Edsurge

MAY 1, 2024

The advancements in technology are reshaping how we teach and learn, bringing new opportunities and challenges. To address such challenges, a concerted effort must be made to ensure that newer technologies are implemented thoughtfully and responsibly, with a focus on enhancing the educational experience for all students.

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EdTech Education Data Comparison 180

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

They received excellent ratings from EdReports , a leader in evaluating textbooks and curricula for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. This partnership “helps bridge the gap that currently exists between curriculum, instruction, assessment and intervention,” (says Kiddom’s chief academic officer Abbas Manjee).

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Academic Standards LMS 233

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

At the time, Wireless Generation was expanding from its roots in K-3 reading assessment into new areas: intervention, professional development, and data systems. We focused on the essential needs of the market—curriculum, assessment, and intervention—which aligned with our core competencies and interests. Sometimes very hard.

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Instructional Materials Case Study Assessment Company 162

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Educators and institutions are grappling with how best to integrate these tools into the learning environment while balancing innovation with ethical considerations, assessment concerns, and instructor comfort. Schools or instructors adopting this stance may wish to emphasize traditional methods of learning and assessment.

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Education Academic Standards Tools Assessment 127

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Instructure , the publicly traded company best known for its learning management systems (LMS) Canvas and Bridge, has agreed to acquire a fellow Salt Lake City-based education technology company, MasteryConnect , for $42.5 K-12 market for classroom assessment tools is expected to reach $1.7 Of that figure, about $12.3 billion by 2020.

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LMS Assessment Company Comparison 131

Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2023

Does your school district or higher ed institution use a learning management system (LMS), digital curriculum resources, learning tools, assessment applications, a badging platform, a single-sign-on application launcher or a student information system? Now, this integration can take just a few minutes.

EdTech 161

EdTech Student Data Privacy Academic Standards LMS 161

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

This project maps across existing data standards, making it possible to translate data at all levels and sectors of education and training, such as the MedBiquitous standards for health care and HROpen for human resources. The IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) plans to update its existing standards based on this work.

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Google Academic Standards Education Data 132

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 25, 2019

Information Technology. Explore ways to bring design, computational thinking, coding, robotics, electronics, engineering, and other elements of making into the regular classroom day in support of academic standards across the school in every subject. W121 | Beyond PBL, STEM, and STEAM … Dewey Meets Technology and Standards.

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Technology STEM Flipped Classroom Maker Movement 94

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2019

At a time of major change at educational software and assessments provider Renaissance Learning executives decided to add one more item to their to-do list. The tool also offers educators reports on how students perform across various academic standards and skills. It was spring 2018. Two years later, the company raised $5.3

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Education Company Academic Standards Learning 122

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

An increasing number of schools —including charter and traditional public schools—are making a similar move to ditch traditional grades in favor of a more robust approach to assessing students’ skills. Whether they call it competency-, mastery-, or standards-based grading, the movement aims to improve students outcomes sans As, Bs, and Cs.

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How To Common Core Academic Standards Outcomes 130

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 21, 2021

It is purposefully flexible, and adaptable to a variety of content areas, grade levels, and available local technology. It can be standards-based or open-ended; technology-based or based on in-person human interaction; project-based, game-based, rigorous, supportive, etc. The Big Idea. There are dozens for every category.

Learning 139

Learning Analysis Strategy Academic Standards 139

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Luberoff says that end-of-year assessments in 35 U.S. Over the years, the company created accompanying lessons for teachers and students to use on its calculator technology. Meyer says Desmos’ middle-math core curriculum aligns with state and Common Core academic standards. It’s also not entirely digital.

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Company Exercises Common Core Academic Standards 218

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

As a bonus, these accelerated learning approaches give a lower priority to repetition or “skill-and-drill” uses of instructional technology. The “Fate and Fortune” game used by Santa Fe embeds ten key standards that correlate most closely with Algebra I success. Santa Fe Public Schools Multi-dimensional project-based learning.

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Learning Strategy Academic Standards Professional Learning 217

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

more and more schools recognize the importance of SEL curriculums —and with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) now allowing schools to choose a non-academic accountability measure —the question is being raised: Do we need to measure these competencies, and if so, how the heck do we do it? Assessing the assessments.

