The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Historically, wealthier students have had greater access to enriching out-of-school experiences, compounding their privilege. Given that goal, the nonprofit commissioned a study of out-of-school programs to see how they use digital media tools and technologies with students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2023

Arkansas DESE’s review of instructional materials provides teachers with access to the highest-quality resources available and underscores the state’s commitment to the overarching success of its teachers and students alike,” said Elizabeth Bassford, associate vice president of content and implementation at Curriculum Associates.

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Instructional Materials Academic Standards Secondary Assessment 97

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2017

Edtech is a vital precursor to “work tech”—the tools that today’s students will need to leverage in college, career training and eventually the workplace. Students need access to tools that work. But today, the decisions educators make regarding the tools they use with students are based on hypothesis rather than solid evidence.

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EdTech Accessibility Future Ready Academic Standards 60

Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2018

In addition, the federal government has made attempts to standardize the curriculum across US schools through the introduction of the Common Core, a set of “high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy”. Teacher tricks: grading & assessment. Now let’s move on to the tech: Rubrics.

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Assessment Common Core Academic Standards LMS 170

PlagiarismCheck

MAY 8, 2023

With the rise of different applications and digital writing tools , the need for academic integrity and plagiarism prevention has become a critical component. Access to billions of scientific research has never been easier, academic journals and the latest discoveries available online and can be analyzed right from mobile phones.

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Trends Academic Standards Policies Comparison 59

PlagiarismCheck

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The rise of the internet and the availability of easily accessible content have contributed to the increasing prevalence of plagiarism. Plagiarism checker tools have been developed as a solution to address this issue. It enhances their reputation and underscores their commitment to maintaining high academic standards.

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Moodle Software Analysis Academic Standards 52

eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2023

After retiring from the Berkeley faculty, Fillmore has worked with educators in urban school districts to improve academic language and literacy instruction for English learners and multilingual learners. To learn more about Curriculum Associates, visit CurriculumAssociates.com.

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Advocacy Academic Standards Instructional Materials Education 95

Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Based on universal access to free and equal schools, the social contract for public education equates the attainment of a high school diploma with readiness for college, meaningful participation in the workforce, and the rights and responsibilities of adulthood.

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Instructional Materials Education Academic Standards Software 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Each targeted quest curates a collection of third-party apps, webtools, videos, games, and other resources that focus on particular math or reading skills identified by the teacher or from the student’s earlier work as an area of academic need. Access the assignment provided by the teacher. Begin the first quest.

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Learning Chromebook Common Core iPad 170

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

By combining a social media-style interface with academically rigorous content, TeachTap makes learning more fun, efficient and accessible than ever before. TeachTap does not include access to external websites to ensure integrity in the material presented to students. Chief Product Officer Phil Hewinson.

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Course Common Core Outcomes Social Media 59

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Open Up Resources offers two of the highest-reviewed curriculum for middle-school math and K-5 English, according to EdReports, which evaluates textbooks for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. The reality, she adds, is that every district prefers to use different tools—digital or otherwise.

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Resources OER Academic Standards Instructional Materials 78

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2019

Amid all the changes, Renaissance executives sought to address a common customer feedback for improvements to Renaissance’s Accelerated Math tool for math practice and progress monitoring. A year of vetting math tool after math tool came to an end Monday. A year of vetting math tool after math tool came to an end Monday.

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Education Company Academic Standards Learning 86

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

In his latest EdSurge column , Michael Horn laid out how Google Maps offers an aspirational metaphor for what the future of educational tools could look like. The LTSC is also working on related standards for mobile learning platforms, adaptive instructional systems and augmented reality learning environments. K-12 learners.

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Google Academic Standards Education Data 93

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

In order to innovate in ways that anticipate and serve the needs of teachers and students, standards are applied to how OER is tagged, how tags support one another, and the editorial style that is imposed upon all metadata. One of the most common sets of structures are academic standards. The Value of Common Standards in OER.

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OER Academic Standards Policies Common Core 74

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

In today’s workforce, one employee backed up by teams of experts providing training, tools, just-in-time access to materials and data can perform work that once required dozens of line workers. In contrast, the American education system, despite efforts to centralize elements like academic standards, remains enormously fragmented.

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Policies Trends Common Core Training 108

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities. Who can use Seesaw?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The tools and resources required don’t come cheap: 92 percent of educators said information about grants were somewhat or very important. Another challenge for teachers is the need for more professional development and help in connecting maker activities to curriculum and academic standards.

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Academic Standards Education Common Core Survey 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Across the country, kindergarteners are pressured to meet academic standards that both teachers and experts say many kids are developmentally not ready for. By giving students access to many types of dramatic play props, children have the freedom to explore and develop their own sense of gender and gender roles.

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Meeting Academic Standards Classroom Assessment 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Most classrooms have access to at least one computer or mobile device, and 77% of school districts have high speed broadband. Thankfully, increasingly accessible technology is allowing teachers to look beyond textbooks, worksheets, and five paragraph essays. For many schools, this isn’t for lack of technology.

