eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2022

Keene, NH, July 29, 2022 – Acclaimed Early Learning furniture brand Whitney Brothers® today announced its new Nature View Writing Center received the Platinum 2022 Spaces4Learning New Product Award, one of the most widely recognized awards for product innovation in the educational products market.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

18, 2022 – Fifty-six percent of U.S. BOSTON, Mass. – public schools are using high-dosage tutoring to support learning recovery, thanks to funding from the American Rescue Plan. But is it working? New research from FEV Tutor shows that live 1:1 tutoring with a subject matter expert can help students progress and close achievement gaps.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It’s an endurance race: It takes determination to keep going, and a belief that it will all be worth it in the end. But what if the current generation of students is just less sold on needing a college degree than their parents are? That’s the case for one family outside of Detroit. These two have loads in common.

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eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

million for technological improvements. Superintendent Dr. Christine Johns explained her reasoning to reimagine Utica’s Kindergarten program: “Early childhood education makes a significant difference. Gabriella Meyers, Instructional Technology Consultant at UCS. You’re going to give kids the right start.

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eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

million for technological improvements. Superintendent Dr. Christine Johns explained her reasoning to reimagine Utica’s Kindergarten program: “Early childhood education makes a significant difference. Gabriella Meyers, Instructional Technology Consultant at UCS. You’re going to give kids the right start.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Ashok Goel has a vision for the future of education. The professor of computer science and cognitive science at Georgia Institute of Technology believes every student and researcher should have access to artificially intelligent assistants that not only help them study facts and figures, but also collaborate more closely with other humans.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

For the last six years, the American Indian College Fund has selected a group of talented students and alumni for leadership training to speak about education issues impacting Native Americans. The American Indian College Fund’s 2019-20 Student Ambassador cohort. Credit: Caitlin Alysse/American Indian College Fund 2019.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

But here's what we should all find unacceptable: We have yet to widely reflect that learning in how we educate students in our schools. Personalized learning for the whole learner, EdSurge Fusion 2018’s theme, is how we can begin to educate through the science of learning and development.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 10, 2017

No, not as educators necessarily, but really helping our kids move from digital citizenship to digital leadership, with the author of the book Social LEADia. And he talks about using technology and social media to improve the lives, well-being, and circumstances of others. Learn about the Unified Classroom. Listen Now. Introduction.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2020

mSL CAPITA , a professional development program by mindSpark Learning specifically designed to support coaches and sport organizations, launched its inaugural CAPITA COLab Esports Fellowship for coaches and educators to shape the convergence of traditional sports, esports, industry and education. All sessions are virtual.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It’s a pivotal time for artificial intelligence in higher education. And the infusion of algorithms is leading to questions—ethical questions and practical questions and philosophical questions—about how far higher education should go in bringing in artificial intelligence, and who decides what the algorithms should look like.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2017

For years, school leaders in Loudoun County, Virginia “had been talking about a one-to-one technology initiative,” says Josh Ajima, instructional facilitator for technology at Dominion High School and Loudoun Academy of Science. It had been five or six years that they had been talking about, ‘the next big thing.’”.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

It’s a real mixed bag, but this year the conference is putting a big emphasis on equity and diversity as well as employability, the implications of artificial intelligence and international education, separating sessions into 25 distinct tracks. MONDAY, MARCH 5 K-12 9:30 a.m. Can Evidence Even Keep Up with Edtech? Look at Me!” 5:00 p.m.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2021

This event is being organized in partnership with Ellyssa Kroski, the Director of Information Technology and Marketing at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of 60 books. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded. Please also join this Library 2.0 The call for proposals is now open.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 15, 2021

This event is being organized in partnership with Ellyssa Kroski, the Director of Information Technology and Marketing at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of 60 books. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded. Please also join this Library 2.0 The call for proposals is now open.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2021

This event is being organized in partnership with Ellyssa Kroski, the Director of Information Technology and Marketing at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of 60 books. The list of accepted concurrent sessions is below! This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 7, 2021

This event is being organized in partnership with Ellyssa Kroski, the Director of Information Technology and Marketing at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of 60 books. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded. Please also join the Library 2.0

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eSpark

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The trajectory of eSpark Learning has been marked by what I like to call “magic moments,” instances in which fearless educators and administrators have aligned with our team to work towards a vision in which every student, regardless of circumstance or background, has the opportunity to set and realize an ambitious dream.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2018

