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Teletherapy has been powering virtual special education for years

The Hechinger Report

But Kristin Martinez, the clinical director at PresenceLearning, which provides online special education services, said school leaders should take heart. PresenceLearning provides licensed speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists and behavioral and mental health professionals to hundreds of schools all over the country.

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US Edtech Raises $803M in First Half of 2020 As COVID-19 Forces Learning Online

Edsurge

While the pandemic has disrupted education much more than any Silicon Valley fad, it has also accelerated the kinds of technology adoption that the industry has long pined for. education technology companies raised more than $803 million in venture capital, according to an EdSurge database of publicly announced funding deals.

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Special Ed Teletherapy Provider PresenceLearning Gets a $27 Million Boost

Edsurge

One such provider is PresenceLearning , which has facilitated more than 2.5 Once used mostly by tech-savvy school districts, demand for its platform has accelerated as remote instruction has become a reality, according to Kate Eberle Walker, CEO of PresenceLearning. million “teletherapy” sessions since the company started in 2009.

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29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

eSchool News

However, the struggle will be to expand innovation in core subjects and beyond, including integrating technology into ancillary K-12 areas such as CTE, music, physical education, health, and the arts. We are hopeful that, when the pandemic lifts, we can welcome a return to hands-on, collaborative, creative technology education in 2021.

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The K-12 Edtech Market Is At an Inflection. But Where Is It Going?

Edsurge

The K-12 education technology market is at an inflection point. Speaking from personal experience and as education technology “experts,” this year’s digital learning experience failed to impress. As EdSurge reporter Rebecca Koenig points out , some companies have satisfied the demands of parents and their school clients.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system.

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61 predictions about edtech, equity, and learning in 2022

eSchool News

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. For over a year now, the focus has been on getting technology into the hands of students. Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic.

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