Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2019

He and two other education technology executives shared lessons learned from both sides of the table when it came to mergers and acquisitions. Brekhus’ story was just one shared from the main stage during the last day of the Software & Information Industry Association’s Ed Tech Industry Conference in San Francisco this week.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 7, 2020

Listen to this article: . As I learned many weeks ago from my interview with Jennifer Pearson , a teacher who had been teaching her students in China remotely for many weeks, this is NOT the time to throw a bunch of new tools at our teachers and students. I am happy to see technology embraced, even if it is out of necessity.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A pair of consultants who run a popular edtech blog plan to start offering events—in hopes of getting people at colleges and companies who don’t usually talk to each other to join forces on innovative teaching efforts. He said some of that money may go into giving small grants to help support projects discussed at the event.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2022

2U and the OPM market have come under fire in recent years for, in effect, encouraging unsustainably high graduate program tuition, thus increasing student debt, culminating in the Wall Street Journal article about the University of Southern California’s Online Masters of Social Work that charged upwards of $115,000 for a two-year program.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This article was modified and published by eSchool News. Susan Gentz is a partner at K20Connect, a consulting consortium of experts focused on education leadership, technology and policy. Arati Nagaraj is an education consultant, edtech advisor and school board trustee in the San Francisco Bay Area. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The goal of this blog has always been to provide teachers with digital learning resources, tips, and tricks, and help teachers find ways to integrate technology meaningfully in the classroom. Listen to Part 1 of this article. Listen to Part 2 of this article. The Best Teacher Tips and Lesson Ideas of 2020. Click To Tweet.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2016

They’re looking for the answers to easy administrative questions, and they have similar type of questions regarding their subjects each year,” says Erik Bøylestad Nilsen, an advisor in edtech and innovation at BI Norwegian Business School. Chatbots help get rid of some of the noise. Assisting the Teaching Assistants.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

And with certain established companies like Pearson pulling out of the LMS ranks , where do you start? Students and faculty live a significant portion of their daily lives online in social media spaces,” writes University of Central Florida’s Tom Cavanagh in his article on the LMS selection process. 6: Is the price worth the product?

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 20, 2020

Below I have curated many different professional learning resources for teachers including, ebooks, podcasts, templates, articles, and more! Join me for this free webinar with Jennifer Pearson, an American teacher who evacuated from China because of the coronavirus. Technology is NOT a solution. Click To Tweet.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Shrom also shares that he and his team are continuing to create more Expeditions through partnerships with Getty Images, Associated Press, Pearson and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Schrom reports that each Expedition is a set of VR scenes annotated with facts and sites for the “Guide” (i.e. Projecting With ‘Cast for Education’.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 28, 2020

Listen to this article: Quick Tip of the Week. Technology coaches and leaders are leading from home. Now is not the time for new tools, as we learned from Jennifer Pearson. But remember, the focus should NEVER be on the technology, but on the learning goals, no matter where the learning takes place. Click To Tweet.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 20, 2020

Below I have curated many different professional learning resources for teachers including, ebooks, podcasts, templates, articles, and more! Join me for this free webinar with Jennifer Pearson, an American teacher who evacuated from China because of the coronavirus. Technology is NOT a solution. Click To Tweet.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

“Even if they love Pearson [textbooks], some faculty, when they saw some of the Cengage options, said, ‘This is pretty comparable, that’s fine,’” said Bernard Polnariev, assistant vice president for academic affairs at Union County College. “If If they felt that Cengage is not as strong and Pearson is better, they kept with the Pearson.”

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edWeb.net

JULY 2, 2021

Technology, said Böttger, who is responsible for Workplace Experience Strategy for the Device Technology Group at Cisco, was the bridge to his son’s inclusion in the school environment. Parents worried whether their children would have access to technology. Getting the Technology Right and Together “Automagically”.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This is the second part of my much-abbreviated look at the stories that were told about education technology in 2018 – and in this case, the people who funded the storytellers. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. The technology did not work.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

ISTATION AND BOULDER LEARNING SPEECH RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY UPDATE ( www.istation.com ) & ( boulderlearning.com ) Istation recently announced a partnership with Boulder Learning, Inc., to develop its Oral Reading Fluency and Listening Comprehension Program using Boulder Learning’s speech recognition technology. edtech market.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 21, 2020

