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. Five factors currently drive this demand for improving the quality and scalability of education technology: Higher academic standards nationwide. Static state budgets.

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Hapara

AUGUST 16, 2023

Their strategies should be tied to pedagogy. It includes teaching strategies, learning activities and assessments. If they build on the foundations of teaching, using new strategies and technology, they’ll be able to support the type of learners they have today. Their tools should be focused on pedagogy. So what is pedagogy?

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eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

At the end of the day, edtech can feel like one more thing on a teacher’s plate. Edtech initiatives that reduce teachers to the role of facilitator often overlook the important role the teacher plays in activating rich learning experiences for students. This piece originally ran on Edsurge.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

But what if changing education is not a game of Tinker Toys or Monopoly, but of strategy games like Risk or Settlers of Catan? Such innovators spend much of their time focusing on product, problem-fit, fundraising and budgets—and reasonably so.

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eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

At the end of the day, edtech can feel like one more thing on a teacher’s plate. Edtech initiatives that reduce teachers to the role of facilitator often overlook the important role the teacher plays in activating rich learning experiences for students. This piece originally ran on Edsurge.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

But these decisions that impact districts, schools and teachers increasingly align with strategies set from above, with state and national policy makers shaping priorities through carrots (like funding) and sticks (licensing and accreditation requirements).

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Emerging Strategy, a market research firm, estimates that the U.S. Founded in 2009, MasteryConnect offers a platform where teachers can plan lessons, create and deliver assessments, and track how students perform against academic standards. There are plenty of dollars behind that idea. billion by 2020.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

The company licenses its calculator to publishers and other edtech developers for use in their software. Meyer says Desmos’ middle-math core curriculum aligns with state and Common Core academic standards. Tyton Partners, a strategy consulting firm and investment bank, estimated U.S. It’s also not entirely digital.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

The articulation of academic standards for students by elected and appointed public school officials is nothing less than an expression of community values and collective future vision for the country. The post The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service appeared first on EdTech Strategies.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 26, 2021

Both districts agreed the pandemic forced everyone to jump headfirst into edtech, whether or not the capacity was there. She is a contributor to state and local academic standards and teaching exemplars that help create high learning expectations and opportunities for all students.

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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.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Though many teachers remain against reckless #edtech integration, the conversation is clearly shifting from should technology play a central role in the learning process to how should technology be used to promote learning? What might be considered a kind of basic standard for education technology in 2016. Socioeconomic status?

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eSpark

APRIL 18, 2022

Rather than relying on a static curricula built on textbooks and worksheets, many districts are taking a more dynamic approach to teaching students academic standards and essential real world skills for student progress. Metacognition and critical thinking can’t be taught through worksheets or with a single instructional strategy.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

Over in Lynwood Unified, Patrick Gittisriboongul, Chief Technology Officer, adopted a similar strategy, working alongside educators to create a 5-Step “Playbook” for rethinking the use of technology in schools. For each session they start with the academic standards, then get creative with devising projects that can bring the lessons to life.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

Content-based academic standards. Or does it send them to Google to search for “research-based instructional strategies,” where they find the same 6-8 examples that are tossed limp and lifeless into their next lesson plan because that’s what they were told to do? It’s Not About The Thinking. Use of data.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Many districts find that basing a curriculum entirely around the resources of one publisher isn’t a particularly effective strategy for nurturing growth and engagement. Even in districts without 1:1 devices, digital content can be used to provide context for academic standards and spark classroom discussion and inquiry.

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Technology Differentiated Instruction Broadband Academic Standards 105

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

For more quick tips on effective co-teaching, I also recommend " Co-Teaching Strategies: Dos, Don'ts, and Do Betters " by Wendy Murawski and Toby Karten, ASCD , 7/1/20.) If I thought it was bad, I would have shut down Edtech Elixirs a long time ago! Alignment to academic standards is usually more prominent and obvious.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

As Assistant Secretary, she led the federal effort to promote the creation of voluntary state and national academic standards. She was responsible for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the U.S. Department of Education. Cisneros most recently served as Director of Member Practice at Public Education Network (PEN).

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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. Reflect voice, choice, identity. But this simply isn’t true in the modern educational climate.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

But deep integration of technology–real at-the-marrow fusion of learning model, curriculum, and #edtech? 10 Ways Technology Has Changed Education: The Iconic Actions #edtech Should Disrupt. Of more pressing concern is the signage on the walls that focuses on learning strategies and digital citizenship. Also to fret?

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education told a federal judge Thursday that it would terminate a January contract award to two debt collection firms as it reassesses its strategy for serving borrowers in default on their federal student loans.” “ Are Etextbooks Affordable Now? ” asks Donald Clark.

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