Tech Helpful

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I heard a leading CEO for a media company say "our industry has to stop trying to force what we do into these new platforms. When setting up a discussion, you have multiple ways to create it to best meet your classroom needs. Outcomes allow the administration and faculty to track mastery in a course. Group Assignments.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Moulton has worked in the field for about 15 years with a small family-run company called Educational Data Systems , which makes exams for local districts and high stakes tests for the state of California. Of course, it’s an ideal, which is never reached entirely. I do have to say our little company is on the firing lines too.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 21, 2016

The massive cuts will reduce the giant education company’s workforce by about 10 percent, down from about 40,000 employees based not only in the United States and United Kingdom, but Asia and countries around the world. And in South Africa, textbook sales plummeted with a new adoption cycle and budget pressure, the company said.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

I’m in the trenches, meeting with schools and superintendents, and I see what they struggle with. And, of course, the Ed-Fi Alliance. I’m in the trenches, meeting with schools and superintendents, and I see what they struggle with. Big vendors are big companies. Project Unicorn’s School Resources. Getting Smart.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 3, 2016

When assessments reveal weaknesses in student learning, ACT would be able to tap OpenEd’s materials to meet their needs, he said. Some other providers of open content follow similar models, in which the content itself is free, but users pay for enhancements to meet more specific needs.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

I've had the pleasure of working with this company. Their study is titled, Creative Problem Solving in Schools: Essential Skills Today’s Students Need for Jobs in Tomorrow’s Age of Automation, and covers a topic on the minds of educators I meet during my travels. All opinions are my own.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

This crucial juncture, and its far-reaching implications for those who don’t meet the mark, is why some educators are focusing their literacy efforts on the school years that come before third grade — hoping through innovation to offset what could be a terrible and lasting deficit in children’s reading skills. “Yet

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 9, 2011

His son is vice-president of his theater company and its webmaster. Need for online courses will become more and more apparent in the wake of budget cuts. Online courses will be necessary. End of course and STAAR tests are at least two jumps in rigor ahead of TAKS. People in audience clapped at this!) There will be cuts.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 23, 2015

Meeuwse says she loves using this form of game education with her little ones because “it incorporates both technology and tangible objects to meet the diverse sensory learning needs of my students.”. View the Full Course Catalog at ettsummer.org. Game #3 – Land of Venn. Teacher #3 – Ryan Read ( @Ryan7Read ), Math.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

Farrell’s initial wilderness course had its origins in the ideas of Kurt Hahn, a German educator who believed that education must address character, students can learn by failing, and learning should involve real-world experiences. When the war ended, the organization began offering similar courses to the public. Hahn said he could.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 26, 2011

This session directly addresses the need to develop and implement real-time employee training assessment strategies specifically designed to meet targeted business objectives. Utilizing an actual high-tech, consumer electronic Fortune 100 company renamed ''Orange Inc.'' link] P2PU COURSE - CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT ( Math 2.0

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

We are committed to personalized learning, but can't continue a program that does not meet the needs of all of our students.” TTO is also aligned with Common Core standards and runs on the Chromebooks that the district had invested in. What might have happened if the pilot ran its full course?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

The Common Core State Standards require students to think critically and be effective consumers and producers of information and media. This ISTE webinar will focus on ways teachers can create active, student-centered, digital age classrooms that help students meet the Common Core and ISTE Standards. Classroom 2.0

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techlearning

JUNE 12, 2018

The series supports educator collaboration, including teacher training and team meetings, helping teachers to vertically scaffold instruction and connect learning across content areas. For more information about the Standards Mastery Series, visit Mentoring Minds. For more information, call 800-585-5258 or visit mentoringminds.com.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Mastery-based learning, of course, has its critics. It can also meet with resistance from faculty members who aren’t keen on experimentation. In addition to fulfilling Common Core requirements, assignments are designed to help students learn critical thinking and workplace skills. The year M.S. 442, teachers said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

She finds the program gives her extra time to meet individual kids’ needs. By the third year , the school surpassed the California state average and nearly doubled the district’s percentage of students meeting or exceeding standards on eighth grade reading and seventh grade math. That, too, is by design.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 21, 2017

And it’s all low-cost, replicable, and of course, there are our incredible tower gardens where we are growing food in a food-insecure community using 90% less water, 90% less space, and sending home 100 bags of groceries per week. Aligns to content area, instruction, and Common Core Next Generation Science Standards.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

