Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Sal Khan has been as busy as ever. 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.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

Ten years ago, Sal Khan set out to change that with his Khan Academy videos, which let kids replay lessons as many times as they want. Here in education, Khan doesn’t need much introduction. So I’ve been preaching that wholesale mastery learning isn’t realistic because you have to really think about your grade system.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2017

As more school systems attempt to customize learning environments and more education advocates and funders champion personalized models, people are increasingly anxious to know: At what rate might we expect new ideas and tools to permeate the traditional school system? But not all adoption curves are created equal.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. An increasing amount of data around personalized educational models like "blended learning" and content-specific software suggests that edtech makes instruction in diverse classrooms more efficient.

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Gaggle Speaks

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

While we can’t predict what the future holds for EdTech tools, we can make educated guesses as to which resources will see success in years to come. Here are some EdTech tools already making an impact and others that show a lot of promise for what lies ahead. Cloud-Based Learning Systems. 3D Printing. Open Educational Resources.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

The interview got quite a number of listens, likely because November said that the edtech industry had created a “mess” at one point in the interview. How has the edtech industry created a “mess”—and more importantly, whose responsibility is it to clean up that message, according to November? Can you elaborate on that, a bit? "If

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

They include Andela, Khan Academy and Code.org. In the future, Klement says she’d like to invest in more companies and organizations bringing social emotional learning to emerging markets. Since 2009, Omidyar Network has invested $200 million in 100 educational for-profit and nonprofit organizations, according to Klement.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

But the latest cohort at Michelson Runway, an startup accelerator geared towards higher-ed companies, highlights a broader approach to innovation in education. The four-month program is capped with a pitch night in front of edtech investors. The company is asking for $10 million by October 2018. The Palo Alto, Calif.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

million investment in Smart Sparrow , a company that offers a platform used by many higher-ed faculty members and instructors to develop online, adaptive courses and simulations. The company has raised more than $23.5 million in New Markets Venture Partners, an investment firm that focuses on education companies.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

From Google and Microsoft’s LMS-like collaboration system to Apple’s device manager, here’s a handy guide to all things Classroom. This April, the company released its first tool built for school: a teacher’s aid that allows users to create lesson plans corresponding to Khan videos and track student progress via a data dashboard.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Early this decade there was perhaps no one person—not even Bergmann or Sams—more associated with flipping the classroom than Sal Khan, due in no small part to the more than 140 million views his Khan Academy videos had racked up by 2012. But to hear Khan tell it, that association was little more than a coincidence of timing.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Khan Academy. Khan Academy provides personalized learning for students at their pace and is an excellent flipped classroom tool for teachers to identify their students’ strengths and needs. Interactive Whiteboard Edtech Tools. Classroom Learning Management Systems (LMS). Doceri For iPad.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Some are keeping to their regular bell schedule with teachers responsible for hosting online discussions via their learning management system and assigning peer collaboration work that must be completed in real time before the class period ends. and Khan Academy, which allows for timed tests.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

After a career working at tech-centric companies including Google and Quora in product roles, Liu Huang joined CZI in 2017 to oversee the product development, notably the Summit Learning platform. Department of Education, left the organization this summer. Note: EdSurge has also received grant support from CZI).

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Little did I know this experience would eventually propel me to help develop a school operating system that tackles technology issues plaguing educators and supports them with more opportunities to offer individualized instruction. At the time, I had no idea this system was called “standards-based grading.” Full size image here.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

says it has developed a system to bring “blockchain” technology–meant to serve as a decentralized-yet-secure system for transmitting data–to education, as the concept slowly begins to attract attention in the K-12 space. company, then graduated from a Japanese university, he said.

