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. School, district, and state leaders make technology decisions every day that will affect student tech fluency, not to mention learning outcomes.

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EdTech Accessibility Future Ready Academic Standards 60

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In a study of 140,000 classrooms in K-12 schools across 39 states, more than half showed no evidence of students using technology to gather, evaluate, or use information for learning. And in nearly two-thirds of the classrooms, students didn’t appear to use technology to solve problems or work collaboratively.

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Technology Differentiated Instruction Broadband Academic Standards 118

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

districts, schools, teachers and students; literacy-related frameworks and academic standards; the competitive product landscape; target user and buyer personas (such as curriculum director or librarian); and pain points for school administrators, teachers and students. We covered topics such as number of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2014

As more than 900 entrepreneurs and educators converge in San Francisco this week, some will talk academic standards, literacy and charter schools. That’s why after attending two major edtech conferences in a row ( SXSW.edu ) and ( ASU/GSV ), I’m heading straight for a panel entitled: “But How Do We Know What’s Working?’’.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

The Bare Minimum Of Learning Technology. What is the bare minimum of learning technology integration in a classroom? Prevailing local technology use? In that light, we felt like it represented another kind of idea–a bare minimum of technology integration in an average classroom. by TeachThought Staff.

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Technology Common Core Academic Standards iPad 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

“Everyone’s worried about people having to learn how to code,” notes Eileen Murphy. Writing is the way you learn to read, and the way you express an understanding of other content. Teachers teach writing to improve how kids learn.” Like how to write an email.” That’s a mistake, she believes.

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Instructional Materials Academic Standards Company Industry 232

Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

There is every reason to expect that both entrepreneurs and enterprising educators will continue to generate new and compelling ideas about how to effectively address the challenges facing public education through technology, and for this we should remain optimistic and hopeful.

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Instructional Materials Education Academic Standards Software 150

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. MasteryConnect was one of hundreds of edtech companies that capitalized on investors’ enthusiasm and optimism for the industry in recent years. K-12 edtech companies, with $741 million coming in 2015 alone. (

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 114

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

In a previous EdSurge piece , I described how economics and technology trends tend to drive educational innovation by providing models that reformers build into their visions, sometimes unconsciously. 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 114

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Instructure , the publicly traded company best known for its learning management systems (LMS) Canvas and Bridge, has agreed to acquire a fellow Salt Lake City-based education technology company, MasteryConnect , for $42.5 Of that figure, about $12.3 million will be paid in Instructure common stock, according to a U.S.

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LMS Assessment Company Comparison 112

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

How Technology Should Have Already Changed Your Teaching. A little bit of technology doesn’t change much. Tacked-on learning technology can do this. But deep integration of technology–real at-the-marrow fusion of learning model, curriculum, and #edtech? Where the learning happens.

Technology 40

Technology Gamification Digital Citizenship Academic Standards 40

Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Technology has seeped its way into classrooms, streamlined academic standards, and transformed the pedagogical landscape to a large extent. Today, students are blessed with interactive platforms, personalized education, online learning, and educational software that have been designed to enhance the learning experience.

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Software eBook How To Classroom 52

edWeb.net

MARCH 26, 2021

Due to COVID-19, most of our educational systems reflect a new normal, with hybrid and remote learning, increased use of technology, and teacher professional development. Both Clayton County Public Schools and Phoenix Union High School District had learning platforms such as Google and Microsoft for years before the pandemic.

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Professional Learning Academic Standards Outcomes Secondary 61

EdNews Daily

AUGUST 27, 2019

New pre-released data from the Learning Counsel’s 2019 Survey indicates that 58 percent of schools now rate their highest pressure is their student’s social and emotional needs. Then a re-write of academic standards that had to be mapped to teaching and learning, constantly in revision. By LeiLani Cauthen.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

“Don’t call it professional development—call it professional learning.” Vice President and Managing Director at SIIA, made this statement in a recent edWebinar , with Jeff Mao, CEO, Edmoxie LLC, Bruce Umpstead, Director of State Programs at IMS Global Learning Consortium, and Ilya Zeldin, Founder and CEO of 2gnoMe.

Professional Learning 52

Professional Learning Data Future Ready Academic Standards 52

ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Social-emotional learning is a growing need for schools across the United States. Keep reading to learn about 3-must haves for any social-emotional learning solution that will build a student wellness program that hits goals and truly grabs students’ attention. 1 Social-Emotional Learning Must be Relatable for Students.

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Learning Outcomes Exercises Survey 392

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? Now, this integration can take just a few minutes.

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EdTech Student Data Privacy Academic Standards LMS 154

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

And it’s scenarios like this that put pressure on edtech companies to make their tools more interoperable. Empower Learning , a Utah-based developer of a learning management system (LMS), understands this pressure well. Students can upload and view their evidence of learning.

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Data LMS Company Education 106

eSpark

APRIL 14, 2022

Student engagement—participating in lively class discussions, investing time and energy into their academic work, and applying what they learn in school to the world outside the classroom—increases when educators value social-emotional well-being, according to 81% of teachers. How can technology build these connections?

