Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 17, 2021

I dedicated much of my career to finding the appropriate role of technology in the classroom. Companies with a vested interest in their products publish studies touting their applications. Most companies offer such opportunities. I found that the company was very active in recognizing and promoting teachers’ ideas.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Examples from The Hechinger Report’s collection of misleading research claims touted by ed tech companies. All three of these companies try to hook prospective users with claims on their websites about their products’ effectiveness. Some companies are trying to gain a foothold in a crowded market. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2024

Edtech tools also enable students to learn beyond the four walls of the classroom, providing them with so many more opportunities to enhance their critical thinking skills and understand real-world situations. These are all important skills to have when moving beyond the classroom and into the real world.

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 26, 2022

These technologies assess what is going on in the classroom before providing teachers with feedback regarding their teaching performance, their student’s learning outcomes, and class engagement. EdTech does not only help in increasing the talent pool, but it can also assist in retaining a company’s workforce.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Developed in partnership with WestEd — a non-profit research, development, and service agency with expertise in assessments — the new Savvas assessment tools provide a clear picture of student performance at the individual, classroom, and district levels, and offer teachers actionable data to inform instruction. About Savvas Learning Company.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2024

Classrooms use a teacher-directed and project-based curriculum called The Creative Curriculum, from the company Teaching Strategies, to outline objectives and design teaching plans. Teenage mothers and their children often face negative outcomes as they age.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

But is all that money well spent on learning products with proven efficacy in the classroom, or are those billions going toward technology for technology’s sake? Aligning your Development Team Aligning your team around key educational outcomes is the first step towards integrating learning science into the product development process.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

My passion for DEI did not change once I transitioned from the classroom to school leadership. In our monthly meetings, we start with updates that capture our progress and challenges. With this vision in mind, each teacher was instructed to develop annual classroom goals that were rooted in culturally responsive teaching strategies.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Impact of Education’s Digital Transformation In recent years, education has undergone a digital transformation , and this will be apparent when you consider the average classroom today compared to the average classroom 20 or 30 years ago.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

To help schools, parents and caregivers meet the needs of their early learners and further empower their learning journey toward school readiness, Gale, a Cengage company has made major enhancements to Miss Humblebee’s Academy , its award-winning interactive online learning solution for children ages three to six. New Content.

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N2Y

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The teachers of the future need to be prepared and supported along their educational journeys in order to meet the changing needs of their learners. quality instruction in their classrooms. service teachers as they prepare to lead their classrooms. Students are stepping into our classrooms with diverse academic, social?emotional,

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N2Y

JUNE 10, 2022

Huron, Ohio— Business Wire n2y has been named Company of the Year for 2022 as part of the annual SIIA CODiE Awards. The CODiE Awards recognize the companies producing the most innovative business technology products across the country, and around the world. We are proud to recognize this year’s class of CODiE Award winners.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2019

As noted by MIT Technology Review , the rapid development and uptake of AI solutions has created an environment where companies may “obfuscate and oversell” AI abilities even as organizations race to implement new solutions and keep up with the competition. It is crucial to define key needs AI tools can meet and shortcomings it can address.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This report isn’t about the software—it is about better practices to bring more robust engagement to our classrooms. This report gives us an overview of what works best at the admin, school, and classroom levels to engage students and provides us with a picture of what e ngaged students should look like.

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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. 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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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As an edtech vendor, you know creating a strong working relationship between your company and any prospective client is key. You might think this is obvious—schools aren’t companies, after all. As such, she says, “It’s important for edtech companies to be informed about how schools function.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

I’ve also included courses from this blog post sponsor, Advancement Courses that meet the criteria for each topic. In her qualitative study, she found that when schools meet this challenge head-on, student achievement increased and behavioral challenges decreased. Social-Emotional Learning. We have to relate to educate.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

Over 500 education technologists from companies and districts gathered last week in Denver for the IMS Learning Impact meeting , hosted by the IMS Global Consortium. However, with the recent proliferation of Chromebooks and iPads into classrooms, there is more student activity in the classroom that has moved online.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Credit: Allison Shelley for EDU Educators around the country have embraced the “science of reading” in their classrooms, but that doesn’t mean there’s a truce in the reading wars. Companies sold phonemic programs to schools and told teachers to teach it every day. Phonemic awareness has a complicated history.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 31, 2022

