eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

CLEVELAND – June 7, 2022 – Digital book access for reading and listening for K-12 students has reached a milestone. Students using the free Sora student reading app have now accessed more than 100 million books from their school’s digital collections since Sora launched in 2018. In addition, Ms.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Another friend, Jerry Blumengarten, and I have written or updated their book, “ Connecting Your Students with the Virtual World: Tools and Projects to Make Collaboration Come Alive.” Our book breaks down different projects by month. How to Use Data Driven Instruction in the. So, shall we start with critical thinking?

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Digital Promise

JUNE 2, 2021

With companies like Google planning to invest more into how AI is integrated into the classroom, millions of teachers across all subject areas could be impacted in just a few short years. AI systems need to be able to perceive, represent what they perceive in data, reason about it, and make decisions. AI systems are trained with data.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

But news of tech companies breaking laws and paying massive fines really have no meaning. 170 Million for stealing children’s data? There was a time when doing something wrong could wreck a company. People would stop using a company’s services and that company would take a loss, or even go out of business.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

This free e-book incorporates data-collection technology into the first lesson in OpenSciEd Unit 6.1, Vernier Software & Technology has led the innovation of educational, scientific data-collection technology for over 40 years. to support engaging, hands-on science learning for middle school students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The privately-held education company used to focus on making print instructional materials for K-12 schools. Today, there are six million current active users on i-Ready, the company’s flagship digital product. based company, to learn more about that reinvention, and the lessons he’s learned in the process.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in early January announced 15 startup companies selected to participate in the inaugural AWS Education Accelerator. As education continues to evolve, data-driven decision making is a powerful strategy to transform teaching and learning practices and unlock new opportunities for student success. Oblio, Inc.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

Niesner claims the company is on track to hit $40 million in revenue in 2020. He says it broke even last year, has reached $14 million in gross bookings, and passed 100 million users at the start of the year with more than 200 corporate clients. The company reached 25 million users by 2012 and 55 million users three years later.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2024

Even before the federal government closed the spigot on billions in emergency funds for schools, declining student enrollment already had districts fretting over how they would balance their books.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

He is the lead author on a new book called The Recipe for Student Well -being. Vicki Davis (01:03) So we want to talk about your book, The Recipe for Student Well -Being. The question we were trying to answer, and I have two wonderful colleagues on this book, some co -authors. Brian, what an important topic.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Barbara Blackburn, a Top Ten Global Guru in Education, is the author of over 30 books. Rigor in literature and writing involves going beyond the text and connecting to real-life experiences or other books. Maybe you go beyond it with a connection with another book you've read. Vicki Davis (00:26) Mm-hmm. former drip.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 19, 2023

Some Background on AI Chatbots Chat GPT’s Data Set Has a “Before Date” First of all, when we talk about chatbots in particular, remember that their data set is 2021 and earlier. AI Action #2: Real-World Data for a Spreadsheet Lesson Second, I teach a lot with Excel spreadsheets and I'm always looking for real world data.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

In a now-famous 1997 interview , he candidly explained why Amazon started out by selling books. Books were simply a stepping stone, the “best first thing” to sell.) In 1994, hardly anyone was buying books on the internet. Data is everything, and everything is data. But they are.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

In a statement on its website in May, the ACT said that it is transforming itself from an “assessment company” into “an organization providing learning, measurement, and navigation support to learners.” Just this month the group acquired Mawi Learning , a social-emotional learning company that offers online and blended courses in SEL.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Brad is a publisher of education and children's books as well as leads the strategic vision of the organization. He is a co-author of two upcoming books, The AI Classroom, and The Discipline Code. And I think that's why the three of us got together and wrote this book because the potential of this new technology is absolutely amazing.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 29, 2019

Up to 60 percent of the decision weight went to what data was available. Data is also available that offers much more – I’ll explain that later. Her company, PRIVO , works with companies like Disney, as well as school districts. Every time you hear the word “data” in this context, think of it as “information.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Endless Network , a global organization committed to addressing equity gaps stemming from challenges such as inadequate internet access, strategically directs investments towards international companies that share their mission and actively contribute to its realization. We don't collect any personal data. And it's starting with U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Data’s influence on modern education is immense; it drives policies, impacts funding—it even affects decisions about which tools and services edtech companies create for educators. And when it comes to helping edtech entrepreneurs understand those educators, Amy Rambo believes she has just the data that can help.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Containing nearly 30,000 financial-aid opportunities painstakingly researched over several decades, the database that powered the Reference Service Press book-publishing company faced an uncertain future when Schlachter died in 2015. asked Drew Magliozzi, CEO and co-founder of the startup, which is now called Mainstay.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 30, 2022

