Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. From the forms the company filed with the SEC last month, we learned the company conducted a study to evaluate Duolingo’s effectiveness versus traditional university language courses.

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edWeb.net

MAY 12, 2023

The science of gamification and automation and how it is being used to improve the mastery of science concepts and content was the focus of the edLeader Panel, “ Supporting High-Quality Science Instruction and Assessment Through Gamification and Automation. According to Corey J.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2017

Blank stares on a student’s face in a classroom are not uncommon. So how could this new field of technology find its way into the classroom? Budget constraints in public schools have driven widespread teacher layoffs and crowded classrooms. Facial recognition to measure understanding.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2019

(He left in 2013, a couple years before the company went public.) This week, he announced the launch of Derivita , a Salt Lake City-based startup self-funded by Daley that offers math homework and assessment software. Math classrooms are continuously evolving to help today’s students succeed,” Overland said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

That’s according to a new, unusual version of the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, which tested collaborative problem-solving skills among 15-year-olds in more than 50 countries and regions around the world in 2015. All questions in the assessment either were multiple-choice or involved moving icons into a slot.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Endless Network , a global organization dedicated to promoting equity and accessibility, invests strategically in companies worldwide to address challenges such as limited access to quality education. This article focuses on one of those organizations, Learning Equality. billion people worldwide without internet access.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

So how do companies hire and develop standout talent who may be new to the sector? Like many fellow founders in this space, I left the classroom to create solutions to the challenges that I faced as a teacher and tech director. I always look forward to this final exercise. You can even borrow and build on what we’ve created.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The company, which has offices in Paris and San Francisco, has raised $7 million to date. Like many other education entrepreneurs with technology backgrounds, the co-founders of Lalilo say they were surprised at the gap between the teaching tools currently available in classrooms, and the technology they knew was available.

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My Island View

MAY 2, 2023

My life has always been complicated by the fact that my wife, Joyce, has always been involved in the commercial side of education working for some leading industry giants, as well as smaller companies, and now as an industry consultant for emerging and growing companies in the education space. There are too few companies that do that.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

Sixteen types of games, Google Classroom and LMS compatibility and auto-grading From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This week, I began using Educaplay to make fun classroom learning games for my students. This week, I put my word bank in the description in my Google Classroom assignment.

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MindShift

JANUARY 19, 2021

Since the coronavirus outbreak began last spring, Calote has studied the work of theater companies and literature teachers, engaged with other educators on Twitter and taken online improv classes herself — all in search of ideas to help her students connect. “I A self-assessment form that students use for note-taking has helped.

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techlearning

APRIL 23, 2018

. – April 23, 2018 –Learning.com today announced its digital literacy curriculum and content for grades K-8 will be completely integrated with Google Classroom and other learning platforms. The integration with Google Classroom makes Learning.com’s content simpler to assign to students, thus making it more accessible to our students.”

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Google Classroom Online Assessments Exercises 40

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

A majority of teachers strongly agree that digital learning tools are a valuable part of today’s classroom – it’s critical that they are set up for success and able to support students in a variety of environments.”. To learn more, please visit [link]. About Learning.com. school districts and serves more than 4 million students each year.

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Schoology Digital Citizenship Learning Libraries 81

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Seeking to educate the whole person—mind, body, and spirit—and prepare PK-5 students for the world beyond the classroom, HNCS’s team sought to enhance science instruction by integrating a comprehensive STREAM (Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Art, Math) curriculum.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

It gives you the opportunity to review all the clothing, furniture, appliances and various knick-knacks that you have accumulated over the years and assess their worth. This exercise feels especially important during a moment when we all face such uncertainty. What can you hold on to? What can you learn to do without?

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Digital Learning Blackboard Course Exercises 178

Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, just unveiled a new teacher guide. Interactive, game-based lessons designed by experienced educators help you engage students at all grade levels and bring critical real-world skills like financial education, early literacy, character education, health & wellness, and more to your classroom.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Yet some of the voice recognition systems today were neither designed nor trained to pick up different dialects, and that can be a problem when they are used to assess oral fluency, says Patricia Scanlon. “I Some offered multiple-choice questions, for instance, that simply asked kids to pick the correct pronunciation—hardly a useful exercise.

