Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Much of the information we gather comes from secondary sources. In addition, Jefferson had a 10,000-book library. Since these became the foundational beginnings of the Library of Congress suggests that these books weren’t paperback thrillers. More on history tech tools: 2 Martin Luther King Day Lesson Plans and a Book.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

The MLAs were created to recognize the top products and services in the library industry in a truly unbiased format. Gale’s 2023 MLA award wins were across its entire product portfolio of K-12, post-secondary and adult learning resources. Thorndike has been amazing to work with and my students adore their large print books.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

The MLAs were created to recognize the top products and services in the library industry in a truly unbiased format. Gale’s 2023 MLA award wins were across its entire product portfolio of K-12, post-secondary and adult learning resources. Thorndike has been amazing to work with and my students adore their large print books.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2022

They can book time on a telescope to view a specific space object or event or join other classrooms that have already reserved time to view an event. Slooh is making access to observatories equitable in education, which levels the playing field for future vocational opportunities in the growing space industry.” said Paolucci.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It would be as simple as just having more representation in the classroom that shows women that there are people who are doing this job, and they’re in this industry, and they’re just like you. But really, the jobs that are coming up in the STEM fields are in the computing industry. This is a field for white males.”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school. CiTi also supports innovation “clusters” for the banking and travel industries.) Yo Books , a company from South Sudan, aims to deliver and distribute books on low-cost devices across remote regions. Yet their prospects are perilous.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

By leveraging the digital medium, textbook publishers decided to fight the monopoly and try to provide reasonably priced books. Publishers resorted to this move with the sole ambition of survival in the publishing industry. But these are secondary causes. Related: Are etextbooks More Affordable Than Textbooks.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

Today, college students on average spend more than $1,200 on books and materials, according to The College Board. And focusing on digital makes the secondary textbook market even less attractive, since students have to buy access directly from Pearson to get course materials.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Although AI is not new in other industries, it’s still an emerging trend in education and we are finally allowing ourselves a glimpse of hope, skepticism and wonderment. The growing space industry requires a diverse workforce beyond the conventional role of engineering.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

He wrote an SAT prep book for international students and sold it door-to-door in Jordan before founding his current business. One of the company’s vocal proponents is Jayne Ellspermann, an education consultant and 2015 National Association of Secondary School Principals National Principal of the Year, who has been advising the company.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 29, 2019

All the big industrial companies from the 20th century have fallen in relative value. This on-line identity may be used by companies or organizations to determine which individuals are most likely to succeed in a particular job, complete a secondary degree or qualify for a loan, and which individuals to exclude from these opportunities.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2018

At 17 years old, Christine Johns sat in a university classroom surrounded by men and women who were devastated as Pittsburgh's steel industry collapsed around them. To have access to high paying careers in the future requires some type of post-secondary education. Christine Johns: Our economy has changed significantly.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2020

Students of color are less likely to be given access to accelerated opportunities in secondary schools, and more likely to be placed in remediation when they head to college. Faculty decided to start self-guided book studies and professional-development sessions on adult mindset and equitable practices. We commemorate Juneteenth.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 6, 2023

During his career as a secondary school computer science teacher, he inspired students to create games and apps for social causes and implemented initiatives to broaden participation in computer science among underrepresented groups. He led the development of the influential K-12 Computer Science Framework and is currently leading TeachAI.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2022

We made a conscious decision to make the sixth-grade experience one where we expose children to everything,” said Rick Doss, the district’s director of secondary education. Jensen , a neurologist whose excellent book on adolescence has long been my guide. Related: What does career readiness look like in middle school?

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Saving Socrates

JUNE 20, 2013

I remember reading, in college, Herrnstein and Murray''s famed book The Bell Curve. Because when they came out with this groundbreaking and highly controversial book, they violated the laws of academic research that were normally followed when conducting any large scale study. Accreditation can be done in the same way.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

A few weeks back, EdSurge published a podcast interview with education consultant and commentator Alan November, and Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District Mike Dorsey, after chatting with the two education experts at ISTE. So, that book has influenced me a lot.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

Nicola Soares: It definitely depends on the industry. If you look at an industry like healthcare, there's obviously very regulated sort of needs on credentialing and certain types of skills that are in demand. In IT fields there has been an appetite for alternative credentials, but how much will employers outside of tech warm to these?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

When an individual asks my advice about the next step towards post-secondary education, I almost always advise community college first. One of the most significant challenges students face when entering any post-secondary institution is time management. Industry college university' For others, they are solely working on college.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

