eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2024

With advances in digital tools, many teachers are finding that using edtech tools in PBL enhances projects by providing direct access to greater sources of information and by allowing students to collaborate more easily. Some believe that leveraging the right technology is one of the best ways to support students during PBL activities.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 27, 2019

This blog post is the first of a two-part series discussing relationship building in edtech selection and purchasing. In this first blog post, we’ll address how educators can build and maintain good working relationships with edtech developers. The request for new edtech] doesn’t just come from a want or a wish.”

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2020

How can educators feel confident that an edtech tool supports learning? As an educator, I struggled to find reliable information about edtech tools as nearly every product I looked at claimed that it was based on research. How does the Research-Based Design product certification support educators?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2024

From idea to scale, Catapult helps companies shape, develop and deploy innovative, proven solutions to meet critical educational challenges. After the pandemic, the edtech market exploded with new products and services, and investment flowed freely. Global edtech funding plummeted 49 percent from 2021 to 2022, falling to $10.6

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Singapore-based company Genius Group has turned some of its attention to the U.S. edtech market recently. In July, the company bought the for-profit University of Antelope Valley in California, saying it would incorporate it as a portal in the metaverse, part of the voguish effort to link the globe into “one big classroom.”

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Neo LMS

MAY 21, 2019

Keeping it simple and to the point makes it easier for parents to cut through the noise of information overload. For example, if you need to communicate factual information , do it via email. 4 Great ideas for boosting parent engagement through edtech. 4 Great ideas for boosting parent engagement through edtech.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This blog post is the second of a two-part series discussing relationship building in the edtech purchasing process. In our first blog post , we addressed how educators can build and maintain good working relationships with edtech developers. As an edtech vendor, you should do the same.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

By mid-March, schools closed, sending students home to figure out how to keep learning from their kitchen tables. But how to make the most of the moment? Soon, schools would be inundated with sales pitches from edtech companies, and it didn’t take long before they started pushing back against those that seemed predatory.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Endless Network , a global organization dedicated to promoting equity and accessibility, invests strategically in companies worldwide to address challenges such as limited access to quality education. This article focuses on one of those organizations, Learning Equality. billion people worldwide without internet access.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

Its goal is to not only provide schools the resources they need to pick equitable ed tech products, but also to hold ed tech companies accountable for tools that could negatively affect historically underrepresented students. Hebbar said tech companies’ claim that they don’t track race because of data privacy issues is a cop-out. “If

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2022

Episode 776 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast How to Open Class with Opening Questions Dr. Leigh Zeitz. How to Start Class with Opening Questions - 776 Transcript. It was a class called “EdTech and Design.” So it's good that they know how to do that. Click Here to Look at Courses. Professor - University of Northern Iowa.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 24, 2023

Last month, a lawsuit was filed by California parents alleging another online monitoring software company illegally collected students’ personal data, including location data, without their consent and sold it to third-party vendors. COPPA applies to the online collection of personal information by persons or entities under U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

Across the massive, brightly colored expo hall at ISTE 2019 , the annual education technology conference where companies display and demo their latest gadgets, upgrades and software, several vendors showcased the new skills they have developed for Alexa-enabled devices. I thought, ‘There’s got to be more,’” she tells EdSurge.

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ViewSonic Education

APRIL 21, 2019

Quick Take: Getting an accurate view of where your school is in terms of readiness for EdTech innovation is important. Is your school ready for the EdTech revolution? Edtech promises to bring learning from chalkboards to slick computer screens and more. How will your school adapt? How ready is your school?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

But as someone who has long helped entrepreneurs enter and grow within the edtech space, I can say that turning a good idea into a working innovation that helps educators and students remains a challenge. How do I apply this learning to reframe the problem I am solving, or the solution I am building?’

