Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In this still from a Byju's provided video, about 20,000 students pack the country's largest indoor arena for a math lesson from the company's CEO in 2013. The stunt came years before the CEO’s company, Byju’s, launched a learning app that would take the company to 35 million downloads, with 2.7 million) this fiscal year.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

After listening to educators, parents and caregivers from across the country, Savvas Learning Company today introduced a range of platform enhancements and new K-12 educational products aimed at making distance learning more impactful. Teaching Resources and Professional Learning Support.

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Gaggle Speaks

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

For an education-focused 3D printing company, check out Printrbot, which wants to bring an affordable 3D printer to every school. It offers discounted pricing for educators to meet this goal. There are a lot of companies working on bringing virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) to K12 schools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The ideas that came out of that meeting, and a similar one that took place two years ago, form the basis of a new Stanford-hosted website, “ Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Education. ” McKay attended the summer meeting at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in California. The site launched Sept.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Flipped classroom models empower students to do classroom work at home using multimedia presentations and online learning platform resources. Snagit will enable teachers to grab text from a screen capture and paste it into another document without retyping the text. Google Meet. Interactive Whiteboard Edtech Tools.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

As we think about our work in the past 2019-20 school year, we should reflect on the online learning that had occurred for those of us fortunate enough to have the necessary technology—both at our schools and in our students’ homes. How might we bring these important elements to the online learning experience in the next school year?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

“The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.” But neither of these great thinkers could anticipate how the debate would play out in the Age of Google.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

- Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. He founded Education Elements to meet that need.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

Although the district is one of the most racially diverse in the state, school officials are expecting a fragmented return along demographic lines as more families of color than white families opt to enroll their children in online learning. Parents who don’t meet that threshold won’t have the same flexibility, at least for now.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

Lafayette College showed faculty how to make document cameras at home using cardboard and rubber bands. Related: How do you manage college online — quarantined with eight people? Coursera is providing 550 colleges and universities with free access to its online courses. This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based learning. Students protesting. Getty Images.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

We continue to believe—and we think we’ve documented it pretty well—that most small colleges have the capability to be resilient in the face of these challenges,” said Richard Ekman, president of the Council of Independent Colleges, in Inside Higher Ed. For many, online fails to meet these crucial education ambitions.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. Often the tools available either meet some of the teachers’ needs or are prohibitively expensive.

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MindShift

MAY 4, 2020

She speaks regularly at SLA’s EduCon conference about how to change schools to meet students’ needs. Some school districts have suggested sending students to parking lots with their devices so they can access the Internet in order to do distance learning. Understand that emergency remote distance learning has a shelf life.

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Learning With Lucie

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

I look forward every morning to seeing if there are any new post in our online class community. I've tried a few strategies for online learning -that I was not sure would work (i.e. It takes time to stop and document. It has been so enjoyable to watch the grad students in that class grow as a community!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. It also invested in software like ST Math and the reading program Lexia, created by the Rosetta Stone company. DeVonté Trask, 11. Lexia costs around $5,000 per year.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Like much of rural America, Garfield County is on the wrong side of the “homework gap” — a stubborn disparity in at-home broadband that hinders millions of students’ access to the array of online learning, collaboration and research tools that are enjoyed by their better-connected peers. We have this perfect alignment of stars.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Pop-up social media spaces and hashtags, such as #remoteteaching , #CovidCampus , and the Educator Temporary School Closure for Online Learning Facebook group, feature numerous posts and discussions about digital tools, resources, and apps for remote teaching. While there are many additional features to explore for accessibility (e.g.,

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The A30 is a multi-functional classroom tool that enhances the teaching experience by combining a document camera, web camera, microphone, and speaker. The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations.

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Nik Peachey

JUNE 11, 2008

How to use this with ELT / EFL students Well I think this is definitely a distance learning support tool rather than some thing to use in the classroom / multi media lab with students. I really like that you can record your meetings to watch later etc. It's free (at least some parts are) and quite easy and quick to install and use.

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2020

The web offers countless best practice guides and curated tool inventories, but educators currently in triage mode are not in a position to craft ideal online learning programs. This brief guide aims to help educators, administrators, and parents better navigate the pitfalls of making the quick jump to online learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

In other words, they can’t just passively receive learning. 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. LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other member of the community in regular "live" web meetings.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The footage acquired was edited into a series videos demonstrating the power and benefits of HMH’s digital-first, connected solutions in a hybrid learning environment. Epic Charter Schools offers online learning to more than 30,000 students in the state of Oklahoma.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Kate McAnelly, chief academic officer, and Natalee Feese, math instructional specialist, for Fayette County Public Schools in Kentucky, a partner district of Savvas Learning Company, faced those questions when putting their LMS to the test. With the enVision program,” explains Feese, “it's built for at-home learning.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 13, 2021

Google is, no doubt, one of the most popular tech companies. Google Forms is one of the simplest educational tools students and teachers can use to simplify learning online. Google Forms give students a platform to remain anonymous when asking for feedback from online instructors. Google Forms.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Childcare, work, documentation status, and the many “hoops” students have to jump through to get a college degree are often some of the biggest barriers. The cohort of 16 students meet once a week for three hours to discuss readings and how their individual projects connect to the theories they’re learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

ATLANTA — Brent Agnew remembers feeling a sense of relief when he left the meeting called to discuss his 6-year-old son Caleb’s anxiety attacks. One parent at a public meeting said that a police officer had told her that her son “would get better services in jail” than at her local school. Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 27, 2020

Launched in 2013 to connect remote office workers, Zoom is now one of the go-to platforms for online learning. Zoom's simple setup, ability to accommodate 100 participants at once, and low cost make it a popular option for distance learning programs. What are the safest settings for Zoom meetings? What is Zoom?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Online learning was particularly challenging for Puerto Rican students. Principal Jorge Luis Colón Gonzalez of El Coqui school in Salinas, Puerto Rico, where a new afterschool tutoring program aims to help kids recover from learning setbacks. In 2021, school officials announced that 13,000 students had failed all their classes.

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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 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via The Seattle Times : “A cellphone belonging to the man who claims he shot and wounded another man in self-defense during a demonstration last month at the University of Washington had been wiped clean of data before being seized by police, according to search-warrant documents filed in King County Superior Court.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” “Behind Randi Weingarten ’s secret meeting with Steve Bannon ” by Mike Klonsky. ” Via Education Week : “For Online Schools , Unique Challenges in Serving Transgender Students.” ” “Whatever happened to the promise of online learning ?” The George W.

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