eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2021. The past six months have reaffirmed that engagement is central to student learning, regardless of the instructional environment. Lupita Knittel, President, 7 Mindsets.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

For teachers, this means providing equal access to educational experiences and ensuring that all students have the support and resources they need to succeed academically, socially and emotionally. For Mulcahy, UDL means “making sure that all of the students have an accessible way to learn.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2019

Meanwhile, billions of dollars have been spent on edtech by these same school communities. Today’s edtech market is radically fragmented. And edtech companies cater to this fragmentation in their product design and marketing. And more to the point, how can edtech catalyze and accelerate a redesign of school itself?

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Doug Levin

APRIL 27, 2017

Zeynep Tufekci shares her experiences more broadly (beyond education) in this provocative talk from June 2016: I’ll be spending some time later this week with friends and colleagues at the EdTech Efficacy Research Academic Symposium and look forward to the dialogue. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition).

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2021

Unlike fully self-paced competitors that give students practice videos and content snippets for individual consumption, ChalkTalk generates personalized lesson plans and actionable teaching materials for teacher-led instruction—whether that teaching takes place in-person or remotely over a web-conferencing platform such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In 2021, the New Hampshire Department of Education selected Discovery Education’s award-winning K-12 learning platform to support all New Hampshire learning environments with high quality instructional material. million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 100 countries and territories.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. Please go to mos.org/Roblox to learn more and here to access “Mission: Mars” directly on Roblox. Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories.

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Doug Levin

JUNE 17, 2015

. – I want to focus instead on one aspect of how we are shifting from print to digital: the procurement decision schools make about whether to license digital instructional materials or purchase them outright, because I think ownership of instructional materials matters.**. Image credits. Image credits.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 8, 2020

MIND Research Institute is a proud partner of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) and the Education Commission of the States (ECS) – two of the most prominent and important venues for edtech policy discussion. Hundreds of state commissioners and edtech policy leaders joined the ECS Live!

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

We are thankful to our university partners, our educators, our students, and our team members who have helped us to accomplish our mission to provide access to college and career learning to students, regardless of geography or socioeconomic background.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2024

The acquisition will allow Savvas to offer an immersive, engaging college learning experience to millions of high school students and increase educational equity, access, and opportunity. The GSV 150 is an impressive group of edtech companies that are leveraging AI and driving positive outcomes for learners and society.”

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 5, 2019

Some digitally enabled K–12 schools find it difficult to provide appropriate lesson plans that can be accessed by all students, said Tim Clark, director of curriculum, instruction and digital learning at Chicago Public Schools. . MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how technology is key for boosting equity. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2022

The report, Student Growth during COVID-19: Grade-Level Readiness Matters , analyzes data gathered from the edtech company’s i-Ready Assessment tool for reading and mathematics from more than two million Grades 1–8 students who used i-Ready Diagnostics during the last three school years, using student testing location (i.e.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In addition, the company also demonstrated its commitment to making its robust research base clear and accessible to the public. Digital Promise’s Research-Based Design Product Certification recognizes the edtech products that incorporate research about learning into their design and development.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Based on universal access to free and equal schools, the social contract for public education equates the attainment of a high school diploma with readiness for college, meaningful participation in the workforce, and the rights and responsibilities of adulthood. There simply is no room for instructional black boxes in public education.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The certification is the latest example of the industry’s push to ensure that edtech products on the market—and in classrooms—can and do actually work. Digital Promise sought to isolate one “signal” of high-quality edtech products—as CEO Karen Cator puts it—and zero in on that.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

EdReports — the highly regarded, independent nonprofit designed to improve education by providing reviews of K-12 instructional materials — applies evidence-based analysis in evaluating math and ELA programs. Teaching with high-quality instructional materials has a direct impact on student learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The crisis also revealed that access to devices and the internet remained uneven in many places. And, unlike other edtech startups that have expanded their business to sell to parents in the wake of the pandemic, Newsela is firmly committed to selling to schools. K-12 edtech industry. That traction is paying off.

