Time’s Up: Districts Prepare for Life After Windows Server 2003
EdTech Magazine
JULY 13, 2015
Frank Smith Learn from these tips and success stories on migrating from Windows Server 2003 after Microsoft pulls the plug on support.
4 Awesome edtech solutions for making students fall in love with reading
Neo LMS
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Americans spend an average of 17 minutes per day reading for personal interest; in 2003, the average reading time was 22 minutes. 4 Awesome edtech solutions for making students fall in love with reading. The post 4 Awesome edtech solutions for making students fall in love with reading appeared first on NEO BLOG.
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New Markets Venture Partners Adds $30 Million, Former Gates Foundation Executive to Edtech Fund
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds. Investments in edtech companies in 2016 totalled $945 million, according to estimates from GSV Capital, less than half of the $2 billion tally last year.
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Teaching Python: How Children Can Learn Python Programming
The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
She got started with integrating technology in the classroom in 2003 and dabbled with app design in File Maker and HTML. Kelly has a Masters in Curriculum, Instruction, and Technology. She has taught all over the world and specializes in curriculum design, coaching and development. This is her third year using Python.
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New Markets Venture Partner’s Latest Edtech Fund Closes at $68 Million
Edsurge
MAY 16, 2018
And according to Palmer’s research, 21 of the 23 largest exits in the edtech industry have come from companies based outside of New York or the San Francisco Bay Area. It also gives the foundation a lens into the challenging realities of the edtech startup ecosystem. Source: New Markets Education Partners.
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The Nordic Effect: An education paradigm for the world?
Neo LMS
MAY 28, 2019
PISA 2000 showed Finnish youth to be the best young readers in the world, in 2003 the country’s youth led in math, by 2006 Finland was first out of 57 countries in science, and by 2009 Finland came second in science, third in reading and sixth in math among nearly half a million students worldwide. Uhmmm… what about edtech?
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Discovery Education Acquires Mystery Science in $140 Million Deal
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
And as it turns out, edtech companies are attracting a premium from buyers as well. Discovery Education was formed in 2003 as a division of its then-parent company Discovery Communications, known for its broadcast television programs. Focusing on serving students and teachers can take you to a certain point.
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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments
Edsurge
APRIL 26, 2017
To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 edtech startups raised last year. edtech investor, including. Edtech Companies With Asia-Based Investors. edtech startups, including Enuma , Knewton , Minerva Project , Ready4 and Volley.
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Can Virtual Reality Improve Education?
EdTech4Beginners
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
The system is comprised of a peripheral camera originating from 2003, motion controllers first released in 2010, and a headset that emerged from a personal 3D theater in 2012. Tagged: edtech , edtech ideas , education , teaching , technology , virtual reality , VR , vr in the classroom.
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Rethink Education, Southern New Hampshire University Launch $15M Edtech Seed Fund
Edsurge
MARCH 22, 2017
Not so for Southern New Hampshire University , which has partnered with Rethink Education , a venture firm based in White Plains, NY, to launch a $15 million seed fund to support early-stage edtech startups. The group has invested in 30 edtech companies since its launch in 2012, mostly through Series A and B rounds.
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Strategy, Serendipity, Sleepless Nights: 3 Edtech CEOs on ‘Great Exits’
Edsurge
JUNE 14, 2019
Todd Brekhus learned a lesson in effective communication back in 2003. At the time, he was part of PLATO Learning, a school instructional software vendor now known as Edmentum. PLATO had reportedly spent about $50 million to buy another company to expand the school grades it serviced.
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Chief Privacy Officers: A Small But Growing Fleet in Higher Education
Edsurge
MARCH 25, 2019
When Kathleen Sutherland took the helm as Chief Privacy Officer for the University of Colorado in 2003, there weren’t very many people in higher ed she could turn to for guidance and advice. That’s because not many people had that role. There was some resistance,” Sutherland remembers.
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162 How School Districts Are Shaping the Edtech They Use
eSpark
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
Matt Akin was a visionary early adopter of classroom technology when he deployed iPads throughout his district in 2003, long before edtech was the norm. Vision and Virtual Support with Piedmont City Schools. Piedmont, Alabama.
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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI
Edsurge
DECEMBER 19, 2023
But LeBlanc, who was enthusiastic about technology and had worked in edtech, made a bet that was unusual at the time: He decided to grow the university’s online offerings. EdSurge: When you arrived at Southern New Hampshire back in 2003, there were some online courses but just a few. They dragged us into online, thank God, in 1995.
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177 Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology
Edsurge
JUNE 18, 2017
Edtech, I believe, is going through a similar rebuilding moment powered by three trends: widely available infrastructure, the catalytic impact of spending by both the government and philanthropy in education, and—finally—the embrace of edtech by educational institutions and educators themselves. Not yet convinced?
