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3 Things Educators and Edtech Suppliers Need to Talk About

Edsurge

Is it accessible to all learners? Of course, following interoperability standards can help ensure the entire system works together and makes it faster, cheaper and easier to make future changes or additions to the ecosystem. How will the technology work with other tools? Does it align with the curriculum?

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K-12 and Higher Ed Institutions Lead Consortium to Advance EdTech Innovation and Trust

Edsurge

Today, there are over 8000 edtech products that the 1EdTech community certified as meeting 1EdTech standards for quality and trust. Dramatically reducing the cost associated with enabling a “data rich” edtech ecosystem and thus helping learners, faculty and administrators achieve access to data and analysis in time to improve learner success.

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

Edsurge

But in the field of education, we don’t even have a complete set of static competency frameworks for digital data that are openly accessible and interoperable—to say nothing of dynamic data that support real-time pathway optimization. To bridge the gulf, it will take a similar open-data ecosystem to support learner navigation. K-12 learners.

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Play Is Disappearing From Kindergarten. It’s Hurting Kids.

Edsurge

Across the country, kindergarteners are pressured to meet academic standards that both teachers and experts say many kids are developmentally not ready for. The same analysis found kindergarten teachers were about 15 percent more likely to use math and reading workbooks at the end of the decade.

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Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that

The Hechinger Report

For instance, a 2015 analysis of Harvard law school graduates found that women who had not become partners in a firm had fewer mentors during their first five years than either women partners, or men who had not achieved partnership status. And not having a mentor can slow career progression.

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How Does Plagiarism Checking Work

PlagiarismCheck

The rise of the internet and the availability of easily accessible content have contributed to the increasing prevalence of plagiarism. Plagiarism checkers compare a submitted text with a vast online and archived content database,academic publications and students’ submissions. Institutions also benefit from promoting authentic work.

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Digitizing Curriculum Development: Think Efficiency

edWeb.net

In a recent edWebinar , “Digital Curriculum Development: The Missing Time-Saving Link,” Daniel Ralyea, Director of the Office of Research and Data Analysis at the South Carolina Department of Education, and Mark T. Will the system provide access to evidence-based resources? Do vendors use CASE? The goal of digitization overall?

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