EdTechTeacher

JUNE 19, 2023

In addition to various roles, Lindy has worked in virtually every area of education: schools, education service agencies, non-profits, and EdTech companies. She is the author of “ A Teacher’s Guide to Online Learning ” and was recently named An EdTech Trendsetter by The EdTech Awards. Lindy is more than a trainer.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 12, 2020

General EdTech: EdTech companies offering FREE support and/or access to schools affected by COVID19 closures. A growing collection of edtech companies that are offering free access or support to schools affected by COVID-19. Remote Learning Resources, Subscriptions, and Platforms Wakelet by Erin Flanagan.

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Neo LMS

MAY 12, 2020

For example, teachers in Hong Kong realized that their students needed emotional support in addition to their online assignments, and began to organize regular small group chats and ways to include their faces in videos they shared so teachers and students could make familiar connections with each other.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

But neither of these great thinkers could anticipate how the debate would play out in the Age of Google. Not long after the search engine company was founded in 1998, psychologists began to wonder how the ability to have so much information instantly available was changing our brains. When we need it, we will look it up.”

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 22, 2020

Technology allows you to teach and learn from any part of the world with Internet access and electricity. All you need is a device and software, like Google Hangouts Meet, Zoom, Join.me, GoToMeeting, or other tools that facilitate studying. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. And, without a doubt, it has disadvantages.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. But one online learning pioneer, Stephen Downes, says that these free resources are not living up to their full potential to help students and professors. And it's an opportune time to rethink open courses.

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The Electric Educator

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

This year I took a position as the director of online learning for a christian school in Michigan. One of the projects that I began was the development of a series of online Bible courses. In late spring we hired a company to assist us with the development of our first one semester course. big ideas online learning'

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

With an uncertain fall and a deep economic downturn, many believe two-year colleges may be the best answer to meeting the higher education needs of both traditional and non-traditional students and workers looking to learn new skills. One example is Calbright , the new online community college in California.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Those easy-to-hand, widely adopted tools cited by Shirky include the ubiquitous Google Docs, as well as more-unexpected ones like the website Genius (formerly Rap Genius). One secret to the partnership’s success: clear boundaries between the for-profit company and the nonprofit educational institution.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Lessons will include how to select AI projects, as well as how to work with and manage AI teams within companies. The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He He left the company in 2014.)

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

But the reality is also that we’re going to have to prepare for a fall that – whatever it looks like – will include an online learning component. Even if we go back to face-to-face learning, we will all have to be prepared to teach online, and the best way to do this is to first educate ourselves with research and pedagogy.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

At +Acumen, we wondered if we could go a step further and actually close the loop between learners and the real world—connecting nonprofits and social enterprises to online students who could help generate new ideas while learning about the issues. Adapting an Existing Online Course for Synchronous Delivery.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Teachers are revered , most families spend about a third of their income on their children’s education, and most students spend at least an hour a day on some kind of online learning. It’s also a place where companies are racing into technologies that raise tough ethical issues. That means many of the tutors live in the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

Covid “was such a boon to our industry,” said Anant Agarwal , founder and CEO of the online course platform EdX, which has more than 160 university partners and more than 2,000 free courses. This move to online learning is here to stay. Related: Colleges and universities are outsourcing services to for-profit companies.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Flipped classroom models empower students to do classroom work at home using multimedia presentations and online learning platform resources. Most US school districts use Screencastify for an engaging learning experience. Google Drive. A teacher and learners can store and play videos on Google Drive. Google Meet.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

For both students and teachers, online learning has come with a lot of challenges, from the digital divide and technology access to mental health impacts , or a lack of essential school and community supports. Prep for teachers Preview the video Distance Learning Isn't All Bad. Google Doc handout.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 30, 2017

Google Cardboard. Google Cardboard was the result of a 36-hour hackathon by Google’s education team, where staff were tasked with finding ways to boost student engagement. The cardboard goggles when combined with an Android phone, preloaded with any of Google’s Cardboard apps, are a simple way to bring classroom lessons to life.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

So much of parenting my 5-year-old son, Krishna, has involved advocating for him — first in pediatrician’s and pediatric specialists’ offices, then in emergency rooms, urgent cares and hospitals, then with therapeutic services agencies and specialty pharmacies and medical equipment and health insurance companies. This is my school!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

