Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 18, 2021

I’m the CTO of a tech company and for more than five years I have been busy with teaching programming courses and sharing my expertise with novice specialists. 6 Edtech Trends to Keep an Eye On. Video-Based Learning. Videos are extremely beneficial to make content comprehensible and enrich lessons. Gamification.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2023

And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. Public and private edtech companies felt the pain of these poor results, announcing more than 8,000 layoffs in an industry that only employs about 100,000 people. Dozens more companies sold, or are currently for sale, at bargain-basement prices.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2022

There are always new products coming out in the edtech landscape, but somehow a couple software platforms monopolize the industry and are used by teachers everywhere, leaving smaller companies and edtech startups facing an uphill battle. We go through significant decision fatigue and “which edtech program should I use?”

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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. an easily accessible public facing artifact shares the product’s research basis, such as a blog or video. “We

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2024

PRNewswire/ — Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation K-12 learning solutions leader, is excited to announce that it has been named to the 2024 edition of the GSV 150, an annual list of the top 150 private companies transforming digital learning and workforce skills. PARAMUS, N.J./PRNewswire/

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2022

This will take many forms, from institutions evolving their operations to students optimizing their learning with technology to caregivers connecting directly with their children’s education through edtech services. Data is abundant and the key to today’s edtech solutions Data is critical to unlock the potential of edtech solutions.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Outlier.org combines cinematic video and charismatic professors with the best in modern, evidence-based teaching techniques to virtually transport the student to a college lecture hall. ABOUT SAVVAS LEARNING COMPANY At Savvas, we believe learning should inspire. To learn more, visit Savvas Learning Company.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In today’s Freemium pay model used by EdTech companies, free only goes so far. The post New Video Series Given to Teachers to Help with Online Learning first appeared on EdNews Daily. That’s why Bob Riefstahl’s offer of free to all educators has meaning. We first heard about the classroom training program Classroom 2.0

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. Today’s K12 educators are more digitally native than ever before.

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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

The sudden shift gave leaders at DreamBox Learning, a math education company headquartered nearby, an early glimpse at the upheaval to come and an inkling that digital teaching tools would soon be in high demand around the country. That strained the company, but it also notched DreamBox record levels of renewals.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Many teachers also started recording their online video lessons for asynchronous learning. They’ve been forced into video instruction by the pandemic, but many are finding the medium to their liking,” writes Advait Shinde, CEO and co-founder of GoGuardian, for EdTech.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. My former company, Big Universe ( now acquired ) was a fully-virtual operation. We were small, but often credited for operating like a nimble, large company.

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Neo LMS

MAY 21, 2019

That is why schools should be prepared for these situations and act accordingly, whether it is by translating some school materials or by adopting edtech tools that enable multiple language use. 4 Great ideas for boosting parent engagement through edtech. Edtech tools need to be intuitive and easy to use.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2021

Unlike fully self-paced competitors that give students practice videos and content snippets for individual consumption, ChalkTalk generates personalized lesson plans and actionable teaching materials for teacher-led instruction—whether that teaching takes place in-person or remotely over a web-conferencing platform such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 3, 2023

Other tech companies are now getting into the mix. Platforms like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2 allow users to input a text prompt to create an AI-generated image that may or may not accurately reflect what the user intended. Microsoft recently announced that it will be adding AI image generation to the Office 365 suite, allowing…

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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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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2023

Here’s a look at some of the top edtech the eSchool News editors saw at ISTELive 23: Acer America and the Network of Academic and Scholastic Esports Federations (NASEF) announced their alliance to help schools launch or expand their student esports program.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

If my former student’s response is any indication, the rote process of watching videos and completing worksheets created an aversion to the very content we thought our students needed. The Impossibility of EdTech To my school’s credit, they knew there was a problem. Edtech has a product that takes care of it for you.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2020

For instance, education companies that rely on corporate customers may take a hit, as those clients look to cut costs. While COVID-19 hit at the tail end of the first quarter, some publicly traded education companies already reported an impact on their Q1 2020 earnings. The company reported cash and cash equivalent of $151.5

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

The clear content and vivid imagery of digital signage offers a powerful tool that can be targeted to reach a variety of audiences, particularly for safety,” said James Johnson, managing director, EdTech Breakthrough. To learn more about how schools are using Rise Vision to improve school safety visit the company’s website.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Newswire.com) – Swivl , a future-ready edtech company with a suite of reflective tools, announced today the addition of its newest tool, Mirror, an AI-enabled hardware and software platform that automates reflection and brings valuable metacognitive insights for educators. MENLO PARK, Calif.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

Niesner claims the company is on track to hit $40 million in revenue in 2020. There are so many players out there—and a few emerging winners” in edtech, says Niesner, 40. “We The company is still shy of the $100 million revenue threshold commonly associated with IPO-ready companies. The company has raised $4.4

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

According to the report, the EdTech industry will reach a global value of $252 billion by 2020. The EdTech sphere is obviously developing quickly, so some things that seemed impossible only a few years ago have become a standard in the meantime. 5 New EdTech tools to watch. 5 New EdTech tools to watch. Digital libraries.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, / EINPresswire.com / — Edalex , the EdTech company that unleashes the power of skills data, digital assets, and personal credentials, are thrilled to be included in HolonIQ’s 2022 Australia & New Zealand EdTech 50 – for the third year in a row! Learn more at [link].

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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.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

My first foray into using video in my teaching involved a TV cart wheeled into my classroom, replete with a connected VHS player—and no remote. Whether a feature film or an instructional video, the ‘80s and ‘90s were a ‘press-play’ culture that expected students to sit still, absorb and retain, while the educator sat in the back grading.

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

This money will support edtech deals at the seed, Series A and later fundraising stages. and has recently invested in companies in India, Indonesia, Jordan and South Africa. Despite having invested in dozens of edtech startups over the past decade, Quazzo says there are no shortage of intractable problems remaining in education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

28, children’s media company Moonbug Entertainment partnered with Outright Games to launch CoComelon: Play with JJ on Nintendo Switch. Since the Switch is a handheld device with a touch screen, it offers a combination of console-based and mobile game functions, which may make video gameplay easier for young children.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 9, 2019

As cofounder of Teachley , a small company developing research-based math software for K-6, this question demonstrates a problematic market preference for products that “ cover ” a lot of content, but do not support deeper thinking. The problem with broad coverage in edtech. A different approach to discovering and vetting edtech.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Arkansas’ LISA Academy public charter school district today announced the renewal of its partnership with worldwide edtech leader Discovery Education. Discovery Education is the global edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports instruction wherever it takes place. Discovery, Inc.

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EdTech4Beginners

JULY 17, 2019

As education institutions fully embrace integrating technology in their pedagogy, here are 5 EdTech trends educators need to watch this year: Integrated Learning Solutions. Platforms like Clutch Prep provide video textbooks for students as an in-depth auxiliary to textbooks. Digital Ethics and Privacy.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2023

The PreK-8 school, Paragon Prep, offered a series of optional, self-paced, video lessons that were automatically generated from a textbook. A Booming Sector The edtech industry is eager to build on ideas like that one. Hit render, and it automatically creates a video,” Sekar added. He’s not the only person thinking this way.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 23, 2020

Conversation topics will be split into two main topics — social-emotional learning (SEL) and edtech tools and tips for distance and blended learning: Our biggest concerns and how we plan to approach them. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities.

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