eSchool News

MAY 26, 2021

Unlike fully self-paced competitors that give students practice videos and content snippets for individual consumption, ChalkTalk generates personalized lesson plans and actionable teaching materials for teacher-led instruction—whether that teaching takes place in-person or remotely over a web-conferencing platform such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 27, 2017

Tagged on: April 28, 2017 As Chromebook sales soar in schools, Apple and Microsoft fight back | TechCrunch → Another in a series of horse race stories about how device makers are competing for the education market. A major contributing factor to the disparities continues to be the lack of appropriate instructional materials."

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

AVID also launched a website, “Open Access,” that curates digital instructional materials from nine content providers including Code.org, Microsoft and MIT. It marks one of AVID’s first forays into online instructional content.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

For example: which voices are represented during decision-making processes and in our instructional materials? Representation Representation means more than just showing students STEM professionals of color; we have to incorporate people of color beyond tokenization and truly create a diverse community that includes these voices.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 8, 2016

The Software and Information Industry Association, in a recent online post , said the campaign—which encourages states and districts to consider open options—wrongly suggests that open resources are invariably linked with districts’ shifts to adopting digital materials, whereas commercial materials are stuck in the print world.

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techlearning

AUGUST 15, 2018

Microsoft, Dell, Domino’s Pizza, Pandora, Timberland, LinkedIn, Yelp, Zillow, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. NEW YORK, August 15, 2018— Inc. magazine today revealed that Curriculum Associates is number 3,181 on its 37th annual Inc.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

The combination of Core5 and Schoolwork will streamline the classroom workflow, make it easier to distribute and collect instructional materials, and provide educators with useful and timely insight into each student’s progress to ensure learning is taking place. announced it has acquired Flipgrid Inc.,

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Doug Levin

MAY 6, 2017

Third , there are pros and cons for K-12 schools in centralizing their IT operations on a single vendor’s technology platform or service, whether that be Apple, Google, Microsoft or a competitor. On the one hand, centralization addresses a real pain point for schools: interoperability.

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edWeb.net

MAY 5, 2019

Microsoft has developed free mainstreamed non-stigmatized learning tools such as Immersive Reader, Inclusion Math, Translator and Closed Caption that empower classroom and special education teachers to create inclusive, accessible learning environments for all students. The [Microsoft] learning tools transformed writing for our pupils.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Only 21 states have any kind of dedicated state funding for technology, and this can range from just digital instructional materials (e.g. Companies like Apple, Microsoft and Google regularly supply schools with discounted technology that districts could not otherwise afford themselves. But these options, too, come with a catch.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here are some of the best note taking apps to use in school: Google Keep Bear Evernote Notion SimpleNote Microsoft OneNote 6. They provide a convenient way for teachers and educators to create and share instructional materials and step by step guides.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2016

With over 3,000 resources available at launch from teachers, ed-tech innovators such as Education.com and the independent game developer Muzzy Lane, and established providers such as Microsoft and the iconic children’s magazine Highlights, the HMH Marketplace (Beta) offers a wide variety of applications and tools to supplement classroom learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2016

Gina Raimondo has announced a comprehensive computer science education initiative in partnership with Microsoft, Code.org , colleges and universities across Rhode Island, and others. Computational thinking and problem-solving skills are critical to every job in the future,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said. “We

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Microsoft Instructional Materials STEM Training 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Yet commercialization of instructional materials—seeing students as future customers, ads on buses and in sports stadia—have been around for decades. After reading the article, I asked myself: What larger issues does the story of Kayla Delzer illustrate? Both business and schools are joined at the hip. Anyone remember Channel One?)

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

“Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google Are Fighting a War for the Classroom,” Edutechnica wrote in June , with a look at how many colleges have adopted their competing “pseudo-LMSes.” (In ed-tech, never forget: “ The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release.”).

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