Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2018

Joining them were an additional 6,000 reps from companies big and small. Fractions covers math standards for grades 3-6 and features a storyline and what the company calls “personalized feedback” through an online tutor. The company describes it as a “digital, adaptive personalized learning solution.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Students in attendance and following live streams on YouTube and Edmodo participated in activities to encourage sharing stories about their experiences online and to develop ways to use class time to promote responsible internet use. The company has also enlisted artificial intelligence to track hate speech on the platform.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. Remember Edmodo? The company has raised some $77.5

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Last summer, the San Francisco-based company invited several dozen educational publishers and organizations to create and sell materials to Quizlet users, as part of a closed beta program. Today, the company announced it is inviting any content creator, including individual educators, to apply for its Premium Content program.

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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 15, 2015

The purpose was to take what works in New York City and bring it to other education systems. 1) Online Learning Communities for Education Resources It is no longer okay for companies to provide teachers with just a product. Here are some ideas I shared that global leaders can bring back to their countries. Teachers love it.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

This is the first time that the company, which has raised $59.5 The company has accomplished that first task, having amassed more than 35 million teachers, parents and students, who together send about 250 million messages each month. Edmodo, with 65 million users and $87.5

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2018

She says if she was still using Facebook groups, she doesn’t think the recent news about the company would bother her. Popular among the K-12 community are tools like Edmodo, which modeled its early design and interface very closely to Facebook, and Remind, a communication app that lets users in schools share reminders and assignments.

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Facebook Social Media Moodle Edmodo 76

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 26, 2012

And if I was such a fantastic editor, wouldn''t I be working for a publishing company? The fault here lies in the system-- an archaic, antiquated system where the teacher is the only voice for evaluation. assessment books edmodo flipclass flipped literature PBL project based learning writing' Cue, Ben Harper. Google docs?

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 19, 2016

About 3,700 ed-tech entrepreneurs, educators, and venture capitalists are meeting here to talk about their companies or their classrooms, their employees or their students, and how to maximize the investments being made in them. “People talked about the inequities in the system…inequities around technology.”

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 3, 2011

Some are already using spaces where kids are like Facebook but I believe services like Edmodo (one of my favorites) will continue to grow and gain in popularity. So education related companies are going to have to be innovative in the apps they create for these devices. Tablets- The iPad is wicked cool. And that is key. Cool stuff.

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Tablets Edmodo Wiki Facebook 100

Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Within educational technology, tech companies can acquire data via multiple routes. Data Privacy Plays Out Over Time Unless data collected by an app is deleted or destroyed - and this includes data in backups and in systems that provide redundancy - we need to start thinking of data trails as timeless.

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Data Edmodo Policies Knewton 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

education technology companies raised $1.45 And that dip in dealflow has been happening in recent years: Investors are pouring more money into the edtech industry, but across fewer companies. For edtech companies able to show consistent growth and revenue, that should be welcome news. Last year, U.S. billion raised by U.S.

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EdTech Company Industry Edmodo 145

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

Twelve years ago, Amplify CEO Larry Berger and I wrote about the “ pareto distribution ” of companies in the K-12 sector. Most revenue was generated by a few winner-take-all companies, then there was a long tail of subscale operators. And a new, growing class of companies may soon join us. We broke through in different ways.

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Industry Edmodo Pearson Instructional Materials 80

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. One should be conscientious, as such.

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2018

But the company has kept mum on specifics to everyone else, only sharing that it’s seen “viral growth across hundreds of thousands” of U.S. Available on Chromebooks, web browsers and iOS devices, Kiddom’s platform shares many features typically associated with learning management systems.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For example, a major breach at educational testing company Pearson during the 2019-20 school year affected an unknown number of student records in thousands of schools. Many of the largest student data breaches have occurred not inside schools but inside the computer systems of private companies that sell to schools.

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TeacherCast

AUGUST 27, 2015

Some technically inclined teachers are finding and configuring their own classroom management systems, for instance, or trying to make multiple apps work together that weren’t designed to. Learning management systems (LMSes) are possibly the worst time sinks. Hooray to teachers who have these skills and tenacity.

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Edmodo Moodle LMS Software 68

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

LTI authentication via a Learning Management System (LMS). Learning Management Systems (LMS) – Discovery Education helps school systems maximize the benefits of their edtech investment by making its K-12 platform simple to integrate into an ever-widening variety of LMS. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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Professional Learning Strategy LMS Microsoft 87

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Edsby: “What You Should Know About Our ‘New-School’ Learning Management System” by edsby.com. Modern systems, such as Edsby, are improving user-interfaces with social features that mimic platforms teachers and students are familiar with outside the school environment, such as Facebook. Parents in the LMS.