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What does the ‘metaverse’ mean for education?
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Related: ‘Don’t rush to spend on edtech’. Platt called on educators to remember Second Life, an online platform launched in 2003 that that allowed users to create avatars and interact with other users in a virtual world. Related: Reframing edtech to save teachers time and reduce workloads.
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Thinking About Selling Your Edtech Startup? Here’s What to Expect.
Edsurge
APRIL 16, 2019
My first company, Isavix, had several Fortune 500 customers and sold in 2003 to a private group named InScope International. I can start and get companies to a profitable turnkey state that run like a well-oiled machine—but that’s about it. It was acquired by K12 Inc. in 2017.
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End of Support for Microsoft Server 2003 Puts Heat on K-12 Districts
Marketplace K-12
JULY 17, 2015
Microsoft's support for Windows Server 2003 ends this week, putting districts that have not upgraded to a newer system at risk of viruses and other derailments.
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Students Today Are Learning All The Time. Can Schools Keep Up?
Edsurge
JANUARY 28, 2020
Last month at FETC , a K-12 edtech conference in Miami, Evans joined us on the EdSurge podcast to talk about the social and collaborative learning students in her survey say they want. We’ve been doing this polling since 2003, so we've got quite an arc in terms of seeing the changes that have happened.
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Discovery Education, Caterpillar Foundation, and Learning Undefeated Launch New Initiative to Inspire Next Generation of STEM Professionals
eSchool News
JUNE 7, 2023
million K-12 students for STEM careers since 2003, through hands-on content exploration, game-based learning, summer camps, and talent development programs. About Discovery Education Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. Discovery, Inc.
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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role
Doug Levin
APRIL 21, 2016
FY 2003 $700,500,000. The Effectiveness of Educational Technology: Issues and Recommendations for the National Study (Mathematica Policy Research, 2003). K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role appeared first on EdTech Strategies. FY 2006 $272,300,000 (President Bush’s request: $0).
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How a $40M Investment Aims to ‘Mainstream and Modernize’ Montessori Education
Edsurge
JANUARY 20, 2021
Girn started his Montessori career in 2003 as a math and science teacher at LePort Schools, then a chain of three Montessori schools in southern California. Many companies in edtech take the Netflix approach. We’re trying to be the village that helps the adults raising the child.” He climbed up the ladder and became its CEO in 2009.
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Who Should Bear the Cost of Data Interoperability in K-12 Education?
Edsurge
JULY 2, 2019
And it’s scenarios like this that put pressure on edtech companies to make their tools more interoperable. As standards come and go, edtech developers are tasked with supporting new technical integrations demanded by school and district customers. With this approach, the data was at most 24-hour stale, but Bacon says it worked.
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EdSurge Article Recommends Edtech Efficacy Portfolios - Here's Ours
MIND Research Institute
JUNE 11, 2019
Over the past several years, MIND Research Institute has been endeavoring to change the conversation around edtech evaluations. A few weeks ago, EdSurge published an article that echoed many of those same sentiments, most specifically that the overreliance on “gold standard” RCT studies is the wrong approach for edtech.
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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?
Edsurge
JUNE 27, 2023
Memories of the continual improvement he was able to do back then have stuck with him as his career has progressed, including jobs as a high school history teacher, an edtech consultant to schools, a doctoral student and professor, and director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab. And Reich has made it a personal goal to share the lesson.
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Spirals of Innovation in Schools – From Pockets of Excellence to Sustained Change from Beth Holland
EdTechTeacher
MARCH 21, 2016
And even if a teacher possesses the willingness to change their practice, without the support of their broader school community, that sustained change may not be possible (Zhao & Frank, 2003). She holds a Master’s degree from Harvard University as well as a Bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.
Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises
edWeb.net
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Arati Nagaraj is an education consultant, edtech advisor and school board trustee in the San Francisco Bay Area. Arati is currently on the edtech advisory board for Central Square Foundation in New Delhi, India. She has also leveraged these skills to create employee onboarding and training programs at Apple, Facebook, Google and Uber.
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The 9 Qualities of A Good Teacher
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JANUARY 13, 2023
And since September 2003 the first time I stepped into a classroom as a teacher, a lot of things have changed in the field. Three of my sisters are teachers (including my twin sister) and my two younger brothers are teachers as well. I often think that teaching has come to me and not the other way around.
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Use Design Thinking to Develop Critical Skills for a Global Economy
EdTechTeacher
AUGUST 11, 2016
This post first appeared on EdTech Researcher. Since the 1960s, as computers have become cheaper, smaller, and faster, they have replaced many of the routine tasks that people had previously completed, fundamentally changing the task composition of the labor market (Autor, Levy, & Murnane, 2003). References. Gordon, E.
