Ed Tech from the Ground Up

MAY 23, 2016

Some ed-techs companies list their prices, others don’t. BetterLesson doesn’t appear to mention pricing for it’s personalized PD. Flocabulary , a site that uses songs and hip-hop to meet Common Core standards, lists its pricing very clearly and gives users an easy way to purchase online. It’s normal in the consumer world.

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Blended Learning Common Core Education Company 178

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

Once the teacher approves all of the personalized learning plans for each of the students based on what their RIT scores and the various common core strands, then the student gets an email notification saying, “You’re ready to get started on your personalized learning plan.” How’s that going? Successful?

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Khan Academy Common Core Assessment EdTech 124

Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The educational technology company Amplify is spinning off a service known as School by Design into a new, separate business that will provide schools with data and technical assistance focused on financial and instructional strategy. Joseph is also the co-founder of TenMarks Education , an online math program.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

moving along and most schools resuming in-person learning, EdSurge caught up with Khan to discuss what the last year has been like for Khan Academy, what he’s learned and what he’s planning to do next. Most people who are middle-income or better, the Common Core kindergarten standards almost seem ridiculously easy.

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Khan Academy Learning Meeting Company 161

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. We’re very confident that our products are aligned to the common core.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

student needs vary greatly from one classroom or school to the next,” says Kevin Connors, Director of Personalized Learning for Chicago Public Schools. Founding a company based on research results. As a former research scientist, this strikes me as completely backwards; why start a company before you know something works?

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Game-Based Learning Learning EdTech Study 145

Fractus Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With four different worlds and 23 game characters, Monster Math offers an engaging way for kids to learn over 67 math skills. The arcade-style math app for kids is designed for Grade K-5 with ordinary skill presets aligned with Common Core State Standards. The math app is customizable to your kid’s skill level.

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Khan Academy Android Common Core iPhone 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Today, the company has selected three partners for the first cohort of AltSchool Open. Combing through more than 200 applications, the team chose schools that best articulated a need for personalized learning support, and help aligning their pedagogy and curriculum with state and Common Core standards.

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Common Core Company Personalized Learning STEM 60

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Competition from a new wave of edtech companies and entrepreneurs, along with the arrival of the Common Core State Standards, was beginning to change market dynamics related to product development, distribution, and competition for customers and investment capital. The bar for the market remains way too low for all of us.

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OER EdTech Common Core Company 60

Technology Tidbits

MARCH 30, 2015

Yogome the company responsible for making wonderful educational mobile games has just released and educational web portal kids. Yogome is a personalized learning experience for each individual that is COPPA compliant and aligned to Common Core Standards. For my Pinterest board on Game Based Learning click here.

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Game-Based Learning Common Core Mobility Company 28

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 1, 2016

A Chicago project that pairs ed-tech companies with schools is offering insights on the importance of educators implementing products with care–and businesses producing data to help teachers do their jobs. LEAP released a report this week on the initial cohort of companies and schools taking part in the program.

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Data Company Common Core Groups 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Personalized learning lets Champlain Valley Union High School sophomore Bella Curtis study toward a certificate in horse management. Remember the pushback against Common Core standards, teacher effectiveness and tying teacher pay to student performance ? Photo: Austin Haeberle. NASHVILLE, Tenn. –

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Advocacy Learning Conference Common Core 91

eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2016

CodeCombat’s classroom product, which launched just four months ago, is now in use by 45,000 students in grades 4-12 across 1,600 schools in all 50 states – making it one of the fastest-growing companies in the ed tech space. Dozens of new levels for its Learn to Code module that extend the curriculum to 2.5

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

He muddled through with low grades and the assumption that learning was wearisome and trying. “I His own school experiences have since fueled his drive to support data-driven personalized learning in an effort to make today’s schools engaging, fun and free of “the stress and angst” many students feel.

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The Daring Librarian

JANUARY 13, 2013

I blog about what I wanna blog about and I''m oppositional to boot so unless you''re part of my Personal Learning Network (that''s you dear reader not those company marketers or people sellin stuff) making suggestions --I''m not gonna bite. My blog fodder ain''t for sale peeps! It was AWESOME!

