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. Announced in October 2023, the AWS Education Accelerator supports edtech startups who are innovating to enhance the teaching and learning experience and improve educational outcomes. Oblio, Inc.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

We were wrapping up our end-of-book project for “The Catcher in the Rye,” which involved students interviewing a character chatbot designed to mimic the personality and speaking style of Holden Caulfield. But I couldn’t have predicted where his zeal for the book would lead. “I think I’m talking to Salinger. Can I ask?”

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Robotics Analysis Outcomes Tools 206

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

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Jon has written and co-authored ten books that have been translated into thirteen languages. Find out more about Jon at JonBergmann.com and find book resources at TheMasteryLearningHandbook.com. We have John Bergmann with us and he's written 11 books. Obviously, it's going to be in the book, but can you summarize it for us?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

After witnessing companies and organizations renege on their commitment to DEI after the police murder of George Floyd, I promised myself that I would not work with an organization or a company that treated DEI as a trend or an item on a compliance checklist. Who gets to decide what books go into the library?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 31, 2022

Free Wellness Toolkit – sponsored Al Kingsley Net Support Book: My Secret Ed Tech Diary Research: The Relationship Between Technostress and job satisfaction of Teachers within the COVID-19 Period K12 District Wasting Millions By Not Using Purchased Software Nearpod TeachMeet Resource. He works with a tech company called Net Support.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

“If you teach phonemic awareness, students will learn phonemic awareness,” which isn’t the goal, said Tiffany Peltier , a learning scientist who consults on literacy training for teachers at NWEA, an assessment company. “If Companies sold phonemic programs to schools and told teachers to teach it every day. school districts.

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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. She and her husband, Ron Gard, founded a company called Limited Times that does the legwork to determine the copyright status of various works.

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Libraries Software Policies Company 123

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

We find that when students have a creative opportunity to engage in their work, they're more likely to get a creative outcome. There's a lot of flexibility to allow for creative opportunities where teachers don't have to focus on the tool, but can focus on the outcomes. And so this is actually a really great way to do that.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 7, 2019

The same can be said for teachers and administrators who can effectively implement ideas and strategies in ways that result in improved learner outcomes. It is then essential to determine specific outcomes, strategies, and measures & targets. Freeman and Company. The path to achieving it begins with a belief in oneself.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

Amidst the hype, two competing entities were formed within a few weeks of each other: One of them was Coursera, a for-profit startup backed by the biggest-name investors in Silicon Valley, who argued that they were building a billion-dollar company, a rare “unicorn,” as venture capitalists say. They’ve never been very strategic.

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The Innovative Educator

APRIL 2, 2023

By sharing the organization's focus and highlighting those who received recognition from the group, the chatbot suggested potential companies and contacts within those companies. To get the best outcome, provide a preferred lesson plan format when making a request.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 13, 2019

Software today leverages deep learning to assemble custom textbooks, that adapt to teaching methods, class-types and learning outcomes. Once teachers have uploaded their syllabus and material into the software, the system analyzes the content to create books and core concept material that is perfectly tailored.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

This puts the combined company on the map as the leading provider of applications supporting the core fundamentals of education. With so many start-ups in the EdTech industry there will be inevitable consolidation and lots of elimination of fledgling companies,” adds Chris Twyman, founder of BoomWriter. ABOUT BOOMWRITER MEDIA, INC.:

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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. And it's starting with U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2021

New York, NY – June 16, 2021 – Scholastic has announced the launch of Rising Voices: Books Empowering Girls in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Math). a lifestyle and education company dedicated to teaching women and children self-sufficiency and awareness. “It Despite representing nearly half of the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

And it cost each student $100, a price they couldn’t avoid by purchasing a used copy, since the book was designed to be written in. “It Of course, commercial courseware also generates student outcome data, which traditional publishers could use to improve their products, too. It was out of date. It was not good at all,” Hardy says. “I

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

My friend, as a sophomore in high school, became an intern for an engineering company, doing their computer-aided design work. He continued to do that and now he's one of the higher ups in the company. Research proves FIRST drives STEM engagement and outcomes. He was doing CAD for bridges. He was doing structural design.

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Robotics STEM Case Study Outcomes 172

PlagiarismCheck

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Plagiarism and creativity Writing a book is huge. Not even a book – it can be a song, an article, or a research paper. We don’t say anyone can write a Nobel-prize-winning book. The most devastating outcome of plagiarism is not only that it steals someone’s invention, which is unethical.