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MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

20 years ago we never would have imagined that the position as a Social Media Manager would be an actual job, and just about every company or organization would need to have someone manage their social media accounts. As an educator in this digital age, that’s one of my biggest challenges. Adults love it more than kids.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Some of these courses are offered through the university system, but many others are made available outside of traditional academia. Khan Academy – Khan academy is a free resource for learning a variety of subject material online including math, grammar, computing and many other subjects. More on education reform.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2021

The publicly traded, game-based learning company announced Thursday that it was acquiring Clever, a digital learning platform used widely among K-12 schools in the U.S. The Oslo-based company has a large global presence already, with 1.6 Clever, a private, California-based company founded in 2012, claims to have served half of all U.S.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

But that technology won’t be entirely homegrown: Chinese companies, particularly those building products or services laced with the machine learning algorithms, are increasingly playing a role in the tools that we call “AI.” If you think about Khan Academy, you know what an amazing teacher can do, compared to regular teachers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2016

On the first day of school, students have laptops assigned to them, and through the district portal, they have instant access to dozens of resources and apps—from Khan Academy to Google Drive to McGraw-Hill Education. Then she would have to figure out a system to help students remember those login credentials.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 22, 2019

Tens of millions of teachers and students use Google Classroom in thousands of schools around the world, making it one of the most popular edtech tools around. This flexibility, and its seamless integration with Google's popular tools, is likely what's made Google Classroom one of the most widely-used edtech tools today.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

These conveniences, which we often take for granted, require data to pass through different systems and servers. Data about a student’s background, their benchmark test results, or their school schedule sometimes remain fragmented across different systems. Others will build their own APIs to communicate with school systems.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

The answer to these questions is yes, so said educational leaders and edtech specialists in an edLeader Panel, sponsored by Gaggle and CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate. Educational leaders and teachers have improved processes to improve instruction, learning and institutional systems. Could schools support student well-being at a distance?

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Saving Socrates

JUNE 4, 2013

It was coordinated by Aryeh Eisenberg, the Director of Special Projects at Bonim B''Yachad, an up and coming Israeli company that focuses on online international education. While his company is a for profit endeavor, he was kind enough to do this for me pro bono. I am excited to hear about their use of the system.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Here’s a chronological roundup of stories that made the biggest bang on the edtech industry (and to a similar extent, our web traffic) in 2016. In the case of Teachscape, one of the rare edtech startups that’s stuck around for over a decade, its acquisition by Frontline Technologies marked the end of the road. A big difference?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I feel so strongly about this topic because I’ve seen first-hand how vital it is for all citizens to understand our Constitution and our unique system of government, and participate actively in their communities.” The American democratic system is very unique, but it’s very, very fragile,” she says. “We It’s very easy now to get duped.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It’s always fascinating to look at ed-tech companies’ job postings – this one is from Khan Academy. A Wi-Fi system. The new company will be called Touch Press (which was the name of another company that StoryToys acquired last year). ” asks “Dean Dad” Matt Reed.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Pennsylvania judge has banned fraternity Pi Delta Psi from the state for a decade, a punishment for a hazing death in 2013, and an unprecedented step likely to rock the national Greek system.” awards debt collection contract to company with ties to DeVos.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The British government releases the results … of its new three-tiered rating system of teaching quality at universities.” Via Buzzfeed : “ Betsy DeVos Picked A Student Loan CEO To Run The Student Loan System.” Tutoring company Ruangguru has raised $7 million in Series B funding.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

” The answer, in part, is in this Buzzfeed article by Molly Hensley-Clancy : “ Native American Colleges Have Abandoned The Student Loan System.” Khan Academy wants to start offering diplomas. Via The New York Times : “Tech Companies Expect Free High-Speed Internet for Poorer Americans to Pay Off Later.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Edsurge writes about e-scooters , one of the “hot new trends” out of Silicon Valley, and how these companies are defying the rules of college campuses in order to build up a new customer base there. ” From the Khan Academy blog : “School district reports test scores rise with mastery learning on Khan Academy.”

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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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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. ” Edsurge profiles MEDSKL , which is like Khan Academy but for medical school.

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” Reminder: here are the education companies Palantir founder Peter Thiel has invested in. ” Testing, Testing… Khan Academy announces “Free LSAT Prep for All.” Via Edsurge : “What Colleges Should Know About A Growing ‘ Talent Strategy ’ Push By Companies.” ”).

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Meanwhile on Campus… Via ProPublica : “‘Alternative’ Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System.” More on professional development company Bloomboard’s pivot to micro-credentialing in the HR section below. ” “Have We Lost Sight of the Promise of Public Schools

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