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. Before these cuts, MasteryConnect had grown at a steady clip.

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 114

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. The problem is that many schools haven’t figured out how to leverage technology to accelerate and enrich learning. Tackling these challenges pays off.

Technology 117

Technology Differentiated Instruction Broadband Academic Standards 117

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. Students can now meet with private tutors, who are maybe from another country, through Skype, Google Hangouts, and other mobile communication applications. What subjects does their service cover?

How To 150

How To Company Digital Citizenship Academic Standards 150

Education with Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2015

(tuttle, https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/classroom-grades-dont-reflect-student-learning/ ). 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.

Digital Badges 40

Digital Badges Common Core Academic Standards eBook 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

“Transforming misery into agency” is among the visionary goals that co-founder Wisdom Amouzou has for The HadaNõu Collective , which currently operates centers in public high schools that “map authentic experiences to academic standards.” The school will serve 250 students across five centers this fall. Literator. TrainingGrounds. “We

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Education Social Media Groups Company 124

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 83

EdTech Company Outcomes Academic Standards 83

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. The Tone of Learning.

Academic Standards 40

Academic Standards Assessment Social Media Data 40

EdNews Daily

APRIL 1, 2019

Here’s the thing: schools profile students as a core function to cause learning, and they definitely promote their service and not only their own lesson-plan products, but those of thousands of publishers. This would be true of any of those sorts of helpful programs for learning. The Alarming Problem. B) EXCEPTION.—Subparagraph

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Personalized Learning Learning System Mobility 100

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Tacked-on learning technology can do this. But deep integration of technology–real at-the-marrow fusion of learning model, curriculum, and #edtech? You may need appreciate the way gamification can improve the visibility of the entire learning process. Where the learning happens. That changes everything.

Technology 40

Technology Gamification Digital Citizenship Academic Standards 40

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

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. This is the role that would typically be used for accepted facts like multiplication tables and vocabulary lists that will be used as the building blocks of other learning.

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Khan Academy Academic Standards Software Exercises 145

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

Throughout the speeches, presentations and product showcases, company employees and Apple touted how their tools can offer “creative” learning experiences that no others can do. “This is something only Apple can do.” Apple CEO Tim Cook It was hardly Apple’s first day at school; the company’s education efforts trace back four decades.

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iPad Chromebook Education Company 133

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

While schools (hopefully) work to update themselves and the way students learn within them, many parents have to work with what’s available to them. Armed with some kind of answer–even a basic one–parents can then decide which non-superficial actions they can impart to truly support the learning of their child.

Academic Standards 40

Academic Standards Game-Based Learning Mobile Learning Assessment 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 21, 2015

Tomorrow’s Learning Today: 7 Shifts To Create A Classroom Of The Future. Utopian visions of learning are tempting, if for no other reason than they absolve us of accountability to create it right now, leading to nebulous romanticizing about how powerful learning could be if we just did more of X and Y. by Terry Heick. (Ed

Classroom 40

Classroom Game-Based Learning Social Media Trends 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 15, 2015

Mobile learning, digital citizenship, design thinking, collaboration, creativity, and on a larger scale, digital literacy (education not yet comfortable enough with these ideas to teach “just citizenship” or “just literacy”),1:1, and more are skills and content bits that every student would benefit from exposure to and mastery of.

Digital Citizenship 40

Digital Citizenship Academic Standards Tablets Mobile Learning 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Forget learning should be fun. Place students on the periphery when we design, plan, and respond to their learning. (It’s Fail to meaningfully involve–or better yet, require –community involvement in every layer of our system of teaching and learning. Plan backwards from standards. Stigmatize failure.

Education 40

Education Academic Standards Policies Mobile Learning 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

This has not only helped students to learn how to use their email appropriately but empowered them to reach out when they have issues. Balance Novelty with Academics Riverside Unified School District has tried a lot when it comes to technology, from personalized delivery systems to coding initiatives and, more recently, virtual reality.

Technology 60

Technology Education EdTech Future Ready 60

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Ed note: 2 Pieces for Context– 30 Incredible Ways Technology Will Change Education by 2028 and Curriculum is More Important Than Learning Technology. The focus of that piece was technology, and how it might impact the way students learn in the coming decades. ” (1). ” (1).

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Maker Movement Academic Standards Education Elementary 40