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Survey Assessment Report Academic Standards 123

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Teachers monitor individual progress, see what each student completed on their last visit as well as when that was and how long it lasted, view students’ self-described moods, assess their pre- and post-quiz scores, and view their summative synthesis videos that provide evidence of their knowledge as they teach others what they just learned.

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Learning Chromebook Common Core iPad 202

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2023

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress in 2022, students in fourth and eighth grade had the largest decline in mathematics achievement since 1990. As hopeful as this scenario sounds, mathematics is a struggle for many learners.

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Classroom Academic Standards Assessment Elementary 180

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

I modeled my classroom after the classrooms in the high school I attended—rows of desks, the teacher at the front of the room, nightly homework, and regular assessments. Eight years later, I was back in high school again, this time as a math teacher.

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Academic Standards Course Training Assessment 163

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. An obsession with assessments, and the pressure for children to meet lofty academic requirements years before they’re ready, have all but eliminated playtime from our schools.

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Meeting Academic Standards Classroom Assessment 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

From IBM’s test scoring machines in the 1930s to the Speak & Spells of the 70s, innovators and educators have been trying to improve education with technology for decades. It’s no wonder that only 58% of teachers are comfortable using technology in class. But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning.

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EdTech Academic Standards Technology Social Media 166

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

Hapara

AUGUST 16, 2023

It includes teaching strategies, learning activities and assessments. If they build on the foundations of teaching, using new strategies and technology, they’ll be able to support the type of learners they have today. They can reflect through observation, assessment data or feedback from learners.

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Gamification Learning Assessment Strategy 130

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Maybe, we need to look at educators in a new context of what teaching really is in most schools, and whether it should be given cultural, economic and technological change. Plus, Teachers are supposed to be maestros of all technologies and personalizing separate paths for every single one of their students.

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Khan Academy Academic Standards Software Exercises 141

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts).

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Assessment STEM Academic Standards Course 108

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. For instance, a curriculum director may decide that one math program does not align with the district’s academic standards, while another one does.

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EdTech Libraries Software Company 147

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

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

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 6, 2016

The internet and the rapid technological improvement are making the world a little bit smaller and are eliminating barriers to learning. However, if they are from a different country try to find out if that country’s educational system and academic standard is the same or at par with your own country.

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How To Company Digital Citizenship Academic Standards 150

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Two recent state initiatives are defining a set of non academic work habits that contribute to student success , and developing a statewide performance-based assessment system. After spending a few years thinking deeply about assessment in a competency-based system, Memorial teachers noticed something troubling.

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Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 104

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

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. Its core offerings include formative assessment products such as Socrative (a startup acquired in June 2014), grading tools and reporting services.

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 122

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The Perfect Assessment. So let’s dream about assessment. First, what is an assessment? to assessment design (how should future learning ideally be measured?)” Assessment is one of those tools–one widely misunderstood by teachers, and causing anxiety in the students we’re trying to serve.

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Assessment Data Academic Standards Tools 40

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? So how do you choose?

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EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

It proved useful in finding teachers to help develop our lesson plans, assessments and professional development. Hiring outside and field sales reps is another geographic consideration when selling to specific states. We primarily used Craigslist for all hires except sales and software development. We covered topics such as number of U.S.

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Company EdTech How To Meeting 160

Linways Technologies

MAY 14, 2020

As presented by Dr. Shajimon K John at the Discussion BarCamp hosted by Linways Technologies Pvt Ltd. Discuss Education BarCamp was organized by Linways Technologies Pvt. Autonomous colleges, on the other hand, are granted freedom and in some or all the academic matters. appeared first on Linways Technologies.

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Education System Course Industry 98

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 10, 2021

Curriculum, academic standards, grades, cut scores, progress/growth over time, and more all born out of love. The idea: Because of limits, there is an appropriate scale that ‘things’–people, ideas, families, communities, corporations, technologies, etc.–work assessment and data. learner and data.

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Learning Industry Academic Standards Assessment 139

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

Technology Bridges the Language Gaps. Schools across the country are turning to technology to help them better serve these students — whose success will increasingly drive graduation rates, test scores and other school-quality metrics — and to help connect with their families. The April issue’s theme was “Nontraditional learning.”

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Competency Based Learning Common Core Personalized Learning Study 99