eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In monthly online meetings, EdisonLearning and other DLC members will explore many of the key topics in digital learning, from discussions about successful online content and technology platforms supporting digital learning to honest explorations and analysis of challenges and pitfalls that have plagued digital learning.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

With more than $3 billion spent on ed tech products last year and more than 2,500 programs on the market, educators across the country need to know which products are likely to make a difference in teaching and learning. Join us for What Ed Tech Apps Work Best for Learning? How Good is our Return on Learning for Classroom Apps?

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techlearning

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As the costs for devices and applications decrease, technology use is increasing In classrooms across the country. As tablets, Chromebooks, and other handheld devices are employed in classrooms, instruction relies more and more on apps instead of on traditional computer-based programs. Growth is particularly high in web-based devices.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

classrooms but a study finds that students aren’t using much of the pricey software that schools buy (Photo by Jackie Mader). is a for-profit company that sells data analysis to public schools. Among the top one were Varsity Tutors, LearnZillion, Wikipedia, Brainingcamp, Google Classroom and TED-Ed. BrightBytes Inc.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 6, 2021

Currently, he is leading the development of CatchOn’s learning analytics platform and helping districts leverage next-generation learning data to personalize the learning experience for their learners. He spent most of his career as CIO/CTO with the Sharon and Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts. About the Moderator.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2021

All educators have now become managers and reporters of data, whether they are classroom teachers compiling information on individual students and sharing it with parents, or top district administrators evaluating teachers, principals, and all their students. By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 27, 2015

Technologically-based tools provide opportunities for students to learn both in and out of the classroom. The use of technological innovations such as cloud computing, mobile learning, bring?your?own?device Holding vendors accountable for the teaching and learning outcomes they promote. Social learning networks, e?portfolios,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

He has published on open education, Rhizomatic Learning, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), Digital Identity, and practical classroom uses of virtual worlds. His educational exploration partners have included faculty and researchers from well-known universities, and lone teachers in small town classrooms.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” ” NPR asks whose bones made up those old classroom skeletons. “Many are never the same.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Google extended the availability of its pseudo-LMS, Classroom, to those without G Suite for Education accounts in April.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 26, 2021

NetRef, for example, produces ROI reports for analysis of monies spent and what that looks like in terms of product usage (actual effective cost per user, for example) and learning value. The ARP moves schools and districts beyond using immediate fixes and buying lots of gadgets and programs to see “what sticks.”

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Mobile Learning EdTech Company Data 85

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Fallon official pointed a response by the company that argued that the EdReports analysis was flawed, and he said Pearson’s overall record in aligning its materials to the common core is “very good,” overall. You have to work with the gray—that is the day-to-day reality of the classroom.

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Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Because data analysis often occurs invisibly to us, via proprietary algorithms that we don't even know are in play, assigning harm can be a matter of informed guesswork and inference. If people are doing adolescence right, they are making mistakes, asking questions, and breaking things, all in the name of growth and learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. However, school districts are beginning to use technology to achieve energy efficiencies and savings.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This series is meant to serve in-depth exploration of the events of the past year and an analysis of how these events shape the way in which we imagine and prepare for the future of teaching and learning. Learning to Code. The Flipped Classroom. Education Data and Learning Analytics. The Business of Ed-tech.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Education technologies facilitate communication, expanding learning networks beyond the classroom. Does the data collection and data analysis undertaken by schools work in a similar way? How does the data collection and data analysis undertaken by schools work? Perhaps they do. ” Command. Intelligence.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

. “Lifelong learning” and multiple choice quizzes for two to five year olds. E-Literate claimed this week that “ Canvas Surpasses Blackboard Learn in US Market Share” – with some additional analysis about “What’s Important about the Blackboard Market Share News.” Sounds like fun.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. Average final exam scores among students assigned to classrooms that allowed computers were 18 percent of a standard deviation lower than exam scores of students in classrooms that prohibited computers.” Elsewhere: “U.S.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

It’s from these weekly and monthly reports that I start to build my analysis. Learning to Code. The Flipped Classroom. Education Data and Learning Analytics. I listen to stories. I follow the money, and I follow the press releases. I try to verify the wild, wild claims. I look for patterns. The iPad.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

I pointed to several historical examples of how the collection, categorization, and analysis of data led to discriminatory and even deadly political practices – racism and the US Census, for example, and the history of IBM and how its statistical analysis helped the Nazis identify Jews.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Via Zion Market Research : “ Massive Open Online Course Market : Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecasts 2016-2024.” “ The growth of online learning : How universities must adjust to the new norm” is sponsored content on Education Dive. ” Price tag for the report: $3599.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via the Hechinger Report : “On a classroom-based test for new teachers , black teachers score lower.” ” “What You Need to Know About Learning Analytics ,” according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. More on sports-related lawsuits in the sports section below.

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