Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Last March, Zoom, the ubiquitous online conferencing platform, became a staple of daily life for many students and educators as learning shifted online. Millions downloaded it—and first learned of it—back in early 2020, when lockdowns forced billions of students online, and at least 100,000 schools onto Zoom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Alarmed, she contacted the company directly through Twitter. Founded in 2006, the company estimates more than two-thirds of U.S. educators have used the site, and downloads have surpassed one billion worldwide. Yet Teachers Pay Teachers has remained enduringly popular with educators. A lucky few have made millions.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2018

TCEA 2018: Educators Meet in Austin to Discuss the Future of the Classroom. 5-9, TCEA 2018 is expected to boast more than 8,000 attendees, 1,000 sessions and 450 exhibitors from a variety of tech companies. meghan.bogardu…. Mon, 01/15/2018 - 10:32. Thousands of educators will hit the ground in Austin, Texas, on Feb.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 11, 2024

edWeb.net is a free professional learning network that provides educators with online learning communities and edWebinars. edWeb provides personalized, collaborative learning—anytime, anywhere. Our 2023 Professional Learning Survey reports on 5 years of data.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Providing added safety measures and control of K12 distance and hybrid learning instructional models, Silicon Valley based-Deledao ( www.deledao.com ), has announced a powerful new feature to its industry-recognized AI filtering capabilities. I have a young daughter that’s in distance learning right now. About Deledao .

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 16, 2023

Click for a free teacher account Each lesson plan includes standards, a downloadable 'research assistant' guide for students, assessments, and more. Notice how students will “meet” a real paleontologist named Carrie, who studies dinosaur bones and leads them through the investigation. How we can learn from the fossil record.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2021

Gale, a Cengage company, is helping educators enhance skills for virtual lesson planning and online teaching. Now teachers can take control of their own professional learning and find support as they work to use For Educators to drive student learning outcomes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Digital Learning Collection has over 150 apps for kindergarten to second-grade classrooms. In this blog post, I’ll include the video unboxing tour that I recently had with the team at the Really Good Stuff Digital Learning Collection, and I’ll share some thoughts on how you can effectively use this collection in your classroom.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

She’s attended meetings, gravitated toward Spanish-speaking staff, and relied on translators, including her kids, over the years. It also translates texts between parents and educators but does not require families to download an app. Olson said she did not have trouble having all families at her school download the app.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 31, 2020

I am so proud of how the education community has stepped up to the challenge teachers face to continue the learning despite apocalyptic changes in the delivery system. Definitely this means teachers, administrators, parents and students, but I also include the companies and resource providers in the education ecosystem.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It may not seem too surprising that one of the best-funded edtech startups in the past year of pandemic has been a company that piggybacks on the success of Zoom to add tools for running online classes. The plan when the company started was to start with higher education and K-12 and later expand into the corporate learning market.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Their research is intended to help us understand how to better use digital learning and teaching tools to maximize students’ success, which I’m sure many of you can agree has had its challenges this year. Learning engagement produces an emotional response, as well as cognitive and behavioral ones. School Level. Classroom Level.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 17, 2023

edWeb.net is a free professional learning network that provides educators with online learning communities and edWebinars. edWeb provides personalized, collaborative learning—anytime, anywhere. Our 2023 Professional Learning Survey reports on 5 years of data.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 22, 2020

Summer is a great time to learn how to do that as you prepare for fall and back to school. The new ( Re)Defining STEM learning module from TGR Foundation and Discovery Education is the first of several courses to support educators to integrate STEM in new and powerful ways. All opinions are my own.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

I hope you'll experiment and learn about Notion. Go to coolcatteacher.com/wellness and download your free educator wellness toolkit from Advancement Courses. With over 280 courses to choose from, Advancement Course offers subjects in everything from educator wellness to social-emotional learning and more.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2023

SAN MATEO, California and NEW YORK, New York — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people globally, announced that it has acquired TPT (otherwise known as Teachers Pay Teachers), which offers the world’s largest catalog of educator-created content and tools for digital instruction.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Over the last year, he’s helped Khan Academy manage a three-fold user increase, has grown and developed an online program geared toward early learners, and launched a new peer-to-peer tutoring platform to keep students connected and learning during the pandemic. EdSurge: How did you adapt to meet the needs of students during the pandemic?