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

And even now, some of the company's other services appear to still be down, according to updates from the company. Cyberattacks on schools are on the rise, according to the latest available report from the K-12 Security Information Exchange, a national nonprofit focused on cybersecurity and K-12 schools.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

But how do we protect learners while they are working online? It’s essential for schools to keep private information secure and block content that gets in the way of learning. Let’s take a look at how to safeguard students and block websites in K-12 schools. protect their personal information. How to manually block URLs

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edWeb.net

JUNE 6, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Post-pandemic, districts are looking to eliminate the edtech bloat and determine which products they should keep and which ones to scale back. But what about how the programs are impacting current students? Every program cannot be evaluated at once.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By most measures, Abre is one of the most successful and fastest growing EdTech companies around. Over the last couple of years, they have practically invented a category, DaaS, or Data-as-a-Service.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

How to power through a difficult parent-teacher meeting comes to mind, but there are many challenges that teachers learn how to handle in time. Online training for teachers is the perfect opportunity to also train them to use edtech and other online tools. Online learning is not about absorbing information in front of a screen.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

“With COVID-19 jeopardizing in-school learning, we expect the widespread adoption of edtech software to continue, and this is not a short-term trend,” says Jeff Lieberman, a managing director at Insight Partners, a private equity firm that has backed nearly two dozen education companies. In the first half of 2020, U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 18, 2019

Information below.) The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend. Michael has three sessions at ISTE 2019.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 12, 2019

The rapid deployment of educational technology, paired with an increase in the number of states passing data privacy laws , leaves many district administrators and technology leaders with a daunting question about protecting student and staff information: Where do we start? How long is data stored, and how is it destroyed?

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 10, 2022

How Can an Educational Technology Company Enter the Classroom? Where traditionally, these are good options and ones that are still being used today, there is one option that many EdTech Brands overlook. The first thing for any company to know about Instructional Coaches is that they are all certified and former teachers.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

It seems schools haven’t taught students how — or why — to keep personal information safe. MORE FROM EDTECH : Check out how schools are training students to be the next batch of cybersecurity professionals. writes Gary Davis, chief consumer security evangelist at McAfee, in a company blog post.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2020

For companies that target teachers, this is a good time to do some contingency planning as well—to be ready to assist educators no matter what scenario they find themselves in come fall. Companies that provide this assistance to teachers directly will be rich in prospects. They’re also seeking information and resources.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Google – which maintains close ties to the think tank – was alleged to pressure New America to push out a scholar and his team after they made a series of sharp statements about the behavior of the company. Heck, you should see what surprises my inbox holds some days: (I did not take the company up on its offer.).

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 19, 2020

Under the law, California residents can ask companies what personal information they have collected and how they are using and sharing that data, according to the Office of the Attorney General. Additionally, residents can ask companies to delete and not sell personal data they have collected.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 15, 2020

Under the law, California residents can ask companies what personal information they have collected and how they are using and sharing that data, according to the Office of the Attorney General. Additionally, residents can ask companies to delete and not sell personal data they have collected.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

What It Takes to Get Hired in Cyber Burning Glass (one of our portfolio companies at Rethink Education) has compiled detailed data on hiring trends in the cybersecurity industry. Where Edtech Can Help Re-imagining Cyber Bootcamps Into Cyber Apprenticeships There are a number of cyber bootcamps today.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 5, 2024

So, on today's show, I talk about how I introduce this tool (as an “app” in a way that doesn't anthropomorphize the tool in any way). I also share a screencast that shows you how I developed a custom GPT and the thought process behind it. 00:04:54:23 – 00:05:27:02 Vicki Davis So I am giving them this information.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

For the past decade, the most esteemed business plan competition for edtech entrepreneurs has been held by the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and sponsored by Milken Family Foundation. Here’s why he believes edtech entrepreneurs will win from taking part in the EBPC competition. We’re raising the bar higher.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Edtech is booming, with 40 times more venture capital invested in the sector in 2021 than in 2010. There is no question that edtech has brought new ways to support the learning process and was used extensively by schools to connect remotely to students who could not attend classes in-person during the worst parts of the pandemic.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Ling Lam, an edtech and innovation teacher at a K-8 independent school in northern California sets specific social-emotional goals for every edtech tool she uses. Once she selects a tool and aligns a social-emotional goal, her strategy for examining students’ ability to use the tool effectively is informal.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 1, 2018

Using Edtech to Enhance Learning. What kind of tools can we use to encourage our students to collaborate, and to communicate, and basically just how we can use all of this great information that we have available to us as teachers — how we can use that to really benefit and enhance the learning experience for our students.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

A study by Macquarie University in Australia and educational technology company Makers Empire confirms what’s easy for educators to observe — 3D lessons engage students , enabling them to learn advanced concepts and skills. How Teachers and Students Use 3D Printing in Today’s Classrooms. by Erika Gimbel.

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