Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2020

Throughout the years, the founder and CEO Of Khan Academy has secured tens of millions of dollars from individuals, wealthy philanthropists and corporate donors. As schools and colleges shutter across the world, Khan Academy has seen unprecedented web traffic to its online instructional videos and exercises.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

Most people associate Khan Academy with online videos, and that’s largely what it has been since 2005 when founder and CEO Sal Khan began recording instructional clips from his closet to help his cousin better understand math. Teachers have always been able to access Khan Academy’s free online tutoring materials.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2018

Designed to offer lessons, videos, lectures, quizzes, and more that differentiate for individual students, its real power is making the resources of the most respected names in edtech available with one click. Khan Academy. Kiddom now offers personalized curricula, visual reports and more. This includes: ABCYa.com.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software.

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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 24, 2019

Video-assisted learning is gaining momentum as the latest education technology (EdTech) trend. However, that is not what the current EdTech video learning trend is about. Such video-assisted learning platforms include myViewBoard Clips , TEDEd and the Khan Academy. Do not worry — it could not be easier.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Today, the organization announced it is investing $5 million in Kolibri as part of a larger effort that will give $50 million in grants to education technology initiatives and nonprofits around the world over the next year. “We We know digital tools and online materials have added a lot of value to students who have access to them.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

In this post I would like to introduce you to way that you can ensure the standards are amplified, and not ignored, by the integration of educational technology. A big shout out to EdTech Magazine for recognizing this blog on its 2017 Honor Roll. Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards. “We

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Khan Academy. 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.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

In fact, Forbes reported that 82% of public high schoolers in the well-to-do Montgomery County Maryland failed Algebra. To turn those numbers around, parents and teachers alike are looking to technology. Schools using Dimension U report high improvement in student math scores , often in excess of 33%. Educational Applications.

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Securly

APRIL 19, 2016

Students from around the world reported using their devices for the following activities (time allocation in descending order): Social Media, Schoolwork, Entertainment, Gaming. As technology becomes fully integrated into the classroom and 1:1 programs are on the rise, students have reason to spend even more time online. SOCIAL MEDIA.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Education technology accelerator programs are often studded with robotic kits or educational games. The four-month program is capped with a pitch night in front of edtech investors. OSMOSIS : If Khan Academy were a medical school, it might look like Osmosis.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 25, 2022

There’s just so much to say on this topic that if I write about it in an article format, it will run into pages and become a full implementation report! Look, if your technology investments are just cost-centers, it is only a matter of time before you are asked to look at diminishing budgets to buy more or even maintain what you have.

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MSEDTechie

JANUARY 26, 2015

Our students now in elementary school have never had a time in their lives where mobile technology wasn''t present. Look at the most innovative technology we have today: iPhone, ChromeBook, Galaxy Note, iMac, or whatever your favorite tool might be. EDpuzzle also collects data as students watch and interact with the video.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom #edtech #edchat Click To Tweet. Choose a video on YouTube, Khan Academy, Crash Course, or upload your own. Nearpod allows you to create and share lessons that sync across devices and encourage student participation, and evaluate student responses through comprehensive reporting.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Among its many features are virtual bookshelves, reading challenges, virtual awards, online logs, real-time reports and an interactive book discovery tool. . The prevalence of and increasing reliance on technology in all facets of life has and will continue to impact the youngest of children.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Among its many features are virtual bookshelves, reading challenges, virtual awards, online logs, real-time reports and an interactive book discovery tool. . The prevalence of and increasing reliance on technology in all facets of life has and will continue to impact the youngest of children.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Among its many features are virtual bookshelves, reading challenges, virtual awards, online logs, real-time reports and an interactive book discovery tool. . The prevalence of and increasing reliance on technology in all facets of life has and will continue to impact the youngest of children.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Among its many features are virtual bookshelves, reading challenges, virtual awards, online logs, real-time reports and an interactive book discovery tool. . The prevalence of and increasing reliance on technology in all facets of life has and will continue to impact the youngest of children.