In addition, Alma will continue to provide its own set of robust reporting tools to meet many needs and budgets. This follows the company’s recent integrations with Canvas and Schoology and its OneRoster alignment. HOONUIT’S NEW COURSES ( www.hoonuit.com ) Hoonuit announces the launch of accredited professional learning courses.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2016

Paola De La Torre Macias and Brian Torales, who started college this fall already having completed remediation courses while still in high school. Half a million, or about one in four, show up on campuses each fall not ready to take college courses in math or English, according to the advocacy organization Education Reform Now.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Those connections start with one-on-one mentoring, in which teachers meet with students weekly to discuss short-term goals, such as completing a certain number of units in a history course, and long-term goals that stretch into college and career. But now, I love school math, because I’m learning better.”. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

. “In a sweeping move, the for-profit school chain has been told to lock its doors after parliament demanded it halt operations in response to its failure to meet educational and infrastructure standards.” Via the Coursera blog : “Coming soon to all courses: Flexible session-based schedules.” ” Oh look.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

“ ESSA Would Handcuff a Trump Education Secretary on Common Core And More,” says Education Week , even though ditching Common Core was one of Trump’s campaign promises. More on the future of Common Core from NPR. Via Politico : “Meet Trump’s Cabinet-in-waiting.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

.” Via The Washington Post : “ DeVos rejects invitation to meet with former for-profit college students.” “Trump Taps Common-Core Foe Mick Zais for No. ” The largest student loan company is Navient. She’s an investor in a company that targets that group.) 2 Post at Ed.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. Handing over data, often quite thoughtlessly, has become par for the course – in education and in society more generally. ” From April: “ U.S.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Politico : “A complex legal battle involving dozens of debt collection companies fighting over contracts with the Education Department has essentially suspended the government’s ability to collect defaulted student loans , the Trump administration disclosed in a court filing on Monday night.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

It’s a look back at what’s happened over the course of each year, not simply – to counter that totally overused phrase from hockey player Wayne Gretsky’s dad – to “skate to where the puck is going,” but to examine where it has been. .” “Disrupt.” ” “Unbundle.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.) The Flipped Classroom".

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “After seven years of tumult and transition fueled by the common core, state testing is settling down, with most states rejecting the federally funded PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments, and nearly one-quarter embracing the SAT or the ACT as their official high school test.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

the Virginia company at the heart of the operation.” Here’s the EdWeek headline: “ Company Exec. for Ed-Tech Company Testifies in Ala. ” Gee, good thing no one else in ed-tech is in the business of selling these sorts of connections between companies and politicians and schools! ” Ugh.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

There was some talk that, despite being vociferously anti-union , Michelle Rhee’s support for the Common Core was allegedly a deal-breaker. Of course, DeVos has supported groups that back the Common Core in the past, including Jeb Bush ’s Foundation for Excellence in Education. She serves on its board.)

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a slogan of the Occupy Movement too, of course, one reprised this year in the Presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders, who would frequently repeat that “Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%.” They are underrepresented in AP courses.

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via ProPublica : “Meet the Hundreds of Officials Trump Has Quietly Installed Across the Government.” ” Trump’s favorite techie is, of course, Peter Thiel. ” Via The Washington Post : “ Muslim students tried to meet with a lawmaker. They were first asked: ‘Do you beat your wife?’”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 18, 2017

Actions, of course, speak louder than words. “Transcript of Education Secretary DeVos ’ Interview with AP” – via the AP, of course. ” Testing, Testing… PARCC Inc , best known as one of the Common Core test-makers, is “moving in a new direction,” Politico reports.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I wrote “an explainer” of sorts on Thiel and his politics, and I listed the education companies that he’s invested in. To be honest, think Thiel and his ed-tech politics have more in common with the rest of Silicon Valley than those that feign outrage at his support of Trump. women of groping and sexual assault.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Breaking with longstanding tradition – through Democratic and Republican administrations – President Trump will not host a meeting with this year’s American Nobel laureates.” Via Education Week : “Even When States Revise Standards, the Core of the Common Core Remains.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

It doesn’t bleed as much as the victims of grizzly bear violence do, of course, and the blood is just a drop in the bucket compared to blood spilled by the victims of gun violence. Senator Kaine : Should all schools that receive taxpayer funding be required to meet the requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act?

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