I love their courses because they are flexible, with up to 6 months to complete, and you can receive graduate credit through CAEP and regionally accredited university partners or continuing education units that meet your state requirements. Al Kingsley is CEO of the EdTech company NetSupport and is Chair of a Multi-Academy Trust.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2021

Gale, a Cengage company, is helping educators enhance skills for virtual lesson planning and online teaching. Now teachers can take control of their own professional learning and find support as they work to use For Educators to drive student learning outcomes. Gale, a Cengage company, believes in the power and joy of learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And like so many technologies before it, companies are now in a rush to find ways to monetize and adopt AI, applying the technology to customer service, law enforcement, transportation–and education. Foundation 2: Advance equity There are many challenges to building and maintaining equity in the classroom.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

Last week, Mayor Brandon Johnson toured the high school, visiting carpentry, electricity, and culinary arts classrooms – and even sampling a large breakfast of sausages, bacon, eggs, potatoes, and toast prepared by the high school’s chefs. Last year, CTE programs received around $48 million in state funding.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A unique interface allows students to change what happens in the video and see how that change affects the outcome. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. The district’s strategic plan— Expedition to 2025: Purpose. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 Discovery, Inc.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2020

Educators can now look for an Open Badge on products’ websites or ask edtech companies to see if a product earned the Research-Based Design product certification. establish the product’s goal(s) and how the product is designed to achieve the expected outcomes; and. Check out which products have earned the certification so far here.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 27, 2019

School districts should communicate their needs and give candid feedback to developers; at the same time, edtech developers need to meet the needs of diverse learners and educators to improve learning outcomes. Engage with stakeholders to identify and communicate context-specific needs. Here’s how we use it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

Blended Learning In my opinion, the best 21st-century classrooms are “bricks” and “clicks,” blending together the best of face-to-face and online. Research around the pedagogy of effective blended learning will help you understand how to effectively combine your physical classroom and your online classroom. Learn How 2.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

An AI tool that takes recorded audio from a classroom and turns it into data about who talked and for how long, it seemed like a cool way for York to discuss issues of data privacy, consent and bias with her students. With other classroom tools, I have to collect the data myself. It’s not a rubric. It’s a reflection.”

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2021

This new classroom library collection provides K–5 students and educators with culturally relevant and representative books paired with teaching materials, designed to enrich identity development, build literacy skills, and support CASEL-aligned social-emotional learning. Our duty is to meet children where their dreams begin.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

In the classroom, AR technology can enhance learning by providing students with interactive and immersive experiences, improving their understanding of complex concepts and enabling them to apply their knowledge in real-world scenarios. Recently, EdSurge spoke to field experts about the benefits of integrating AR in the classroom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

And earlier this month, the nonprofit announced that 13 education companies had become the first to earn the distinction. The certification is the latest example of the industry’s push to ensure that edtech products on the market—and in classrooms—can and do actually work. The premise may sound simple.

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2020

Department of Education is playing a critical role in this live experiment—and edtech companies have a timely, and time-sensitive opportunity to get involved. Education technology developers are also invited to identify research that “evaluates the effectiveness of specific distance education practices or products on student outcomes.”

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

What are the best-flipped learning apps for K-12 grades in flipped classrooms? The best-flipped classroom tools can transform and remodel classroom teaching, allowing in-depth learning and personalized attention that can help learners improve their grades. Khan Academy. Open Culture for K-12 Grades. Screencast-O-Matic.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 24, 2023

Last month, a lawsuit was filed by California parents alleging another online monitoring software company illegally collected students’ personal data, including location data, without their consent and sold it to third-party vendors. We do more than serve over 28,000 schools in 42 different countries.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2022

In this new role, Dr. Schmedlen will help Texthelp meet its goal of advancing the literacy of 1 billion people by 2030. Before joining the company, he served as President & CRO at Merlyn Mind, a venture-backed AI technology company focused on the global education market. His role will play a substantial part in our mission.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2023

Intervene K-12 uses evidence-based lessons that are designed especially for Intervene K-12 scholars to meet them where they are. This means the average Intervene K-12 student not only grows to meet the state required minimum, but exceeds it. In reading, Intervene K-12 sees an average of 26% growth over the state baseline.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2024

LOS ANGELES (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GoGuardian, the leading company delivering proven solutions to create effective, engaging, and safer learning environments, today unveiled a unified ecosystem for its curriculum and instruction products under a new name: Pear Deck Learning.

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