Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2019

Data collection and analysis are cornerstones for many STEM and STEAM programs but they’re not just about math. Unfortunately, data collection hardware is expensive and setup is complicated–intimidating for many non-tech-minded teachers. False Target Rejection Technology for clean data. Collect data.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The industry has since consolidated, due in part to an uptick in mergers and acquisitions by education companies and private equity firms. Data from investment bank, Berkery Noyes suggest these deals have grown at a steady clip since 2013. Source: Berkery Notes data from 2015 , 2017 and 2018. Too Early to Think Exit?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

This unit teaches about fire while meeting Next Generation Science Standards. As it has been noted, UL (Underwriters Laboratories), the creator of Xplorlabs, is a global safety science company. Data analysis is part of the second step of this online, interactive middle school science lab from Xplorlabs.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I’m not going to allow tech companies be our 21st century publishers that pigeon hole my students learning. Teachers are clearly wary of the trend of putting the cart before the horse, or in this case the iPad before the learning. It’s leadership that will take us beyond the talk of devices and apps.”. Teachers are unprepared.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

At North Carolina’s Rowan-Salisbury Schools, a room in the central office showcases 3D printers, virtual reality headsets and a variety of iPad apps. Does it meet students’ needs, or is it just really cool?” Data interoperability and student privacy How does this tool integrate with the district’s existing products?

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2016

In a session titled “Begging for Disruption: Ed-Tech Procurement,” Levy and the other panelists discussed the problems that school districts have in discovering, evaluating, and buying technology products that meet their specific needs. This is just wrong.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2019

As early as Monday morning, students posted photos of word problems asking how many oranges Mickey Mouse has left after Donald Duck absconded with some, and how quickly Spider-Man would meet Homer Simpson if Spidey started swinging from Manhattan at noon and Homer’s Springfield train left the same time going 70 miles per hour. Why stop there?

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 17, 2011

In September Prezi meeting was launched which enables up to 10 people to edit or view a Prezi remotely. January of 2011 saw the launch of an iPad app on which to view presentations. After interviewing many prospective companies I became frustrated with the lack of innovation and impressiveness of their products.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2023

And I had a really entrepreneurial colleague named Tom Daccord, and we started this company called EdTechTeacher that did consulting for schools that were making big technology purchases. They had cameras on them and they had all these apps, they can do all these kinds of things.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

00;07;42;22 – 00;07;55;21 Justin Reich You know, you go to some of the earliest schools that bought lots of iPads for their students and you go and you interview the students and you say, well, what do you like most about having this new technology? She makes sure she does by voice or by talking with people.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

From collecting data to parent communications to taking care of yourself, Melissa has something for every classroom (as well as a pretty cool pep talk!). Melissa: Well, the tech tools I’ve pulled out right now are a mixture of tech tools that teachers can use for data collection and also for students. So I like that for the data.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2017

Educators argue that too many products don’t actually meet the needs of teachers or students. Lack of useful data, problem definition, weak teacher buy-in, first impressions, and usability challenges all have the potential to torpedo smart technology products. The Right Data to Track Progress. End users are.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

The company prohibits most third parties from selling new devices to school districts, so Miller couldn’t place a bulk order with Best Buy as a district official. A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. Apple backed down.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 27, 2017

I’ve found a tool that can help with inquiry-based learning, nonfiction reading, and meeting standards: Kids Discover Online. Those of you wanting to quickly meet a standard will be thankful for this approach. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I support.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2015

Questions remain on whether LAUSD’s bond use for iPads was legal. billion iPads-for-all project. students would benefit if the district stayed the course with the company’s product. Unified acknowledged meeting with an agency attorney. Unified bought 43,261 iPads with the Pearson curriculum.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2017

I have to admit some disappointment that as this year comes to a close, most edtech companies have not produced independent efficacy studies, thus further perpetuating the lack of research on learning technologies. Looking to 2018 We have long known that we need to improve student achievement in math.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Doceri For iPad. ShowMe iPad App. ShowMe is an Edtech tool that turns a teacher’s iPad into an interactive whiteboard. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) has a web service interface to store and retrieve videos and data. Google Meet. Multiple layers of protection keep content private. SurveyMonkey.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Digital Promise and other nonprofit organizations including EveryoneOn and The Learning Accelerator have been working with companies and schools to ensure these programs and offers are making their way into the hands of teachers, students, and families across the country. Read more about Safari Books’ work.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2017

Personalized learning is a way to engage learners in a customized set of resources, tasks, and environments in order to meet their learning needs and goals. First, there must be communication between educators and edtech entrepreneurs to ensure the product is meeting everyone’s needs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 7, 2018

