Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 2, 2023

I’ve been thinking about AI training data a lot recently, partly because of the fascinating intersections and overlaps between (1) curating and annotating training data for AI models and (2) designing instructional materials for human learners. I hope not, because I don’t do that.)

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

And earlier this month, the nonprofit announced that 13 education companies had become the first to earn the distinction. The certification is the latest example of the industry’s push to ensure that edtech products on the market—and in classrooms—can and do actually work. The premise may sound simple.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation learning solutions leader for K-12 education, is proud to announce that its enVision® Mathematics Common Core Grades 6-8 © 2021 received the highest rating from EdReports.org. Teaching with high-quality instructional materials has a direct impact on student learning outcomes.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Unfortunately, there has been and will continue to be a trend in media and social media attempting to discredit work connected to the science of reading, particularly by companies whose market shares are threatened by shifts in literacy learning and teaching. They did it through a comprehensive overhaul of their approach to literacy learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

“Once we can find the characteristics of the most socially appealing instructor, then we can use that for any lecture or presentation or instructional interaction,” he adds, noting that he is watching the development of ChatGPT and other agents closely as companies try to add voices and images to them for applications like virtual tutors.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Buoyed by examples of new and significant commitments to OER by companies large and small, governments of all levels, and schools, it is easy to see that the future of instructional materials over the next decade will look very different than it has over the last decade. This is good news and cause for celebration.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Four, we must ensure that all instructional materials – no matter their form or medium – remain available for public inspection and review. While this is an imperfect process and often treated as a necessary evil, there are myriad examples where this public review process has helped to identify and remediate errors of fact and bias.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Leo Salvatore is one of 3,000 online tutors for the company Paper, whose business has boomed with the pandemic. Salvatore’s employer is Paper, which is based in Montreal, Canada and says it is the largest online tutoring company in the United States. And from there, I would say, well, let’s look at some examples,” he said.

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Tom Murray

JUNE 3, 2016

With support from ED, state leaders, and new platforms for curation and discovery, there has never been a more exciting time to rethink traditional, static instructional materials. As with any instructional materials, quality is key.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2019

And edtech companies cater to this fragmentation in their product design and marketing. Curriculum and instructional materials live on websites, in the cloud, on paper, in LMS’s, in Google Drive or OneDrive. Let’s look at an example. example shows, schools are not just a system but a complicated system.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Our governments need to be working in partnership with tech companies to put the Netflix of online learning into action,” she added. “I As long as students, parents and teachers are baffled, these tools will continue to fall short of their capacity to improve and personalize instruction. Many experts have the same question.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight. Poorer districts often paid the highest prices.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Refocusing classrooms around up-and-coming digital materials requires more than just adding a new tech-based product or two as many processes for reviewing and purchasing instructional materials are still built around print textbooks. Pinellas County, for example, has a blended model working towards 1-to-1.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2018

In other words, as the business reaches more students, the company generates higher revenue and more value—financially and with social impact. Schools were unhappy with both the cost and the quality of the instructional materials available. Sometimes a CEO has to take a company in a new strategic direction.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

ClassVR, the company’s solution, is a full turnkey VR and AR offering for classrooms, teachers, and education. Kendall Hunt will offer a customized version of OpenSciEd’s high-quality middle school science instructional materials in a dynamic format through Kiddom’s comprehensive digital curriculum platform.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2016

Educators agree that all students deserve access to all instructional materials. View examples shared by CI faculty here.). When institutions identify accessibility as a priority, all members of that institution have a duty to participate in the process of creating accessible tools and materials.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

More than just scores, Lexile and Quantile measures are a tool for educators to help personalize instruction and an easy-to-understand measure that can be discussed with parents and other stakeholders. About MetaMetrics MetaMetrics is focused on improving education for learners of all ages and ability levels.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Schools have relied on those funds for the creation or expansion of summer programs and tutoring services, the purchase of high-quality curriculum and instructional materials, and a plethora of other efforts to address learning gaps students experienced through the COVID-19 pandemic.

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edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

In a recent edWebinar , presenters from Idaho and Pennsylvania discussed how state and district leadership support digital learning opportunities and implement digital materials. According to the Brookings Institution there is strong evidence that the choice of instructional materials has large effects on student learning.

