eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Lindsay Dworkin, SVP of Policy & Government Affairs, NWEA The pendulum has swung quickly toward the Science of Reading. Freepik Cities and states will utilize dynamic policy making as they reach data maturity. The policy has passed, but questions remain on how universities will be held accountable.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

They want to start contributing to either a company or broader society, and they don't feel that they need that four to six years of coming of age. So, we start with employer partners— companies like Spotify, Lyft, Warby Parker, Uber, Casper and a whole bunch of others. A lot of young people that I've met are incredibly career focused.

Gamification 88

Gamification Company Course Outcomes 88

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

–Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. Edtech companies that fail to prioritize accessibility will be left behind. This means that teachers will prefer to use tools from edtech companies that prioritize accessibility. District leaders are no longer reliant on the claims of edtech companies. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

EdTech 118

EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 118

Hack Education

AUGUST 5, 2016

Via Politico : “Dozens of organizations associated with the Black Lives Matter movement released a policy platform this week that prominently features a range of education issues. ” (The policy documents are here and here.). The Chinese company matches kids age 5 to 12 to native English-speaking tutors. .”

Education 40

Education Pearson Report Policies 40

techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

EDSBY UPDATES ( edsby.com/edsby-k12-dataaggregation-analytics/ ) Edsby announced that it has built sophisticated data aggregation and analysis capabilities that allow states, provinces and countries to optimize their education investments and policies. SECOND NATURE QWERTYTOWN 2.0 ( qwertytown.com ) QwertyTown 2.0

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Chromebook Pearson Student Data Privacy Data 45

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

–Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. Edtech companies that fail to prioritize accessibility will be left behind. This means that teachers will prefer to use tools from edtech companies that prioritize accessibility. District leaders are no longer reliant on the claims of edtech companies. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

EdTech 145

EdTech Learning Data Classroom 145

MindShift

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

” In other words, as long as these companies make their money from advertising, they will have incentive to try to design products that maximize the time you spend using them, whether or not it makes your life better. But, he says, “There was a moment I realized that things had gone too far.”

Facebook 58

Facebook Social Media Study Gamification 58

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. ” “ How Asian test-prep companies swiftly exposed the brand-new SAT.” This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

Data 40

Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

” The latter, she argues, are those critters with which we have historically situated relationships – not just as meat but as creatures that keep us company, with which we have relationships, for whom we care, again not simply so we can eventually eat them, but because they offer a deeper sort of reciprocity and we them.

Training 40

Training Technology Conference Course 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Another surprise was a turn in public perception of giant technology companies, especially Facebook and Google, as well as Twitter and Amazon. I was also surprised to see so little development in gaming and gamification within education this past year.

Trends 121

Trends LMS Social Media Education 121