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Technology Differentiated Instruction Broadband Academic Standards 114

eSchool News

MAY 31, 2016

The need for more practical and effective professional learning opportunities for teachers is especially important right now, with new academic standards being introduced and adapted in schools across the country. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has a vision for how that can happen.

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Academic Standards Case Study Common Core Policies 40

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

With all of the digital tools available to teachers these days, developing learning experiences should be a cinch, right? Sharing Platforms – Ralyea notes that a major aspect of digitization is the ability to share standards-aligned resources with peers. That’s already happening with tools like Google Classroom.

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 53

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

. – 1EdTech ® Consortium and Common Good Learning Tools announce a partnership to launch CASE ® Network 2. CASE Network 2 is a significant upgrade to the current CASE Network that provides access to K-12 learning standards in a digital format. and access revision histories of those standards. 1edtech.org.

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Academic Standards Tools EdTech Learning 59

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

And it’s scenarios like this that put pressure on edtech companies to make their tools more interoperable. Eight years ago, some of its customers requested that Empower support the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) , an open data interoperability standard that was then in vogue with K-12 schools and districts. Why Support SIF?

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Data LMS Company Education 105

eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2016

Students in South Carolina will soon have access to short Twig Science and Tigtag Science videos through a new statewide partnership. “The videos are excellent tools to help connect STEM activities to applications in the real world in pursuit of college and a career.”

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Video STEM Academic Standards Instructional Materials 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Department of Education spearheaded the #GoOpen movement, a collection of efforts to spur educators, publishers and technologists to make OER more available and easily accessible. These materials need to be easily accessible for teachers and students—sometimes through the learning management systems used by their school.

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OER Resources Common Core Education 60

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software.

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EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

eSpark

MAY 2, 2016

The new legislation urged districts to embrace project based instruction aligned to academic standards and 21st century skills. Allowing educators to relate academic standards to student interests and aspirations, PBL is an especially effective way to engage older students who might otherwise be disengaged from the classroom.

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Academic Standards Learning Digital Citizenship Secondary 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Weird Enough Productions (501(c)3/Lithonia, Georgia) teaches students how to combat fake news, identify media bias and create positive content through an ed-tech tool. Unruly Studios (Boston) revolutionizes learning by combining coding and STEM education with physical play. Words Liive (Washington, D.C.)

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EdTech Company Outcomes Academic Standards 82

Georgia Test Prep

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

These tests determine if the student has understood the curriculum as per state standards, because they are pegged to Georgia’s new academic standards, which are guided by the Common Core, a national consensus of what each child should learn in each grade level. What’s in store for the 2020-21 school year.

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Assessment System Course Academic Standards 53

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

My question comes at a time when states like Louisiana are imposing academic standards for preschool education, and as the state education department there is giving $265,000 for technology to 29 parishes participating in a pilot program. Related stories. Live from SXSWEdu: #NewSATs or No SATs?

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Guidelines Coursera Academic Standards Blended Learning 82

eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps. For over ten years, districts across the U.S. ESSA ensures that all U.S. Blended Learning.

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Policies Blended Learning Education EdTech 40

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

It has helped millions of students worldwide to improve their reading and writing skills, master increasingly rigorous academic standards, and prepare for high-stakes assessments. “We Virginia Beach already started using Smarty Ants for PALS-identified students in its elementary schools as of February 2016.

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Blended Learning Secondary Differentiated Instruction Academic Standards 0

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In the past, student work has ranged from the cutting edge to the routine, from creating a measuring tool that uses lasers to estimate the length of great white sharks to teaching officials in Longmont, the district’s main city, how to better use smartphones in their jobs.

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STEM Report Robotics Company 102

Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2023

Does your school district or higher ed institution use a learning management system (LMS), digital curriculum resources, learning tools, assessment applications, a badging platform, a single-sign-on application launcher or a student information system?

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EdTech Student Data Privacy Academic Standards LMS 155

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 28, 2023

Just last year, over 60,000 teachers used their digital tools. Additionally, his free financial literacy course aligns with Jump$tart Coalition Standards for K-12 Personal Finance Education, National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies, and State Academic Standards. Before we dive in, let's talk about EVERFI.

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Course Comparison Academic Standards Social Media 269

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

City Year’s members, all between the ages of 17 and 24, serve as “near-peers” and provide one-on-one tutoring, host afterschool programs and sit in on every ninth- and 10th-grade math and English class, in an attempt to create the open lines of communication with students that teachers don’t have the tools or resources to facilitate. “If

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Dropout Secondary Data Report 79

Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

It makes it easier to find lessons, standards, activities and much more and includes a lesson planning tool. Even with the best resources, many teachers lack dedicated coaching and struggle to target effective teaching strategies that help students improve their proficiency in math, a linchpin academic subject.

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Software Elementary STEM Academic Standards 134