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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Common Core Instructional Materials Company Adaptive Learning 53

Edsurge

JULY 5, 2019

We must conduct critical analyses of our instructional materials to identify bias, ensure representation, and embed responsive practices. Inquiry-based learning, project-based learning, and other deeper learning instructional approaches promote these aspects of student agency, and we should embrace their methods in our curriculum.

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Company Instructional Materials Secondary Study 139

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Full-service VTTC members, like FEV Tutor, will provide end-to-end services, including instructional materials, tutoring platforms and trained tutors. “We Those findings are regularly shared with teachers to help them evaluate student growth and course success as well as deliver data-driven instruction.

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Instructional Materials Assessment Education Analysis 68

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

As demand for professionals in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields continues to surge , a significant population of potential workers is being left out of these career opportunities: English learners. This population is large and fast-growing, representing 4.6 million students, or about 9.4

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STEM Policies Assessment Report 161

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Some states, such as Nevada, also restrict the use of state supplemental academic intervention funds to programs that meet federal research standards and are elevating the importance of evidence-based and high-quality instructional materials. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

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Policies EdTech Program Evaluation Outcomes 112

Doug Levin

APRIL 27, 2017

Absent an ethical framework to guide our decisions, I am increasingly of the mind that the answers to the important questions about educational technology are ‘turtles all the way down.’ That we go through elaborate theater to suggest that this is NOT true of online testing says more about education policy than technology.

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EdTech Chromebook Policies Student Data Privacy 150

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

While the pandemic has disrupted education much more than any Silicon Valley fad, it has also accelerated the kinds of technology adoption that the industry has long pined for. education technology companies raised more than $803 million in venture capital, according to an EdSurge database of publicly announced funding deals.

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EdTech PresenceLearning Company Trends 160

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Almost a decade after Lynzi Ziegenhagen began work on tools to help K-12 schools with data analysis and visualization, she faced an important decision. It lost no customers due to the discovered flaw and constantly improves its technology and security, Ziegenhagen says. The acquisition marks an expansion in Renaissance’s offerings.

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Data Assessment Company Learning 72

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2019

Source: Transcend ) The Role of Edtech: Connecting the Pieces So where does technology come in? Curriculum and instructional materials live on websites, in the cloud, on paper, in LMS’s, in Google Drive or OneDrive. System elements brought together in a blueprint for the core design of school.

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EdTech System Data Company 145

Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) covers any topic in short but powerful talks lasting 18 minutes or less in more than 110 languages. Conversations cover topics like technology, nature, the future, personal growth, society, collaboration, and more. Software Tools To Create Your Lessons and Lecture Videos. Doceri For iPad.

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Flipped Classroom Software Tools Classroom 97

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Students using Front Row’s adaptive, gamified technology increased end-of-year test scores by nearly 10 percentage points over those who did not. The study compared classrooms in which teachers opted to use the Front Row technology, and those that did not over the course of the 2014-2015 school year.

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Study Instructional Materials Outcomes Analysis 40

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Science and social studies teachers may be the first to use online mapping technology, but there is plenty of opportunity for teachers of other subjects to get involved. Math teachers can find real world examples about challenging math concepts for their students, or perform analysis with data.

Learning 41

Learning Exercises Policies Software 41

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Links to Library of Congress primary source analysis guides. Episodes contain standards-aligned Teacher Guides complete with essential questions, historical background, links to additional images from the Library of Congress collection, recommended instructional materials, and a wide array of other resources. Curriculum Guide.

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Libraries iPhone Android iPad 51

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

However, the struggle will be to expand innovation in core subjects and beyond, including integrating technology into ancillary K-12 areas such as CTE, music, physical education, health, and the arts. We are hopeful that, when the pandemic lifts, we can welcome a return to hands-on, collaborative, creative technology education in 2021.

EdTech 144

EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 144

techlearning

MARCH 13, 2018

Lexia Reading Core5 is a research-proven, technology-based program that accelerates the development of fundamental literacy skills for students of all abilities in grades pre-K–5. CSUSA currently manages 84 schools in seven states serving more than 70,000 students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.

Comparison 40

Comparison Elementary Differentiated Instruction Assessment 40

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Energy 101 series: Now available in Discovery Education Streaming Plus and the Science Techbook, 22 new videos from the Energy 101 series highlight the next generation of clean, sustainable energy technologies. the ethical issues with autonomous technology, how A.I. This Is A.I.: New from the Discovery Channel, This Is A.I.

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STEM Study Instructional Materials Resources 42

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. Among my most popular guides were my current events guides for national and global news and news analysis. ” Library Technology Reports 50.7 What’s curation? Curation is a funny word.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Verizon has committed over $3 billion to help schools pay for technology, hoping “to leave no student behind.” Namely, many people think access to technology simply boils down to whether students have a working device and a reliable internet connection. Since the shift to remote learning in spring 2020, schools in the U.S.

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Technology E-rate Laptops Digital Divide 161

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Less clear was how deeply the disruption to traditional instruction would impact children who lacked access to learning technology and appropriate resources. Across equity lines, students were left without access to reliable wireless internet and technology, an issue that leaders have not fully resolved. Enter interoperability.

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Data LMS EdTech Accessibility 201

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2020

According to an EdSurge/Social Context Labs analysis of 196 school district policies published during spring 2020, nearly two-thirds offered printed instructional materials to families to use for schoolwork, a figure that was higher among high-poverty districts than low-poverty districts.

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Elementary Analysis Guidelines Instructional Materials 146

User Generated Education

JULY 1, 2018

Program leaders and instructors remain predominantly male, and a language analysis of recruiting and instruction materials revealed evidence of implicit bias. Implicit bias is pervasive and insidious,” the report states. Our evidence is specific to gender, but there may be other forms.

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Conference Instructional Materials Robotics Analysis 145

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

I exclude technology from this analysis). If you bucket all instructional materials—core plus a broad view of “supplemental”—you have an estimated $6 billion instructional materials market. It was a technology company, delivering test prep on a computer screen instead of in a paper workbook.

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Industry Edmodo Pearson Instructional Materials 74

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 14, 2019

According to Kathy Mickey, Senior Analyst of Simba Information, all of these could impact the instructional materials marker. Of course, states are investing in technology devices and infrastructure, but also in data-driven learning. Adoptions, non-adoptions, civics, SEL, career-ready education, and the possible recession.

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Instructional Materials OER Student Data Privacy Industry 41

The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 4, 2022

Nor have we made any new headway to resolving new issues like increasing student apathy, raging societal inequality, and best-practice technological application. This is because our thinking about environment C and the instructional materials we use aren’t as simple and uninvolved as we thought.

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Industry Instructional Materials Analysis System 68

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

A growing number of peer-reviewed studies and other research reports are demonstrating that when faculty who previously used commercial products as their core instructional materials replace them with OER, student learning either stays the same or increases. But who chooses the core instructional resources students will use?

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OER Instructional Materials Pearson Resources 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Last year Bob Reiser invited me to contribute a chapter to the fourth edition of Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology , to be published by Pearson. The Evolving Economics of Educational Materials and Open Educational Resources: Toward Closer Alignment with the Core Values of Education. Pearson agreed.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60