EdTech Magazine

MAY 15, 2019

Six years ago, mixed reality game designer Jane McGonigal ’s keynote at the 2013 ISTE conference focused on how video games can boost resilience in real life. K–12 Schools Find Educational Benefits in Cloud-Based Gaming. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 05/15/2019 - 09:59. She referenced about 1 billion gamers worldwide. .

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In 2013, just months after I started working as CIO of Bridgeport School District in Connecticut, my biggest fear about the job became reality: The district firewall was attacked. I developed the disaster recovery system for Bridgeport schools back in 2013. Hey, IT Leaders: When Disaster Strikes, Will Your School Be Ready?

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 27, 2018

The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) was established in 2001 with the No Child Left Behind Act and is known for its provisions dealing with surveys and assessments. At last count there were 119 state privacy laws passed in 39 states since 2013,” he said.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Since 2013, Digital Promise has put research at the center of the micro-credential development, evidence submission, and assessment processes, creating an ecosystem which includes 40 active issuing organizations and more than 400 published micro-credentials.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2018

According to a 2013 study featured in School Library Journal, which was based on an assessment of student performance in Pennsylvania, “Consistently, reading and writing scores are better for students who have a full-time certified librarian than those who don’t. This is especially the case with striving readers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 2, 2017

I first met Office Mix a few years ago, before I had the required Office 2013 or higher. You have to have MS Office 2013 or above to run Mix. In a flipped class, use Mix to share required resources, preparation steps, and assessments for an upcoming class. This isn’t really a “con”, more of a warning.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 21, 2018

Ottenbreit-Leftwich in their 2013 study of authentic technology-enabled learning, highlights the main challenge coaches face when trying to support teachers using technology. Support your teachers in using the right technology-enhanced assessments for their students and in analyzing the assessment data. Ertmer and Anne T.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

Learn more about formative assessment. If you want to listen – Monica Burns did a fantastic podcast episode about her Favorite Formative Assessment Tools. If you prefer reading, see Fantastic, Fast Formative Assessment Tools (a post I wrote on Edutopia). Jane McGonigal spoke at ISTE in 2013. It’s in Australia.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

students in global assessments in math and science is another troubling statistic: According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, fifteen-year-old girls in 65 countries generally outperformed boys worldwide, but in the United States, boys outperformed girls in quantitative studies.

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Securly

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Even fewer (28%) are using data analytics to assess school climate. Since 2013, Securly has been developing technology solutions to address the needs of K-12 edtech leaders. For example, only 63% are taking advantage of student wellness monitoring to identify signs of bullying, violence, suicide, self-harm, and depression.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Over time, they have learned that some of the skills that are most critical for success are difficult to teach and even harder to assess. It’s not always as simple as purchasing a curriculum, or even modifying an existing set of assessments, because in many cases, these materials don’t yet exist.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

-based provider of instructional software and formative assessment tools that is on a buying spree. It spun Schoolzilla out as an independent company in 2013. In the past, it’s focused on pairing assessments with digital instructional materials. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company claims to service a third of U.S.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

™ is the proud recipient of the 2013 MCEEA Employer of the Year. Assessing for National Board is a great professional development opportunity, and an invaluable part of the National Board Certification process. National Board assessors consistently report that the assessment process is a great professional development experience.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 26, 2019

states require some kind of performance assessment in order to be fully licensed. In 2013, a poll found that 23 percent of American teachers were “extremely interested” or “very interested” in serving in a hybrid role as a teacher and leader, and half were at least “somewhat interested” in such an assignment. Half of U.S.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth. is a type of essentialist, behaviorist education based on the three Rs – receiving by listening to the teacher; responding by taking notes, studying text, and doing worksheets; and regurgitating by taking the same assessments as all other students in the cohort.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 22, 2022

Starting as a desire to see how disciplines interconnect, interdisciplinarity appeared as a liberal approach to education in a time when disciplinary departments were the norm and The Association of Integrative Studies (renamed in 2013 The Association of Interdisciplinary Studies) was in its infancy.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The two companies are no strangers: Workbench has been integrated with Google Classroom, which allows educators to assign Workbench projects to students, and track, review and assess their progress. Founded in 2013 (and originally named cwist), Workbench has raised $3 million in funding.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2018

