EdTech Magazine

JUNE 2, 2020

Pearson Online Academy will celebrate graduation this year the same way it always does: virtually. The big difference this year is that Pearson Online won’t be alone. In Killeen, Texas, for example, school district administrators already use the free local cable station Channel 17 to broadcast community news.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 1, 2020

Pearson Online Academy will celebrate graduation this year the same way it always does: virtually. The big difference this year is that Pearson Online won’t be alone. In Killeen, Texas, for example, school district administrators already use the free local cable station Channel 17 to broadcast community news.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Pearson is expanding the power of digital technology to help students build strong writing skills. Now, Pearson Writer digital writing resources are integrated with Microsoft Word, providing students access to support for improving their writing skills. Nine out of 10 students agree that Pearson Writer was easy to use.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

“Their goal is to have trained employees ready to enter the field; ours as a career center is to give students the workforce and soft skills to be employable in whatever they choose,” said Jim Pearson, director of the Hinds center.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Prior to joining Imagine Learning, Mr. Cowdrey served in sales and management positions for several software and education companies, including Scott Foresman Addison Wesley, Pearson, and Novell. Jeremy notes the positive change in teacher attitudes towards technology, citing examples of enhanced teaching capabilities through digital tools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Many colleges have adopted inclusive access models—while publishers like Pearson , McGraw Hill and Cengage have made them part of their switch to digital—to ensure students can access books at a discounted price.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Catherine Pearson, parent of a student in special education. When he entered first grade in 2008, after a half-day kindergarten program, his school district, in Eagle Point, Oregon, never even attempted a full-day schedule, Pearson said. It’s very sneaky,” Pearson said. Credit: Catherine Pearson. But that never happened.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

million settlement over curriculum from education software giant Pearson that the school system said its teachers barely used. Unified while Pearson provided curriculum on the devices as a subcontractor. As a result, the settlement was with Apple, even though the dispute concerned the Pearson product.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

One example cited was a Pearson A/B test that earned negative media coverage a few years ago. As part of the experiment, students at randomly selected colleges were shown encouraging messages after choosing an incorrect answer during online quizzes, and Pearson later published a paper on its “social-psychological interventions.”

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2019

There is no right way to accomplish this as you will see from the examples below. Recently I observed a great example of this during a coaching visit with Kay’s Creek Elementary School in Farmington, UT. Wells Elementary School in Texas is a great example of how a unifying focus becomes a reality. Pearson Education, Inc.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

For example, a new study published in the journal PNAS Nexus found that, among students who perform poorly in intro STEM classes, those who are underrepresented minorities are even less likely to end up earning STEM degrees than their white, male counterparts.

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Reading By Example

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Allington’s book with Patricia Cunningham, Schools that Work: Where All Children Read and Write (Pearson, 2007), is also excellent for literacy leaders. The research by Richard Allington cited in the previous post can be found at the Reading Rockets website; click here. What is “best practice”?

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 16, 2019

For example, you can find roles such as “Special Education Paraprofessional” to “Director of Web Services” to “HR Intern.” Pearson Online. Many in our EdNews Daily community have worked as test administrators or scorers for Pearson in the past, but they have hundreds of other job possibilities as well.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In a recent blog post , Feldstein notes that OLI launched a whole new market segment for textbooks, inspiring commercial publishers, including Pearson, Cengage and Wiley, to build their own courseware products that are now growing in adoption. Since the pandemic, Carnegie Mellon has seen an uptick in people using OLI courseware.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2018

For example, students can see what elements make up a grass block or use helium to make pigs fly, a Minecraft blog reports. Creating immersive learning experiences was another focus of Microsoft’s announcement, with the blog revealing a new chemistry update to Minecraft: Education Edition.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

These numbers still trail those from the likes of Pearson, which claimed 8 million subscribers in 2019 for its digital courseware platform. Wiley, for example, purchased Knewton and zyBooks just two months apart in 2019 to bolster its digital offerings. million to 3 million. About 80 percent of them are based in the U.S.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

For example, Christensen recalled his $2, staticky childhood transistor radio. Coursera, for example, reported that as of the end of 2020, it had grown to having more than 77 million registered learners on its platform from more than 190 countries—although not all of those people are taking courses for credit or are seeking credentials.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Examples from The Hechinger Report’s collection of misleading research claims touted by ed tech companies. That same school year, Pearson paid for a study of SuccessMaker Reading in kindergarten and first grade. Pearson stands behind its findings. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 20, 2019

