Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

a math teacher and instructional coach at Brashier Middle College Charter High School in Simpsonville, South Carolina, has more than two decades of experience and spends a lot of time thinking about edtech. Ballard illustrated that sometimes it’s not about knowing how to use a tool — it’s about not having the time. Amy Ballard, Ph.D.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 31, 2022

Today’s guest, Al Kingsley, has worked with edtech for over thirty years. He also discusses how we should measure the effectiveness of education technology to determine what we will continue to use in the future. Episode #788 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast The Future of Edtech Al Kingsley, Thought Leader. Subscribe to the Show.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2020

On my blog, Ask a Tech Teacher , I run a column called Dear Otto where I answer teacher questions about how to integrate technology into their classes. Of late, the most common question is, “How to I assess student digital literacy?” How do I assess faculty digital literacy so I can teach them what they don’t know?

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

According to Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report, the educational services sector experienced 1,241 incidents in 2021, with 282 involving confirmed data disclosure. Of those attacks, 75…

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2023

The average school spends less than 8 percent of its IT budget on cybersecurity, with 1 in 5 schools committing less than 1 percent,” notes a 2022 report from the Center for Internet Security and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center. In the session…

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

Key points: Very soon, districts must closely examine the edtech they use and compare it with budget realities How to ensure edtech ROI? Whether it’s a free resource or an edtech product, there’s still some kind of criteria” that needs to be met. And Union County is far from alone. And Union County is far from alone.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

This is how e-learning technology tools improve the special education sector when educators integrate them into the classroom. Edtech gives students with physical disabilities a voice. How can they demonstrate mastery of concepts like composing a complete sentence if their tiny hands can’t grasp a pencil to write?

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 17, 2019

Q&A: Tarah Luster Explains How to Teach K–12 Students Digital Responsibility. The realities of social media, both good and bad, spurred organizations like Project B3 to step in to teach students how to participate online in a healthy, thoughtful and safe way. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Fri, 05/17/2019 - 10:40.

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Neo LMS

MAY 21, 2019

It can also mean that parents are overwhelmed by the number of tech tools available and are struggling to teach their children how to use them responsibly. 4 Great ideas for boosting parent engagement through edtech. 4 Great ideas for boosting parent engagement through edtech. Edtech tools need to be intuitive and easy to use.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 17, 2019

Phishing in K–12: How to Avoid Taking the Bait. Of attack types, phishing is by far the security threat that most concerns districts ,” according to a Consortium for School Networking report. “Of For many — especially those with limited IT resources — the question is, how? . eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 07/17/2019 - 10:35.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2020

His research focuses on professional development and teacher change, program evaluation, assessment of student learning, grading and reporting, instructional effectiveness, and educational reform. Creating Successful Grading and Reporting Systems. On Your Mark: Challenging the Conventions of Grading and Reporting. Guskey, T.

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Digital Promise

JULY 9, 2019

Despite the challenges educators face when trying to purchase edtech tools, new procurement tools have emerged that support evidence-based decision making when choosing and buying edtech products. Start with a Needs Assessment to Prioritize Students when Purchasing Edtech.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Q&A: Leila Nuland on How to Build Equitable Computer Science Curricula. While some teachers have already started to come up with creative ways to inject computer science into their programs, others may still be lost on how to introduce the concepts into the classroom. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 10/11/2018 - 12:07.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2019

When it comes to education technology (edtech), school leaders and developers alike want to provide the best tools—ones that truly make a difference. Researchers are in the business of figuring out how to identify and measure things. How are the tools teaching? Using the Digital Promise Edtech Pilot Framework ?

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2019

While we’ve come a long way from the “grasping at straws” syndrome, educators continue to ponder the worth of many educational technology (edtech) products and struggle with the best and most efficient means of choosing these products. So how does a teacher find new edtech products suitable for their classroom and determine their value?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

Students who expressed confidence in their ability to learn and adapt to new edtech were more likely to also feel they were learning effectively online, that edtech enhanced their learning, and to want more online learning options. The network is a project of WGU Labs, an affiliate of Western Governors University.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

