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8 Tips to Strengthen Parent Involvement With Digital Tools

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Educational research group Pearson reports that there’s increasing awareness and recognition among teachers and administrators that traditional parent-teacher conferences yield limited results , particularly for traditionally marginalized student populations. SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks!

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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

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And we’re filing stories that capture the essence of the edtech industry in 2018. Apple and Google continue to up the ante in their quest to win adoption in classrooms. And Pearson is still around. A Clever Way to Measure How Students Actually Use Edtech (and Whether It Works). What’s Next for Pearson?

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Fewer Deals, More Money: U.S. Edtech Funding Rebounds With $1.2 Billion in 2017

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based edtech startups in 2017 saw a resurgence of investment capital. edtech investments in 2011. edtech companies. edtech startups hit almost $1.7 For edtech startups, seed money hasn’t disappeared; it’s just harder to get. Is education technology investing back on track? The answers depend on who you ask.

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Pearson Education | ISTE 2016

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Pearson has many amazing programs that are focused on improving learning outcomes of K12 students and this year I was blown away by one of their new programs. The post Learn 5 great ways @Pearson is innovating the way schools track student learning appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Is It Ethical to Run Learning Experiments On Students Without Their Knowledge?

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Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform. Providing the Spark Jenessa Peterson, director of learning engineering at the Learning Agency, touched off the discussion in a Google Group run by her organization with the question: Is A/B testing between two benign conditions without participants' knowledge OK?

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Why Your Financial Advisor Doesn’t Recommend Edtech Stocks

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I’m excited for the industry’s future, and I think we can make money investing in publicly-traded edtech companies. I think you’re wrong, so I propose a bet: We’ll both invest in a basket of stocks on January 1, 2012—mine representing the edtech industry, and yours the whole economy. My edtech portfolio was more difficult to assemble.

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The Fault Lines Between Sharing and Shilling for an Edtech Product

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The piece from Natasha Singer examines the murky relationship between edtech developers and the educators who tout their products. The practice is widespread from top to bottom: Apple, Google and Microsoft train and certify teachers who demonstrate expertise with their wares. The tactic is not unique to education.

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