eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Arkansas’ LISA Academy public charter school district today announced the renewal of its partnership with worldwide edtech leader Discovery Education. Discovery Education is the global edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports instruction wherever it takes place. Discovery, Inc.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 12, 2022

I found that students were happy using the technology, but some would rather complete work pen to paper or do an assessment/project without the technology. . Departments may also use this approach at the secondary level and at grade levels for the elementary level.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA recently released results of a yearlong study examining the effectiveness of a reading fluency intervention targeting struggling middle school readers from historically marginalized populations or those living in poverty. school district in 2022-23.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH: See how a Massachusetts school district enacted its own digital transformation. MORE FROM EDTECH: Find out which blended learning program will best fit your classroom. Create Balanced Academic Assessments. Communicate Clear Intentions Behind Technology Integrations. Make Professional Development a Priority.

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Neo LMS

MAY 19, 2020

To quote a study on Evolllution , “60 percent of respondents said technology has fundamentally changed post-secondary teaching and learning. Education technology (edtech) has already made leaps and bounds in the last 10 years. Read more: How educators can make use of edtech into the classroom. Work interdepartmentally.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

The discussion was based on the research of primary and secondary documents and was quite creative. I assigned students to develop a running conversation between historical personalities such as Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton for a quick formative assessment for one lesson. T4Edtech #edtech.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. What are the projections for edtech? We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2024.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 8, 2021

Whether you’re a remote instruction beginner, a seasoned expert, a college professor, or a secondary education teacher, it’s critical that your students not only understand what plagiarism is, but also have the tools to build critical thinking skills to produce original work in a remote learning environment.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH: Learn steps K–12 IT leaders can take to prevent phishing attacks. MORE FROM EDTECH: Learn why focusing on human error is key to protecting sensitive information. Do you have a secondary network connection? Do you have secondary switches and access to the internet to retrieve information? Your users.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

Jody Britten, a senior associate at the Metiri Group , talked about how 3D technologies and data visualization tools lead to better learning outcomes with EdTech. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out these 4 steps to create a strong 3D printing curriculum. How Teachers and Students Use 3D Printing in Today’s Classrooms.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH: Learn steps K–12 IT leaders can take to prevent phishing attacks. MORE FROM EDTECH: Learn why focusing on human error is key to protecting sensitive information. Do you have a secondary network connection? Do you have secondary switches and access to the internet to retrieve information? Your users.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

We asked 49 edtech executives to look into their crystal balls and share their thoughts about what will happen in 2019. As this movement gains traction, formative assessment tools will become critically important to the iterative process of maximizing the learning environment and customizing instruction to meet students’ needs.

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edWeb.net

MAY 30, 2019

We, as edtech leaders and classroom teachers, must explore pathways where assessments support teaching and learning in the 21st century. Authentic assessments are always about the connections we make with students, each other, and the broader community as indicated in a Gallup poll. But What About Technology?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school. He is the founder of Injini , an edtech accelerator based in South Africa, that launched this year to support education startups from across the continent. In South Africa, the youth unemployment rate topped 50 percent in 2016. Yet the U.S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

“In the new year, when we receive our mid-year i-Ready results, I want to celebrate our students’ growth, paying particular attention to those who were below grade level on their fall assessment and have worked hard to make meaningful progress since then.”. Scott Hayhurst, teacher, Okanagan Mission Secondary School, Canada. “I

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2016

Expectations were high for edtech. EdSurge caught up briefly with November and Mike Dorsey, Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District, at ISTE for this week's podcast. People said it would solve every problem in education, and some venture capitalists agreed.

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Hapara

AUGUST 18, 2023

A recent UNESCO report showed that across the nation, elementary and secondary students with disabilities experience higher rates of violence by teachers and are up to 1.5 For example, teachers tend to assess learners who are Black differently than white learners. percent more likely to be suspended multiple times and 2.2

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

The answer to these questions lies in assessing the readiness of your teams – do you have the right people in place, equipped with the time and technology to make the investment worthwhile? Where are you now? Take a moment to define your current state.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

Alan November, Edtech commentator and former school technology director. Over the past few years, “efficacy” has entered the edtech lexicon as a word commonly used to reference whether or not edtech is driving student learning. Multiple choice tests and high-stakes assessment had few fans at ISTE. Trends change.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

So Boyle, who is a secondary school principal at Dalian American International School, located on China’s northeastern coast, let teachers email assignments during the first few weeks out and skip most instruction. By far, the biggest question Boyle’s teachers have had is about assessments. So we’re trying to fill that void.”

