MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Equity is vital in all fields of study, but it is especially important in STEM because careers in STEM have the power to help individuals and communities prosper. 93% of STEM careers pay above the national average, and STEM jobs are growing at twice the rate of non-STEM jobs. Marks, Teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The exercise is part of a new program that encourages learning middle school math through real world problem-solving, now in use in 190 school districts across 36 states. NEW YORK — I strap on a virtual reality headset. A screen appears and dramatic music pounds into my ears.

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Training Report Online Learning Conference 120

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

To date, these requirements have been more of a compliance exercise than practical guides to good investments. This lost purchasing power matters not only as a budgetary issue, but because schools are about to spend billions more on remote learning programs that need to help teachers stem the growing learning gaps made worse by COVID-19.

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Policies EdTech Program Evaluation Outcomes 127

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 120

techlearning

AUGUST 20, 2018

Pivot Interactives is a versatile supplemental tool that can be used for a variety of learning opportunities, including pre- and post-lab exercises, lab skills assessment, flipped learning, and many more,” said John Wheeler, CEO of Vernier Software & Technology.

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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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Khan Academy IXL Learning Company Software 111

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students. They need the power to exercise their skill sets.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

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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Education Learning Software Knewton 216

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

One way that we can exercise that is through our one-to-one initiative. And at the end of that year, we did some assessment, and we realized that we needed some more time to build this vision. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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Professional Learning Gamification Company Elementary 172

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. There’s a really nice Radix sort exercise from CS Unplugged that we use. Sort yourselves by height.”.

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Course Examples How To Company 177

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Ten years ago two Colorado chemistry teachers unleashed a brash concept on a K-12 landscape where few questioned the age-old formula of lecture, homework, assess, repeat. Or maybe it stemmed from the fact that anyone could get the gist of the teaching idea in the time it takes to rattle off a sound bite.

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Flipped Classroom Khan Academy Learning Video 133

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

That’s diving into STEM a little bit – you know Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics – so rather than getting kind of… You know, sometimes you see these STEM activities. I’m going off on a little bit of a tangent here, but sometimes when you see those STEM activities, it’s like STEM in a box, right?

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Learning STEM iPad Twitter 73

MindShift

OCTOBER 15, 2017

When Emerie Lukas was hired to develop and teach a STEM Foundations course to middle school students at the Dayton Regional STEM School , she was starting from scratch. She knew without these qualities students wouldn’t be prepared for a rigorous STEM environment. Instead, she’d often ask students to assess their own work.

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STEM Training Strategy Elementary 78

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students. They need the power to exercise their skill sets.

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When Michael Stone was considering a job at the STEM School Chattanooga he was a little skeptical at first. The other big emphasis: assessing process skills alongside content knowledge. Grading to promote from PEF STEM Innovation Hub on Vimeo. STEM School FabLab (@STEMFabLab) May 12, 2016. COACHING STUDENTS TO SUCCESS.

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STEM Company Robotics Exercises 28

techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

ADVANCED & MEASURED PROGRESS ( www.advanc-ed.org ) & ( www.measuredprogress.org ) Measured Progress and AdvancED will join forces to form a unique and far-reaching nonprofit educational company focused on data-driven tools for school improvement. has joined the ENA family of companies. No bubbles required. Illuminate 11.0

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Tools Robotics Software Microsoft 49

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

It’s been impressive to see students create true masterpieces,” says Suzanne von Oy, a graphing specialist at Desmos, the company that organized the contest. Announced on March 6, the competition challenged students to create any artwork of their choice using the company’s online graphing calculator. Try high school students.

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Company Exercises Common Core Academic Standards 217

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

To supplement in-person support offered during class and lunch periods, I published a simple Google site to house my lessons, assessments, and other resources. If students missed class or needed additional help, they could go to my website and access the day’s lesson as well as videos and digital exercises from YouTube and Khan Academy.

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System Khan Academy EdTech LMS 121

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Together, these integrations help administrators and teachers easily create, share, and assign engaging lessons, interactive resources, and validate assessments through their existing tools, or share content with a URL link or through integrations with Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom, social media platforms, Remind, and Edmodo.

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Professional Learning Strategy LMS Microsoft 60

Edsurge

MAY 14, 2018

The metaphor stems from the way Netflix “learns” about your viewing preferences based on what you watch, and is then able to recommend shows and movies you’re likely to enjoy (and may not otherwise discover) based on others with similar viewing patterns. By definition, data is backward looking.

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Google Education Data Exercises 99

MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” Khan Academy is a giant online library, viewed by tens of millions of people worldwide, of multiple-choice practice exercises and short instructional videos, with the strongest offerings in STEM disciplines. Her daughter started this fall at Murray’s school, Waukesha STEM Academy. So there you have it.

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Learning Software 34

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY Still Lacking Social Workers The dearth of care for grieving students partly stems from an overall shortage of mental health support in New York City schools. Yarely remembers learning breathing exercises during counseling sessions and being encouraged to do something that she loved as a way to feel better.

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Training Report Analysis Elementary 95

eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

The various services and products acquired by consolidators over the last year or two will be integrated into increasingly comprehensive platforms offering instructional content, assessments, and classroom tools all in one place. –David Cisneros, National Director for Content and Implementation, Curriculum Associates. .

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EdTech Industry Assessment Data 133

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The various services and products acquired by consolidators over the last year or two will be integrated into increasingly comprehensive platforms offering instructional content, assessments, and classroom tools all in one place. One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 68

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

–Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. Edtech companies that fail to prioritize accessibility will be left behind. This means that teachers will prefer to use tools from edtech companies that prioritize accessibility. District leaders are no longer reliant on the claims of edtech companies. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 108

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

” Via The Atlantic : “It’s Getting Harder for International STEM Students to Find Work After Graduation.” ” Via the ACT press release : “ ACT to Deliver Assessment for the Moral Education Program to Students in the UAE.” “ Is Running a Company Like Leading a Classroom?

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Education Chegg MOOC Robotics 55

Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

” The idea that preferred admission equals payment stems from the American ideology that opportunity, especially educational opportunity, is a “fair” form of recompense. ” Money and data – they’re intertwined for technology companies – are monopolized in a handful of corporate giants.

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Technology Education Pearson Company 40