eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But looking at 2024, here are some current trends in education: Technology Integration: Continued integration of technology into classrooms, with a focus on online learning, educational apps, and interactive tools. Flexible Learning Environments: Adoption of flexible learning environments that accommodate different learning styles.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The company’s traction has simmered considerably from a few years ago, when as many as 15,000 classrooms were licensing its version of Minecraft, modified specifically for use in schools. The company creates a curriculum and lesson plans around each game and offers learning analytics, showing how games are being used.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Raymond Spiteri, as they outline their research looking at building math skills and greatly improving learning outcomes in the math classroom, discuss the best use of technology in the BYOD (bring your own device) math classroom, and demonstrate the use of Mathtoons Media tools. There is no cost for this Webinar.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In the tech industry, it's already seen as a notorious element in targeted advertising , surveillance and propaganda (for example in recent elections). It will likely be achieved through a combination of learning analytics (big data) and the evolution of personal technologies and ubiquitous computing.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

Combine this with guidance from teachers in the classroom, students will be able to comprehend various complex topics and concepts in a much better way. Related: How to Improve Student Learning Outcomes with Digital Learning. Related: 5 Ways to Use Learning Analytics in K-12 Education. Bridges the Talent Gap.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Classrooms are embracing interactive whiteboards and mobile devices with enthusiasm. Our objective for this technological transformation of the school desk was to ensure that the classroom would remain physically unchanged, but changed utterly in terms of new pedagogical and interaction affordances. Tip Tap Tap Learning Analytics.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Students can be active participants in the learning process while going through the course materials as well as while engaging in classroom-based practical activities. Experience Immersive Learning with Augmented Reality. Here’s how augmented reality can transform the classroom. Download Now!

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 20, 2019

Related: 5 Ways to Use Learning Analytics in K-12 Education. Active learning is where students partake in the learning process rather than being passive listeners. Besides the usual classroom experiments, students also have to study from their textbooks. for students to actively participate in the learning process.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

To adopt test proctoring software is to enrich an unethical industry. Zoom, for example, was not designed for classroom use (although Stanford University was, interestingly, its first paying customer); it was designed to facilitate remote business meetings. And I should add that it was designed rather poorly for even that.

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Hack Education

JUNE 14, 2016

billion in venture capital going to startups in the industry. trillion industry. One firm predicted that the “ smart education and learning market ” will grow from $105.23 Ed-tech amnesia: we act as though nobody thought about using computers in the classroom until Steve Jobs introduced the iPad, or something.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Subscribe to their blog.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

ProPublica looks at age discrimination at IBM , worth considering I think as part of a larger industry worship of youth and “ innovation ”: “Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM.” ” NPR asks whose bones made up those old classroom skeletons. ” The Business of Job Training.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

They wondered: Would it be possible for students to learn effectively outside of the classroom? Dr. Neufeld left the private industry to work for Fresno State with 25,000+ students, and then Fresno Unified with 72,000 students. That’s what it felt like for teachers and students when COVID propelled them into the digital world.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

And it would not be possible, Trout said, without small-group instruction and the assistance of classroom technology that helps her deliver a custom-fit lesson for each student. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work? What is personalized learning?

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

And it would not be possible, Trout said, without small-group instruction and the assistance of classroom technology that helps her deliver a custom-fit lesson for each student. What is personalized learning? It can look a little different in every school, in every classroom and for each student.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). Learning to Code. The Flipped Classroom. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2017

These days, though, even the most well-known colleges feel pressure to keep up with the changing times and technologies when it comes to their classroom practices. It’s not enough to install a few “smart classrooms”—today’s new approaches go deeper, often requiring professors to change the way they teach. You're trained as a physician.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022. As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. With edtech usage higher than ever, the edtech industry will use this as an opportunity to evolve.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

And I won’t dwell too much on the military either – how military industrial complexes point us towards technological industrial complexes (and to ed-tech industrial complexes in turn). Education technologies facilitate communication, expanding learning networks beyond the classroom. Perhaps they do.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

This year feels different too than the previous years in which I’ve written these reviews because education technology – as an industry – sort of floundered in 2016, as I think my series will show. Learning to Code. The Flipped Classroom. Education Data and Learning Analytics. The Maker Movement.

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

.” The story includes this nice little piece of historical revisionism: While the foundation tried to improve education by focusing on issues like class size, testing and curriculum, they kept bumping into barriers from outside the classroom – primarily persistent poverty… Venture Capital and the Business of Education.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Lots of goings-on this week in the loan industry. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. Average final exam scores among students assigned to classrooms that allowed computers were 18 percent of a standard deviation lower than exam scores of students in classrooms that prohibited computers.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

.“ And yet, even in the face of ongoing pushback against data collection and concerns about data insecurity – from parents , educators, students, and others – even with the hundreds of hacks and breaches, some industry groups do still try to argue that that ”Your Concerns About Student Privacy Are Being Exploited."

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

million gift from the Charles Koch Foundation and Koch Industries , a well-known opponent of government spending on things like public education (among other things). Via Zion Market Research : “ Massive Open Online Course Market : Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecasts 2016-2024.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Teacher on Paid Leave After Confederate Flag Found Hanging in Classroom.” “ VR is gaining ground in the academic world and the 3D industry,” says Techcrunch , so it must be true. ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. ” (I admit.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via the Hechinger Report : “On a classroom-based test for new teachers , black teachers score lower.” ” “What You Need to Know About Learning Analytics ,” according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. More on sports-related lawsuits in the sports section below.

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