EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

A Digital Learning Now report highlights digital backpacks as a solution for teachers who, without these tools, “have little visibility into the past performance of their students, what other teachers noted, or each learner’s strengths, weaknesses, and individual needs.”. Find the Tools to Introduce Interoperability.

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Competency Based Learning OER Data Comparison 185

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Since professors typically require use of these tools to participate in class, students complain that they are essentially being charged to turn in their assignments.

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Industry OER Course Company 106

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Can online learning and digital tools help learners save money? A report titled “Making Digital Learning Work” by Arizona State University found that online courses saved institutions up to 50 percent on average credit hour costs, but the study only looked at large-scale efforts.

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OER Tools MOOC Course 69

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

According to a Google report , almost 80% people don’t exit their homes sans smartphones. It is a software application that helps you create, track, and report training programme or educational courses anywhere using any device. E-learning automation helps to automatically create online content and assessments for a course.

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MOOC Gamification Smartphone OER 127

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Contains formative learning and assessment opportunities.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. It also includes feedback for learners when they answer formative assessment questions. It covers the First Amendment, reporting basics, digital journalism and ethics and law.

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How To Classroom Common Core Hapara 130

Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Go easy on the inspirational, aspirational statements; go deep on data to support the needs assessments and recommendations. Be explicit with districts about expectations for access to technology in schools and classrooms.

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Strategy EdTech Broadband E-rate 231

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Smart Sparrow , which provides course-authoring tools for faculty and instructional designers to build adaptive courseware, has found a new home in a much bigger nest. In recent years, Dror-Naim says his team has been building the next iteration of its adaptive course-creation tool. million last year from the U.S.

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Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 101

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 31, 2021

In school hallways across the country, it’s not uncommon to see children sitting with adults who are there to assess their reading fluency and growth stopwatch in hand. Submitted student recordings are available anytime as a running record for teacher assessment. In classrooms everywhere, children called on to read aloud.

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Microsoft Education Assessment Data 77

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. Finding the right tool to match the verb can take a bit of research. This wonderful OER makes it easy for teachers to assemble their own textbooks.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) , repurposing their spaces , completely overhauling how they assess a child’s growth by shifting to a competency-based learning model , among other things.

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Data LMS Competency Based Learning OER 100

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. And it’s also about instruction and modeling for learners what it looks like to organize content and tools to manage our digital lives as information citizens. Curating OER. What’s curation?

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. Unfortunately, many of the tools available only meet a small portion of teachers’ needs or they are prohibitively expensive.

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LMS OER Future Ready Personalized Learning 65

eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

The fourth annual K-12 IT Leadership Survey Report , released during CoSN’s annual conference in Washington, D.C., Major IT findings emerged from the survey and are outlined in the report: 1. It replacing assessment readiness (which for the first time failed to make the top three).

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Student Data Privacy Broadband OER Instructional Materials 40

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

With all of the digital tools available to teachers these days, developing learning experiences should be a cinch, right? Ralyea knows well the challenge of haphazard coordination, having lived it in South Carolina, where he had to work with a standards-based report card. That’s already happening with tools like Google Classroom.

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 53

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report. With personalized technology — like Ripple Effects, BASE Education and other tools — students learn at their own speed and compare themselves only to themselves. We now know that formative or “real-time” assessment can support student learning better than traditional evaluations.

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OER Outcomes Report Technology 79

Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

K-12 Cyber Incident Map: 8 School Districts Have Experienced Multiple Cyber Incidents Since 2016 , which reports on a trend that I’ve seen in tracking K-12 cyber incident reports: school districts suffering repeat cyber incidents, even in the short time I’ve been tracking the issue (since the start of 2016).

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EdTech Social Media Data Policies 150

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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OER Course Company Smartphone 73

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

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. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Software Student Data Privacy OER Data 50

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

But many times tech is only integrated at specific points in the classroom or with a specific tool as determined by the teacher. In the edWebinar “ Students Leverage Technology Tools and Makerspaces to Personalize Learning,” Grace Borst, Innovation Specialist at St. Students upload their homework, projects, and even pictures.