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EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The accessibility of free, high-quality, and instructional internet films, available on websites such as YouTube, is a natural complement to contemporary educational settings. YouTube is only one of many online learning resources to make getting a college degree more straightforward and accessible.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

We need to rethink how, where and when we are delivering instruction and making learning accessible. When technology is truly reimagining the task at hand, then we say that it is leading to redefinition —a totally new and different way of interacting with instructional material, building understanding or demonstrating mastery.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

Teaching with high-quality instructional materials has a direct impact on student learning outcomes. With its adaptive learning and differentiated instructional design, enVision provides an innovative and engaging curriculum with extensive customization options to empower teachers and increase student achievement.”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Its other edtech investments include Capella Education and Watermark. Boosted by Broadband Core to the company’s offering is its leveled reading tool, which lets teachers and students find instructional materials that challenge students based on their Lexile-measured reading level. The technology is there,” Sanchez says.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This partnership also builds on the company’s long-standing support of increasing access to STEM education programs that provide hands-on, inquiry-based learning in elementary to post-doctoral classrooms, and the professional learning needed for educators to make these efforts possible. DOVER, Del., About DuPont. About Discovery Education.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. The method teaches children to read by providing training and direction instruction materials for teachers and individualized software instruction for students. By Kenna McHugh.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Interactive Whiteboard Edtech Tools. Giving students technology access is vital for flipped classrooms but also enhances the learning experience in a class. ShowMe is an Edtech tool that turns a teacher’s iPad into an interactive whiteboard. Access Google Drive from a computer, smartphone, or tablet. Hippo Videos.

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

The curriculum also provides teachers with access to student progress data to help determine which students need intervention and where, thus supporting their unique needs. Stride was also a finalist in the 2018 EdTech Digest Awards in the Cool Tool: Adaptive Technology Solution category. Ryan, General Manager of Fuel Education.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Because each school has access to varying quantities and qualities of technology, current curricular programs do not rely on technology as a constant in their unit planning and instructional materials. Access to the Internet has had a transformational effect on how students learn, how educators educate and how leaders lead.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

portion of its K-12 business, which includes print and digital curriculum and instructional materials. They’re much more comfortable with access, not ownership model.” a semester to access all of the company’s digital higher-ed materials. He added: “The Spotify generation—they want to rent, not own.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

By opening up its platform to established authors and publishers, the company is betting that content creators will pay to access the massive user base that Quizlet has amassed over the years. In order to sell premium materials on Quizlet, one must first apply and be approved as a “Verified Creator.” Collecting good resources is hard.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2017

Blum: At ACT (which acquired OpenEd),we’re focused on the question of: If you’ve identified the learning gap, what’s the best instructional material to help the student? Not just ACT material; we want to give you the best instructional resource we can find. We use machine learning to pinpoint those. What should I ask?

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2018

There is no more powerful lever one can pull to transform a person’s life than to provide access to quality education. But for education entrepreneurs to reach students at scale, they need access to people, systems and capital. Schools were unhappy with both the cost and the quality of the instructional materials available.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

At this stage of the edtech revolution, most educators are focused on using tech to enhance lessons rather than on the tech itself. Grace believes it is the teacher’s job is to inspire them, educate them, give them access and help them use technology safely. Technology is so pervasive in students’ day to day lives. About the Host.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cleveland’s leadership and vision for equitable healthcare access have been instrumental in expanding access to healthcare services for students across the district. Cleveland relentlessly advocated for equitable access to Hazel’s mental health services in all district schools rather than limiting services to a small group.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Students and schools should be able to access and export all of their data to the service providers of their choice or for their own needs. Open source educational software and openly licensed instructional materials present an alternative to the market-driven requirements of commercial technology vendors.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Home may be the new classroom, but instructional approaches are slower to change. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. Apparently 1:1 device access. One key finding in the report and the full survey : Teachers’ instructional materials didn’t necessarily change to meet the needs of remote instruction.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2022

. — To help accelerate teaching and learning this coming school year, Curriculum Associates has updated its award-winning i-Ready Personalized Instruction and Assessment program with new reports, lessons, accessibility features, and more. New Tools for Scaffolding Comprehension have also been added. About Curriculum Associates.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Seemingly overnight, educators, parents and edtech companies churned out crisis plans for remote instruction in hopes of carrying on, at the very least, until summer break. Less clear was how deeply the disruption to traditional instruction would impact children who lacked access to learning technology and appropriate resources.

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