ASU+GSV Summit , now in its eighth year, has assembled yet another potent cocktail of education industry stakeholders from different walks of life. edtech industry. Bankers, lawyers, researchers and policymakers. Administrators, entrepreneurs and the Golden State Warriors. This split was almost reinforced physically, in a way.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2017

They love taking selfie videos where they talk about their favorite books and try to convince their classmates what to read next. You'll never be able to lure them from industry,” some told me. In a nutshell, SeeSaw allows my students to share their thoughts, feelings, opinions, and demonstrate their knowledge while having fun.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 20, 2023

For example, if college-going students are your primary audience, your secondary audience (who can be quite influential) could be educational institutions. These are a few tips to help update your content: Keep an Eye on Trends : Keep an eye on industry trends and developments and update your content accordingly.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Although AI is not new in other industries, it’s still an emerging trend in education and we are finally allowing ourselves a glimpse of hope, skepticism and wonderment. The growing space industry requires a diverse workforce beyond the conventional role of engineering.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Learning about possible careers begins in kindergarten with discussions about jobs described in books and then continues with guest speakers who discuss their careers with the students. The Tomorrow Bus and its resources are designed to enhance awareness of career pathways, in combination with other educational efforts at the secondary level.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 24, 2019

As the Director of Digital Learning at the Massachusetts Elementary and Secondary Education office, Ken Klau is focused on the strategy for rethinking the structure and delivery of learning, building a more student-centered system of public education, and creating the next generation of K–12 learning environments. Technology is not a panacea.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 2, 2016

I have been involved in education, across all 4 sectors (primary, secondary, tertiary and professional) because to educate is to prepare, and an educated population can meet the needs and demands of society more effectively. One of the great challenges is the decline in the oil industry, which has enriched the Middle East in recent years.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 2, 2016

I have been involved in education, across all 4 sectors (primary, secondary, tertiary and professional) because to educate is to prepare, and an educated population can meet the needs and demands of society more effectively. One of the great challenges is the decline in the oil industry, which has enriched the Middle East in recent years.

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Secondary Social Media Trends Industry 28

MindShift

JULY 31, 2015

Educators at Nordahl Grieg Upper Secondary, a public high school in Norway, are taking a unique approach to teaching that treats video games as just another classroom tool. According to the Entertainment Software Association, which represents the video game industry, the average age of a video game player in the U.S.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 9, 2018

They also have made their approach available to a variety of industries, including education. Although design thinking has been adopted widely by the tech industry, its approach can be applied by any organization that wants to adopt a way to solve problems empathetically and collaboratively. What happens when all the trees are cut?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Experts say perhaps the biggest change Pearson’s move represents is the continued squeezing of the secondary textbook market, where students recoup some of their money when they resell used books, but publishers don’t get a cut in the resale. After all, students can’t resell a digital book that goes away after the semester ends.

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Accessibility Pearson Secondary E-rate 200

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Students are hitting the books again on college campuses this fall, with fresh possibilities ahead of them. Higher education has found itself under increasing pressure to change that, just as has happened in elementary and secondary schools, where a battery of standardized tests constantly check in on what students know.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2017

A Humanities class will earn students English, Social Studies, and art credit, but the learning is smoothly integrated so that students may be reading the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” while learning about civil rights, and civil disobedience with time still set aside for students to learn the important SAT vocabulary words.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Some schools are reading this as a kind of book club for their professional learning communities, reading one chapter at a time. edWeb members are teachers, faculty, administrators, and librarians at PreK-12 and post-secondary institutions who are working together to provide peer leadership, training, and support. About edWeb.net.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2011

Join me Thursday, August 25th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Bob Compton, producer of the new documentary film The Finland Phenomenon , an "inside look at the world''s finest secondary education system." Medtronic acquired Sofamor Danek Group, Inc. in January 1999 for $3.7

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

His approach, focused on equitable access to books and engaging the community, has left a remarkable mark. One of his standout achievements was creating a committee consisting of teachers, parents, and students to handpick summer take-home books from Lerner Publishing Group. That ignited this young man,” Sean says.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

The closure of local industry combined with the remoteness of the region has made it difficult for people—especially young people who are just starting out—to access sustainable, well-paying careers. Some of the key questions that led to this idea included: What are our local in-demand industries? How can students access this space?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies). Subscribe to their blog.

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