Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 2, 2015

Mentoring Minds is an education publishing company and resource site created by former teachers. Professional development is available for teachers on core concepts like differentiation in the classroom, rolling out Common Core Standards, best practices for instruction, formative assessment strategies, and more.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 20, 2015

Mentoring Minds is an educational publishing company that develops K-12 instructional materials to help students develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. The company's main goal is to provide materials that help students increase their critical analysis and reasoning skills, along with problem solving skills.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Guest Article by: Matthew Pietrafetta, Ph.D. Many schools are working to implement grit curricula, and these efforts need not replace or disrupt the Common Core or other existing assessment measures. is the founder of the test-preparation company Academic Approach. . How can you incorporate grit into your classroom?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Educators can do all of that with a set of free tools created by CAST , a nonprofit research and development company dedicated to breaking down barriers to learning. Find innovative games that teach critical thinking and math skills.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

MAY 30, 2013

UPDATE AS OF 1/15/14: The company Gobstopper has changed its name to Curriculet, but this update hasn''t changed how I use Curriculet with my students. The stories and information in the below post still hold true despite the change in company name. I almost dropped my phone. I like Gobstopper so much, I shared it at #EdCampPhilly.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Booking Info – Please see at the bottom of article or go to the Booking Info Link. The new name was praised by numerous politicians and talk radio hosts causing many states to adopt the newly labeled UCSS ( Uncommon Core State Standards). Now, did someone tell the filtering companies! Michael Gorman.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A decade ago, Common Core math was introduced to emphasize understanding over rote learning, but the delivery of standards varies across schools, classrooms and teachers, depending both on who is being assessed and who is doing the assessing. She is the co-founder of STEMulation Escape Room , an edutainment production company.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

What were two top motivating factors behind starting the company? At the time of the company’s founding, the level of Internet penetration in China had just reached a level sufficient enough to enable 51Talk’s business model to scale. The company is the first U.S. listed Chinese online education company.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Steve also addressed any confusion regarding the Common Core State Standards. ESSA did not replace the Common Core State Standards, and although the states are required to have standards, it prohibits the Department of Education from forcing the adoption of a particular set of standards. WATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 22, 2016

In this week’s dealmaking news, technology training company Galvanize and ed-tech company Degreed raised additional funds while ed-tech startups in India saw new investments. Company CEO Hitesh Awtaney told the publication that “his firm had raised enough capital to be able to grow to twice its current size,” according to the article.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Let's examine these two issues: Silos You can find OER in dedicated online repositories including OpenEd , Curriki , and OER Commons. Several software companies have their own repositories, such as Microsoft’s Docs.com, Schoology’s public resources, Canvas Commons, and more. Many of the silos are poorly organized.

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EdTechTeam

MAY 19, 2017

With the Common Core, state testing, interventions, and all else that goes on in the elementary day, how would I find time for my students to investigate and inquire into their interests? Some students wrote a grant to a local company for flexible seating while others wrote for a classroom grant funded by a PTA gift.

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Adam Welcome

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, Common Core - in my thirteen years there's been so many new programs from the federal level. I just wonder h ow many articles I'm going to read everyday in numerous different media outlets about the importance of coding in school. Google Docs hadn't been created yet either.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 3, 2015

However, this past year my school received a robot grant that provided ten robots for us from the company Sphero. Sphero emphasizes the power of play in education and has a variety of lessons that are aligned to the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards on their website.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Alongside this, a growing number of companies, including my own , are developing and marketing tech-based methods of assessing SEL. This article is part of an upcoming Guide exploring Social Emotional Learning, sponsored by Newsela. But that’s changing. You assess students and gather a lot of data.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

The Common Core State Standards require students to think critically and be effective consumers and producers of information and media. This ISTE webinar will focus on ways teachers can create active, student-centered, digital age classrooms that help students meet the Common Core and ISTE Standards. Classroom 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

In a recent eSchool News article, Carl Harvey, librarian and former AASL president described the ways eBooks can assist students in six areas of the Common Core Standards. In this session a middle school librarian and former division library coordinator will share strategies for implementing eBooks to assist struggling readers.