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System LMS Moodle Edmodo 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

Geo-educators can join the community through a variety of online platforms including Twitter, Facebook, and the secure educator site, Edmodo ( www.geo-educatorcommunity.org ). National Geographic defines a geo-educator as an educator working to improve young people’s understanding of the world. Classroom 2.0 Ning Users: Your Feedback Wanted!

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Libraries Common Core Classroom Digital Citizenship 59

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. This follows the company’s recent integrations with Canvas and Schoology and its OneRoster alignment.

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Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 71

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

diplomat, and Vibhu Mittal, the CEO of Edmodo and a former Google employee. The letter said that you all stand with dreamers, that they're vital to the future of your companies and our economy and that you believe that they're part of why we continue to hold a global competitive advantage. Jeffrey Collins Our company is small.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

“ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? ” Via The Verge : “ Duolingo overhauled its fluency system to make it harder for advanced users.” The company sells a tablet for use in prison. Edmodo had raised some $77.5 ” asks Edsurge.

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Education Facebook Edmodo OER 44

Hack Education

AUGUST 17, 2018

” ( Richard Carranza is the new head of the NYC school system.). Via The New York Times : “This Company Keeps Lies About Sandy Hook on the Web.” ” “This company” is Wordpress.com. Speaking of blogs, Harvard announced it will no longer host blogs.harvard.edu. " But hey. PR gonna PR.

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Education Robotics Moodle Facebook 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 8, 2016

During Global Leadership Week, partner organizations, companies, school districts and individual schools will design and host virtual events to showcase thought leadership. We also know that the present school system is an extremely effective instrument for crushing peak experiences and forbidding their possibility.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

“Technology companies can no longer turn a blind eye to the human rights abuses of one of their largest investors.” And there’s a blog post on Medium , because I guess someone thinks it’s a good idea for the Office of Ed Tech to outsource its website to a for-profit company. Edsurge was there too.

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Education MOOC Company OER 55

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

” Despite thinking of themselves as liberal-learning, today’s tech companies re-inscribe much of this. What sorts of companies and what sorts of products do venture capitalists like, for example? The California that ignores race and labor and water and war. “Disrupt.” ” “Unbundle.”

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Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

senators released a bill Monday that would overturn the ban on a federal student-level data system that would allow for the tracking of employment and graduation rates. Here are the education technology companies that have raised money from ISPs. The online training company has raised $76 million total. That’s UploadVR.

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Hack Education

JUNE 29, 2018

Department of Education officials sent a letter to DeVry University ’s parent company, Adtalem Global Education Inc. ” Via Fast Company : “The case against teaching kids to be polite to Alexa.” ” That’s the foundation of the student loan collection company Educational Credit Management Corporation.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education last week outlined changes to civil rights investigations that advocates fear will mean less consistent findings of systemic discrimination at colleges.” ” The company has raised $16.5 He places former Yale president Richard Levin.

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

In education, there were breaches at colleges and universities, breaches at K–12 schools, breaches at the Department of Education, breaches at education technology companies, and breaches with software schools commonly use. 77 million users accounts stolen from Edmodo. A ransomware attack at a school system in Maine.

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Data Education Software Social Media 78

Hack Education

MARCH 2, 2018

” (I’m including this here because all of these entities – Kushner’s family, the companies he received loans from – have education investments too.). ” (Learndirect is a job training company that has a major contract with the UK government.). ” (State and Local) Education Politics. .

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The phrase “PayPal Mafia” is used to describe the group of PayPal founders and employees who’ve gone on to become some of the most powerful players in Silicon Valley, forming additional technology companies and investment firms and becoming millionaires (and in a couple of cases, billionaires) in the process.

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Knewton Company Kaplan Facebook 65

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Edsurge profiles the latest from Degreed : “This Company Wants to Help You Hire for Skills, Not Credentials.” ” ( No disclosure that Edsurge shares investors with the company.). And there’s more on how schools and companies violate athletes’ privacy in the data and privacy section below.

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Education Company Data Report 47

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

.” Testing, Testing… Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “These days, everyone’s talking about ‘equity,’ and now a testing company has affixed the word to a new effort. higher ed systems scale up higher quality and cost efficient education?” “Is Estonia the new Finland ? .”

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

I really like the part where she compares those who defend the current education system to “flat-earthers.” Keeps Obama Plan to Streamline Loan System.” Worth noting: the website promotes private student loan companies SkillsFund and Climb to students looking for tuition assistance.).

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