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Libraries Resources Common Core Personal Learning Network 53

Marketplace K-12

APRIL 4, 2016

The Assessment for Learning Project is focused on re-imagining assessment in a number of ways. The center at Kentucky is led by Gene Wilhoit, the former executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers, which took a major role in the inception of the Common Core State Standards, among other efforts.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

Summit, for example, will contribute more than 16,000 comprehensive Common Core-aligned resources for students in sixth through 12th grades in October, and High Tech High has already contributed over 4,000 resources. Teachers and students using Gooru can now adapt these high-quality resources for their classrooms.

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Haiku Learning Competency Based Learning Wiki Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The benchmarks are similar to those used in the more than 40 states that, along with the District of Columbia, adopted the national Common Core standards a decade ago. Data analyzed by McKinsey & Company late last year concluded that children have lost at least one and a half months of reading.

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Elementary Report Groups Assessment 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The battle for innovations is currently happening on four fronts: Innovation from the outside: Whether you are funding educational technology companies or you are working for one your responsibility is the same. Pivot from streamlining our obsolete system towards new ways to use technology that support the future of learning.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. What is personalized learning?

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Personalized Learning Technology Knewton Learning 28

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Below is a quick summary of four common edtech business models, with an example of a company that is implementing each. The more common freemium model limits the amount of features or support a teacher receives for the free product, and the paid version is essentially a more robust version of the same product.

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EdTech Company Common Core Data 84

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. Personalized learning is one of the most popular goals in schools today. The computers themselves bring concerns about the negative effects of screens on children’s learning and brain development. MESA, Ariz.

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 124

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Learn More About Kiddom Academy For Schools: 3 Ways a Company Can Personalize Its Support for Teachers. Learn more about Kiddom Academy. My teaching experience helped me understand that I didn’t need to buy a blended learning or personalized learning product. Apply to Kiddom's Pilot program.

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System Khan Academy EdTech LMS 120

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

In addition to fulfilling Common Core requirements, assignments are designed to help students learn critical thinking and workplace skills. Students engaged in a group history project, for example, might need to demonstrate that they have learned to collaborate and investigate. The scores signified a high point for M.S.

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Learning Common Core System Groups 108

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2017

The claims about “personalized learning” attainable through more data collection and data analysis remain primarily marketing hype. Indeed, “personalized learning” is itself a rather nebulous concept.

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Data Report Analysis Personalized Learning 47

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Other examples include: The market for personalized learning is influenced by competency-based education policies; The market for charter schools is influenced by state-by-state limits on authorizations; The market for student assessments is influenced by state adoptions of college and career ready academic standards (e.g.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Webinars to learn more about using Kiddom A guide to standards-based grading to make grades meaningful Content integrations for teachers to save time Infographic illustrating how Kiddom inspires Personalized Learning Socio-emotional learning infographic. Kiddom is just a one education technology company.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The combined companies now extend from enrollment to graduation in districts that include traditional public, charter, and independent schools across the country. The company has partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits and provides online monitoring software to schools.

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Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 69

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

“I think instances of personalized learning will become more and more present in classroom settings. In 2015, I hope more schools give students the opportunity to approach learning as a process of growth and exploration and, truly take ownership of their education." ” Melissa Gedney. League of Innovative Schools.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Companies like Kaltura, Panopto and Warpwire battled through the year for market share. Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. And it has.

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Trends EdTech MOOC Smartphone 111

Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

” The company – funded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Pearson, Learn Capital, and others – says it will remain open. ” “The Indiana Department of Education is seeking $4 million in damages from the company that created last year’s problem-plagued ISTEP test. ” Oh look. million total.

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Education MOOC Facebook Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

“Trump Taps Common-Core Foe Mick Zais for No. Via the AP: “A new federal lawsuit by Pennsylvania ’s attorney general says the nation’s largest student loan company engaged in abusive practices that have cost borrowers billions of dollars.” ” The largest student loan company is Navient.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Via Chalkbeat : “‘ Common Core ’ no more: New York moves to adopt revised standards with new name.” SoFi : a student loan company and one of the most well-funded ed-tech companies out there sure seems swell. ” Tom Vander Ark lists “ 15 Dimensions of Personalized Learning.”

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Education ProctorU Company Report 51

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. Via The New York Times : “Tech Companies Expect Free High-Speed Internet for Poorer Americans to Pay Off Later.” Education Politics.

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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. ” “ How Asian test-prep companies swiftly exposed the brand-new SAT.” This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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