Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

There have been significant advancements in security software and artificial intelligence, but there will never be a perfect system to protect you. How to find a cloud provider that takes cybersecurity seriously: Use Educause's Higher Education Cloud Vendor Assessment Tool (HECVAT). Ask vendors directly about their security policies.

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Software Policies Training System 141

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 25, 2017

The online tutorial or learning software or YouTube video transmits information to the student. . The student’s role is to regurgitate what was transmitted with enough fidelity that the teacher or software system can check off that the student ‘knows’ it. The textbook transmits information to the student. Transmit, regurgitate.

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Software Video Assessment Google 199

Educational Technology Guy

APRIL 2, 2019

With mobile device use on the rise – 74 percent of K-12 schools say they have more than one device per student – schools are challenged to optimize their technology use, manage device data across numerous platforms, maintain policy compliance and ensure student safety online. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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System Tools Data Software 153

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

An online math tool that “works” should be correlated with better grades in a class or higher scores on a summative assessment—data that schools already collect. Mathematica , which evaluates the impact of public policy and programs. Proving Ground , an initiative at Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research.

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Data EdTech Comparison Outcomes 144

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Who picks the digital apps, software, extensions, and programs used in the classes? Is it established by district policy or is each teacher encouraged to pick their own? End-of-year assessments of the Common Core grade-level standards are delivered online. What is the campus policy on bringing digital devices from home?

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Technology Digital Citizenship Common Core iPad 150

PlagiarismCheck

MAY 12, 2023

Plagiarism Checkers vs. Human Grading: Which is Better for Assessing Student Work? A Comparative Analysis Let’s compare the effectiveness of plagiarism checkers and human grading of similarity in assessing student work, considering factors such as accuracy, efficiency, and fairness. Human assessment or tool use?

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Analysis Assessment Report Software 52

Neo LMS

APRIL 20, 2017

Veteran teachers — who are, by nature, also of an older generation — are being compelled to include technology into their long-held and hard-won traditional classroom techniques in order to meet policy goals of their districts or schools. Google Forms is a great way to achieve this. Another time sapper is contacting parents.

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Blended Learning Classroom Learning Flipped Classroom 176

Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Monitoring software can track what students say and do online, sometimes even on students' privately owned devices or social media accounts. In some cases schools might even use tools like location tracking or facial recognition software. See Google's cookie information for details. Should They? Now I think.

Digital Citizenship 94

Digital Citizenship Software Video Social Media 94

Shake Up Learning

MAY 12, 2020

Introducing Fluency Tutor; an App for Google Chrome that helps students improve reading fluency while saving busy teachers valuable time. Luckily their schools were already using Chromebooks and Google Classroom very heavily, so they just had to alter their lesson structure. He doesn’t want the kids to learn new software remotely.

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Learning Google Assessment Chromebook 91

Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

Ask questions that assess how a leader integrates and dictates technology into his/her projects and to those he/she leads. Business and technology have become truly complementary: Forbes gives the example of engine manufacturers relying on software to push forward production. Digitally Mature Students.

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Technology Classroom BYOD OER 120

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It’s sometimes known as “addition by subtraction” Higher education as an “industry” thrives on the opposite — addition by addition — taking existing structures, policies, programs and so on and, when they no longer work as intended, we add to them. You want to have four kinds of assessment?

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Assessment Analysis Examples Course 52

Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 3, 2023

Every verbal request to voice assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google are dependent on AI, as are many of the chatbots that pop up when navigating websites. As a result, generative AI can produce a wide variety of new content, including images, videos, music, speech, text, software code and product designs.

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Education Data Training Digital Divide 52

The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Today’s guest, Enrique Cachafeiro talks about the hardware, software options, and future of virtual reality. We were trying out Google Expedition with a full classroom kit. Within the virtual environment, you get you learning, you get your assessment, you get your experience. Unity is a software required to make games.

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Education Conference Company Chromebook 194

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

While rough " deepfake " videos have been around for several years, the proliferation of video manipulation that appear real enough to fool viewers really shifted into high gear in 2019 with the launch of multiple AI open-source software and mobile apps. (On A quick Google search resulted in no immediate hits of others writing such an essay.

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Education Robotics Assessment Examples 101

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. Our system was user friendly, allowing educators to see student grades, benchmark assessments and progress against standards on student dashboards.

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 161

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Whether you are brand new to Google or a seasoned user, there are probably a few things you don’t know about G Suite for Education. If you want to become a Google Certified Educator or Trainer, you need to learn the basics of G Suite for Education. (It Get This Information in a FREE Google Doc. 24/7 Access. Collaborative.

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Google Education Course Groups 78

Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

These elements help us to assess whether or not the risk for our children is too high to have their information in that digital space. . It’s also important for schools to have policies clearly stated and taught to their student bodies. See: Copyright Policy. Safety of Sharing.

Digital Citizenship 94

Digital Citizenship EdTech Data Technology 94

EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2019

This stage does not necessarily recognize the highest capabilities of digital technologies and merely substitutes old ways for a new mode with the lowest orchestration of software. They often say, “We let the teachers make all the choices as to what and how they will use various technologies including the software elements.”

