Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

From digital certificates to learning analytics, here are eight EdTech trends to look forward to in the coming months. Video-assisted Learning. Additionally, Chron reports that some schools have even replaced the usual blackboard and whiteboard with smartboards this year. 3D Printing. Videos: Why, How, Options.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 30, 2017

Teachers (or homeschooling parents) can track the progress of up to thirty students organized into a class where they are able to gauge learning outcomes via a web-based Learning Analytics Dashboard. The Education account includes a student report card so all stakeholders can track student progress. Android: goo.gl/HheVDf.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2022

Early stage edtechs are also participating in the AWS EdStart program, the AWS edtech virtual startup accelerator, designed to help entrepreneurs build the next generation of online learning, analytics and campus management solutions on the AWS Cloud.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

As a premium member, EdisonLearning will work with the DLC and its member groups in a number of capacities, including as a contributor to DLC strategy and direction through participation in DLC Executive Committee meetings and participating in committees, surveys, and research and development of DLC resources including reports and web pages.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. Those resources are increasingly delivered in digital form.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This technology allows students and staff to access multiple applications and resources with a single username and password. IT staff at our schools reported that teachers were stressed out about logging in to the point where some would just give up on using technology and go back to their regular pen and paper process.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Gone are the days when a blackboard/whiteboard and textbooks were the only student resources available to learners. Today, students are blessed with interactive platforms, personalized education, online learning, and educational software that have been designed to enhance the learning experience.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

If your school uses Edmodo as a Learning Management System, roll out Edmodo for Parents so parents can keep updated on how their children are doing anytime, not just during report cards and parent conferences. Jupiter iO is an all-in-one cloud-based gradebook, LMS, SIS (Student Information System), and Learning Analytics solution.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 29, 2023

Helps Track and Assess Performance Online publishing platforms offer the feature of learning analytics reports, which help curriculum creators and educators track the engagement level of students. In addition, the reports contain evaluations of a students’ performance in tests.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Platforms like X/Twitter, LinkedIn, and education-specific websites offer spaces for educators to share experiences, resources, and insights. Organizations like the Clayton Christensen Institute, RAND Corporation, and the Brookings Institution often publish reports and research on educational trends, providing data-driven perspectives.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2021

All educators have now become managers and reporters of data, whether they are classroom teachers compiling information on individual students and sharing it with parents, or top district administrators evaluating teachers, principals, and all their students. Optimizing Data Reports. By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

Must have 7 resources.” Speaking to an audience of researchers from the education industry last week at the Bay Area Learning Analytics Conference , held at the University of California at Berkeley, Deb shared how Chegg uses a Stanford-built tool to try to keep out students who just want an online tutor to do their homework.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

They’re counting how many times students use electronic library resources or visit in person, and comparing that to how well the students do in their classes and how likely they are to stay in school and earn a degree. Gillies was able to show with data that online resources were more popular with students, and heavily used.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The goal is to protect marginalized students by ensuring resource equity so that high-needs schools are on a level playing field. Districts and schools must track, report, and communicate actionable program data to demonstrate impact and the constructive use of funds. The same goes for high-poverty schools at the district level.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2023

AI in Schools and Classrooms Edweek shared in a 2020 article , In education, AI can be found in learning analytic platforms, online courseware, voice assistants, and support structures within other apps. The same Edweek article quoted above also shares a quote from a report released by the Consortium for School Networking (COSN).

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 14, 2017

And now for something completely different… I’m taking a pause from talking directly about open for a moment to share some resources I’ve recently found that have made my data life much more efficient and enjoyable. This image from the BBC is not subject to opencontent.org’s Creative Commons license.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Here’s what caught my eye the week of March 6, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics. " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 12, 2018

With this knowledge, administrators can leverage their data to make smart decisions about using the apps that will best improve learning. Baker, Director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics and Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, studied 1.4M Dr. Ryan S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Ringelstein and Renaissance Last February, Wisconsin-based learning analytics and assessment platform Renaissance Learning acquired UClass , a San Francisco-based startup that billed itself back then as a “Dropbox for Education.” The lawsuit is still pending. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

Now the website that Digital Tattoo runs is a resource website that has a lot of information for people who are looking to clean up or take control over their digital identities. All of this data was compiled into these statistical reports that were accessible by instructors and administrators and I was kind of overwhelmed by that.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. Whole-Class Learning is Here. By Kelly Bielefeld, Clearwater Intermediate and Middle School.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Tip Tap Tap Learning Analytics. Gamification for Learning. Through our cloud-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS), educators can source and control the delivery of quality and validated educational content from their own tablet, laptop or desktop. Leveraging Learning Analytics.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 27, 2015

Technologically-based tools provide opportunities for students to learn both in and out of the classroom. The use of technological innovations such as cloud computing, mobile learning, bring?your?own?device Social learning networks, e?portfolios, Several representative examples of these innovations are highlighted below.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

” Via NPR : “Report: Michigan State Spent $500,000 To Keep Tabs On Nassar Victims, Journalists.” From the Google blog : “ Chromebook tablets for versatile learning.” Speaking of Google , Wired reports that “Children’s YouTube is still churning out blood, suicide and cannibalism.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Here’s media reporter Mathew Ingram’s take (and there are lots of takes out there. “ California ’s teacher tenure battle is reignited by Vergara appeal and a new bill,” The LA Times reports. Via The US News & World Report : “The View From a Testing Giant.” The takes).

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

. “High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. ” “ Smartwatch cheats force Thai students back to exam halls,” the BBC reports.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Via The Hechinger Report : “Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education – with one big exception.” Research, “Research,” and Reports. ” The latest report from the Pew Research Center : “ The Science People See on Social Media.” ” Spoiler alert: Latinos.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

EdTech Strategies’ Doug Levin launched a new project in 2017 – “ The K–12 Cyber Incident Map ” – that visualizes the breaches, ransomware attacks, DDOS attacks, phishing attacks, and so on that have been reported at US public schools. Some 280 incidents since January 2016. Washington University in St.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

“when it comes to adopting online learning on a large scale, universities have the organisational memory of a particularly forgetful goldfish”. Other traditional higher education providers will start to get it right (but suffer from limited resources). Expect them to be reported on enthusiastically in 2015 conferences.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

“when it comes to adopting online learning on a large scale, universities have the organisational memory of a particularly forgetful goldfish”. Other traditional higher education providers will start to get it right (but suffer from limited resources). Expect them to be reported on enthusiastically in 2015 conferences.

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