Jennifer Pearson checked back in after her bonus episode. Listen to this article: Quick Tip of the Week: Bookmark the Classwork Page in Google Classroom. Truth be told, most of these productivity hacks are tips I would recommend whether you are working from home or school. Working from home is not easy, especially during #quarantine.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 31, 2021

Listen to this article. . Here are detailed directions from Steph Pearson on how to set this up! And don’t miss out on the handy infographic with 30 Ways to Use Google Forms in the Classroom! 30 Ways to Use Google Forms in the Classroom. Click To Tweet. 30 Ways to Use Google Forms in the Classroom. Bell Ringer.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 7, 2012

Tom Greaves, The Greaves Group www.projectred.org Project Red - large scale research project funded by Pearson and Intel; Collected data from over 1000 schools around the country and looked at 136 variables. Does technology improve academic performance? Technology helps with innovation, but technology alone will not help.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “Publishers Wiley , Cengage , Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education have won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a seller of fake textbooks ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. National) Education Politics. The seller: Book Dog Books.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” From the article: Zuckerberg revealed that he wants to ensure that education has a chance to flourish in VR. A Techcrunch op-ed : “Why edtech can’t grow as much as healthtech.” ” From the EdTech Researcher blog : “ Project Based Learning as Mindset.” (Dead) Lady Macbeth?

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Rolling Stone Settles Lawsuit Over Debunked Campus Rape Article.” “Is Your Edtech Product a Refrigerator or Washing Machine?” ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. ” The report is from the Technology for Education Consortium. (I’ve

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Rolling Stone Faces Revived Lawsuit Over Campus Rape Article.” Via The Hindu Business Line : “ Pearson India set to launch K–12 online private school.” “ Edtech CEOs Seek to Change the ‘ Adversarial Narrative ’ With Public School Teachers,” says Edsurge.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

This isn’t a “meanwhile on campus story,” but I’m not sure where else to put articles about sexual harassment and sexual assault. ” “ Pearson , WTF? Via The MIT Technology Review : “Finally, a Useful Application for VR: Training Employees.” So it’ll go here.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via Edsurge : “Golden State GDPR: What the Edtech Industry Should Know About CA ’s New Privacy Rules.” There’s also an article on financial aid and cybersecurity in the data and surveillance section below.

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

“technologizing” the government. ” The publishers in question are Cengage , McGraw-Hill , and Pearson. Testing, Testing… Via Chalkbeat : “Calculator mix-up could force some students to retake ISTEP, and Pearson is partially to blame.” ” The testing firm in question: Pearson.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

The company sent teasers to every major press outlet, yet kept mum on specific details, leading to endless speculation over what the technology giant had up its sleeves. How can technology create more opportunity, not for a few but for all? Would it unveil a new device? Would they release new updates to the Cloud?

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via Edsurge : “Behind Closed Doors: Edtech Entrepreneurs’ Biggest Challenges in 2018.” ” The words “privacy,” “security,” and “equity” appear nowhere in this article.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Apologies that this week this article is a day late. ” Via Campus Technology : “ Southern New Hampshire U Issues Blockchain Credentials to College for America Grads.” National) Education Politics. ” Testing.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

“ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. ” asks the Student Experience Manager of the Minerva Project in an article in Edsurge. Techcrunch lists 11 technologies that “want to hack your brain.” Not sure why this is called a MOOC. ” Sigh.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

And whether you are personally concerned about issues of privacy (perhaps because you believe you have nothing to hide ), you should be concerned about the ability of even the most sophisticated technology company to keep the data collected about you secure. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 37 Edition). paywalled).

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

And whether you are personally concerned about issues of privacy (perhaps because you believe you have nothing to hide ), you should be concerned about the ability of even the most sophisticated technology company to keep the data collected about you secure. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 37 Edition). paywalled).

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “ Are Edtech Companies Doing Enough to Protect Student Privacy? Via GeekWire : “ Project Unicorn signs first companies to help schools handle the hairball of edtech data.” National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Via ABC News : “ A defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine over the magazine’s debunked article about a University of Virginia gang rape was tossed out by a judge Tuesday. Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.”

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

Here are the education technology companies that have raised money from ISPs. What’s his evidence that technology has not eliminated jobs – other than this weird insistence that there is no such thing as neoliberalism in ed-tech ? “​ Intel Hits Pause on Edtech Accelerator,” says Edsurge.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Campus Technology : “The University of North Dakota has teamed up with for-profit training company Woz U to provide short-term technology education programs.” ” It’s not the last mile of education.

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