Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pearson Education did something it’s never done before. For education that means building technology based on what we know about learning. David Porcaro, director of Learning Design at Pearson, says the decision to collect and share these learning design principles “is like putting the ingredients list on food labels.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2023

The award was announced at Certiport’s 2023 CERTIFIED Educator Conference , where educators gather to explore the full promise and potential of business and technology certification in the classroom. You can also hear about Karen’s passion for teaching and technology on the CERTIFIED Educator Podcast.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In one middle school that participated in the Digital Promise study, teachers used Microsoft Forms, which utilizes Azure to collect and analyze data. The tool, available as part of Microsoft 365 Education , helped teachers conduct a preassessment to measure each student’s skill level before lessons began. . by Eli Zimmerman.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

For several weeks, Microsoft mercilessly drummed up hype over its May 2 #MicrosoftEDU event in New York City. The company sent teasers to every major press outlet, yet kept mum on specific details, leading to endless speculation over what the technology giant had up its sleeves. Would it unveil a new device? Thankfully that was a joke.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Among the emerging technologies hitting the K–12 sphere, virtual, augmented and mixed reality tools have garnered a lot of interest. Students studying information technology took advantage of the VR headsets to create computer programs and troubleshoot technology issues. Mixed Reality Brings New Life to K–12 Classrooms.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms. But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

Originally, the curriculum and textbook giant Pearson filed for the pair of patents in 2017, on behalf of the online credential product it made at the time called Acclaim. It’s worth noting that both Pearson and Credly had long been working with the Open Badges community. “These things have existed for a really long time,” she adds.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I have always fundamentally understood that when it comes to implementation of new innovations, whether technological, instructional or organizational, it is a cardinal rule to “Not implement too much at once!” About four years ago, Pearson purchased the company that supported North Carolina’s Student data system called NC WISE.

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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. Graduates have landed jobs with employers like Microsoft, Facebook and Boeing. Reach Capital led the round.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2017

A new collaboration between Pearson and Microsoft is using a self-contained holographic computer to develop “mixed reality” learning experiences for students. Microsoft says its HoloLens is the world’s first self-contained holographic computer. Video: Hololens.

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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. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 2, 2020

Microsoft have created a repository of learning and teaching resources for parents who are home schooling primary and middle school children. Educational publisher Pearson has made many tools for learning free to access during the crisis. London CLC (Education Development Trust) has provided a guide for remote learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

What was once the premier, must-go conference in the education technology industry is now going away. Last week, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced that its education technology group will no longer operate as its own division beginning July 1. As part of the change, the Washington, D.C.-based

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JUNE 30, 2016

The large publishing companies ( Pearson , McGraw Hill ), technology players ( Google , Amazon ), and more well established ed tech ( Edmodo , BrainPOP ) all have a lot of real estate, including about a dozen people on the floor, and presentation theaters. I spoke with several start-ups to see how they were heard over the noise.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. It’s all of our loss, really, as too many in education technology happily reduce the potential of computer programming as an epistemological endeavor to a market for new products. This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2020

Kahoot CEO Eilert Hanoa says his team is adding a new feature that will enable closer integration with Microsoft Teams. Microsoft is an investor in Kahoot.) In its unaudited Q1 update, Pearson reported a 5 percent revenue dip in Q1 2020, driven in part by a continuing decline in its U.S. on Tuesday, up 7 percent from NOK 74.50

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Microsoft has long had a beef with Google—even if the company won’t always admit it today—dating back to the “Scroogled” advertisement campaign that critiqued the search giant’s Chromebooks and privacy policies. K-12 mobile devices, Microsoft still has some catching up to do. Is the window of opportunity open for Microsoft to catch up?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2018

And Pearson is still around. When teachers rely on tools from Google and Facebook just to keep up with students, it’s a “ race to the bottom ,” says Tristan Harris, who heads the Center for Humane Technology. What’s Next for Pearson? Apple and Google continue to up the ante in their quest to win adoption in classrooms.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

GOING TO MICROSOFT’S MARKET: Fresh off the heels of its whirlwind of product launches and announcements on May 2, Microsoft’s education partnerships team dedicated an entire day to wooing companies to join its Microsoft Education Program. Its first partner was. Which one would you hire?” edtech industry.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 7, 2020

As I learned many weeks ago from my interview with Jennifer Pearson , a teacher who had been teaching her students in China remotely for many weeks, this is NOT the time to throw a bunch of new tools at our teachers and students. Whether that is Google Classroom, a Google Doc, a Google Site, SeeSaw, Microsoft Teams, whatever, keep it simple!