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Kathy Schrock

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Federal Financial Literacy and Education Commission (US): MyMoney.gov Information, games and fun facts about money, saving and planning for the future Curricula, lesson plans, tip sheets, guidance and helpful tools for teaching financial capability Clearinghouse of federally-funded research reports, articles and data sets on financial capability and (..)

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

The company making this software claimed as an achievement to have prevented three suicides by detecting self-harm signals through pupils’ digital activity. She cited the recent Google artificial intelligence success AlphaGo ; I recommended this Wired article. A: Remedial classes are more common at community colleges.

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MindShift

MARCH 2, 2016

When I first wrote the article “Is Algebra Necessary?” That’s why companies in California want to bring people in on H-1B visas who will live eight in a room and do coding for a small amount above minimum wage. What impact do you think the Common Core State Standards are having on math learning and teaching?

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 2, 2022

Choosing the suitable toys for each step of your child’s development is crucial; Lovevery toy company helps parents with this vital task. Lovevery toy company is a certified B corporation which means it meets the highest standards of environmental and social transparency, accountability, and performance. Lovevery The Block Set.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Below is a quick summary of four common edtech business models, with an example of a company that is implementing each. Newsela , a personalized learning tool that allows students to read daily news articles and other nonfiction content at five different reading levels, uses this type of freemium model.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2015

Teachers and parents know all this and still, the Literacy Company reports that most teachers in classes of twenty+ students spend only five minutes a day reading, and 46% of American adults cannot understand the label on their prescription medicine. All books are aligned with Common Core ELA standards. stress reduction.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2016

Lately I’ve seen quite a few edtech companies that hope to graduate from offering a free product to actually monetizing it. Edtech companies that offer supplementary content or a digital tool for teachers and students are best sold bottoms-up. Bottom up or top down? then your product lends itself best to a. consumer marketing model.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2017

This article first appeared on Points, a Data & Society publication in February 2017. As the report chronicles, there were a number of concurrent events that prompted many people to be highly suspicious of plans for the data infrastructure initiative – its motivations and its security.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This leads to the “innovator’s dilemma,” described recently in The Economist as “the difficult choice an established company faces when it has to choose between holding onto an existing market by doing the same thing a bit better, or capturing new markets by embracing new technologies and adopting new business models.”

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The combined companies now extend from enrollment to graduation in districts that include traditional public, charter, and independent schools across the country. The company has partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits and provides online monitoring software to schools.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

link] KDSL : The 2nd Annual MENA Common Core Conference will provide professional development to American curriculum schools. Utah-based ed tech company, Ardusat, has launched a new product that will allow teachers and students to explore space right from their classrooms. Read more here. Addressing Math Anxiety.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 6, 2020

He was determined to find a way to build a company that could democratize test prep access. He attended the University of Chicago Booth School of Business to get his MBA and build the company that is now Prepmedians, founded upon one principle of equity: All students deserve to laugh so they can learn.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Emma Green, a staff writer for the New Yorker, has been spending time visiting these VR classrooms and researching the company for the magazine. Her article , published earlier this month, digs into how the school’s backers hope it will lead to the next frontier in the school choice movement. That’s kind of a surprising contrast.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). The Common Core State Standards. Wishful Thinking. The Indie Web.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

“Trump Taps Common-Core Foe Mick Zais for No. Via the AP: “A new federal lawsuit by Pennsylvania ’s attorney general says the nation’s largest student loan company engaged in abusive practices that have cost borrowers billions of dollars.” ” The largest student loan company is Navient.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Via Chalkbeat : “‘ Common Core ’ no more: New York moves to adopt revised standards with new name.” SoFi : a student loan company and one of the most well-funded ed-tech companies out there sure seems swell. More LAUSD news in the legal section below. Go, School Sports Team!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) ” From April: “ U.S.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. Via The New York Times : “Tech Companies Expect Free High-Speed Internet for Poorer Americans to Pay Off Later.” Education Politics.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Politico : “A complex legal battle involving dozens of debt collection companies fighting over contracts with the Education Department has essentially suspended the government’s ability to collect defaulted student loans , the Trump administration disclosed in a court filing on Monday night.”

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