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

“These next generation Summit Math courses were developed as part of a digital-first curriculum for schools that want to engage and personalize learning for each student and empower teachers with powerful instructional materials,” said Sean P. Ryan, General Manager of Fuel Education. The judges also said Stride “is a powerful (and fun!)

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

In Connecticut, for example, public schools as well as other organizations receive broadband services from the CEN. By providing these examples of state leadership to support technology in education, though, states can work towards bridging the digital divide. Christine’s background includes experience in education and consulting.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

No longer relegated to using textbooks as their core instructional materials, teachers look to their institutions for help selecting, aggregating, and then delivering relevant content to their pupils. Powell points to Facebook’s recent move into the K-12 space as an example.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

“It’s essentially a vestige of colonialism,” said Roberto Jiménez Rivera, a rare example of a native Puerto Rican from modest means who went to college on the mainland, where he now is an assistant director of admissions at Tufts University. Examples abound of college graduates who work in retail stores and as receptionists.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

In the absence of answers to this question, it is too easy for teachers and administrators to become unwitting brand ambassadors for companies seeking to integrate their products into the classroom, regardless of impact on student learning and success.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Schools have relied on those funds for the creation or expansion of summer programs and tutoring services, the purchase of high-quality curriculum and instructional materials, and a plethora of other efforts to address learning gaps students experienced through the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 21, 2016

Schools need to see some examples of products that are clearly so successful that districts are willing to spend for them, “but I’d say we’re pretty early in that process,” he said. . The market for digital instruction materials will likely grow by $1.1 “We have to see why,” he said.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

For example, teachers who need to stay home for a day for mild cold symptoms can teach from home remotely using online technology with the introduction of an in-person aide for a day. Districts will be looking for ways to care for their teachers’ physical and mental well-being to prevent further burnout and teacher churn.

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Savvas is proud to call out Johnston County Public Schools as an outstanding example of K-12 success using enVision — a true “K-12 Hero” using its innovative education technology. For example, in one activity, she supercharges a regular lesson by having students record explanations of what they’ve learned on their iPads.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 20, 2017

To understand a common problem with instructional coaching, let’s look at the business world for a moment. For example, in the business community, a life coach is typically not someone in your chain of command. Often a life coach doesn’t even work for the company of the person they are coaching.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

The 2023 K-12 Hero Awards program is dedicated to recognizing the country’s best examples of K-12 success using innovative education technologies. To meet this challenge, Jhone Ebert, Nevada State Superintendent of Public Instruction, in the summer of 2020 announced the launch of the Nevada Digital Learning Collaborative (DLC).

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

And generally curriculum companies provide way more activities and resources and worksheets then you will ever want to use. We also discuss and plan instructional materials, assessments, etc. Going through all of that can be very time consuming and overwhelming. I encourage you to get rid of the things that are lower quality.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

McKinsey & Company estimates that four-point drop is the equivalent of 12 weeks of learning delay, or about a third of a typical school year. McKinsey & Company (2023). “It’s Nationally, the 2022 NAEP assessments showed an average drop of four points compared with 2019. Learning loss also varies within states.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

A growing number of peer-reviewed studies and other research reports are demonstrating that when faculty who previously used commercial products as their core instructional materials replace them with OER, student learning either stays the same or increases. But who chooses the core instructional resources students will use?

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

For example, when one child offers some M&Ms to another child, and that child happily accepts the offer, we would label this as an instance of sharing. Other examples of rivalrous goods include my car, my socks, and my chewing gum. Examples of excludable goods also include my car, my socks, and my chewing gum. Type of Good.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2023

For example: California’s debate about revisions to its statewide math framework included provisions to shake up math instruction, in an attempt to keep it rigorous but also find a way to narrow achievement gaps among students of different races and income levels. And that impacts the development of materials, she argues.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2017

To survive shrinking school budgets education companies must, now more than ever, make a robust show of their product’s efficacy—something that few have been able to demonstrate convincingly. If you are building new charter schools you need new hardware, new instructional materials, and new school supplies.

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