eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 27, 2017

Zeynep Tufekci shares her experiences more broadly (beyond education) in this provocative talk from June 2016: I’ll be spending some time later this week with friends and colleagues at the EdTech Efficacy Research Academic Symposium and look forward to the dialogue. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition).

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 5, 2019

Teachers spend seven or more hours per week, or 250 hours per year , creating or finding instructional materials for the general classroom, said Clark. For students who do not have appropriate materials in K–12, it can cost an additional $3,000 to earn a bachelor’s degree. . billion annually.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Home may be the new classroom, but instructional approaches are slower to change. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. And when learning remotely, 56 percent of teachers said student devices were Chromebooks, far and away outpacing tablets like iPads (16 percent) and other mobile computing devices.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Only 21 states have any kind of dedicated state funding for technology, and this can range from just digital instructional materials (e.g. As a result, edtech scholars and educators express concern about growing corporate influence in the public-school sphere. But these options, too, come with a catch.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

If you bucket all instructional materials—core plus a broad view of “supplemental”—you have an estimated $6 billion instructional materials market. Tackling the $6 billion instructional materials market almost always requires displacing a product, program or service already in use. billion or so.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

“What Betsy DeVos means for edtech ,” according to venture capitalist Ryan Craig. ” Via Education Week : “ New Online Tool Aims to Help K–12 Leaders Choose Instructional Materials.” Via the AP : “How Google Chromebooks conquered schools.” ” That giant is Navient.

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