy and the Business of Ed Reform.