Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

In October, we will share a guide highlighting the trends, insights and challenges we've learned about while profiling five key players in the world of school redesign. Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. Stay tuned!

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Millions downloaded it—and first learned of it—back in early 2020, when lockdowns forced billions of students online, and at least 100,000 schools onto Zoom. But as the company itself will tell you, it didn’t spring up overnight. In the future, there may be many such companies piggybacking off Zoom’s popularity.

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MindShift

JULY 11, 2017

“I took a beating for that,” Dillon admitted, but added it was the right choice because the school was doing a poor job meeting the needs of students. Wilder is part of a new national trend to customize learning to each child. It’s a very strong trend,” said Daniel A. Fast forward to today. I keep thinking, ‘Is this real?’”

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

As a result of this webinar and some research of my own, I compiled this list which I hope will serve as a quick menu for you and the teachers at your school to select summer professional development that will help you grow and learn. Social-Emotional Learning. Some students are not yet ready or cannot return to in-person learning.

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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. Here is an excellent example of an EdTech company that produces valuable content for educators.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

FEV Tutor’s products meet the Level Two Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the national education law that helps ensure success for students and schools. FEV Tutor has observed heightened demand for its solutions due to ongoing learning achievement and equity gaps. About Alpine Investors.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Pillar #6 - Rethinking Learning Spaces and Environments Digital leadership looks at societal trends as inspirational elements and potential catalysts for change in the structure of the schools themselves as well as the designs of programs. Do they meet the needs to learners today?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. Read more.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 19, 2016

About 3,700 ed-tech entrepreneurs, educators, and venture capitalists are meeting here to talk about their companies or their classrooms, their employees or their students, and how to maximize the investments being made in them. Personalized Learning Priorities. school district’s multi-year technology upgrade.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2016

Remaining a tech-savvy educator means keeping on top of the myriad changes and trends in education, how technology can support those trends, and how teaching and learning can best benefit from near-constant change. Read more.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 15, 2019

Does the conference meet your school’s ed tech goals? To offer more personalized learning? It’s OK if your class is not ready for the shiny new trend that pops up on your Twitter feed from time to time. A simple way to tackle this task is to divide products or companies into lists, according to what is more relevant.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

School district leaders are inundated with proposals and pitches for the hottest new trends in edtech on a regular basis—all promising to revolutionize learning and make it more student-friendly. When Frederick County Public Schools started the shift toward one-to-one learning, they first needed to know what kids were doing online.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Working as an entrepreneur, executive, philanthropist and investor over the past few decades, at some of the very organizations Watters bemoans, I’ve had a unique vantage point for observing numerous successes, failures and—most importantly—long-term trends that make me optimistic about the next wave of education innovation.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

“Every now and then, it's been hard to do a call while the kids are screaming or something like that, but between meetings, to see them or have lunch with them or go on a walk with them, that part has been actually quite nice.” EdSurge: How did you adapt to meet the needs of students during the pandemic? They were real education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Many charter networks here, including Crescent City Schools, Firstline, ReNEW, and KIPP, have embraced an educational philosophy known as “personalized learning.”. Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts.

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edWeb.net

MAY 25, 2021

During the edWebinar, “ Educators Have Spoken… This Is What Industry Partners Need to Hear,” the speakers presented trends and observations from edWeb’s recent edFocus Industry Summit and offered advice for vendors on building and maintaining connections with their customers. Virtual professional learning is taking over.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm that specializes in partnering with technology businesses, acquired the Company in 2018 and will remain a major shareholder. The new investment from Blackstone will enable the Company to further accelerate organic growth initiatives and innovation across its product suite.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

AltSchool, the education startup founded by former Google employee Max Ventilla, has so far juggled two businesses: building software to sell to other schools, and operating “micro-schools” where children and teachers enjoy small class sizes that also use technologies built by the company. That latter effort seems to be on hold, though.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Joffe’s database answered a pandemic-era demand: About a quarter of families and teachers want more online instructions and resources to help them use online learning tools, according to a recent NewSchools Venture Fund-Gallup poll. Everyone’s a different learner,” said Joffe, “and that’s often overlooked in online learning.”.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

EdisonLearning provides digital learning solutions, including core and elective eCourses for grades 6-12. This partnership expands its ability to support more schools and districts nationwide, increasing delivery of personalized learning and supporting equitable achievement for all students. Video link: [link].

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Teachers should be empowered with actionable data, equipped to engage each student with a personalized learning experience and supported as they establish stronger relationships with home-based learning guardians such as parents. In short, it’s time to more intentionally think about educators as Learning Engineers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2017

“I took a beating for that,” Dillon admitted, but added it was the right choice because the school was doing a poor job meeting the needs of students. Wilder is part of a new national trend to customize learning to each child. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech for personalized learning to work? Dillon said.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Many of the efforts to maintain students’ continuity of education in 2020–distance learning, flexible schedules, new ways of encouraging “hands-on” learning at distance or with technology, etc.–will –will be refined and these ideas will become more established practices integrated into in-person learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are organizations that support different kinds of transformation in schools and after researching and interviewing some of these organizations, we've learned a great deal about what these changes can look like, how schools go about redesigning aspects of their model, and what types of support they need along the way. Stay tuned! -

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

I just stepped out of a meeting, actually, with two teachers helping them design a project that we hope will lead to the building of a food truck. Lately, I’ve been looking for personalized learning or competency-based education resources. I quickly evaluate if this is a person or company that’s worth a relationship.

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Neo LMS

JULY 31, 2018

How can you ensure that your courses meet expectations? In this case, the data comes from a learning context and can be algorithmically analyzed for trends and patterns. From these sources, use data to prioritize and personalize learning outcomes based on real-life needs and broad student preferences. Data sharing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. There was never a meeting of the authors where we talked about our vision. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one.

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eSpark

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

I’ve come to learn that the team at eSpark Learning is a passionate group of individuals focused on ensuring the student experience in our products is both engaging and academically enriching. We’ve come away from each of these studies with valuable learnings that have allowed us to refine our personalized learning system.

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eSpark

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

I’ve come to learn that the team at eSpark Learning is a passionate group of individuals focused on ensuring the student experience in our products is both engaging and academically enriching. We’ve come away from each of these studies with valuable learnings that have allowed us to refine our personalized learning system.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Model providers include schools and companies that want to export successful elements of a program or entire school designs.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The most obvious way Access Green strives to meet this goal is its environmental focus. Andronaco and Hall are developing an online learning platform for underserved populations, based on the OmniLearn suite of business leadership tools used by top business schools. But this is not the most powerful part of Access Green’s mission.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

When you meet an android, it’s important to follow etiquette. Students who learn freely in those fields and activities that interest them are bound to think, speculate, observe, experiment, and, now and then, come up with something of their own that may not have been previously known.” If you don’t, she may not have much to say.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

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. Conversations cover topics like technology, nature, the future, personal growth, society, collaboration, and more. Google Meet. Khan Academy.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Following the tour, the extremely knowledgeable team at LEAP Innovation led us in a variety of roundtable discussions about their strategies and solutions for embedding true personalized learning in schools. One trend that none of us could avoid was the increasing discussion around school safety. Who thinks that’s a good idea?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Imagine how many customers a company could get running 10 miles of fiber somewhere else. Subscribe today!

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2016

Without understanding the needs, interests, and objectives of our current state, we would not be able to provide the vision and resources that effectively meet the needs of our district. The Learning Counsel’s 2015 Digital Curriculum Strategy School Assessment Tool & Survey proved to be a valuable tool in this process!

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