Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I spent my summer off helping the developers create core values and streamline their project management process in GitHub, a software development platform. I researched different management structures, such as Holacracy, and read about successful team cultures at companies like Netflix and MorningStar. It was fun, meaningful work.

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Classroom Company Blended Learning Assessment 154

Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. So do most ed-tech companies. Manager of Blended Learning.

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Robotics Education Competency Based Learning Program Evaluation 120

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. A recent study within a number of school districts, including the Middletown City School District, showed significantly greater academic growth in blended learning versus traditional classes.

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EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”. The sudden shift in the learning environment last year may have provided an obstacle for the way we wanted to see this happen. Planning Blended Learning for another year.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

In a major move, online and blended learning solutions provider Edgenuity has acquired education software company Compass Learning , creating a suite of digital curriculum products. Compass Learning, based in Austin, Texas, offers software for blended learning, intervention and inquiry-based personalized learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Or you can use Tinkercad or any other 3D modeling software. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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Classroom Smartphone Libraries Tablets 305

The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Today’s guest, Enrique Cachafeiro talks about the hardware, software options, and future of virtual reality. The technology for the web VR is there, though companies like SineSpace , Edorble , and Amazon just came out with Sumerian — which is based on it’s A-frame technology, which can run virtual worlds on mobile devices.

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Education Conference Company Chromebook 197

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. billion was spent on software. He threatened to invite local news outlets and create a media circus.

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iPad Broadband Software Comparison 80

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I like to use Kanban Boards and Agile Software Development principles (something outside the scope of this article). The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Then, after they ideate, they have to plan what will be in the experience.

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How To Examples Tools Company 241

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The use of differentiated instruction to individualize each student’s learning experience is becoming more common in today’s elementary classrooms, but creating meaningful differentiation for a typical class of 25 students or more can still be a challenge. What should educators and administrators know about adaptive learning?

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Adaptive Learning Differentiated Instruction Learning Survey 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Two Forest Grove Elementary School students show off their block structures for Nesra Yannier to photograph during an experiment. PITTSBURGH — At Forest Grove Elementary School, along the Ohio River just northwest of Pittsburgh, the Rust Belt is giving way to educational innovation. Photo: Jill Barshay. Photo: Jill Barshay.

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Tablets Learning Elementary Software 74

Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

This April, the company released its first tool built for school: a teacher’s aid that allows users to create lesson plans corresponding to Khan videos and track student progress via a data dashboard. Three students share how they’re still learning, and how schools can help.

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Khan Academy EdTech LMS Trends 82

edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

Along with a 1:1 goal, comes the deluge of edtech tools, software, and applications into classrooms. After 10 years as an elementary teacher, Suzy Brooks is now the director of instructional technology for Mashpee Public Schools in Massachusetts. Mike Schwab has spent his career in finance, enterprise software sales and edtech.

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Data Student Data Privacy EdTech Software 45

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

PBL Software Review From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Starting from a template that you’ve designed to guide your students through the project, they can collaborate or work together to explore, learn, brainstorm, and create. See information in the video.). Basic Features in Project Pals.

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Software Wiki Common Core Digital Citizenship 295

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

That was also the primary question in January 2015, when Jan Morrison, president and CEO of TIES ( Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM ), invited BADM staff along with other early childhood experts, software developers and representatives from MIT’s Fab Foundation to meet in Washington, D.C. That worked; Jack beamed.

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STEM Adobe Software Mobility 73

techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Software & Online 3DBEAR AR INNOVATOR PROGRAM ( 3dbear.io/product/ Teachers can create transformational learning experiences for students by joining 3DBear’s AR Innovator Program. The tool is ideal for differentiated learning, literacy, English-language learners (ELL) or Special Needs instruction.

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Tools Robotics Software Microsoft 51

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 21, 2018

Contemporary classrooms (from elementary school to graduate school) are structured similar to a manufacturing line and typically produce students who are full of information. 15] To produces this type of interaction in my online classroom environment, I am using a free decision-making software called Loomio (www.loomio.org).

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Classroom Flipped Classroom Comparison System 189

MindShift

JANUARY 10, 2017

PITTSBURGH — At Forest Grove Elementary School, along the Ohio River just northwest of Pittsburgh, the Rust Belt is giving way to educational innovation. Some tech companies are also trying to mix hands-on play with digital learning. She had the children take a test before and after the lesson to gauge how much they learned.

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Tablets Learning Elementary Software 28

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 91

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

She teaches courses in educational technology for the undergraduate elementary, undergraduate secondary, and Masters and Certification programs. She authored Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education, Cell Phones in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for the K-12 Educators, Help Your Child Learn With Their Cell Phone and Web 2.0,

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EdTech How To Meeting Tools 304

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

They’re doing awesome things to drive inquiry based learning. This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. And they were just able to go into my Learning Management System and just do it. Vicki: And this is so important! Kecia: Yeah!

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Social Media Blended Learning Data Blackboard 242

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Well, and I'm sitting here thinking I can use it to teach Adobe Audition, which is an editing software that I use in this podcast, so I could even incorporate that with writing because all of our classes have to teach writing. 00;12;45;21 – 00;13;00;21. 00;13;01;04 – 00;13;28;25.

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How To Examples Secondary Resources 373

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 29, 2018

If you want to use a clip, you don’t have to download it and open it in some fancy software to edit it down to what you just want to use. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Vicki: That is so awesome.

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Google eBook Video Assessment 347

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

A fifth grader works on a digital lesson as part of a blended learning program. Personalized learning dates back to a Chicago lab school at the turn of the 20th century, but the concept is having a renaissance because of today’s more sophisticated technology — and the excitement and investment the technology has inspired.

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Trends Study Knewton Personalized Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

One early November afternoon in Sunnyvale, about an hour’s drive south of San Francisco, a class of ninth-graders at Summit Denali sat at computers for a 45-minute session of personalized-learning time (some days, there are two sessions). Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

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Personalized Learning Learning Common Core Elementary 40

MindShift

APRIL 21, 2015

Germain-Rutherford says there’s really no substitute for engaging in real conversations with other people, which is one of the reasons she is fond of the districts that are using the Middlebury curriculum in blended learning classrooms. The elementary school curriculum consists of animated fairy tales from target language countries.

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Company Moodle Software Strategy 28

MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

“I am overwhelmed with joy for my students because I know now they each stand a better chance of being a successful student,” said Regina Trout, who teaches the second-year kindergarteners at Maple Hill Elementary School in Middletown. And they suspect that education technology companies may be promising more than they can deliver.

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Personalized Learning Technology Knewton Learning 28

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2017

For the past six and half years, she has led DreamBox Learning , growing the company from a startup into one of the leading providers of online math tools for elementary school children. So there were a lot of conversations about how do we figure out a way to partner effectively with learning guardians [namely teachers].

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Company Tablets Industry Blended Learning 70

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Related: Blue-collar town leads Rhode Island’s tech-assisted learning revolution. She uses a software program popular among architects and designers. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

the Virginia company at the heart of the operation.” ” Via DelawareOnline : “The first step to reducing violence among young people is to have police officers assigned to elementary and middle schools, says a coalition of state officials, education administrators and police.” ” Ugh. .” ” Ugh.

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Education MOOC Company Report 48