Social media and technology are not agents of change. The three-year-old program, now offered in six public schools (five in New York City and one in Los Angeles) is part of a movement within a movement. Illustration: Jutta Kuss/Getty Images. It’s 12:15 p.m. It’s 12:15 p.m. It asks, “How connected are we?” They are just tools.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 14, 2021

This event is being organized in partnership with Ellyssa Kroski, the Director of Information Technology and Marketing at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of 60 books. The conference schedule and registration details are below! This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Preparing for each day required creating an elaborate set of slides that would encompass more than six straight hours of lessons she’d never taught before, with contingencies for any moment a child struggled with technology or school supplies. Then she cried.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 5, 2020

I had no idea that those words, penned a decade ago, would absolutely and forever change me and the trajectory of my life. It was in 2010 that I invited educational bloggers to form an alliance with me (no need for secrecy). To create a united network of educators working toward a larger goal of being heard by those not in education.

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MindShift

JANUARY 3, 2018

Social media and technology are not agents of change. The three-year-old program, now offered in six public schools (five in New York City and one in Los Angeles) is part of a movement within a movement. It’s 12:15 p.m. They project a slide on a topic of near-universal interest to teenagers – social media. They are just tools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

WASHINGTON — It’s no surprise that much of the conversation at gatherings of university officials these days is about how to prove the value of the liberal arts, once at the core of higher education and now among its most embattled branches. The liberal arts college was saved from closing only by the intervention of alumni and others.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Department of Education. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. Desirée Morales Díaz, who was accepted to American University but couldn’t afford to go there. “My My dad said, ‘I’ll just take two jobs.’ And that’s when I said no. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 5, 2020

I had no idea that those words, penned a decade ago, would absolutely and forever change me and the trajectory of my life. It was in 2010 that I invited educational bloggers to form an alliance with me (no need for secrecy). To create a united network of educators working toward a larger goal of being heard by those not in education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

The “Netflix for education” analogy has become somewhat of a cliché for edtech companies using student data to recommend anything from courses to textbooks. That idea relies on a technology known as predictive analytics, a statistical model that analyzes past data to make estimations about some future event or trend.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Q&A: Justina Nixon-Saintil on How Investment Can Improve Equity in STEM Education. By 2019, Verizon expects to have 150 schools participating in the Verizon Innovative Learning program , the company’s initiative to improve STEM education, according to a recent announcement. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 12/05/2018 - 10:27.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Steve Middleton worked as an engineer for more than a decade before transitioning to education. Steve Middleton worked as an engineer for more than a decade before transitioning to education. Mikia Frazier, too, spent years envisioning the day she would get to walk into her own classroom. For others, the calling didn’t come as early.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

The 29-year-old lives in Beijing, where she leads a team at an education company that develops English curriculum for kindergartens and schools across China. But with their careers and personal lives intertwined with the education sector, each of them stands to benefit or lose from the changes sweeping their country.

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edWeb.net

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In the edLeader Panel “ Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindsets to Build a Culture of Workforce Readiness for All Students ,” educators from Township High School District 214 (IL) described how teaching entrepreneurial skills to students bolsters career readiness. Yet not all students are on a college track.

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eSchool News

JULY 11, 2023

Salaries The percentage of EdTech Leaders earning $130,000 or more has tripled over ten years, from six percent in 2013 to 18 percent today. The report reveals that a majority of educators believe technology helps personalize student learning so they can focus on individual needs and meet learning goals.

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MindShift

AUGUST 12, 2020

Steve Middleton worked as an engineer for more than a decade before transitioning to education. . Steve Middleton worked as an engineer for more than a decade before transitioning to education. . Mikia Frazier, too, spent years envisioning the day she would get to walk into her own classroom. Then COVID-19 changed everything.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MARCH 11, 2022

Viruses often do this; but as I was preparing for this talk, I wondered: Do viral ideas follow the same trajectory? Background : Back in February, I gave the keynote address for the IFLIP symposium on flipped learning hosted by Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Then there was a major snowstorm the day before, so it all worked out.)

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Despite the promise of digital technologies, not all communities around the world have the access they need. One way to lessen the global digital divide is to provide affordable and accessible computing education to all, regardless of socioeconomic background. Over the last 15 years, its commercial arm, Raspberry Pi Ltd.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

But instead of shuttering schools with dropping enrollment — a move that often triggers community backlash — they’re redesigning them by offering popular education programs such as dual language or Montessori that are meant to serve as bait for families who otherwise might be paying for those offerings at private schools.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The education platform surveyed parents in California and Texas to understand their perspectives on their children’s education. In California, most parents have sought tutoring or study sessions (26 percent), homework help or after-school programs (23 percent), or educational online platforms (20 percent).

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