Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 1, 2019

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

On an ordinary June morning, kids descend on the campus of Auburn University to try science experiments at the college of education’s annual STEM camp. But education students still need to work on lesson plans, and kids still need summer activities. train future educators to teach online, experts say. No computer.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2022

Camps are trying to be creative in how they hire education professionals,” Rosenberg says. So it’s possible, he says, to make this work, even after a taxing few years in education. “If At times, they’re getting schooled in STEM and social-emotional learning. They’re having to be more flexible.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Nine New Jersey elementary middle school students are joining forces with Pearson designers and developers to help the company design features for digital learning solutions. Participants in Kids CoLab Hoboken will meet virtually and face-to-face throughout the 2015-2016 school year with teams from Pearson.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2019

Education can seem like a balancing act between what we as adults feel is essential and what interests our learners. Academies Academy programs represent a bold new direction for education, one that considers student interests, national need, and global demand for highly qualified graduates capable of competing at the most challenging levels.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Wiley had disclosed paying $56 million in cash for zyBooks, a digital courseware provider for STEM and computer science subjects. Kibby was previously an executive at McGraw-Hill Education and Pearson. In addition to those deals, Wiley said it also made “two immaterial acquisitions” for its research publishing division.

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TeacherCast

JULY 29, 2018

This year at ISTE , I had the opportunity to sit down with Tricia Van Hollebeke, Justin Chando and Mike Tholfsen from the Microsoft Education team at the Microsoft Education booth. Microsoft Education at ISTE. STEM Education. Hacking STEM. Minecraft: Education Edition. Microsoft Innovative Educator.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2019

When it comes to the business of education, the teenage years of this century are going out with a bang. And topping the charts is a story about educators marshalling forces against a telecoms giant. Over the following days, we’ll be sharing the top stories of the year in K-12 and higher education readers. Coincidence?)

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Over the following days, we’ll be sharing the top stories of the year for our business, K-12 and higher education readers. And Pearson is still around. Also top of mind are worries over whether the bells and whistles of flashy educational apps are demanding too much of our attention and fostering unhealthy device habits.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

10 Summer Jobs For Teachers in 2017: Back to Basics Learning Dynamics is hiring experienced, accomplished tutors, teachers, translators, interpreters, and education specialists in Delaware. Psychologists for psycho-educational evaluations on an as-needed basis. Change the face of education. Back to Basics Learning Dynamics, Inc.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In addition, DevTech recruited facilitators, such as educators and museum coordinators, from all over the country to host these events in their respective communities and created Family Coding Day protocols that are freely accessible and can be adapted for other coding technologies.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Just in time for the annual ISTE conference, Google Education is expanding its offerings in the form of three announcements, opening up products including Expeditions to anyone with a device and an interest in learning. Projecting With ‘Cast for Education’. In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 23, 2016

Professor and Program Director of Teaching, School of Education, American Public University. The role of visual art, music, dance, and theatre in K-12 education continues to evolve. The STEAM effort outlines why the arts are necessary: Arts education is a key to creativity. Imagination encircles the world.” Former U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Pearson Ventures, International Finance Corp., In a statement Monday, Pearson announced its $2.2 As part of Pearson Ventures’ first investments, it also gave $2 million to Knowledge to Practice, a Bethesda, Md. As part of Pearson Ventures’ first investments, it also gave $2 million to Knowledge to Practice, a Bethesda, Md.-based

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

Jamie Najera Jamie Najera, an administrator at Colegio Nexus School in Monterrey, Mexico, traveled about 300 miles this week to attend the International Society for Technology in Education ( ISTE ) conference, where he hoped to find new technologies to support his students. “We You know education is not a big business in Mexico.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

You will also find a good variety specific for educators. These 10 companies are hiring teachers over the summer 2017: Back to Basics Learning Dynamics is hiring experienced, accomplished tutors, teachers, translators, interpreters, and education specialists in Delaware. Change the face of education. Teachers and Tutors.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

Textbook publishers, once considered likely and logical buyers for education technology startups, have lost a bit of their appetite. Pearson has bowed out (but started its own investment fund ). based education company has acquired Zyante, Inc., Cengage and McGraw-Hill are merging— with each other. The Hoboken, N.J.-based