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2018

What everybody pretty quickly realized was that digital technology combined with medical imaging and our ability to make 3D models as biomedical illustrators, those three factors all combine to really make it possible to teach anatomy in this way,” Griswold says. Students will use Google’s Daydream VR technology.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2021

SimiDigi (Dallas, TX) – A full-service workforce training and development company designed to cut costs for industrial organizations and train their mobile workforce through the use of 3D and Virtual Reality technology. gener8tor’s “OnRamp” model is designed to efficiently connect startups, corporations and capital.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. 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. Um, they do.)

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The practice is widespread from top to bottom: Apple, Google and Microsoft train and certify teachers who demonstrate expertise with their wares. Thrifty education technology startups have long relied on word of mouth to get their message across. He asked: “Why is this practice shocking in education?”

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 6, 2018

I do a show for the Jersey Educators Association and I also do it for Microsoft Education. He is currently the Coordinator for Technology Integration and Instructional Technology Coach for a K-12 Regional School District in New Jersey. Plus my client shows. So I guess that’s eleven shows total that I’m running simultaneously.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 6, 2020

In this candid interview, I chat with Jennifer Pearson, a tech coach who recently evacuated from China due to the Corona Virus. by Jennifer Pearson. Google Classroom, Seesaw, OneNote, or Microsoft Teams are all useful. Technology can also make it difficult for students to complete work on time. Coronavirus Closures?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Professional development conference helps educators bring the full promise and potential of technology certification to the classroom. Attendees will also get the chance to participate in the drama and excitement of the Certiport 2016 Microsoft Office Specialist U.S. National Championship by attending the final awards ceremony.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 28, 2020

Technology coaches and leaders are leading from home. Now is not the time for new tools, as we learned from Jennifer Pearson. Leaning on G Suite, Microsoft, and other Tools to Survive. Most schools have found themselves leaning heavily on G Suite or Microsoft tools to survive. Offline and Online Activities.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2016

A new report examines how giving students the power to explore digital technology improves learning. It is a powerful way of learning that is enhancing student engagement and preparing them for their college and career paths in modern, 21st century environments,” said Norton Gusky, Co-Chair, CoSN’s Emerging Technologies Committee.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2015

As school districts nationwide increasingly turn to digital content, the need for robust identity and access management technologies is growing. To read the full report, and to learn about exemplary districts that are turning to technology to manage authentication, visit: cosn.org/ed-tech-next-reports.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

How might new technologies – education or otherwise – and new economies reshape “what counts” as a credential , “what counts” as credit? If you want a job as a software developer in the technology industry, you’ll need a college degree. What is the implied promise? Preferably from Stanford.)

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

” Pearson cut 4000 jobs – 10% of its staff. I maintain a dataset of all education technology investments and all education technology investors. Glaring in its absence from this list: “personalization,” one of the most trumpeted technology “solutions” this year. (I’ll

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

ALMA START ( www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies launched an enrollment and admissions management tool called Alma Start. As part of this collaboration, ReadSpeaker’s text-to-speech technology will also be integrated within Blackboard Ally as an offline audio alternative for course content.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

The company has also begun partnering with other companies such as Pearson and Microsoft. Both K-12 and higher-ed institutions have begun to use WriteLab’s tools, including the likes of Stanford University, UC Riverside and the charter network, Carpe Diem. Even so, Ramirez described the edtech environment as “extremely challenging.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

.” I mean, yes, I’m totally making up the framing of the “trends” angle here (in the hopes, I confess, to defanging all those ridiculous clickbait articles that just list a bunch of shiny new consumer technology products and predict that they’re poised to “revolutionize school”).

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Highlights include new reader functionality in Destiny Library Manager, offline access on Chromebooks and support for exporting eBook notes to Google Drive or Microsoft One Drive documents, web accessibility guidelines update to Destiny Discover, QoL updates to the Lexile Reading Program Service and Resource Manager, and more.

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Hack Education

JULY 6, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” That’s the Indiana Agriculture and Technology School , which Chalkbeat investigated earlier this year. ” Yet another story promoting “student success technology” at Georgia State University. .”

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