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Industry Software Data Strategy 100

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

The students came up with the project themselves and designed a Google form to track their phone time, including which apps they used most. The July vote and subsequent policy recommendations to nix data science as an option for college applicants, he said, are a “slap in the face to students who have interests that are not STEM related.”

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Data STEM Course Report 139

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

Blended Learning 192

Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Absent checks on real and potential biases, errors and omissions, students’ future educational prospects are being shaped by software. For example, many of the nation’s largest school systems use Google’s free suite of education tools, which allows teachers to develop their lessons, create assignments and administer assessments online.

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Software Student Data Privacy OER Data 49

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

We primarily used Craigslist for all hires except sales and software development. It proved useful in finding teachers to help develop our lesson plans, assessments and professional development. We screened them using a pre-interview questionnaire built in Google Form.

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Company EdTech How To Meeting 132

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Districts expressed interest in additional DreamBox products that address other pandemic-related problems, like its new predictive analytics tool, designed to assess student progress and learning loss in lieu of now-canceled standardized tests. That strained the company, but it also notched DreamBox record levels of renewals.

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EdTech Khan Academy Chegg Coursera 188

Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As part of the launch of our new smart-device security testing, the Common Sense Privacy Program evaluated a popular smart device called Vector and conducted a hands-on basic security assessment for parents and teachers to learn more. Software The Vector Robot mobile application launches with a welcome screen.

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Robotics Policies Mobility Program Evaluation 40

Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As part of the launch of our new smart-device security testing, the Common Sense Privacy Program evaluated a popular smart device called Vector and conducted a hands-on basic security assessment for parents and teachers to learn more. Software The Vector Robot mobile application launches with a welcome screen.

Robotics 40

Robotics Policies Mobility Program Evaluation 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. The company has raised some $77.5 If so, what are they?

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

Julie Sugarman, senior policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute, has heard of many schools around the country having problems serving ELLs right now — sometimes even within the same district. If you were to assess our entire school, we have a lot of students reading at the second grade level in the eighth grade.”.

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Digital Divide Policies Resources Study 145

techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Software & Online 3DBEAR AR INNOVATOR PROGRAM ( 3dbear.io/product/ The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions. The Marketplace also includes free curriculum content from its partners, including Google Classroom, Newsela, and more. No bubbles required.

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Tools Robotics Software Microsoft 52

ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

So give them teaching assistants or do more peer assessment. A good teacher can promote these attitudes despite plagiarism-detection software, but the software itself does not do this. The choices of which data to collect are usually made by the techies and policy makers, but not teachers or students.

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Technology EdTech Learning Analytics Adaptive Learning 81

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2014

Our Google+ Community is about to hit 50,000 members. Our Google+ community will probably hit 50,000 members today. Education Revolution Google+ Community A path toward understanding of mathematical concepts. How to assess 21st century skills. Why aren''t I more happy about that? See my rant below. Thanks, Karen!

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Conference Education Learning Google 50

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 3, 2014

Friday, June 6th at 8am - 3pm in Washington, DC Edcamp US Department of Education: Leading, Learning, Listening , Edcamp US DOE will be an intimate gathering of teacher leaders and policy leaders in order to discuss the most important issues in education. The day will explore 3 themes: policy, ConnectED, and best practice.

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Digital Citizenship Edcamps Conference Libraries 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

software and electronic textbooks, as is the case in New Mexico ) to physical devices (e.g. Districts manage to get by in spite of these funding shortages by using a variety of strategies, including bond initiatives, creative budgeting, fundraising and bring-your-own-device policies to pay for or supplement technology needs.

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Technology E-rate Laptops Digital Divide 174

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

Others went deep, with curriculum, intervention and assessment stacks. All of these players, new and old, are operating in a stable yet fragmented market, finding product-market fit in school systems’ existing market segments: core, supplemental, and assessment. (I Assessment (including state tests) is another $1.2

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Industry Edmodo Pearson Instructional Materials 83

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

Soft-launched last summer, the library currently houses more than 100 educational apps, which teachers can browse by subjects or categories (like assessment or presentation tools). A report published in January suggests that most software licenses purchased go unused. Meanwhile, the number of tools in classrooms today has ballooned.

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EdTech Libraries Software Company 121

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Would 20 hours of one student logged into Google Classroom, or 20 students logged in for one hour, suffice? Textbooks have given way to Google Classroom and the Blackboard Learn management system, and lessons are assigned, submitted and assessed online. That’s a pretty amazing piece of self-directed learning.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 92

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Offerings from industry leaders such Google are feature-rich and unlikely to suddenly close their doors and leave your data in limbo. Keys obfuscated and stored in Software as a Service (SaaS) applications aren’t secure, Clyde says, and “losing the key is just as dangerous.” Third-party risk assessment is critical , Clyde says.

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Data Student Data Privacy Pearson EdTech 181

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge. Denying that to students in the age of Uber, Amazon, Google and more seems sort of an awkward and wrong-headed thing to do. Definition #3 – To Make Known and Accepted.

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Khan Academy Academic Standards Software Exercises 145