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Exercises Company Data Assessment 63

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

One edtech company that has embraced an AI-plus-human-teacher approach is Squirrel AI Learning , a Chinese company that has opened over 2000 after-school learning centers in more than 400 cities across China in the past three years. It’s something many other education companies using AI can’t deliver either.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

In a recent study conducted by McKinsey & Company, statistical models based on academic studies estimated the potential influence of school closures on learning. Additionally, institutions must adjust their previous approaches toward the assessment of learning outcomes to meet the realities of today’s environment.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2021

In many cases, college students agree with this assessment, according to a recent survey of 500 students currently enrolled in 4-year institutions in the U.S. by College Pulse , an online survey and analytics company. Related: Schools are rethinking classroom design to encourage collaboration, creativity.

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Survey Training Groups Exercises 141

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

School and district users had ample warning about the demise of the adaptive K-12 math and writing software—the company issued a notice on its site 15 months ago—and yet many say that the off-boarding process was not a smooth one. Its parent company, 3P Learning, promises to price-match on districts’ most recent TenMarks contract.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. Her expertise is really helping us understand the unique learners in our classrooms. That’s why we like exercise.

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Evelyn Learning

JUNE 8, 2023

The Ed-Tech space is so vast that it can encapsulate almost every aspect of education, including curriculum development , lesson delivery, and assessments. Harvard Professor of Economics, David Yang, recently enlightened us about the US ranking of the top companies with the most accurate technology in facial recognition.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

So the CEO of the Boston-based company sat in on classrooms in over 12 schools. Scaling an education technology company has been an ongoing lesson for Arbaji. Origins in Jordan Arbaji’s decision to start an education company is rooted in how education shaped his own life. The company had raised $3 million in seed funding.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

If we want our learners to have that — the knowledge, the skills, the dispositions — we know that we need to transform our classrooms. We also have adopted a set of learning beliefs to help us better articulate what we want our classrooms to look like in the future as we approach 2020. Vicki: Wow. You have learning beliefs.

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Professional Learning Gamification Company Elementary 172

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Seven of the 134 companies in this batch provide education services—which is a similar percentage from the last cohort. In this latest cohort of edtech companies, only one is aimed at being used in classrooms. The startup focuses on educators in pre-K to 5th-grade classrooms. Why not more?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Yon used to hold silent reading time in her classroom; students could read whatever they wanted for 20 minutes. Consulting firm McKinsey & Company calculated that U.S. In a normal year, the exercise would have been scaled back by this point, Woll said. A student reading a book in a first grade classroom. In 2016, U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. He is not only a national and international voice for computer science education, but he teaches in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

“When I do an H, I do a straight line down, another straight line down and then I cross in the middle,” Miller said, demonstrating on a projector in a front corner of the classroom. A student works on a writing assignment in Heather Miller’s classroom. Her 25 students set to work on their own. Some got it right away.

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Elementary Report Groups Assessment 145

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

For Kiddom, the deal marks a big step in its effort to create a one-stop shop for all of the instructional tools used in K-12 classrooms and “help bridge the gap that currently exists between curriculum, instruction, assessment and intervention,” says its chief academic officer Abbas Manjee. Founded in 2013, the company has raised $21.5

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

This year, it was 47 percent — a 68 percent increase that disproportionately impacted Black and Hispanic students, according to a report by Amplify , a national K-8 curriculum and assessment company that analyzed data from 400,000 students across 1,400 schools over the last two years.

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Learning Training Report Exercises 124

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

AI algorithms analyze students’ individual strengths, weaknesses, and learning styles to tailor educational content, pacing, and assessments accordingly. Automation of grading, attendance tracking, and data analysis facilitates efficient classroom management.

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Education Adaptive Learning Personalized Learning Gamification 52

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Learning.com was accepted into the program based on building strong integrations with Google for Education’s products, such as the Google Classroom integration with its EasyTech solution. This partnership will extend our reach and help teachers use Google Classroom to easily incorporate digital literacy into their everyday teaching.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As an integral part of learning today, educators and students deserve new and improved ways to display and interact with classroom content, but to be successful, these tools need to be flexible and user-friendly. Historically there has been a limit to seamless integration across various technology solutions within today’s classrooms.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 144

techlearning

AUGUST 20, 2018

These classroom-ready, student-driven, open-ended investigations provide instructors with experiments that might otherwise be challenging, unsafe, impractical, or time-consuming to set up for hands-on student instruction. Students select among experimental variables to choose a video and then collect data of their choosing using custom tools.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

By my third year in the classroom, I became frustrated with how little systemic change I thought I could make as a teacher. We may develop thoughts and assumptions that prevent us from cultivating and exercising full equity leadership. . Ask yourself, “Am I exercising curiosity or I am stubborn and stuck?

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