Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. The company recently launched a mobile app that allows teachers to snap photos of student’s work incorporate them into MasteryConnect’s platform. Education companies have been hit, too.

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 115

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. In my work as an education researcher and product manager, I’ve observed dozens of schools and interviewed hundreds of teachers. Most educational apps and games are meant to be used independently by students.

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Technology Differentiated Instruction Broadband Academic Standards 125

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 6, 2016

At some point in your child’s education journey, you’re going to feel the need for tutoring. Students can now meet with private tutors, who are maybe from another country, through Skype, Google Hangouts, and other mobile communication applications. Tutors, especially online, are now easy to find and easy to engage with.

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How To Company Digital Citizenship Academic Standards 150

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Unruly Studios (Boston) revolutionizes learning by combining coding and STEM education with physical play. Zoobean (Arlington, Virginia) provides a web application, mobile app, and prospective hardware device through which families can track their independent reading and stay motivated to read. Words Liive (Washington, D.C.)

EdTech 89

EdTech Company Outcomes Academic Standards 89

Education with Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2015

The final grade in a course or even a ten week grade probably does not reflect the actual academic learning.These grades may not reflect the academic standards (Common Core, standards or proficiencies) for that course. Badges allow teachers to focus specifically on student standards or proficiencies.

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Digital Badges Common Core Academic Standards eBook 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The model also helped students and educators weather the pandemic’s ups and downs more easily than other districts in the country. For years, Lindsay has experimented with competency-based education, a more personalized approach to education that involves letting kids learn on computers for at least part of the day.

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Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 130

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2015

While it has been derided by educators for decades as incapable of truly measuring understanding, and while performance on such exams can be noticeably improved simply by learning a few tricks, the multiple choice question may have a larger, less obvious flaw that disrupts the tone of learning itself. by Terry Heick. Uncertainty.

Academic Standards 40

Academic Standards Assessment Social Media Data 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

10 Ways Technology Has Changed Education: The Iconic Actions #edtech Should Disrupt. But deep integration of technology in learning should–ideally anyway–make learning mobile–always-on, asynchronous and self-directed access to both content and collaborators. Tacked-on learning technology can do this. Anybody but you.

Technology 40

Technology Gamification Digital Citizenship Academic Standards 40

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

That was how bubbly Apple employees, decked out in the green-and-yellow outfits that matched the colors of Lane Tech College Prep in Chicago, welcomed arrivals to the company’s highly-anticipated education event this morning. Bells signaled transitioned time between hands-on workshops led by educators. K-12 education market in 2017.

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iPad Chromebook Education Company 141

EdNews Daily

APRIL 1, 2019

Recently, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo)and Senator Ed Markey (D-Ma) drafted some modifications to COPPA that have the potential to create an catastrophic damage in the Ed-Tech industry, particularly for all publishers and schools who use literally anything on the internet in educational ways. Here is the text of the bill: [link]. B) EXCEPTION.—Subparagraph

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Personalized Learning Learning System Mobility 100

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Maybe, we need to look at educators in a new context of what teaching really is in most schools, and whether it should be given cultural, economic and technological change. They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge.

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Khan Academy Academic Standards Software Exercises 145

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Insanity In Education: 52 Mistakes We Make Over And Over Again. The context for this one is simple enough–what mistakes do we constantly make in education that hold us back from the best versions of ourselves? Seem to ignore that mobile learning is central to education’s future. by Terry Heick.

Education 40

Education Academic Standards Policies Mobile Learning 40

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.

Academic Standards 40

Academic Standards Mobile Learning Flipped Classroom Mobility 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 22, 2015

One of the most significant challenges facing formal education in the United States is the chasm separating schools and communities. Until parents have a better understanding of what pure academic work looks like–from the content to the assessment to the reporting–every single bit of this is on the shoulders of teachers.

Academic Standards 40

Academic Standards Game-Based Learning Mobile Learning Assessment 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 21, 2015

But the truth is, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to educate children in the face of such radical technological and pedagogical progression. In short, the shift from purely academic standards to critical thinking habits supports personalized, 21st century learning through a preceding shift from institution to learner.

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Classroom Game-Based Learning Social Media Trends 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 15, 2015

Consider a few of the key ideas in progressive education. Most modern academic standards take a body-of-knowledge approach to education. Why can’t education, as a system, refashion itself as aggressively as the digital technology that is causing it so much angst?

Digital Citizenship 40

Digital Citizenship Academic Standards Tablets Mobile Learning 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

We were similarly awed to get a firsthand look at the work of educators from more than 10 districts—from Los Angeles to San Diego and up to the Inland Empire—who are devising smart ways to deploy new tools and practices in their schools. Teachers need to have some time to be excited, but quickly that novelty must also be tied to academics.

Technology 60

Technology Education EdTech Future Ready 60

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

13 Ways Education Could Change In The Next 13 Years. Ed note: 2 Pieces for Context– 30 Incredible Ways Technology Will Change Education by 2028 and Curriculum is More Important Than Learning Technology. Math, science, social studies, and literacy have been the pillars of modern education for over a century. ” (1).

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Maker Movement Academic Standards Education Elementary 40