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Personalized Learning Learning OER Broadband 40

Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

10 Free Learning Websites for Kids 51 Great Tools for educators and students to use [link] Richland School District Two 1TWO1 Digital Starter Kit [link] Excellent collection of web apps, sorted by category, with lots of information and ideas for using the web apps in class. Real ti me feedback from students for formative assessment.

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Chromebook Google Edmodo Study 100

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

Desired outcome (explore, apply, assess)? #2: –and search tools–Google Books, Images, Scholar, etc. They can also incorporate such content-rich resources as library databases, ebooks, videos, and the growing array of available OERs. TEMPLATE: Explore, Explain, Apply SAMPLE: ThingLink Animal Reports.

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Handbook Google OER Adobe 49

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

More often than not, these platforms also come with a series of tools that enable their users to build their own products, services, and marketplaces. “Facebook Giving Virtual-Reality Kits to Every Arkansas High School,” Education Week reported in August. The company has raised some $77.5

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” Ismael tweeted: My own take: these are two complementary approaches to #OER that should enrich each other, not exclude (or even blame) each other. As someone concerned with equality, I like #OER as a way to make teaching cheaper.

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OER LMS Secondary Course 60

Doug Levin

JANUARY 15, 2016

In the following sections, I describe how the educational technology program will operate – including the roles for actors at the district, state, and federal levels – and my assessment of what the program says of the federal view of and role for technology in education. I may touch upon some or all of these in a future post.

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Policies Technology Education OER 258

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods. Instructional designers, faculty, and other educators and administrators should develop a basic understanding of OER. Education is Sharing.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The Chromebook App Hub is designed to help teachers find the best resources, tools, and apps, sort of a one-stop-shop idea. They are just about the tool. With the tool “Book Creator,” students can become creators of content while also demonstrating mastery on various state standards. Assess class performance.

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Chromebook Khan Academy Classroom Google 78

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. Those resources are increasingly delivered in digital form. I think on the whole, the results are pretty good….But

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Common Core Pearson Resources Company 76

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Last week I promised I would write a few posts about reducing friction with regard to OER. In last week’s post I talked about how we’re making it ridiculously easy for students, faculty, and others to contribute to the maintenance and improvement of OER. Or remix existing open source tools to meet their needs.

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OER Secondary Software Outcomes 96

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

While some publishers are stuck in the more traditional print publishing lifecycle, others are innovating—welcoming new tools and organizational changes into their workflows and cutting their time-to-market in half. Content, assessment, and multimedia must all be carefully composed and have a specific learning design purpose.

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OER How To Industry Assessment 102

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Digital OER are free. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. In K-12 schools, however, where open educational resources have been hailed as an opportunity to democratize high-quality curriculum and break the publishing oligopoly, OER has had a slower uptake. Mississippi Learning. Larry Singer, CEO of Open Up Resources.

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OER Course Resources Common Core 52

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

A representative from the government’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) will be announcing an opportunity for edtech companies to test their tools in Japanese K-12 schools through pilots that will run between two to five years. But its education officials are looking for outside help. A desire to collaborate—and egos to compete.

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Kaplan Company EdTech Industry 104

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Here’s what caught my eye the week of March 6, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Ever wonder how stories promoted by ‘thought leaders’ on social media get selected? Filter bubbles are bad, including in educational technology.

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EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

.” Via The Washington Post : “ Education Department relaxes financial aid process in the absence of IRS tool.” ” In other Department of Education bureaucratic nightmares, “Dozens of Colleges’ Upward Bound Applications Are Denied for Failing to Dot Every I,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. 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. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

The Economic Times of India reports that “Udacity to focus on individual student projects.” ” Via The Hollywood Reporter : “ USC Rejects Harvey Weinstein ’s $5M Women’s Program Donation.” million ‘contract inducement’ to come back,” Bloomberg reports. ”).

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MOOC Education Kaplan Company 43