eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The approval was based upon new, state-reviewed efficacy research confirming that 95 Percent Group’s foundational reading products meet Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Level 1-3 evidence requirement for reading instruction. 95 Percent Group believes that evidence-based reading instruction is essential in schools.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

More and more school districts today are making it a priority to use high-quality instructional materials that not only demonstrate both efficacy and a positive impact on student achievement but also provide teachers the training and support they need to successfully implement the curriculum.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2021

The Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) announced an agreement with OverDrive Education to provide access to online books to every K-12 student in the state. We are excited all public school students in Delaware will have the opportunity this summer to immerse themselves in literacy,” Secretary of Education Susan Bunting said.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Just a couple of weeks ago, the Library of Congress announced the launch of three new apps for Web and mobile, developed by educational organizations that were supported by an LOC grant for app development. Links to Library of Congress primary source analysis guides. These are not the first apps from the Library of Congress.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Other interesting features provided by Simply Piano include: courses to help you learn piano, a library full of fun songs for practice, feedback on your playing, learn the basics step-by-step from reading sheet music to playing with both hands, personalized 5-min workouts, 3D touch, and many more. You can use it to play your favourite songs.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Digital learning not only plays a crucial role in preparing today’s students for the jobs of tomorrow, it also has an important role in providing equity and access to education, especially in smaller and remote school districts. Croix River Education District. Christine Fox’s background includes experience in education and consulting.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Business news is packed with unicorns, and Newsela is the latest in education to join the herd after reaching the vaunted billion-dollar valuation. No doubt some of that growth was spurred by the pandemic, which led many educators scrambling to find online materials to support remote instruction. million teachers.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

While the pandemic has disrupted education much more than any Silicon Valley fad, it has also accelerated the kinds of technology adoption that the industry has long pined for. As people are forced to learn from home, some online educational services are in greater demand than ever. But investors’ checkbooks remain open.

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ExcelinEd

JUNE 10, 2020

Department of Education made available almost $3 billion for the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund (GEER). As governors across the country decide how to spend GEER funding, some are also applying to the Department’s Rethink K-12 Education Discretionary Grant Program. Priority 3: Other Remote Learning Strategies.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Two elements from my training as educator lead me to really embrace this topic: Background in Experiential Education. This permits learners to have a direct and sensory experience interacting with the instructional materials. Studying the Reflective Practitioner During Graduate School. Experiential Learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Amidst the tectonic shifts that may be on the global horizon, there’s a comparatively smaller phenomenon brewing in US K-12 education. Online instructional materials have come a long way from the McGuffey Readers of the late 1800s. What characteristics make them potentially disruptive?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Kiddom , a startup based in San Francisco, will offer core curriculum materials from the nonprofit publisher on its curriculum management system. The platform also offers a library of supplemental resources from third-party providers. Founded in 2013, the company has raised $21.5 million in investment to date.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 19, 2017

In fact, it has been so successful, O-G is being mainstreamed into the general education classroom, as a way to unlock the power of reading for more students. As early as 1925 he identified dyslexia as an educational problem. Anna Gillingham was a gifted educator and psychologist. What is Orton-Gillingham?

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

—Natalie Franzi, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Middletown Township Schools 2. Empower teachers to personalize instruction Ultimately, it comes down to the teacher. No advancement in classroom technology or instructional materials will ever have the impact of a passionate, empowered teacher. Source: Newsela.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2017

Access to online resources including digital content, interactive education apps and websites, videos, experts and peers is no longer a “nice to have” but rather a necessity. He is an experienced educator with a passion to progressively revitalize educational systems. Leverage Partnerships. He earned a B.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. Sandbox AR is available for download here.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Susan Adelmann is vice president of strategic partnerships at Follett School & Library Group, a corporate supporter of Digital Promise. When I think about how the adoption and acquisition of technology is changing in K-12 education, it brings to mind the well-known Sydney Harris cartoon. I’ll bet you’ve seen it.