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 29, 2016

In recent dealmaking news, VIF International Education has acquired an online collaboration platform for teachers, while four ed-tech companies have attracted the support of investors. VIF wasn’t the only education company to show interest in online communities for teachers this month. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Whatever peace and quiet educators may have expected over Labor Day weekend were rattled by a Saturday morning New York Times story: “ Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues.” The piece from Natasha Singer examines the murky relationship between edtech developers and the educators who tout their products.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

based company again took a swipe at the search giant in today’s announcement to its educational offerings. The company will unveil a slew of updates this week at the Bett Show 2018, a major education technology expo in London. The attacks may have since toned down in intensity. Yet the Redmond, Wa.-based

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

It really helped financially for me to have that extra money because, frankly, educators in most places in the United States don't get paid enough—especially in Oklahoma. I’m sure any educator could add to that list. LaShundra Wigfall: I started out part-time, where I was teaching in the morning and then I would rush off to school.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 5, 2017

You can also use and create breakout educational experiences. Dr. Marina Umaschi Bers is a professor at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University ([link] She also heads the interdisciplinary Developmental Technologies research group at the University. Students can program. Listen Now.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

And with certain established companies like Pearson pulling out of the LMS ranks , where do you start? And for some additional help, each educator has offered rationales for why those checklist items should be included.). It’s the make-or-break point in choosing what products she and her fellow educators like or abhor. “We

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Leading schools understand that technology and student services go hand-in-hand, as mobile devices are now ubiquitous (a study by Pearson Education indicates that 9 out of 10 college students own a smartphone). And one of the key ways schools are enhancing their connection with students is through personal technology.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2019

The drone was part of a demonstration of the powerful technology that the neuroinfomatics company EMOTIV offered at a conference on the power of technology and education. There is increasing interest in the role of meditation and mindfulness training in education. All important.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

Dr. Angela Peery has been an educator 31 years and has served as a secondary English teacher, secondary administrator, instructional coach, turnaround specialist, curriculum developer, and consultant. Kimberly” as she is known by many, has been an educator and literacy consultant for many years. FlashCard Stash. Full Bio As Submitted.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. In it''s second year, this amazing five-day, 24-hour-a-day event helps educators and students connect with each other and with global education programs all over the world. Last year we had presentations from 62 countries.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Published by Pearson Canada Inc., Reprinted with permission by Pearson Canada Inc. We also learned—and have experienced in our careers as mathematics educators and researchers—that spatial reasoning is a curiously unacknowledged and neglected area of the curriculum. Education matters! By Joan Moss, Catherine D.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 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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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 23, 2016

Education giant Pearson announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce ( nice summary from the WaPo ). This is interesting and relevant to higher education for several reasons, but I would like to focus on how this brutal riffing draws on a theme I’ve been sounding for years. emphases added].

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Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 13, 2016

There is a growing consensus among those who work in open education – including organizations like BC Campus , Creative Commons , the Hewlett Foundation , Lumen Learning , OpenStax , the Open Textbook Network , Rebus , and others – that the Creative Commons Attribution (BY) License is our preferred license. STEM discipline?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). We will also be crowd sourcing a monthly webinar schedule to offer PD based sessions using Common Core Standards and STEM resources.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2023

The ClassIn platform has been purpose-built for education and based on nearly a decade of research, development, and in-market experience. Through its software and hardware solutions, ClassIn provides the digital infrastructure for the hybrid future of education by building classrooms in both the virtual and physical worlds.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 2, 2021

News about economic stimulus funding for K-12 education brought a lot of excitement, confusion, and questions for both vendors and school districts. billion designated for education, only $13.2 In the third round, the federal government made its largest contribution to K-12 education: $130 billion to be spent by 2024.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Software & Online ACCELERATE LEARNING STEMSCOPES SCIENCE ( www.stemscopes.com ) Accelerate Learning announced a new platform using the best of CNN’s digital content to create a new science education product. Advantages School International provides quality education to students around the globe.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

He envisioned a game-based educational platform used by teachers and students to learn about science and the environment. And he had interest from educators who wanted to try Planet3 in schools that included the Las Vegas area. A Most Difficult Game The struggles of Planet3 are not unique to the educational game industry.

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