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

July 28, 2022) — Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place—today announced a host of new enhancements to its award-winning K-12 platform. More ready-to-use tools to assess student outcomes and address learning gaps. SILVER SPRING, MD (Thursday,?July

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edWeb.net

JULY 10, 2018

Digital educational materials have provided many benefits for K-12 educators and students from computer adaptive assessments to tools that allow students to collaborate and communicate 24/7. Finally, as with all new edtech, a successful rollout depends on having a well-thought-out plan. She earned a B.S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Students at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn had become increasingly frustrated with Summit Learning. The Secondary School for Journalism is one of about 380 schools nationwide using Summit Learning, a personalized learning program that involves the use of an online instructional software, called the Summit Platform.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study. It is possible that price transparency for edtech pricing could lead to a similar market improvement.”

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JUNE 27, 2016

And that means navigating the debate between segmentation and collaboration that dominates secondary education today. Five Formative Assessment Tools Recommended by Teacher Experts. See also: How Startups Can Become Social Media Influencers. Going Back to School to Learn About Blended Learning.

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Hapara

MAY 19, 2022

History class: By the end of class, students will be able to explain how technological advancements during WWI affected soldiers, as evidenced by creating a main claim and supporting that claim with primary and secondary source documents. Design assessments to measure understanding . para Dashboard.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2020

We knew that gaining insights into what students did and did not currently know would be harder, so we included more low- or no-stakes formative assessments, and used them to guide the teaching we did and the assignments we set. We taught our content better by making informed choices of when and where to use edtech tools.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JULY 12, 2016

Here are three important questions that deserve the most attention as we look to the future of secondary education: How will student evaluation change? This kind of shift could blur the hard lines between performance evaluation in school and standardized assessment. How will instruction change?

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 24, 2023

ESSER, which stands for Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief , was first established as part of the CARES Act, where additional funds were added to ESSER II and III. What is ESSER? It served as emergency relief funding to assist public schools amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

A few weeks back, EdSurge published a podcast interview with education consultant and commentator Alan November, and Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District Mike Dorsey, after chatting with the two education experts at ISTE. Can you elaborate on that, a bit? "If

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

This post first appeared on Justin’s Education Week blog, EdTech Researcher. >> Read more about these four pillars on EdTech Researcher. So here’s my list of the four pillars of great teachers: Guide Students to Compelling Questions and Puzzles. Provide Devolving Scaffolding for Learning.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 27, 2019

We built this tool based on one key belief: teaching and learning is primary, technology tools are secondary. Too often in the edtech community, teachers simply want to know if there is an app they can use without identifying and understanding their instructional challenges. Is there an app that can help?”

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

This 3-part blog series , featuring guest authors from The Learning Accelerator and MA DESE OET , highlights the importance of centering equity in edtech selection. In this third post, the author describes lessons learned while leading a cohort of diverse schools and districts through a process of strengthening their edtech systems.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Founded in 1986, Renaissance combines decades of experience in assessments with personalized instruction and analytics solutions delivering teachers and administrators the tools to plan, lessons to teach, and the resources to motivate students to learn. Blackstone’s investment will be made through its flagship private equity vehicle.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Sure enough, elementary and secondary teachers are among the most educated yet least paid professionals; and their likelihood of automation: practically zero. Fortunately, a recent article in the Economist gets the narrative right, pointing out that “the potential for edtech will be realized only if teachers embrace it.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

TARA Edtech. Episode 794 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast How to Use the Triple E Framework for Edtech Evaluations Dr. Liz Kolb, clinical associate professor of education technologies at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. TARA sponsored today’s show. Go to coolcatteacher.com/tara to sign up for your free account. Click Here.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

Dr. Angela Peery has been an educator 31 years and has served as a secondary English teacher, secondary administrator, instructional coach, turnaround specialist, curriculum developer, and consultant. I mean, I know you talk about a lot of Edtech tools, but what are some of your favorites for really learning new vocabulary?

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