Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Many classroom doors have closed. With COVID-19 jeopardizing in-school learning, we expect the widespread adoption of edtech software to continue, and this is not a short-term trend,” says Jeff Lieberman, a managing director at Insight Partners, a private equity firm that has backed nearly two dozen education companies.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

In education, the shuttering of campuses and classrooms has been a windfall for purely digital companies—some of which are attracting plenty of private capital. Here are some edtech pandemic pivots to watch. It marks one of AVID’s first forays into online instructional content. Denny’s is selling groceries.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

What can we take from this when we return to our classrooms? And will we return to our classrooms to teach in the same manner as we did before COVID? We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2021.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

Projectors for Classrooms is the topic of our blog post today! The world of edtech is buzzing with innovations, but it’s often daunting to pinpoint the right device that seamlessly complements the educational environment. Related: Best Document Cameras for Teachers.

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EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The utilization of YouTube videos in the classroom may be beneficial for instructors and entertaining for students. YouTube has more instructional videos than the LC. In many STEM classrooms, teachers are having trouble providing their pupils with the same kind of hands-on experience that used to be accessible in person.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2019

Meanwhile, billions of dollars have been spent on edtech by these same school communities. Today’s edtech market is radically fragmented. Purchasing decisions happen at all levels from districts to schools to individual classrooms to parents. And edtech companies cater to this fragmentation in their product design and marketing.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

While teachers know their students need help developing social emotional skills, they rarely have time or adequate training to focus on them in the classroom, according to a new survey from ReadTheory , an edtech company that helps students build reading comprehension skills.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2021

Unlike fully self-paced competitors that give students practice videos and content snippets for individual consumption, ChalkTalk generates personalized lesson plans and actionable teaching materials for teacher-led instruction—whether that teaching takes place in-person or remotely over a web-conferencing platform such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. This year’s 3rd most-read story focuses on immersive and interactive learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

By designing instruction that meets the diverse needs of all learners, educators can help to create an environment that is welcoming and supportive for everyone. What does the menu analogy look like in the classroom? Sometimes a simple edtech tool can make a significant difference.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

While teachers know their students need help developing social emotional skills, they rarely have time or adequate training to focus on them in the classroom, according to a survey from ReadTheory , an edtech company that helps students build reading comprehension skills.

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Doug Levin

JUNE 17, 2015

. – I want to focus instead on one aspect of how we are shifting from print to digital: the procurement decision schools make about whether to license digital instructional materials or purchase them outright, because I think ownership of instructional materials matters.**. Image credits. Image credits.

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TeacherCast

JUNE 19, 2019

The biggest party at ISTE this year will be happening at the Microsoft Education booth where you will find everything you need to create the perfect digital classroom for your students next year. they will be producing the “Best of ISTE” podcast live on site featuring interviews with leading edtech presenters, educators and creators.

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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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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 5, 2019

3 Challenges of Digital Design for K–12 Classrooms. Teachers spend seven or more hours per week, or 250 hours per year , creating or finding instructional materials for the general classroom, said Clark. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how technology is key for boosting equity. billion annually.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2022

WILMINGTON, DE – August 4, 2022 – A new survey reveals that while teachers know their students need help developing social emotional skills, they rarely have time or adequate training to focus on them in the classroom. According to Simba Information, spending for SEL instructional materials was $1.725 billion for the 2021-2022 school year.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

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. Digital Promise sought to isolate one “signal” of high-quality edtech products—as CEO Karen Cator puts it—and zero in on that.

