Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

Education is awash with efforts to personalize learning. But what does it mean for a company to personalize its support for the teachers who use its product? An EdTech Startup that Actually Gets It. When I Buy Edtech Products, Our Teachers Don’t Use Them… What Do I Do? Digital Promise Ed-Tech Pilot Toolkit.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

At a high level, this year’s trends represent a human-centered approach to empowering both the educator and student to define their own learning pathway. AI, XR, & Blockchain: A New Era in EdTech. The advancement of emerging technology is laying the foundation for a new age of learning. Culturally Responsive Curriculum.

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eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

With this funding and the new adoption of Common Core State Standards, UCS began exploring blended learning models. In 2012-2013, UCS adopted personalized blended learning in its 80 full-day kindergarten classrooms. Located in a suburb of Detroit, MI, the district had recently passed a bond reserving $28.5

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eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

With this funding and the new adoption of Common Core State Standards, UCS began exploring blended learning models. In 2012-2013, UCS adopted personalized blended learning in its 80 full-day kindergarten classrooms. Located in a suburb of Detroit, MI, the district had recently passed a bond reserving $28.5

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techlearning

JUNE 5, 2018

Today, IXL Learning announced the release of its Continuous Diagnostic for English language arts (ELA). Available on IXL K-12 personalized learning program, the Continuous Diagnostic simultaneously analyzes students’ language arts and math abilities and provides teachers with next steps to help learners advance.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

In today’s blog post I am sharing with you this handy collection of best vocabulary apps for students that I carefully curated based on my long standing experience as both language teacher and EdTech blogger. The app also caters to personalized learning with features like favorite words, search history, and iCloud syncing.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

The product will enable teachers of all subject areas to create and share digital assignments that correlate to Khan Academy videos and other materials, including more than 60,000 Common Core-aligned lessons and interactive exercises. The point, says Khan, is to help teachers personalize learning for their students. “If

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

Efficacy in edtech needs to be determined by conducting well-controlled, large sample-sized efficacy studies. If new edtech isn’t supported by high quality research, then claims about efficacy are just that—marketing claims. We in the edtech industry need to get over that. In every district throughout the U.S.,

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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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MSEDTechie

MAY 23, 2015

For those in education, summer is a time for relaxation, regrouping, and also new learning. Whether you are attending a conference like ISTE , or creating your own personalized learning experience, utilizing this “break” to explore new technologies and strategies that help expand your teaching toolbox can be very rewarding.

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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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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

Under ESSA, states are not required to adhere to Common Core Standards, but the act says that state-determined standards must prepare all students for postsecondary success. ESSA encourages districts to bring edtech into the classroom. ESSA encourages districts to bring edtech into the classroom.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

To somewhat quote Darth Vader, I found the lack of quality edtech curriculum deeply disturbing. standards-based) school for at-risk youth, pre-packaged curriculum and assessments offered very little flexibility for personalization or modification. Because I taught at a. competency-based (a.k.a.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 13, 2015

Among the challenges of assessment, this concept–as it applies to formal academic classrooms designed to promote mastery of Common Core or similar standards–is near the top. In Evolving How We Plan , I pointed contentiously at the “unit” and “lesson” as impediments to personalized learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Dear Esteban, I have an idea for an edtech product but have no idea on how to monetize it. What are the different business models possible in edtech? However, many edtech business models resemble business models you see in other industries with some nuances particular to the education space. Are You My Model?

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Learn more about Kiddom Academy. When I Buy Edtech Products, Our Teachers Don’t Use Them… What Do I Do? My teaching experience helped me understand that I didn’t need to buy a blended learning or personalized learning product. Personalized learning” might be trendy, but it isn’t new.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

A big shout out to EdTech Magazine for recognizing this blog on its 2017 Honor Roll. I especially appreciated the following quote, “On his blog, Gorman shares what he has learned with a focus on how tech enables project-based learning.” Content is mapped to a variety of levels and standards including common core.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2018

These standards could be content standards such as Common Core or NGSS. In my first iteration of the portfolio, my students presented artifacts that demonstrated 21st Century Outcomes as outlined by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning. But, it also houses information on skill sets and drivers for learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 11, 2019

As an edtech professional, what’s your career path? Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. How do you create a Technology Use Plan for your school?

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

One very important point here: as with all of my Edtech Elixirs entries and my personal social media posts, this is only Adam Watson's ideal list as of this posting. Bonus: Learning Supercharged: Digital Age Strategies and Insights from the Edtech Frontier by Lynne Schrum with Sandi Sumerfield (2018).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2018

Yet where she sees “promise” are movements to improve education at the classroom level, particularly through instructional approaches now often referred to as “personalized learning.”. “We Department of Education, Common Core is dead. This is not the first time DeVos has praised personalized learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Nebraskans also value local control, and elected not to adapt the Common Core standards. You see it in our many public school districts, spread out across 286 school districts serving over 300,000 students (not to mention the 244 private and parochial schools serving over 42,000 additional students).

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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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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

com ) & ( www.bvlp.com ) & ( www.schoolmint.com ) Hero K12 and BV Investment Partners announced SchoolMint will be joining their EdTech Platform. The collaboration will provide educators with more instructional options and a seamless journey to personalized learning for every student. TCI BRING SCIENCE ALIVE!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

Learn about free, research-based curriculum and resources to help teach students safe, responsible, and respectful participants in a digital world, while fostering 21st-century skills and Common Core Standards. Learn more and register here. Conversations Classroom 2.0

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

17, Cardona addressed Connecticut educators directly, noting that the safety measures put in place have been sufficient to make in-person learning relatively low-risk for students and staff this fall. “If In an op-ed published Dec. He is always looking for the best solution.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

“Trump Taps Common-Core Foe Mick Zais for No. ” Via EdScoop : “ USC launches edtech research center focused on underrepresented youth.” “ Is Homework Compatible With Personalized Learning? “ No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. 2 Post at Ed.

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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.” ” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.” More LAUSD news in the legal section below. ” asks Mark Guzdial.

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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. Perhaps, instead of tying “ personalized learning ” to special ed policies of the 1970s, you could read some Rousseau?

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” ” Edreports.org has released new reports on math textbooks and how well they align to the Common Core.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The email, he said, detailed a “Priority 1 Alert” that had been issued by Pearson and the New Jersey Department of Education, regarding a student who had tweeted about a test question on the PARCC — a standardized test based on the Common Core State Standards. Stanford University psychology professor Carol Dweck.

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Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

Via Politico : Stolen “emails from the Democratic National Committee show DNC Deputy Communications Director Eric Walker telling his colleagues to avoid mentioning the Common Core in a video. According to Edsurge’s calculations , “US Edtech Brings in $122M in June.” Get rid of it.’”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Via Education Week : “Even When States Revise Standards, the Core of the Common Core Remains.” This Edtech Company Says It Uses AI. Via Edsurge : “Learning From Algorithms : Who Controls AI in Higher Ed, And Why It Matters (Part 2).” ” Immigration and Education. What Does That Mean?

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “ Phishing Season: Widespread Email Scam Targets Schools, Edtech Companies.” ” Data and “Research” “We need a little patience” says USC professor Morgan Polikoff , when it comes to evaluating Common Core. Via the FTC ’s website : “ VIZIO , Inc.,

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