eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Tuesday, August 17, 2022) — Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. As part of the Discovery Education family of services, DoodleLearning will continue to apply its educational ability to building and deploying affordable learning solutions for students worldwide.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

How is AI currently utilized in higher education? For instructors who have had the opportunity to participate in pedagogy learning groups, there may be a lot of overlap in what they already know about teaching and what changes AI might bring to the classroom. In some classrooms, such as my own, we talk about what AI can and can’t do.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Hernandez, who plans to enter California State University at Northridge in the fall to study computer science, is part of a big increase in California in the proportion of Hispanics who graduate from high school, reflecting an effort to get more of them to go on to higher educations. Deborah Santiago, CEO, Excelencia in Education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying. Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying. In fact, 4.7

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education , a global edtech company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. Pivot Interactives is Discovery Education’s second acquisition this month, having also acquired DoodleLearning. . We’re thrilled to be joining the Discovery Education family,” said Mr. Bohacek.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying. Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying. In fact, 4.7

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Now, having gone to the trouble to design course resources that can be accessed remotely and feeling accustomed to turning on a webcam in the classroom, he has continued to embrace a teaching practice that is known as “HyFlex,” a portmanteau of hybrid and flexible. “For Will their efforts succeed? I do not believe that.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2022

Scott Kinney, CEO of Discovery Education, will continue to lead the Company supported by the existing management team. The Company’s integrated learning platform empowers teachers by offering easy lesson creation, ready-to-use formative assessments, and personalized, data-driven recommendations from a library of educational resources.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 4, 2024

THE PARADOX OF EDUCATION Let’s start with what we might call the basic Paradox of Education. One side we can call individual -centered education: the ultimate goal is for the learner to be increasingly in charge of their own learning, with education helping students to develop critical thinking, creativity, and independence.

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

Differentiated instruction is an educational strategy in which teachers adapt their instruction to meet the needs of their class. It’s more about providing students, individually or in a group, with different learning options or providing accommodations to help them learn more effectively.[11]. What is Differentiated Instruction?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2021

COVINGTON, KY: October 21, 2021 – A new website launched by a collaboration of leading technology experts, STEP CG and Cradlepoint, is providing information and educational resources to help K-12 schools ensure their students have access to the technology they need to succeed. About Cradlepoint ??. Cradlepoint ?is

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2021

—June 21, 2021 — DreamBox Learning ®, the company that pioneered Intelligent Adaptive Learning technology, today launched DreamBox Lesson Recommendations, a new offering that gives educators real-time student progress insights with actionable next steps to meet student learning needs.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CompuGirls was founded in 2006 by Dr. Kim Scott and introduces adolescent girls to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through culturally responsive practices and social justice. In affinity groups like CompuGirls, we make the implicit explicit. i in the last two years.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

education grant offering free credits for its cloud platform, with no credit card required, unlimited access to its suite of tools and training resources. At the same time, cloud providers have a vested interest in the upstart businesses or ideas that result from these education discounts. “Of Google in June announced an.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying. Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying. In fact, 4.7

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Drawing from peer-reviewed research papers, I’ve made sure to include diverse and illustrative examples that showcase how blended learning is being implemented across different educational contexts. A key aspect of this blended learning approach was fostering student dialogue and collaboration. Luna and Stephanie A. Moore et al.’s

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

My recent post about the cost trap and inclusive access prompted responses by Jim Groom and Stephen Downes. For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education.

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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.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

The pioneering program empowers educators to teach computational thinking, which are the critical skills that help students solve real-life problems and challenges by expressing them in a way that computers can solve. TCS will continue growing its investment to bring IMFIS to every student and educator in the U.S. Beyond the U.S.,

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edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

Reid emphasized the importance of listening and grounding equity work in the voices of the students and other community members, and also making sure achieving educational and racial justice is a process of removing barriers for all students, rather than taking something from one group and giving it to another.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

September 15, 2021 — DreamBox Learning, the leading education technology provider that in 2006 pioneered intelligent adaptive learning, today announced new expansions and partnerships with school district customers, including Prince George’s County Public Schools and East Baton Rouge Parish School System. BELLEVUE, Wash.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying. Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

higher education system is fair had evaporated. Education as the great equalizer ? In 2006, journalist Daniel Golden exposed how President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, found his way into Harvard despite lackluster grades with the help of his dad’s $2.5 Transparent admission standards? million donation.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Two national education nonprofits whose school improvement and assessment tools impact millions of students across the country are merging. The new group doesn’t yet have a name, and the deal won’t be finalized until closer to the end of the year. “The AdvancED also offers accreditation services—a business that it has deep roots in.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 21, 2018

One such way educators are trying to introduce “thinking” back into the classroom is by “flipping the classroom”. 2] While a flipped classroom is an excellent approach to education, I feel as though we need to take it a step further and allow the classroom to flip itself. When we form groups, we amplify our intelligence.

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’re exited to launch SchoolLibraryNJ , a evolving project designed to address inequitable access to resources for K12 schools and libraries and to present the value of librarians in digitally curating resources for teaching and learning. Not every school, not every teacher and not every learner has a librarian.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2023

Many found a way to continue their studies through informal tutoring centers, but those too have come under increased scrutiny as the government continues to crack down on women and girls’ access to education. Like a walking dead”: Being a teenage girl who wants to study under Taliban rule By Mahsa Kosha I was born in 2006.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2020

Two months after the COVID-19 crisis forced educators across the United States to leave their classrooms and start teaching online, the scope of the changes and challenges have now become clear, and educational leaders have started to identify what’s working and what still needs improvement. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Tony is one of the most creative educators I know. Students learn about fills, borders, zooming, duplicating, rotating, aligning, ordering, grouping, and flipping in those four initial lessons. A Shapegrams membership gets you access to all Shapegrams and gives you a license to distribute them to your students. Small group work.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

While the working papers focused on children who are now in their early 20s, additional research from Georgetown is tracking a group of Tulsa children who finished third grade last school year. Kelly Kane, director of elementary and early childhood education, Tulsa public schools. Test scores aren’t the thing they’re thinking about.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

This is a continuation from yesterday''s post on changing roles , disruptive innovation and the survival of higher education. It is a complex network of dynamic resources that we all acknowledge is constantly changing to adapt to the growing demand for entertainment, communication and access to knowledge. or the ‘social web’.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

education technology company has reached the billion-dollar valuation mark, and with that comes bragging rights to being a “unicorn.” I am careful about that term being the focus,” says Andrew Grauer, who co-founded Course Hero in 2006. According to Grauer, more than 30,000 college educators across the U.S. Another U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying. Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

So what will be the future of higher education, and how will it survive against this hostile backdrop? In May 2000, I was invited to present two keynote speeches about the role technology would play in the future of higher education. The first, undesirable form of disruption stops us from getting to where we wish to be.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In August 2020, she signed up for a new program designed to provide people working in school settings the chance to turn their job into an undergraduate degree in education, at a low cost. She sometimes observes teachers, and other times helps children in small groups. She’s also a teacher-in-training.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

It’s really just the age-old conversation about waiting for a seat at the table,” said Saba Tshibaka, a senior and organizer with the student group Black Terps Matter. “I Graduation data show that College Park has a strong record in educating African Americans, said Freeman A. I want U-Md. It’s about who they’re choosing to accept.”.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The pioneering program empowers educators to teach computational thinking, which are the critical skills that help students solve real-life problems and challenges by expressing them in a way that computers can solve. TCS will continue growing its investment to bring IMFIS to every student and educator in the U.S. Beyond the U.S.,

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