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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

Edsurge

As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system. Making Time for Research The promise of media and technology to transform student learning has led schools in the U.S.

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How Digital Calendar Management Empowers Professors and Students

Edsurge

He discusses his own recent experiences, offering two encouraging takeaways: When office hours are held online, more students are showing up than ever before, and virtual access is especially beneficial for students who are balancing school and work, students with disabilities, students who do not live on campus and first-generation students.

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School ed tech money mostly gets wasted. One state has a solution 

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, with more than 11,000 ed tech products on the market and companies sometimes making extravagant claims about their effectiveness, it’s often impossible to determine which products work and which don’t. Because of these requirements, some companies opt out of partnering, said Ames. The onsite training is expensive.

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Data really is the secret sauce in the K-12 classroom

eSchool News

In the spring of 2020, we obtained unlimited licenses for the literacy program, which the company was offering at no charge due to the pandemic, and rostered all of our elementary and middle school students so they could use it at home. Easy access to valuable data. Better reading test scores.

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Protecting Student Data Privacy as a Guiding EdTech Principle

Lightspeed Systems

Everything else pales in comparison. Last month, a lawsuit was filed by California parents alleging another online monitoring software company illegally collected students’ personal data, including location data, without their consent and sold it to third-party vendors.

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Microsoft’s Big Bett Updates: Free VR Curriculum and Using a Pencil as a Stylus

Edsurge

More than 600 exhibitors and 34,000 attendees are expected to descend on London this week for the annual Bett show , where some companies come with a barrage of updates befitting one of the biggest education technology trade shows in the world. Or so it feels.) Students using Code Jumper.

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Localized Raises $1.2M to Bridge Alumni and Career Networks Across the Globe

Edsurge

And just as those students may lack access to career opportunities, employers also have little visibility into sources of local talent. The company offers a mix of career advice and matchmaking tools that connect students with alumni and employers in their local communities and abroad. based company has raised $1.2 At many U.S.

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