EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2018

“[The updates] reflect a lot of the things that we’re hearing directly from students and educators about not only how they’re using technology in the classroom, but things they are looking to do,” says Anthony Salcito, Microsoft’s vice president for worldwide education. Office 365 Updates Drive Personalized Learning. Customer Focused.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

At the end of the day, edtech can feel like one more thing on a teacher’s plate. From IBM’s test scoring machines in the 1930s to the Speak & Spells of the 70s, innovators and educators have been trying to improve education with technology for decades. But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

While digital tools are woven into educational pedagogy nationwide, another component of learning may help educators give students advantages in a world not yet known to them. A 2017 Report by Dell Technologies estimates that 85 percent of the jobs that will exist in 2030 — fewer than 12 years from now — haven’t been invented yet.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

Four-and-a-half years after Amazon first released Alexa, its voice-activated virtual assistant, the technology is finding its footing in education. Kahoot, a game-based learning company with a trove of millions of educational quizzes, also announced its first Alexa skill this week.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

“The most accurate predictor of school success is the size of a child’s vocabulary at age five of ‘book’ words,” according to a report by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. By implementing proven multimodal learning strategies, students can overcome the academic language barrier.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

Future revenue in the $33 billion e-learning market is expected to fall precipitously in the United States and internationally, but sales of other types of digital learning products are predicted to rise, according to a market research report released recently. The free report , published by Monroe, Wash.-based

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

In addition, you’ll create practical tools such as rubrics for teacher observation, surveys for self-assessment reports, and data collection checklists and notes for interviews. Based on information systems research, you’ll explore the concept of “technostress” and its triggers, how to spot it in your students, and how it impacts learning.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 27, 2019

Technology is making inroads in every aspect of our lives and education is no exception. The tech-savvy millennial generation has literally grown up with technology and traditional classroom settings can no longer satisfy their curiosity for knowledge and information. Related: Augmented Reality Technology – The Future of Education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

schools— Kahoot is offering the first premium version of its game-based learning platform. Premium users will also have access to a library of millions of images, which are displayed on the quizzes, and performance reports that track student progress. After launching five years ago—and seeping into nearly half of all U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Want to hear another episode on technology tools? Jon has served as an Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction and Director of Technology at the county level. Every week day you’ll learn powerful practical ways to be a more remarkable teacher today. VICKI: Happy edtech tool Tuesday.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It was an edtech entrepreneur’s dream on Wednesday at Intel’s Education Accelerator Demo Day. This year’s cohort, whose products range from game-based learning to AI-generated flashcards, has a lot to be excited about. Comprend.io : Even as new technology and tools trickle into classrooms across the U.S.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

As a society ever more reliant on technology and STEM-based careers, we must shatter the myth that math skill is inborn and reinforce that it is the result of intention and practice. And artificial intelligence, coding and other technologies will increasingly require mathematical sophistication. Sounds odd, doesn’t it?

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

. — Deepak Cheenath That puts CoCo’s strategies to keep students engaged or motivated to learn at complete odds with what many edtech companies have been trying to do to teach literacy or STEM — mimic online games like Robolox or Minecraft that children spend hours immersed in outside of school. Quizizz is embodying this shift.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

Educational technology company Oddcast launched a new version of its Voki website for teachers along with a free iOS application called Voki for Education. Avatar-based learning in the classroom not only helps students become more engaged, but speaks to a larger shift in how students consume technology while learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

-based company now touts itself as a provider of adaptive-learning technologies for educational content providers. Of this amount, Woongjin invested $5 million in return for a 10 percent stake in Kidaptive, reports The Korea Herald. And to support its work, Kidaptive has raised $19.1 We’re entirely invisible,” he adds. “If

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Through this effort, GlassLab aimed to prove that challenges and puzzles in any game can serve as proxies for assessments, and that as a player solved these problems, they were demonstrating mastery of a concept. For an annual subscription, a class can get access to any games on the platform, along with GlassLab’s reporting tools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2016

100+ Game Based Learning Resources to Get Started in Your Classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Games are fun. Game based learning excites learning in my classroom. Game Based Learning in My Classroom. By Jennifer Roland.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

-based company invested more than $25 million to partner with talented developers who built 30 learning games covering math, science and English Language Arts. Unless you were a reporter or play tester, however, it was hard to get your hands on them. The fate of the games seemed in limbo in Sept.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom #edtech #edchat Click To Tweet. Learn more about InsertLearning here: 4 Ways to Blend Learning with InsertLearning. is a game-based learning and trivia platform that allows you to create very engaging quizzes for your classroom. in alphabetic order).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 27, 2015

Two Week Calendar Monday, April 27th at 5pm edWeb Webinar: Getting Started with Game-Based Learning , Are you curious about game-based learning, but don’t know where to begin? Join this interactive session to learn how to get started with game-based learning with your own students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 25, 2017

Google Drawings – [link] controlaltachieve.com/drawings. ERIC: Most people think of that as Google’s word processing program which obviously it is and that’s a fantastic way for students to write reports and wrote stories on all the normal things. He is a co-leader of the Ohio Google Educator Group (GEG) at tiny.cc/geg-ohio

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Highlighted Recordings Karen Fainges from the Gaming in Ed - on "Games" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ix_a9z1clo Project Ideas for Student Council on Technology. Houston educational technology trainer, Jorge Cavazos, is planning to organize grade-level tiered student councils on technology in his school district.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 22, 2018

My new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies with EdTech Missions , has 10 digital missions to help teachers support their teenage students in establishing their identities and defining their goals using technology and digital devices. Teens are motivated by game based learning and gamification.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

“We are thrilled to come together with Lumio to support both teachers and students and to provide them with the high-quality resources they deserve and need for fantastic learning experiences.” It’s 100% free for K-12 districts, schools, teachers, and their students.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Blended Learning with Google Book Study information can be found here. Learn more here: BlendedLearningwithGoogle.com. Did you know many of your favorite Google apps have built-in TEMPLATES for things like lesson plans, reports, contact forms, and more? Watch this quick video to learn how! . © Shake Up Learning 2021.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Many silver linings emerged and digital learning cemented itself as a “must have” in schools. Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. And now, we head into our third year of learning during a global pandemic.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

using technologies that haven’t yet been invented. 3) Technology has become a major player in the pedagogical equation.In Now that the cloud of confusion and uncertainty left by the pandemic has cleared up, one fact becomes certain: technology is here not only to stay but to reign. Better be prepared than sorry.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 24, 2014

SPECIAL NOTE: Those of you who are members of more than one of the Learning Revolution communities are probably receiving more than one copy of this newsletter. Over the last two months we worked with an email list company in an attempt to avoid this duplication, but unfortunately, we were reported as a spammer (ugh!) View the report.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 9, 2014

Thursday, July 10th in Nashville, TN Common Sense Media - Identifying Quality Apps, Websites, and Games for Learning , As technology is being integrated into classrooms, teachers are searching for quality apps, websites, and games for student learning. For more information, click here. More information here.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

” Remind me again, all you fans of VR in education, how this technology is going to promote empathy? Via Edsurge : “How Proposed Title I Changes Impact School Funding and Edtech Vendors” – “ A Win for Edtech Vendors.” ” Well, as long as ed-tech vendors benefit, it must be grand.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via The LA Times : “Trump is ending Michelle Obama’s ‘ Let Girls Learn ’ initiative, CNN reports.” “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. The school in question: Bethune-Cookman University. Not sure why this is called a MOOC.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

.” Via Politico : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has increased her financial stake in a ‘neurofeedback’ company that says its technology treats attention deficit disorder and the symptoms of autism. Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.”

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