Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2018

Welcome to the third and final post in this series focusing on teacher workload, and how technology can assist teachers with the three greatest time heavy activities. And in terms of automating the process there are also a number of great technologies available. Grading: a necessary evil? Conclusion.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Based on universal access to free and equal schools, the social contract for public education equates the attainment of a high school diploma with readiness for college, meaningful participation in the workforce, and the rights and responsibilities of adulthood.

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Instructional Materials Education Academic Standards Software 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Access the assignment provided by the teacher. Once that is completed, access other challenges via online apps (usually third party, outside of the eSpark app), new videos, or something else. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Start by telling eSpark how you’re feeling. Begin the first quest.

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Learning Chromebook Common Core iPad 202

Hapara

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

? Listen to an audio version of this post: Because most classrooms integrate technology now, it’s not enough to teach academic standards. By setting clear boundaries and encouraging healthy digital habits, educators can help learners develop a positive relationship with technology.

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Classroom Digital Citizenship Academic Standards Digital Learning 130

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

An asset-based approach emphasizes acceleration and enrichment, with a focus on designing rich, high-quality instructional experiences that provide accessible entry points for all students. As a bonus, these accelerated learning approaches give a lower priority to repetition or “skill-and-drill” uses of instructional technology.

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Learning Strategy Academic Standards Professional Learning 217

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

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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Google Academic Standards Education Data 132

Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

The tangled web of grading, posting assignments, and communicating with students—plus maintaining an engaging and supportive instructor presence, much less high academic standards—often turned confusion into chaos.

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Online Learning Learning Academic Standards Survey 216

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

As technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, the need to address this gap is becoming vital. Combatting this challenge relies on revitalizing the passion for STEM learning in young students, especially females, as the future of the workforce hinges on the next generation’s ability to meet the technological needs of tomorrow.

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Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2023

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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EdTech Student Data Privacy Academic Standards LMS 161

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Most educators access information about their profession through online searches, social media, colleagues, supervisors, their professional association or a journal subscription. In particular, educators want to see more research about technology, trauma and mental health, equity and educator talent.

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Survey Social Media Education Academic Standards 150

Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The software, called Teacher Advisor with Watson , uses Watson artificial intelligence technology to help teachers instantly find math resources. Teacher Advisor then dips into its library of 1,000+ videos and lesson plans, all based on national standards and vetted by top educators.

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Software Elementary Learning STEM 134

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

In a previous EdSurge piece , I described how economics and technology trends tend to drive educational innovation by providing models that reformers build into their visions, sometimes unconsciously. In contrast, the American education system, despite efforts to centralize elements like academic standards, remains enormously fragmented.

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Policies Trends Common Core Training 140

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Historically, wealthier students have had greater access to enriching out-of-school experiences, compounding their privilege. The Chicago Learning Exchange supports out-of-school programs that are trying to change that, particularly those using technology to offer innovative opportunities for kids in Chicago who historically haven’t had them.

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Study Tools Social Media Academic Standards 108

eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2022

The platinum award-winning project features the partnership between Classworks and Gwinnett County to deliver a successful online summer learning program, powered by 1EdTech’s Competency and Academic Standards Exchange® (CASE®) framework. Learn more about the 2022 Learning Impact Awards. About Classworks .

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Academic Standards Learning Digital Learning Resources 94

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2019

I invest in education technology, but decades before I knew what a venture capitalist was, I was a history teacher in a small town in America’s heartland where I started my school’s first “Internet club.” But 2018 marked an inflection point for education technology that most investors and developers did not see coming.

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Comparison Academic Standards Technology Social Media 150

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

There are at least two truisms when it comes to education technology: 1. That gung-ho initiative is something that Mark Racine, director of technology at Boston Public Schools, applauds. Inside the Library The Library is not yet open to everyone; only teachers in districts that have integrated with Clever can access it.

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EdTech Libraries Software Company 147

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2019

The tool also offers educators reports on how students perform across various academic standards and skills. Freckle launched with an online, adaptive K-8 math tool and joined the Imagine K12 accelerator for education technology startups. Freckle can group students of similar learning levels for small group activities.

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Education Company Academic Standards Learning 122

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2017

In an economy that is moving rapidly in the direction of more independent workers executing high-level projects for a variety of employers, navigating an ever-changing ecosystem of new technologies will be a fundamental skill for workers. Students need access to tools that work. Rapidly emerging technologies.

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EdTech Accessibility Future Ready Academic Standards 60

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Open Up Resources offers two of the highest-reviewed curriculum for middle-school math and K-5 English, according to EdReports, which evaluates textbooks for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. The technologies are often purchased separately as well. Founded in 2013, the company has raised $21.5

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Resources OER Academic Standards Instructional Materials 107

eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2017

As the new school year begins, elementary school teachers are now able to access a new, free online artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to strengthen their math instruction and help students learn at higher levels.