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Ascend Math

JUNE 1, 2017

“As a Gates Foundation exec puts it: “ Research tells us that high-quality, aligned instructional material is important in helping teachers support their students in mastering the skills, knowledge, and experience they need to be college and career ready.” ” THE Journal.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Digital Promise’s Research-Based Design Product Certification recognizes the edtech products that incorporate research about learning into their design and development. Through Product Certifications, consumers can narrow their options as they select products based on research about learning before trying them out in their classrooms.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Buoyed by examples of new and significant commitments to OER by companies large and small, governments of all levels, and schools, it is easy to see that the future of instructional materials over the next decade will look very different than it has over the last decade. K-12 OER Movement appeared first on EdTech Strategies.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Some of the ways in which the pandemic has shifted the education landscape are less obvious than closed schools, socially distanced classrooms or masked recess periods. Offering only a virtual version of the traditional classroom and bell schedule is no longer sufficient to serve students or families across these diverse situations and needs.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2020

He runs the company with a long-term focus, upholding the founding mission to improve classrooms everywhere. He has also won the Northeastern US Regional YPO Social Impact Award and EdTech Digest ’s CEO of the Year. To learn more about ATP, visit TestPublishers.org. About Curriculum Associates.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. The method teaches children to read by providing training and direction instruction materials for teachers and individualized software instruction for students. “Too By Kenna McHugh.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Connecting what is being taught in the classroom to Delaware employers is critical,” said Luke Rhine, Director, Career & Technical Education and STEM Initiatives at the Delaware Department of Education. Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place.

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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. How did you transition from a traditional company focused on providing workbooks to an edtech company? We used the success of that and actually the learning of that—from the Common Core—to start on the edtech side.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

Horton says other teachers in her district had been piloting TenMarks in their classrooms. In 2013, TenMarks was acquired by Amazon in a deal that was greeted by the edtech industry as a sign that major technology giants were serious about expanding into education. But the company gave no indication that it would close shop.

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

“These next generation Summit Math courses were developed as part of a digital-first curriculum for schools that want to engage and personalize learning for each student and empower teachers with powerful instructional materials,” said Sean P. Ryan, General Manager of Fuel Education.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2017

It can also come in handy for teachers: We had a hackathon at MIT and all the classrooms have cameras (and students know that). What does this look like in the classroom? Not just ACT material; we want to give you the best instructional resource we can find. Will it free up the day? Will AI replace the teachers?

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Contributing to the difficulty of transitioning to meaningful technology integration is the idea that technology exists as a tool separate from curriculum and instruction and then treating it as such.

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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. Zoom took the number one spot in mentions by teachers in 2020, at 60 percent, displacing 2018’s top mention, Google Classroom. Oh, don’t feel bad for Google Classroom.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

My classmates from Stanford’s Learning Design and Technology master’s program have gone on to design for big brands like Airbnb and Google as well as edtech upstarts including the African Leadership University, General Assembly, Osmo and Udacity. But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Today, the graveyard of K-12 edtech marketplaces is littered with stalled attempts, many from companies that are no longer around. That’s a lesson that the team behind Edmodo, a classroom management and collaboration platform, quickly learned. Collecting a lot of resources is easy. Collecting good resources is hard.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2017

When one of today’s hottest edtech companies was founded, Intel Corp., The privately held company is laced with a strong sense of mission around providing teachers and classrooms with powerful materials to support learning. This week, Curriculum Associates, in North Billerica, Mass., We’ve reinvested our money.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

Reyes recognizes that personalized learning overlaps with a number of long established instructional philosophies, frameworks and practices. So rather than reinvent the wheel and conjure up a new definition, he looks to the past at a concept that precedes the technology used in classrooms today: The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD).

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

At this stage of the edtech revolution, most educators are focused on using tech to enhance lessons rather than on the tech itself. But many times tech is only integrated at specific points in the classroom or with a specific tool as determined by the teacher. Christine’s background includes experience in education and consulting.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 26, 2016

Existing practices in classrooms are unlikely to change dramatically anytime soon, he predicted, outlining several reasons for his conclusion that “ease of use” is the baseline differentiator for product success. Google for searches, Google Classroom and Google Docs. The answer?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

In the absence of answers to this question, it is too easy for teachers and administrators to become unwitting brand ambassadors for companies seeking to integrate their products into the classroom, regardless of impact on student learning and success. The post OPINION: What’s the high-tech tradeoff for students and teachers?

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