One tradition in classrooms that many educators may need to re-think is the concept of reading whole books in classrooms. As opposed to reading a full book in the classroom, excerpts can serve as an opportunity to better engage students and expose them to readings that vary in length, style and complexity.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Vernier Video Analysis ® app and new e-book help students learn important physics concepts in both in-person and remote learning environments. Vernier Video Analysis enables students to quickly and easily analyze motion and think critically about the data they collected. About Vernier Software & Technology.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 3, 2019

We probably went there with a specific book in mind, one required for school, but ended up taking our time exploring all the tomes available. Though bookstores remain, too often, parents simply buy books online–digitally or print, doesn’t matter–and miss out on that opportunity to discover new worlds. Searchability.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Improving our community by collecting data and investigating the causes of local environmental challenges is inspiring. Participating in artificial, recipe-like science ‘experiments’ from a publishing company is not. Writing 5-paragraph essays about books that we don’t care about is not.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

Amira is the invention of Amira Learning, a six-year-old edtech company that fuses voice-based artificial intelligence into reading activities, guided by an eponymous AI bot. Other companies with products in the market are Bamboo Learning, Ello and Imagine Learning. “Keep going,” Amira says, softly.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

He is the author of the book Innovate The Secret to Innovation in Schools. 00;02;29;15 – 00;02;51;05 Justin Reich So the book starts with the cycle of experiment and peer learning, which is a set of ideas I've been working on for 15 years, visiting classrooms like yours. and Director of Teaching Systems Lab.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

The privately held company, which has raised $2.7 alone; that means the company has at least another half billion dollars at the ready. Byju’s growth demonstrates how the edtech market is truly becoming borderless,” says Isabelle Hau, a longtime global impact education funder who is working on a book on early childhood learning. “We

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EdTech4Beginners

JULY 17, 2019

While textbooks remain the most used educational tool especially in developing countries, the integration of digital links in books like sounds and videos associated with the topic are becoming more widespread. The adaptive learning paradigm that collects and learns from students’ data to improve teaching is a double-edged sword.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

That’s thanks to a booming group of companies known as the “ contract cheating industry.” Many paper-writing companies try to project an air of legitimacy , with offerings like responsive customer service that let users chat right away with a live person to ask about things like prices. They have customer service, the better ones.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

A deluge of data released late last year confirmed what has long been suspected: The coronavirus pandemic caused widespread learning loss while also amplifying gaps across racial and socioeconomic lines. The situation is especially concerning among younger children: one analysis of reading level data by Amplify Education, Inc.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 12, 2019

She wrote the best-selling book Design and Deliver: Planning and Teaching Using Universal Design for Learning ( [link] ) which was based on her work as the UDL Coordinator for Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation in Columbus, Indiana from 2007 – 2012. Loui Lord Nelson Bio as Submitted Loui Lord Nelson, Ph.D. ”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Five years ago, I published a book on the future of university credentials, making some predictions about what seemed likely to come next in the market for degrees and emerging forms of alternative college credentials. In my book I might have been a bit overly optimistic about the resistance of traditional higher ed, however.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

As libraries work to scan their collections, they tread carefully around books published after 1923 and likely to still be under copyright. Making sure a work meets all the requirements takes time, and depends on accurate data, for instance. The substitution of a comma for a colon in a book’s title can be enough to skew the results.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 2, 2023

Blatantly, demonstrably untrue: the GPT3 dataset is a little over 600GB, primarily Wikipedia, Books corpuses, WebText and 2016-2019 CommonCrawl. But the topic of AI training data also intersects with another topic that’s near and dear to my heart: copyright. The Macbook Air I am typing this on has more free disk space than that.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Georgia State is one of a growing number of schools that have turned to big data to help them identify students who might be struggling – or soon be struggling – academically so the school can provide support before students drop out. Critics say there are potential downsides to monitoring student data so closely.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2022

CLEVELAND – March 14, 2022 – In response to educators’ need for more digital content to engage students, OverDrive Education now offers popular digital comic books to schools around the world via the Sora student reading app. Schools can purchase age-appropriate and cost-effective curated bundles totaling more than 1,500 digital comic books.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

Readlee is an amazing literacy tool that enables teachers to go from collecting reading data a couple times a year to getting data each week (or day!) And as a leader, I can do my best with books and with preparatory experiences to prepare for those. in just 5-10 minutes. But there's another thing. Those were the skills.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2022

The company took over hosting some popular OER offerings hosted by Lumen Learning, a courseware provider that argues that OER can make higher education more equitable. Even the company isn’t sure exactly how the move plays into its larger strategy, it seems. “In The company says it’s about hosting expenses.

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