I really do build classroom cohort so that we meet outside of the classroom as groups where we can really collaborate together and plan together. Deb transformed her classroom into a blended learning environment using her class website as a launchpad, as well as laptops and iPads with her students daily. How does that work?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Some are returning; high-tech manufacturing companies such as Stark Aerospace have set up shop. What we built in was a kind of project-based learning where kids not only have book knowledge, but also learn about real-life activities relevant to that profession and also meet professionals who do such work.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

He is still meeting with mobility instructors. Rosenblum and her colleagues are wrapping up data collection for their fall survey, which will reveal what about 800-900 professionals and parents of visually impaired children experienced with the addition of hybrid and in-person learning. He still takes piano lessons.

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wwwatanabe

APRIL 28, 2015

Educreations is an interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool for both the iPad and desktop computer. iPad: Seesaw has a lot of potential ( see this post by Richard Byrne ). iPad: ShowMe is another whiteboard recording tool that allows you to add multiple pages. What is Educreations? How could that benefit their learning?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

That fall of 2015, they began rolling out twice-daily meetings where students could talk about their emotions, exercises in which students mapped out their goals and aspirations and lessons to help teachers improve how they communicate with kids. Now every class begins with a “morning meeting.” He knows enough to be cautious.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. While effective, these methods were unsustainable, because teachers had to do much of the data tracking and analysis manually, according to the paper.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

It’s funded by Frontline , a software company for K-12 schools. We formed the Front Line Research and Learning Institute about a year and a half ago, to really mine the data that comes across our servers every day and give the insights back to the education community. Deasy is moving forward. Because of the hardware costs?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

So many kids are missing that piece from last year because they were, you know, virtual or on an iPad for most of the time, and they don’t know how to problem-solve with each other,” Miller said. 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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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 23, 2015

The iPad displays a picture of a word, and students play a guessing game, Wheel of Fortune Style, where they place Scrabble tiles that can be read in front of the iPad. Harry Moore School of NJCU recently received a grant from Sphero, a company that makes ball-size glowing robots that teachers can use to o teach literacy, coding, STEM.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

Throughout the speeches, presentations and product showcases, company employees and Apple touted how their tools can offer “creative” learning experiences that no others can do. Apple CEO Tim Cook It was hardly Apple’s first day at school; the company’s education efforts trace back four decades. With an iPad, you can move everywhere.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 17, 2015

Companies like Shutterfly and Snapfish allow you to create share sites which can be password protected. Whether you use Google Classroom, a spreadsheet, or an online gradebook, think of a way to organize data today so that it is easy to reference and share with students, parents, and colleagues in data meetings later on.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

While the majority of that money was for school maintenance and construction, the district allocated some of those funds for technology, buying more than 21,000 iPads. With bond payments stretching out as far as 40 years, it’s been estimated that some of these $400 iPads may ultimately cost the district more than $4,000 each.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

ADVANCED & MEASURED PROGRESS ( www.advanc-ed.org ) & ( www.measuredprogress.org ) Measured Progress and AdvancED will join forces to form a unique and far-reaching nonprofit educational company focused on data-driven tools for school improvement. has joined the ENA family of companies.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

Sean Nank’s research shows that the single biggest method for improving learning with iPads is to use online formative assessments. You do not need iPads to implement and learn from this research. Meet Next Generation Science Standards. Vicki: So, what kind of formative assessments are you doing on the iPads?

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eSpark

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

For the past six years, district Superintendent Dr. Michael Nagler has championed and thoughtfully questioned our strategy for meeting the needs of every learner. Matt Akin was a visionary early adopter of classroom technology when he deployed iPads throughout his district in 2003, long before edtech was the norm. Piedmont, Alabama.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

EdSurge: Schools today expose students to technology in a variety of ways, be it through Minecraft or an iPad. Allowing cable operators and phone companies to act as gatekeepers means that all the things that we rely on pluralism or competition to promote, are endangered. I always meet students. Present it at the board meeting.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

percent of all school-age children in the fall of 2016, the last year for which such data is available. Two of her students who work for a cleaning company that services a local Home Depot recently sacrificed their lunch break to sit in on a lesson they accessed through their cell phones. million English-language learners (ELLs).

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

APRIL 14, 2015

The book budget crew have carried iPads to recess and lunch as well as picked up iPads before school to survey students. Finally, we all met in the library for an official meeting to look at the data on the survey. Over the course of a few days, they have surveyed almost half of our school.

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