Almost everyone admits the potential of online learning, used selectively and wisely. While online classes do not work well for young children, many college courses worked well enough to demonstrate new potential for a post-pandemicfuture. He became Stanford’s first vice provost for online learning in 2012.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In this still from a Byju's provided video, about 20,000 students pack the country's largest indoor arena for a math lesson from the company's CEO in 2013. The stunt came years before the CEO’s company, Byju’s, launched a learning app that would take the company to 35 million downloads, with 2.7 million) this fiscal year.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

It sounds like a drastic measure: moving every school to online learning in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. So much of teaching is a relationship—and understanding what that looks like online is a completely new venue to figure out.” Here in the U.S. For some of them, the school really is their family,” he says. “So

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

These resources, sourced from trusted partners, are aligned to state and national standards, and help educators bring the outside world into teaching and learning every day. Through Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 Discovery, Inc.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Read more: Actionable advice for educators to move to online learning. With so many engaging, technological resources at hand, resorting only to Zoom or Google Meet is almost a sin. 5 Ways in which educational videos enhance online learning. And it’s not hard to see why. Isn’t that great?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2022

00;03;10;24 – 00;04;43;10 Dr. Lee Zeitz The communities of inquiry is a model that has been used with online learning. But you and I both know that many times when we've been in meetings and things like that that weren't very interactive, that would be something we would do. It talks about three different presences.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

EdSurge Sessions In between hearty servings of Tex-Mex and meat, won’t you have time to stop by and meet? Where School Safety, Security, & Surveillance Meet Happy hour will have to wait, as we kick our sessions off with a sobering and important conversation that warrants your attention. Who Does Online Education Really Serve?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2021

A suite of award-winning K-12 digital resources and instructional supports, Discovery Education Experience meets the changing needs of KCPS’s diverse student population in the remote, hybrid, or online learning environment. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

Paul Wilson advised that higher education institutions “consider how for-profit can assist in meeting their needs,” but many chatters were skeptical that vendor partnerships would be able to help. As costs rise for companies providing content, the fear is that the cost will get passed along to the institutions and students.

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Tech Helpful

MAY 25, 2017

Yesterday morning before heading to the Tennessee STEM Innovation Summit that I am currently attending, I sat in on a meeting where we announced to our middle school that we were going to pilot the LMS Canvas for next year. One of the questions that was asked was "Why not Google Classroom?" That is definitely no lie.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 6, 2016

A number of ed-tech companies, including Udemy and Tynker, have raked in funds from investors over the past week. Udemy Raises $60 Million: Udemy , a San Francisco-based online provider of courses, received a $60 million strategic investment from Internet and entertainment group Naspers through its Naspers Ventures division.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Jackson went on to say, “Through this partnership, millions of students will immediately have access to a state of the art platform that delivers our accredited, robust and rigorous curriculum in a way that is accessible and personalized to meet their learning needs.

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The Electric Educator

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Over 1,900 educators interested in online learning were in attendance. K-12 Online learning is in a state of great flux. Vendors have given large school districts what they asked for-- turn key solution for online programs. The problem is that these solutions are not meeting the needs of smaller programs.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

As we think about our work in the past 2019-20 school year, we should reflect on the online learning that had occurred for those of us fortunate enough to have the necessary technology—both at our schools and in our students’ homes. Perhaps a digital learning journal could be employed to promote reflection.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

After all, these institutions embrace intimacy as central to their mission, with close, mentoring relationships between faculty and students, and deep, comradely connections among students—essential ingredients of highly engaged learning. For many, online fails to meet these crucial education ambitions.

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Learning With Lucie

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

My kids and grandkids have been using text, Instagram, Facetime, Google Hangout, and shared Google photos album to make me part of the joy of family gathered together back in Vermont. I look forward every morning to seeing if there are any new post in our online class community.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2021

Then she took to Google, researching the virtual homeschool options in her state, trying to suss out the rules and regulations with which she would have to comply. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, virtual learning has worked for her son, who has autism and ADHD. “My Martin’s concerns about in-person schooling are three-fold.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

When students at Woodman School, on the western edge of Montana, are working on research projects in class, they don’t have the option to start their search with Google. They can’t access online encyclopedias. They basically can’t access online anything. Subscribe today! These districts serve 6.5 million students nationwide.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 8, 2019

Cybersecurity threats, aging IT systems, increased demand for online learning and classroom technology, and difficulty attracting and retaining IT talent are putting pressure on many colleges, not just WCC. In response, they decided to outsource technology operations to Ellucian. Even more issues for educational institutions.

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