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Tools Academic Standards Elementary Software 79

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Across the country, kindergarteners are pressured to meet academic standards that both teachers and experts say many kids are developmentally not ready for. By giving students access to many types of dramatic play props, children have the freedom to explore and develop their own sense of gender and gender roles.

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Meeting Academic Standards Classroom Assessment 218

EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Embarking on an online computer science degree is an exhilarating journey that marries technological innovation with academic rigor. Understanding the Online Learning Environment Embracing the online learning landscape is the first step toward your academic success. Stay abreast of emerging trends and advancements in the field.

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Academic Standards Trends LMS Social Media 100

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

In order to innovate in ways that anticipate and serve the needs of teachers and students, standards are applied to how OER is tagged, how tags support one another, and the editorial style that is imposed upon all metadata. One of the most common sets of structures are academic standards. The Value of Common Standards in OER.

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OER Academic Standards Policies Common Core 74

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Kids are helped along by access to take-home devices and individualized learning plans that allow them to progress through class material at their own speed. The role of technology. In the early years of Lindsay’s experiment, few students had internet access at home. “I It’s a model that’s paid dividends for the district.

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Online Learning How To Learning Competency Based Learning 139

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

With all its bells, whistles, apps and toys, technology also creates anxiety for both parents and educators, and research is going to have to follow the charge ahead. Guernsey is a big fan of reminding parents that technology can’t possibly replace other interactions that both teachers and parents might have with children.

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Guidelines Coursera Academic Standards Blended Learning 94

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

We believe that our place at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts makes it possible to create and amplify our creativity,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said on stage. Final Thoughts Apple’s vision of pushing education towards more creative thinking skills, enabled by technology, is certainly lofty.

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iPad Chromebook Education Company 151

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. So, what can be done?

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EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Sigelman, of Burning Glass Technologies, captured this point succinctly: “40 percent of the skills required today for the same job are different than the skills required a decade ago.” EdReports has become a real big deal in K-12 publishing,” he said, referring to the nonprofit that reviews textbooks for alignment to academic standards.

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Industry Student Data Privacy Education Company 149

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 19, 2020

Eliminating school library programs and certified school librarian positions deprive students of rich learning opportunities, jeopardize academic and reading achievement, and perpetuate educational inequities. School librarians form relationships and connections with every single student and teacher who walks through the doors of that school.

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Libraries Elementary Future Ready Academic Standards 118

EdNews Daily

AUGUST 27, 2019

Then a re-write of academic standards that had to be mapped to teaching and learning, constantly in revision. Our highest-level political officers, perhaps our actual system has either blocked or not led a new corollary of refined humanity needed to match the explosion of technology.

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Industry Survey System Academic Standards 100

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2019

In parallel with this changing nature of librarians, the library itself took on an increased role in the community, offering spaces where the unemployed receive job training, the needy access social services and families gather for daily programming.

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Libraries Academic Standards Learning System 113

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As times have changed, technology has advanced, and student needs have evolved—so, too, has the role of the librarian. As librarians, our job is to not only give students and teachers access to resources they need to succeed, but to be their guide when choosing these resources. What are the emerging technologies in a library?

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Here were the tips that the mock board members, comprised of education technology investors and founders, had to offer. But overall the question that everyone wanted to address was the same: How does a company achieve scale?

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Outcomes 117

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2018

We have a law school, we have a school of business and information technology, we have a college of social and behavioral sciences, we have an open college, and we have health sciences and nursing. Vandenbosch: We are a university in the neighborhood of 30,000 students, divided into six schools and colleges. And it is mostly online?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

How Technology Should Have Already Changed Your Teaching. A little bit of technology doesn’t change much. Tacked-on learning technology can do this. But deep integration of technology–real at-the-marrow fusion of learning model, curriculum, and #edtech? With technology, the name of the game is publishing.

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Technology Gamification Digital Citizenship Academic Standards 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Another challenge for teachers is the need for more professional development and help in connecting maker activities to curriculum and academic standards. The tools and resources required don’t come cheap: 92 percent of educators said information about grants were somewhat or very important.

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Academic Standards Education Common Core Survey 60

eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2024

In this new phase of partnership, teachers and students in grades K-12 will receive access to a dynamic new digital resource that brings science instruction to life in ways that ignite student curiosity about the natural world and drive deeper engagement in learning. All AJUSD educators also enjoy access to the Discovery Educator Network.

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EdTech Resources Social Media Academic Standards 61