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Speak Up 2021 Congressional Briefing: Lessons Learned from a Year of Virtual School
edWeb.net
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
Since 2003, Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up has collected data on the important issues facing schools. She was named in 2020 as the winner of EdTech Digest’s National Leader award. Evans, along with a panel of K-12 student voices, discussed findings from this year’s Speak Up Research Project.
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The Greatest EdTech Generation Ever – LIVE Blog of Justin Reich’s Keynote
EdTechTeacher
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
David Demming, an economist, updated the work of Levy and Murnane from 2003, shows that those jobs that require social skills and non-routine analytical thinking are increasing while routine ones are decreasing. Shifts are happening in the labor market.
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Amplify’s Been Quiet. Here’s Where CEO Larry Berger Says It’s Going in 2018
Edsurge
JUNE 5, 2018
He also talked about the challenges facing edtech companies today, including his skepticism towards what he calls an “engineering” model of personalized learning. And that’s the thing we started doing back in 2003, which has grown and evolved. Edtech” certainly wasn’t a thing. Just telling these stories has been a helpful part.
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84 4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech
Gaggle Speaks
MARCH 25, 2015
One of my very memorable failures was in 2003, when I went to Austin ISD to present to the technology team as the final step of a large purchase. Our customers purchase these services because they offer real value. Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model.
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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech
Gaggle Speaks
MARCH 25, 2015
One of my very memorable failures was in 2003, when I went to Austin ISD to present to the technology team as the final step of a large purchase. Our customers purchase these services because they offer real value. Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model.
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3 Key Actions for 2021-22 You Can Take Now
edWeb.net
MAY 19, 2021
Previously, he served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow for the White House, and created several edtech learning platforms including eduTecher and eduClipper. As a classroom teacher, Mark was recognized as New Hampshire’s Technology Using Educator of the Year in 2003.
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Wednesday Early - Reforming Ed Reform Panel with Downes, Gardner, Kohn, and Stager
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
AUGUST 6, 2012
He has published numerous articles both online and in print, including The Future of Online Learning (1998), Learning Objects (2000), Resource Profiles (2003), and E-Learning 2.0 Downes is perhaps best known for his daily nesletter, OLDaily, which is distributed by web, email and RSS to thousands of subscribers around the world.
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76 A Commitment to Confronting Our Bias and Privileges
Edsurge
JULY 13, 2016
This means all of us: students, teachers and administrations—and yes, entrepreneurs and investors in edtech products used every day. Avenue Q parodied this concept with the song “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist” back in 2003. And we'll go one step further: silence is no option. Instead silence risks compliance. The musical.
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60 Do You Make Your Learning Transparent to Others?
EdTechSandyK
JUNE 24, 2011
Answer found and used with in a few moments (It''s under "Save As" by the way; at least in Office 2003 it is). distance education edtech educational technology facilitating learning professional development teaching' After a few minutes of looking, realizing time was short, I asked for the keyboard and went to Google.
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64 The Assessment Range: Using Data To Meaningfully Affect Learning
TeachThought - Learn better.
APRIL 13, 2015
In 2003 in Classroom Assessment Practices and Teachers’ Self-Perceived Assessment Skills , Zhicheng Zhang and Judith A. Adaptive learning algorithms within certain #edtech products are coded along these lines. There is the matter of teaching practice working behind the scenes here.
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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. In June 2010, Chris was named as one of the “30 Most Influential People in EdTech” by Technology & Learning Magazine.
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The Progression of our Lower School Technology Integration
Tech Helpful
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
In the last few days of the first semester of the 2003-2004 school year I was given the opportunity to speak with the teacher that was leaving the school briefly before he left for Christmas break to understand what the curriculum expectations were for the stand alone computer classes in the elementary school. We've come a long way baby!
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40 3 ways Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers) paved the way for edtech
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
A pioneer in the new educational medium of television for children at its inception nearly 60 years ago, his gentle educational program was aimed at 2 to 5 year-olds, and not only touched the lives of millions children, but made a lasting impression on Edtech as a industry, and still guides the direction it is taking to this day.
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Certell’s Poptential™ Addresses 21st-Century Wars With Free Memorial Day Teaching Resources
eSchool News
MAY 17, 2023
Iraq War of 2003 Explained —Believing that Iraq was amassing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that could be used in future terrorist attacks, the United States and the United Kingdom joined forces to invade Iraq. A Poptential mini-lesson focuses on the flight paths of the hijacked planes and highlights the October 2001 U.S.
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