In today’s blog post and podcast episode, we’re sharing five real-world examples of teachers who used their summer to improve their classroom and earn professional development credit. So, Krysia, you have some examples for us of relevant, impactful, learning. So, Krysia, you have some examples for us of relevant, impactful, learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

So far the company has won participation by major textbook publishers, including Palgrave, Wiley and Pearson. For example, one user can tag another to check a highlighted or annotated quotation. One partner, Pearson, took a pre-tax loss of approximately $3.2 And what’s more, students can collaborate on the platform.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 5, 2018

Also, this piece will provide examples of how the leading online language school 51Talk goes above and beyond to make these connections personal and long-lasting. For example, when educators work with a group class, they can provide team activities which can provide a level of comfort for students who may not like one-on-one encounters.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

For example, if an individual student’s summative assessment is significantly different from previous test data, a teacher may want to look for underlying issues or problems,” Monica Fuglei writes for education blog Room 241. You have to let go of some of the micromanagement,” Montero says in a study conducted by Pearson.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Below you can find a full list of important skills extracted from the Future of Skills report , created by Pearson. I have an example for a collaboration project that can promote this skill and was done by De La Salle University-Dasmariñas (Philippines) and Mt. Complex problem solving. Agility and adaptability. Digital literacy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2017

Additionally, the two largest textbook publishers, Pearson and McGraw-Hill, use the UbD framework in many of their textbooks and programs, similar to this example from Pearson’s biology curriculum. the framework for the national curriculum in the Philippines and Puerto Rico. the Next Generation Arts Standards.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Code.org has been a prime example of championing the effort to address these gaps by supporting K-12 schools and developing initiatives to get girls and underrepresented minorities more interested and involved in computer science. Instead, it means families need creative spaces where they can come together, code together and learn together.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 5, 2017

For example, if you have a faucet in the bathroom that has a sensor, and you put in your hands, water comes out. That’s just an example of one of the SMART objects that we have all around us. For example “Move Forward” or “Move Backward” or “Turn the Red Light On” or “Turn the Blue Light On” or “Sing” response to a sound.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

For example, an attack against Finalsite, a software company used by schools across the country, affected around 5,000 school websites earlier this month. Not all the risk comes from computers within a school The many outside systems that schools contract with aren’t immune from attacks, and are outside of a school’s control.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

For example, in mid-July, publishing giant Pearson announced it will adopt a “digital first” strategy for updating college course materials. The survey includes responses from nearly 20,000 college students at 41 four-year and two-year institutions across 20 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2022

For example: Joshua Halpern, a core team member for the Libretexts OER project, says that his group moved over about 150 to 200 books to their platform. That would be great,” Morris says, later clarifying that that was a joke.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Vanessa Pearson, UMPI’s interim dean of students, says as part of the shift, professors and administrators have also examined their own courses to identify “learning outcomes,” which are specific pieces of knowledge that students must know to graduate from a certain program. Vanessa Pearson, UMPI’s interim dean of students.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

The winners of the 2023 EdTech CODiE Awards serve as prime examples of exceptional products, services and groundbreaking innovation that enables learners of all types to connect with educators and educational materials,” said SIIA President Chris Mohr. The scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

The plan is for the university’s professors to work with Walmart leaders to help add scenarios and examples to the curriculum related to what Walmart does. The institution missed its early admissions targets and ended up cutting ties with Pearson, which had been brought in to handle marketing and recruitment. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. Under a 2018 law in Missouri, for example, virtual schools are paid a prorated monthly cost based on students’ completion of assignments and assessments.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

For example, if Illuminate made an assessment acquisition, then Pearson made one, and Measured Progress made one, all of a sudden it might be time to put ourselves out there if that’s our area.”. Number two, have there been recent acquisitions in your area of edtech?

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Let me give you an example. I believe the reason Lisa feels compelled to call out Pearson’s behavior as “pillaging” is because it ignores the core value of open education – sharing. Pearson doesn’t share under open licenses – not content, not metadata, not source code.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

The researchers also found limited use of online curriculum provided by Pearson, for which the district purchased a three-year license, at the added cost of about $200 per device. Under the initial plan, all teachers were expected to shift to Pearson online curriculum. The results were sobering but not altogether surprising.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.). Pearson is Not a Platform. I’m not sure if we can still call Pearson “the world’s largest education company.”

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