They can also be tools that are easily integrated into warm-ups, exit tickets, and/or formative assessments such as these popular examples: Socrative. Office Mix is one of the many amazing add-ons now available through PowerPoint (2013 and newer). Google Forms. Survey Monkey. Poll Daddy. TodaysMeet. Office Mix. MS Office Mix.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

billion dollars out-of-pocket nationally and $920 million at two-year colleges during the 2013 to 2014 school year to take developmental courses—courses in which just more than one-in-four students prove to be successful. This, understandably, presented a grave concern for business and industry, legislators, educators and ultimately students.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Hypothetically, effective mobile learning can empower learners by enabling them to better assess and select relevant information, redefine their goals, and reconsider their understanding of concepts within a shifting and growing frame of reference (the information context).” — Marguerite L. Cristol, D., & & Gimbert, B. mLearn, 15.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Ask any educator who teaches five classes of 30 students each per day; there’s a lot of homework to assess. Plagiarism-detection software can address the most pressing needs of classroom educators faced with assessing students’ written work. The Challenge: When identifying plagiarism, teachers need to be confident in their assessment.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

™ is the proud recipient of the 2013 MCEEA Employer of the Year. Assessing for National Board is a great professional development opportunity, and an invaluable part of the National Board Certification process. National Board assessors consistently report that the assessment process is a great professional development experience.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Under Fallon, who assumed his role as CEO in 2013, the once-prolific publisher has divested a series of brand-name assets, including The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist and Penguin Random House. Digital tools, including the widely-used student information system PowerSchool, were also sold. K-12 market.

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Educational Technology Guy

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Dedicated to the education industry, Livescribe is kicking off a pilot program with select school districts and higher education institutions to assess use cases, as well as the impact of using the Sky wifi smartpen both in and out of the classroom. Livescribe will officially launch the Sky wifi smartpen in the education market in early 2013.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Jon is a Google Certified Innovator (#GTAWA 2011), has been a Lead Learner for a Google Teacher Academy (#GTAMTV2), is also an Apple Distinguished Educator and has facilitated over 10 Executive Briefings and led sessions in Final Cut Pro for the 2013 Apple Institute. It’s like, why are people grading anything? I pulled it down to five.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It makes sense – when used well they can help scaffold learning, practice skills and help with assessment. Dan Kemp has been the Marketing Director for Book Creator since 2013. We know from the popularity of websites such as Teachers Pay Teachers that worksheets and PDFs are still very popular. He lives and works in Bristol, UK.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Since Fallon became CEO on January 1, 2013, the value of Pearson’s stock on the New York Stock Exchange has dropped by 57 percent, closing at $8.45 In an interview with EdSurge in 2013, he described his work as leading “ the most significant restructuring in a decade or more.” The market has not reacted favorably to those efforts.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

Emotional engagement encompasses a teachers’ feelings about, degree of dedication to, and emotional response to their work (Perera, Vosicka, Granziera & McIlveen, 2018; Klassen, Yerdelen & Durksen, 2013). The Playlist Model: Time to Work with Individual Students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. We Don’t Have To Choose Between Assessment and Excellent Teaching. The assessment piece is important for kids.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In 2013, just months after I started working as CIO of Bridgeport School District in Connecticut, my biggest fear about the job became reality: The district firewall was attacked. I developed the disaster recovery system for Bridgeport schools back in 2013. Hey, IT Leaders: When Disaster Strikes, Will Your District Be Ready?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

If concluded, the sale would mark yet another major asset that Pearson has shed since John Fallon took over as CEO in 2013. higher-education courseware and in-school assessment in the U.S. Pearson also remains just as much a testing company as a publisher, providing assessments for the K-12 market and professional certifications.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

One of those competitors is LTG, which has been rapidly expanding its suite of workforce learning tools since its founding in 2013. To date, Instructure has acquired four companies, the most recent of which was Certica Solutions, a provider of K-12 assessment and analytics tools that it scooped up in a transaction last December.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2020

A 2013 meta-study of health-related disasters found that isolation or quarantine can be traumatizing, with 25 percent of isolated or quarantined children and adults experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder. Disasters Breed Trauma Evidence suggests that isolation drives trauma. But we urgently need more.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

I have been working with ASCD for the past few years to publish my book, Learning in the Making: How to Plan, Execute, and Assess Powerful Makerspace Lessons. Assessing One’s Progress How am I doing with my maker project? It has finally been released for sale! I need to know more about how to do this part of my project.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 20, 2019

Student information systems, online gradebooks, electronic formative assessment tools, and data warehouses are all examples of technologies that help educators input, manage, analyze, and present student learning data (Wayman, Stringfield, & Yakimowski, 2004). The one question I’m asking at ISTE 2013.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2019

To help colleges teach the character traits and interpersonal skills that companies crave, nonprofit Education Design Lab has worked since 2013 to create curriculum and assessments that culminate in students earning digital badges intended to attract hiring managers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Such are the tools developed and offered by Examity , a provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers. That test is no longer around, but he says that experience inspired him to launch Examity in 2013.

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