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Student Engagement How To Academic Standards Examples 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

With all its bells, whistles, apps and toys, technology also creates anxiety for both parents and educators, and research is going to have to follow the charge ahead. Guernsey is a big fan of reminding parents that technology can’t possibly replace other interactions that both teachers and parents might have with children.

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Guidelines Coursera Academic Standards Blended Learning 84

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2018

Reasoning Mind , a Houston-based nonprofit, was acquired by Imagine Learning. Imagine is owned by Weld North Education, a private equity firm that has amassed a portfolio of more than 10 education technology companies over the years. The other slipped by the newswire with little more than a peep. Later, as the U.S. and Russia.

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Kaplan Common Core Education Company 67

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. Blended Learning. ESSA encourages districts to bring edtech into the classroom.

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Policies Blended Learning Education EdTech 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

Last week, the topic was distance learning. As with every episode, there is a larger meta layer--in this case, why the jobs exist in the first place, and whether we are providing nearly 2 billion children and teenagers with the best solutions to the problem of learning. Department of Education.

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Policies Academic Standards Company Assessment 36

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Education is a system, but teaching and learning are not systems. And when this doesn’t happen, the marrow of learning is gone. This is when academics move from a worthy body of knowledge worthy of study to a mechanical and thoughtless process that belies its own wisdom.). Where Does A Freed Mind Go? by Terry Heick.

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System Study Academic Standards EdTech 40

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

There are at least two truisms when it comes to education technology: 1. That gung-ho initiative is something that Mark Racine, director of technology at Boston Public Schools, applauds. Another recent survey found that, on average, districts saw more than 700 different edtech products used each month during the last school year.

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EdTech Libraries Software Company 119

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

“Looking at these projects, it’s clear that some kids have been so motivated to make beautiful graphs that they’re going out to learn math that most kids don’t learn until college,” says von Oy. “We We see 13, 14-year-olds going online and asking their peers to learn about things that are beyond what they’d normally learn in class.”

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Company Exercises Common Core Academic Standards 217

eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

At the end of the day, edtech can feel like one more thing on a teacher’s plate. From IBM’s test scoring machines in the 1930s to the Speak & Spells of the 70s, innovators and educators have been trying to improve education with technology for decades. But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning.

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EdTech Academic Standards Chromebook Analysis 52

eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

At the end of the day, edtech can feel like one more thing on a teacher’s plate. From IBM’s test scoring machines in the 1930s to the Speak & Spells of the 70s, innovators and educators have been trying to improve education with technology for decades. But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning.

EdTech 40

EdTech Academic Standards Chromebook Analysis 40

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

“We believe that our place at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts makes it possible to create and amplify our creativity,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said on stage. Final Thoughts Apple’s vision of pushing education towards more creative thinking skills, enabled by technology, is certainly lofty.

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iPad Chromebook Education Company 134

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Sigelman, of Burning Glass Technologies, captured this point succinctly: “40 percent of the skills required today for the same job are different than the skills required a decade ago.” His fellow panelist, Carnegie Learning CEO Barry Malkin, noted that smaller players can win adoption through reliable, third-party efficacy studies.

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Industry Student Data Privacy Education Company 118

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

He envisioned a game-based educational platform used by teachers and students to learn about science and the environment. Kelly met him through Planet3 co-founder Albert Yu-Min Lin when Lin received an award sponsored by Switch, Kelly told EdTech Digest at the time. When Tim Kelly started Planet3 in 2013, he aimed for the stars.

Education 78

Education Company Chegg Pearson 78

techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online GOOGLE FOR EDUCATION UPDATES ( edu.google.com ) Google for Education announced updates and new tools to help teachers keep innovation alive in their classrooms.

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Chromebook Pearson Student Data Privacy Data 48

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

For example, specific policies regarding academic standards, testing requirements, and charter school authorization caps can give rise to specific types of products. Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, etc.). Two key factors drive this complexity. First, many educational markets are shaped by public policy.

Policies 60

Policies Academic Standards Common Core Exercises 60

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

Content-based academic standards. Mobile learning. For example, I love the idea of mobile learning, so I attach positive feelings to it that can lead me to cognitive distortions downstream, where I oversimplify it’s function, or catastrophize our continued misunderstanding of its potential in education. Technology.

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Academic Standards Mobile Learning Flipped Classroom Mobility 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

Many leaders spoke about the importance of collaborating across districts for a variety of initiatives—from planning a technology implementation to creating buy-in from teachers and providing professional development opportunities. But the innovative work happening in each district is very closely aligned.

Technology 60

Technology Education EdTech Future Ready 60

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. What are the new trends in libraries? Who is the modern librarian? What does a modern library look like?

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 91

Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “George Mason’s President Says Some Donor Agreements Fell ‘Short’ of Academic Standards.” “ Are Edtech Companies Doing Enough to Protect Student Privacy?

MOOC 42

MOOC Education Robotics Company 42