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Social Media Company Industry Outcomes 52

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 9, 2023

Here are some strategies, along with examples and supporting books: 1. Book : “ The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters ” by Emily Esfahani Smith 2. Example : Instead of traditional book reports, students might be asked to start a small business, making decisions based on a novel’s characters and events.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

“The most accurate predictor of school success is the size of a child’s vocabulary at age five of ‘book’ words,” according to a report by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. These “book words” are the academic vocabulary learners need to know and understand to meet their potential in school and beyond.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Mursion does something no other VR training company does: include live “Sim Specialists” in each training session. Today, universities and districts like Aurora Public Schools and Orange County Public Schools use Mursion to train teachers and administrators on teacher effectiveness, learner outcomes and education leadership.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

However, while there are certainly successes, very many teachers and superintendents report that 1:1 programs are not correctly integrated, that the necessary training is not available, and that the focus is very much more on the “device” than what the device can do in terms of enhanced learning opportunities and outcomes.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2020

But in their complaint , plaintiffs Campus Book Company, BJJ Corporation, CBSKY, CBSNM and Renttext.com argue that these subscriptions harm independent bookstores by effectively eliminating secondary markets for course materials.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Vicki: Today we are talking with Laila Sanguras about Grit in the Classroom.She has a book by the same name and subtitled Building Perseverance for Excellence in today’s classroom. The book is Grit in the Classroom and the author is Laila Sanguras. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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Classroom Company Outcomes Google 249

Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

EdSurge: In your book “Bold School,” you recommend combining old school wisdom with new school technologies. What outcomes do you look for as you go through that process? First and foremost, we have to ask ourselves for the desired outcome. What do you mean by that? to elevate questioning?

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Blended Learning Learning Outcomes Assessment 169

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

At the conference, the university announced the creation of a new for-profit spin-off, called InStride, to serve as a broker and tech platform for companies who want to offer college education as a perk to their employees. So what we have is just a totally perverse outcome. Admission to a college shouldn't be the achievement.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 7, 2018

Now, Matt, in this book you talk about “the tribe.” In the book, I was able to expand the umbrella to be able to bring in more teachers in the network, including myself, when I was in a K-12 classroom. A favorite of mine lately is one that John Fallon’s used, and he describes it in the book, called “Her Story.” Who is the tribe?

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

I could never have imagined how quickly she could radically transform this outdated space, using money that in the past had always been spent on books, magazines, and electronic databases. When I hired Laura I basically told her what her budget was and that she had complete control of how she wanted to use the money.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 1, 2022

edLeader Panels: Improve Mental Health Outcomes: How to Support and Empower Students and Parents. 5 Ways to Improve Student Outcomes with Behavior Supports. How Educators Can Have Courageous Conversations Inspired by Joyful and Diverse Books. Teaching Literacy to Early Learners: A Hands-On, Minds-On, Multisensory Approach.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

One of the most-cited versions of the critique is the 2002 book “ The McDonaldization of Higher Education ,” by Dennis Hayes and Robin Wynyard. The formulation is meant to provoke, and the authors boil their argument into four bullet points (adopting the style and spirit of the business books they critique).

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MOOC Survey Industry Company 135

Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

When it comes to fundraising, companies, including not-for-profits, shouldn’t be shy from asking for what they need, said Nancy Lublin, CEO of Crisis Text Line , a nonprofit that offers free counseling for people in crisis. That got a couple companies perked up.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Last but not least, even science-based R&D is being crowdsourced by companies such as InnoCentive , who tap into a network of more than 120,000 scientists around the world to solve problems too difficult or labor intensive for internal R&D labs. Over 400 problems have been solved to date.

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Software Groups Outcomes Study 209

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

For higher education, with smaller potential audiences and student outcomes at stake, companies are debating whether return on investment is there for game-based learning experiences. Triseum is a private company that spun out of Texas A&M University’s Live Lab in late 2014. Norton & Company. For example, W.W.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 28, 2019

Shoshana Zuboff weaves a very different tale in her book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. We have known for some time now that tech companies extract massive amounts of data from us in order to run (and ostensibly improve) their services. To resist technology, therefore, is to undermine students’ opportunities.

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Technology Education Facebook Analysis 91

eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

Better assessments and educational outcomes We can lean on technology to do more than recreate texts. Tools like digital assessments and grade books can automatically grade assignments and assessments, including those in other languages, alleviating the stress of grading across dialects. Another great aspect of the U.S.

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