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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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 10, 2021

What would the opposite of the industrial learning model–the existing vision of most public education systems worldwide in the 21st century–look like? ’ The big idea of this post is using nature as a standard for learning, but it also then functions in juxtaposition to our existing model. by Terry Heick.

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Learning Industry Academic Standards Assessment 129

Linways Technologies

MAY 14, 2020

As presented by Dr. Shajimon K John at the Discussion BarCamp hosted by Linways Technologies Pvt Ltd. Discuss Education BarCamp was organized by Linways Technologies Pvt. Every candidate who is employed in an industry or in any sector is given additional training to make them fit for the job.

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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. Between 2010 to 2015, venture capitalists poured $2.3 billion in U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Besides learning about their bodies, this integrates technology transparently into student learning, as a process rather than a product — as a tool used to complete their project. There are also lots of teacher resources to help in using this unit such as lesson plans, training, and academic standards met. BrainPOP Jr.

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ExcelinEd

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

ii) provides technical skill proficiency or a recognized postsecondary credential which may include an industry-recognized credential, a certificate, or an associate degree. As we continue our work with Burning Glass Technologies on Credentials Matter 2.0, Credentials Matter.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 6, 2016

The internet and the rapid technological improvement are making the world a little bit smaller and are eliminating barriers to learning. However, if they are from a different country try to find out if that country’s educational system and academic standard is the same or at par with your own country.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Many students and teachers — and other individuals or professionals having a stake in the academic sector — are of the opinion that the quality of instructions offered for online classes is inferior compared to the traditional system. Learning used to happen in lecture rooms and this method of education won’t disappear anytime soon.

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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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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Standards Several – Vendors produce tools that correspond with the Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange (CASE) , specifications that define how systems exchange and manage information about learning standards and/or competencies in a digitally-referenceable way (goodbye PDFs!).

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

A common set of academic standards could alleviate the discovery issue, but several states have withdrawn from the Common Core State Standards and decided to adopt their own. Foundations and other nonprofits should invest in solutions to some of the harder problems that the industry faces.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 25, 2016

The digital resources in the Knovation repository—including videos, games, podcasts and articles—have been selected, evaluated, tagged and aligned to academic standards. While some industry observers see OER as a challenger to the content and curriculum that schools pay for, others are more sanguine.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

But to the BMO’s annual education industry conference, where company executives, investors, bankers and financiers of all stripes descended in their suits and slacks (but very few ties). EdReports has become a real big deal in K-12 publishing,” he said, referring to the nonprofit that reviews textbooks for alignment to academic standards.

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ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

2 Ensure SEL Curriculum is Based on Industry-Recognized Academic Standards. Most of them claim some kind of pedagogical or academic alignment. Always keep your specific needs in mind when evaluating new solutions, and make sure to ask how the technology can be deployed to meet your needs and deliver measurable outcomes.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 30, 2021

It was designed to let students identify–on their own– what to learn as the critical core for understanding how to learn, while also requiring them to design when and with and through what means –learning strategies, technology, alone or together, project-based learning vs academic study, etc.

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Learning Industry Academic Standards Study 118

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

A growing corps of entrepreneurs, supported by record-setting investments in education, are creating new technologies, experimenting with business models, and living their own bouts of euphoria and terror. A follow-up post will explore what’s changed (or not) on the supply side—both industry and investment.

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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. Plus, Teachers are supposed to be maestros of all technologies and personalizing separate paths for every single one of their students.

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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. For instance, a curriculum director may decide that one math program does not align with the district’s academic standards, while another one does.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

A Most Difficult Game The struggles of Planet3 are not unique to the educational game industry. Magnates from the gaming industry have attempted as well. White says developers often wrestle with building a product that’s fun and engaging or a product that’s more direct in addressing a district’s academic standards.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

Testing for such skills relies heavily on technology and required a significant retooling. A Question on Testing When building the new tests, PLTW gathered panels of industry experts, educators and psychometricians, or scientists who study how to make tests fair. Their goal? Darling-Hammond says the format is rarely used outside the U.S,

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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].

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 13, 2015

From realizing our collective potential as a construct, field, and industry? Resist allowing technology to radically alter our classrooms and ways of doing business within them. Actually believe that every single student can master every single academic standard–without making them think they hate learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

For additional information regarding their application to technology, please refer to www.ed.gov/ocr/letters/colleague-201105-ese.pdf and www.ed.gov/ocr/docs/dcl-ebook-faq-201105.pdf. Information about how digital learning content assesses, teaches, and depends on (requires) common content standards such as State academic standards.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

New York’s Pathways in Technology Early College High Schools, or P-TECH schools, offer students a high school diploma and an associate’s degree upon completion of coursework. Utah launched a program in 2015 that uses work-based learning to teach high school students about the state’s aerospace industry. It was an eye-opening thing.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As times have changed, technology has advanced, and student needs have evolved—so, too, has the role of the librarian. What are the emerging technologies in a library? Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English. What are the new trends in libraries?

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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.” National) Education Politics.

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