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It also includes professional learning and ongoing coaching at the district and building level to support teachers in mastering phonics-based instruction. With the original 95 Phonics Core Program for Grades K-3, students practice reading with decodable text that encompasses recently learned phonics skills.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Companies that are committed to diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) provide products and services that authentically and accurately reflect the learners they serve—whoever they are and wherever they live. Such institutions recognize the importance of meeting learners where they are—and the positive impact this has on outcomes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 10, 2022

Did you know you can use a live translator app in PTA meetings, parent teacher conferences, and presentations — that actually works? You'll learn about these and more on a special extended episode of the podcast with Teresa Magpayo Castro and Ricardo Recinos. Help every student become included in learning and become empowered.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Wayland Baptist University professor Don Ashley received a call this week from a student saying she couldn't log in to her learning management system (LMS), preventing her from attending a live online lesson. would tell a user to either upgrade (if the version is out of date) or download a browser that’s supported. offers a solution.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2023

DALLAS (PRWEB) — Frog Street , an early childhood education company designed around the latest science in early brain development, has announced the results of a study conducted by the Johns Hopkins School of Education evaluating the efficacy of the Frog Street Pre-K curriculum with students in Texas.

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eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2020

Ringbeller , an education media company dedicated to helping kids develop 21st-century skills like creativity, collaboration, and kindness, has released five episodes of its “edutainment” video content, designed for students in kindergarten through fifth grade, on the Ringbeller Youtube Channel.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

EdSurge spoke with Kieschnick to learn about the issues he sees in schools today and hear how he aims to get to the heart of what really works in education. It’s about the return to teaching and learning. Our whys have to be about teaching and learning, and they have to be about skills. It's all about teaching the right skills.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 31, 2022

Go to coolcatteacher.com/wellness and download your free educator wellness toolkit from Advancement Courses. With over 280 courses to choose from, Advancement Course offers subjects in everything from educator wellness to social-emotional learning and more. He works with a tech company called Net Support.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. featured 124 companies from 18 countries—marking the largest class in the accelerator’s history. The company will not take more than $30,000 over the two years.) The company says it has 50 hiring partners and plans to grow the list.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Companies are so quick to get a product out to meet what’s current in education that they fail to develop the quality and depth they need. Today, learning sciences research has discovered more about how people learn than we have ever known—and much of this research demonstrates that people learn differently.

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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. Each learning module is designed to connect classrooms to real-world science and engineering. 3 – Learning From an Expert.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Social Emotional Learning and Well Being is very important to students and schools. Aperture Education has created a free guide to help schools support Social Emotional learning and well being. The guide can be downloaded at: [link]. 29, 2018) — It takes a village to educate students.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2021

BEAVERTON, Oregon, May 13, 2021 — Vernier Software & Technology is offering new, robust investigations to help middle school teachers engage students in science as they learn in the classroom or they continue to learn from home. To learn more about these resources, visit www.vernier.com/middle-school.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Download Chuck’s notecards here: [link]. We’re going to add it to the show notes, so that the listeners can download, too, right? Chuck: Yeah so I have them on Teachonomy, but I’ll give you the links for both sets of those, so that way people can download them and share them with their colleagues and their students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Powerschool Learning is today’s sponsor. They are the Learning Management System (LMS) I use. Download this episode as an MP3 by right-clicking here and choosing “Save As.” ” Want to learn more about cool tools? DOWNLOAD TRANSCRIPT 10MT #12 31 Favorite Tools I’m Using Right Now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 11, 2018

Kathleen McClaskey talks about the research on learning styles and the alternatives for teaching and reaching every child. Meet Next Generation Science Standards. Throw out Learning Styles and Replace it with UDL. Defining Personal Learning. Kathleen, how would you define personal learning? Opening Graphic.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

In the classroom, AR technology can enhance learning by providing students with interactive and immersive experiences, improving their understanding of complex concepts and enabling them to apply their knowledge in real-world scenarios. The use of AR can make learning more accessible while increasing the engagement of all students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2017

Des Moines Area Community College in Iowa echoes Teti’s wish, but says edtech companies need to look beyond traditional higher-ed models and think about what kinds of problems two-year institutions and trade schools face. So many edtech products are designed for the K-12 market, but we are a college; the needs aren't necessarily portable.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

After all, if it’s good enough for a Fortune 500 company, it’s good enough for a school district, right? So instead of a counselor submitting an IT help ticket to download data that is already months behind, the DaaS system will provide real-time data that can enable the counselor to provide better student guidance.

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