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TeacherCast

JUNE 19, 2019

I love this time of year because for one week out of the year, 20,000 educators come from across the country to celebrate the great things that happen in our schools. Microsoft Education – Booth 2900. Are you excited about the ISTE Conference? ThinkWrite – Booth 1251. Learn more at [link]. Shmoop – Booth 554.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Keeping track of students’ questions and chatting with them in real time can feel more like being a short-order cook during the breakfast rush than an educator. The company is fueled by more than $120 billion that Uncle Sam has pumped into educational recovery after the pandemic, when students lost months of instruction and fell behind.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Library closures hit patrons hard—especially those who relied on them as their main internet source and used them to access online educational resources. Teachers cite the challenges of remote instruction as a top reason for leaving their jobs during the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2017

Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. Many are also joining to support passage of the Accessible Instructional Materials in Higher Education (AIM HE) Act. It could not have been easy for UC Berkeley to decide to remove public access to educational materials. Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

We created a list of the best tools for flipped classrooms for K-12 grades, including screen recording tools, tools, interactive whiteboard educational apps, software to create interactive lessons and videos, apps for communicating, creating a PowerPoint presentation, and ready-to-use video content resources. Khan Academy. Doceri For iPad.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director of SETDA, offered highlights from the report, and Ryan Kocsondy, Director of Connecticut Education Network (CEN), gave an inside look at why Connecticut schools don’t worry about running out of bandwidth. Christine’s background includes experience in education and consulting.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 16, 2017

Access to online resources including digital content, interactive education apps and websites, videos, experts and peers is no longer a “nice to have” but rather a necessity. He is an experienced educator with a passion to progressively revitalize educational systems. Michael Cory is Principal of Richard H. He earned a B.S.

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edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

In a recent edWebinar , presenters from Idaho and Pennsylvania discussed how state and district leadership support digital learning opportunities and implement digital materials. According to the Brookings Institution there is strong evidence that the choice of instructional materials has large effects on student learning.

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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. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. This begs the question: What’s next for education? What are the projections for edtech?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

In this comprehensive guide, I’ve categorized a selection of key search engines for teachers and educators into various categories, each tailored to meet specific needs within the educational landscape. My goal is to make the digital world more navigable and less overwhelming, especially in an educational context.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we interviewed across library land curated in several different ways and we used the term curation differently depending on current community needs or where they were in any particular project.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2016

The eBook provides educators with digital curriculum strategies, case studies and insights for connecting courses, resources and assessments with common standards and learning objects. Guide provides case studies on how districts successfully adopted integrated digital curriculum systems.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

APRIL 4, 2015

Be on the look out for my next series… entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning and also 40 great education sites to discover in 2015. NSF Resources For STEM Education – A great collection of teacher resources, instructional materials, assessment, and up-to-date research regarding STEM.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2016

The South Carolina State Board of Education approved the adoption with Carolina Biological. ” Developed in partnership with Twig World, a London based education content developer, Tigtag and Twig represent award winning educational resources used by science teachers throughout the world.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2016

The national report, From Print to Pixel: The role of videos, games, animations and simulations within K-12 education , reveals that in 2010, only 23 percent of surveyed teachers said they used games, compared to 48 percent of those surveyed in 2015. What should we expect in further adoptions of visually engaging digital tools in education?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 24, 2017

Kiddom’s greatest asset (in my opinion) is the free library of standards-based resources. Some are developed by experienced educators, and others are curated from trusted third-party sources like CK-12 and Khan Academy (meaning the videos, online games, etc. All opinions are my own.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Commercials, shown alongside educational programming, entered one of the last ad-free spaces in children’s lives. It’s not just a question of exposure to advertising and commercial branding, but of the ethics of public education in an increasingly digital world. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Kathy Schrock

JULY 7, 2015

This is a re-posting of a blog post of July 12, 2013, which originally appeared on the now-defunct Sony Education Ambassadors site. If you were an education major in college, you are probably very familiar with Bloom's Taxonomy. Retrieve information: Evernote https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.evernote

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ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

In one recent survey by vaunted education publisher McGraw-Hill, 93 percent of teachers equated social-emotional learning with academic learning in terms of overall importance. Yet just 22 percent said they felt “very prepared” to teach SEL in classrooms. ” not “ Does this product excite me as an educator?

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

–Immersive New Content Empowers Educators to Create Dynamic Digital Learning Environments for All Students – Silver Spring, Md. All three vignettes are now available in Discovery Education Streaming Plus and the Social Studies Techbook. s potential to transform industries like education, business, and health. This Is A.I.

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