Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2017

The New Schools Venture Fund estimates that K-12 schools collectively spend about $9 billion per year on instructional software, digital assessments, laptops and tablets for students and teachers. Five factors currently drive this demand for improving the quality and scalability of education technology: Higher academic standards nationwide.

EdTech 60

EdTech Accessibility Future Ready Academic Standards 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Policy changes may play a role too. states adopted new, more demanding academic standards in the 2010s, and there have been widespread reports about the difficulties in changing instruction in the classroom. Test administrators brought their own tablets and internet routers to testing sites. Then, nearly all U.S.

Education 111

Education Common Core Report Academic Standards 111

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

In fall 2007, Larry Berger, CEO of Wireless Generation (now Amplify) was invited to submit a paper to an “Entrepreneurship in Education” working group led by Rick Hess, the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. We left behind the tablets and spun out a few adjacent businesses.

Instructional Materials 150

Instructional Materials Case Study Assessment Company 150

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 15, 2015

How schools are designed and what students learn–and why–must be reviewed, scrutinized, and refined as closely and with as much enthusiasm as we do the gas mileage of our cars, the downloads speeds of our phones and tablets, or the operating systems of our watches. A good school teaches thought, not content.

Digital Citizenship 40

Digital Citizenship Academic Standards Tablets Mobile Learning 40