How to Redesign the K–12 Media Center. When classroom and media center design is “driven by the desire to create personal and authentic learning experiences for students,” it can move teaching practices forward, Tom Murray, the director of innovation for Future Ready Schools, recently told EdTech. . eli.zimmerman_9856.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In fact, the DOE’s “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning” report recommends keeping humans in the loop with AI: “We envision a technology-enhanced future more like an electric bike and less like robot vacuums. We exercise the power of agency when looking for how to do things.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A 2020 Center for Democracy and Technology report shows that without additional details about threats, 62 percent of parents showed some level of concern over student data privacy. However, the same report shows that less than half of parents (4 in 10) say their child’s school has discussed with them how it protects student data.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In 2019, 40 percent of teachers reported an increased use of digital-based core curriculum resources for one or more core subjects. In recent years, K–12 institutions’ classroom technology investments have been gradually ticking upward. Fifty-six percent said they were using digital supplemental materials more frequently.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

By mid-March, schools closed, sending students home to figure out how to keep learning from their kitchen tables. But how to make the most of the moment? Soon, schools would be inundated with sales pitches from edtech companies, and it didn’t take long before they started pushing back against those that seemed predatory.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Wally Clipper, has a great run-down on 8 trends you’ll want to watch in 2020: 8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020. While EdTech has been helping schools and other educational institutions a lot since it was introduced, its benefits have grown even more this year. Videos: Why, How, Options.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

From cutting-edge computing and cloud services to data-driven instruction and adaptive learning, K-12 edtech solutions are abundant. The district’s IT staff gathered a team of teachers, administrators and support staff to find out which edtech selections enhanced teachers’ and students’ daily activities and how.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

While diverse edtech products promise innovation, they simultaneously pose challenges. Educators, learners, instructional technology coaches, and IT/edtech staff are grappling with the complexities of managing an ever-expanding arsenal of disconnected digital tools. Another challenge is security.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Federal facilitation of this type of information sharing is especially important in situations where teams otherwise lack incentives and/or mechanisms to share their experiences: Pilots who experience unexpected hazard conditions, such as large flocks of airborne geese or inoperative radio tower lights, are asked to report to Air Traffic Control.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2019

Edtech has the potential to ignite the power of learning by helping teachers tailor learning environments and instruction to reach the full diversity of learners. But how can we accomplish that goal? While further research is needed to determine how features such as these affect learning, our findings shed a promising light.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Features such as Immersive Reader and well-being check-ins offer students ways to direct their own learning experiences and give teachers more information about how to support and encourage their students. Education is always evolving, and that’s how it should be—for the good of every student and the world that they will help define.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 1, 2021

First, the good news: In 2020, despite the shift to remote learning, the number of reported ransomware attacks on K–12 schools decreased by 20 percent compared with the previous year. Individual attacks were more severe, and the FBI has reported a recent surge in attacks, which it predicts will continue through 2021. The bad news?

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EmergingEdTech

APRIL 20, 2023

It is always a good time to review spending and look for possible savings United States schools spent over $27 billion on edtech in 2021. If your district is like many others, there’s plenty of opportunity to trim the fat in edtech budgets. Here’s a high-level look at how to begin to answer that question.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This blog post is the second of a two-part series discussing relationship building in the edtech purchasing process. In our first blog post , we addressed how educators can build and maintain good working relationships with edtech developers. As an edtech vendor, you should do the same. Focus on teacher impact and usage.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

The AI Alliance includes some 200 member organizations, including nonprofits and edtech businesses, that have come together to identify steps companies can take to assess bias in algorithms and support educators using AI, said Jim Larimore, co-founder and chair.

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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 5, 2019

Figuring out how to do modern assessments. Importance should be given to how to translate report cards and test scores into a student ability to contribute to society. As with aiding assessment delivery, technology integration or EdTech innovation will lead to the most drastic shifts in education.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Teachers need to choose and use the right educational technology — or edtech — to elevate teaching as well. Therefore, the use of edtech in one form or another in the classroom is a must. How educators can make use of edtech into the classroom. However, including edtech in the teaching process is not impossible.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

With more than 400 incidents reported across the country — including everything from student and staff data breaches, phishing and ransomware attacks and distributed denial of service (DDoS) threats — districts can’t afford to wait until it happens to them.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

As the industry that develops VR grows, it will need workers who are trained in how to build and apply this technology. For their first installment, the group published a report based on a roundtable discussion held with leaders from community colleges, Hispanic-Serving Institutions and historically Black colleges and universities.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As a veteran teacher of 17 years who has taught in both elementary and middle school classrooms, I have found that there are a number of powerful edtech tools available to support student literacy. I found Epic to be really helpful when using it for reports. They have slideshows that teach students how to edit and find mistakes.

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