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MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Our students now in elementary school have never had a time in their lives where mobile technology wasn't present. Look at the most innovative technology we have today, you are literally looking at the worst piece of technology our students will see in their lifetime. Such creative approaches appeal to today’s learners.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This month, TeachAI, an initiative led by Code.org, ETS, the International Society of Technology in Education, Khan Academy, and the World Economic Forum, launched an AI Guidance for Schools toolkit to help education systems globally address gaps in AI guidance and policy. Evaluation: Regularly assess the impacts of AI.

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techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

Edtech tools are helping educators everywhere discover new possibilities for writing instruction. Teachers reported that 100 percent of participating students were “engaged” or “extremely engaged.” The district is seeing great results from its investment in technology-based tools and in training teachers to use them.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

says it has developed a system to bring “blockchain” technology–meant to serve as a decentralized-yet-secure system for transmitting data–to education, as the concept slowly begins to attract attention in the K-12 space. Sony Global Education Inc. Goodbye, Middleman?

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Little did I know this experience would eventually propel me to help develop a school operating system that tackles technology issues plaguing educators and supports them with more opportunities to offer individualized instruction. Learn more about Kiddom Academy. When I Buy Edtech Products, Our Teachers Don’t Use Them… What Do I Do?

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Chromebook Idea Spark #3: Building Proportion Dolls Using G Suite, Khan Academy and Screencastify. Encourage students create a doll of themselves by using ratios, proportions and technology. Teachers can flip their classroom by using Google Forms to learn about ratios and proportions using Khan Academy videos and exercises.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Shortly after the turn of the century, efforts to support data interoperability in K–12 technology systems were driven largely by compliance. Schools and districts needed a way to standardize data about their students’ backgrounds and achievement levels to meet state and federal reporting requirements. Reports to Insights.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

In 2017, reality took a massive swipe at the wobbly optimism of technology progressives. Echoing wider soul searching over technology’s polarizing role in politics and society, the education technology scene has been doing its own reckoning. Equitable: An analysis by John Hansen and Justin Reich of U.S.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

.” And in Delaware , “Authorities have arrested two Smyrna high school students in connection with threats involving clowns and bombs ,” the AP reports. ” “ Clown College Calls National Rash of Rumored Clown Scares ‘Troubling’,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“ Tax bill reflects rift between many Republicans and higher education,” The Washington Post reports. Restores Pell Eligibility to Nearly 300,000 Students,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. ” Education Dive profiles Khan Academy’s Khan Lab School. (It

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Still more education news from the UK: “ Sam Gyimah replaces Jo Johnson as universities minister ,” The Times Higher Education reports. Kudos to the Houston Chronicle for the original reporting on this in 2016.

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

“technologizing” the government. Via The LA School Report : “ LAUSD approves $7.5 ” “ Louisiana Becomes First State to Ban the Box,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Here’s a sponsored article , paid for by the Gates Foundation and published by Edsurge promoting the school and its technology.).

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

” More on the teacher prep law from The Hechinger Report. ” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. Khan Academy wants to start offering diplomas.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via NPR : “ Catholic Schools And Parents Grapple With Whether To Address Abuse Report.” ” “Free College” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Reports: Free College Programs Don’t Benefit Low-Income Students.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

.” In other Department of Education bureaucratic nightmares, “Dozens of Colleges’ Upward Bound Applications Are Denied for Failing to Dot Every I,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Testing, Testing… “Nation’s Report Card Finds Mixed Grades For U.S. ” Immigration and Education.

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

Via The Washington Post : “ Betsy DeVos was asked to address education reporters at their annual convention. Here are the education technology companies that have raised money from ISPs. ” Via The Washington Post : “Secret report shows ‘special’ treatment for public officials in D.C. She said no.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

” Via US News & World Report : “Bathroom Wars.” Via The Hechinger Report : “ DeVos praises virtual schools , but new research points to problems.” Via Campus Technology : “ AP Exam Pass Rates Rise Even as Participation Doubles.” The charter: Bricolage Academy.

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