ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

In one recent survey by vaunted education publisher McGraw-Hill, 93 percent of teachers equated social-emotional learning with academic learning in terms of overall importance. 2 Ensure SEL Curriculum is Based on Industry-Recognized Academic Standards. Most of them claim some kind of pedagogical or academic alignment.

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Learning Outcomes Exercises Survey 448

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in an edtech company’s board meeting, or what keeps founders up at night, here was your chance to find out. The same principle applies to edtech companies. Scaling a business to profitability while operating on a freemium model is nearing urban myth status. Don’t try to beat ‘em.

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Outcomes 123

Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2022

It’s the latest in what will likely remain a contested area of edtech, as colleges struggle to preserve academic standards by deterring cheating while balancing the privacy rights of students. The Fourth Amendment protects citizens against unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons or property.

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Software Academic Standards EdTech Study 207

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

districts, schools, teachers and students; literacy-related frameworks and academic standards; the competitive product landscape; target user and buyer personas (such as curriculum director or librarian); and pain points for school administrators, teachers and students. We covered topics such as number of U.S.

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Company EdTech How To Meeting 163

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2014

As more than 900 entrepreneurs and educators converge in San Francisco this week, some will talk academic standards, literacy and charter schools. That’s why after attending two major edtech conferences in a row ( SXSW.edu ) and ( ASU/GSV ), I’m heading straight for a panel entitled: “But How Do We Know What’s Working?’’.

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EdTech Blendspace Hapara Educreations 89

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. MasteryConnect was one of hundreds of edtech companies that capitalized on investors’ enthusiasm and optimism for the industry in recent years. K-12 edtech companies, with $741 million coming in 2015 alone. (

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 125

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Whatever you think of billions of dollars and countless hours invested in academic standards, regular testing and data-collection regimes, these efforts illustrate how dramatic change can happen when the interest of enough educational stakeholders are in sync.

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Technology Education Academic Standards Advocacy 185

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

The company licenses its calculator to publishers and other edtech developers for use in their software. Meyer says Desmos’ middle-math core curriculum aligns with state and Common Core academic standards. While Texas Instrument is still around, Desmos has found a profitable business model. It’s also not entirely digital.

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Company Exercises Common Core Academic Standards 218

eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2024

Charlotte, NC — Arizona’s Apache Junction Unified School District (AJUSD) today announced a new collaboration with global edtech leader Discovery Education supporting innovative teaching and learning in the district. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

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EdTech Resources Social Media Academic Standards 60

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Founded in 2009, MasteryConnect offers a platform where teachers can plan lessons, create and deliver assessments, and track how students perform against academic standards. He believes “folks are more interested in assessments that happen regularly in the classroom and which are more predictive of student outcomes.”

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LMS Assessment Company Comparison 136

Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

The articulation of academic standards for students by elected and appointed public school officials is nothing less than an expression of community values and collective future vision for the country. The post The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service appeared first on EdTech Strategies.

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Instructional Materials Education Academic Standards Software 150

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The ultimate objective of CASE (1EdTech’s Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange ® specification) is to make it easier, more accurate, and less expensive for edtech suppliers to align resources and tools with state and district academic standards, therefore allowing educators to find resources that better support their needs.

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Academic Standards Tools EdTech Learning 56

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

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. She noted a likely “clampdown” due to concerns over student data privacy, and central district offices are on the hook to make sure that edtech tools are secure. What’s impact?

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Industry Student Data Privacy Education Company 155

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

Investments in teacher training programs when new state standards or social-emotional learning programs are rolled out are recent examples where statewide decisions shape local choices. 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 142

Hapara

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Digital citizenship tools for teachers Edtech tools that support digital citizenship make it easier to teach students while learning is happening. ✔️ K-12 lessons and courses will help your school make digital citizenship a priority in addition to academic standards.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Mobility Examples 173

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2017

Edtech is a vital precursor to “work tech”—the tools that today’s students will need to leverage in college, career training and eventually the workplace. Five factors currently drive this demand for improving the quality and scalability of education technology: Higher academic standards nationwide. Static state budgets.

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EdTech Accessibility Future Ready Academic Standards 60

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

The State of the K-12 Sector The edtech boom of the past two decades promised efficacy and new instructional models. But poorly integrated standards, curriculum, assessment, and intervention materials have always been a problem. A follow-up post will explore what’s changed (or not) on the supply side—both industry and investment.

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Instructional Materials Case Study Assessment Company 162

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

And it’s scenarios like this that put pressure on edtech companies to make their tools more interoperable. Eight years ago, some of its customers requested that Empower support the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) , an open data interoperability standard that was then in vogue with K-12 schools and districts.

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Data LMS Company Education 143

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

Other edtech companies have recently rolled out solutions to aggregate data from multiple programs, including Yet Analytics and Clever’s Goals, but the ability to assign a specific activity and receive data back is unique to Apple’s Schoolwork (for now). These apps can also feed data back to teachers to show students’ progress.

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iPad Chromebook Education Company 153

eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

At the end of the day, edtech can feel like one more thing on a teacher’s plate. Edtech initiatives that reduce teachers to the role of facilitator often overlook the important role the teacher plays in activating rich learning experiences for students. This piece originally ran on Edsurge.

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EdTech Academic Standards Chromebook Tools 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Each lesson, Murphy shares, will “break down academic standards around literacy into discrete subskills.” (For With the funding, ThinkCERCA plans to add 7,000 new interactive lessons to its platform, designed for educators in grades 3 to 12. For example, how do you create a claim and counterclaim?)

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Instructional Materials Academic Standards Company Industry 263

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Even in districts without 1:1 devices, digital content can be used to provide context for academic standards and spark classroom discussion and inquiry. Districts should look to solutions that streamline peer feedback, classroom polls, and flexible groupings. Additional Resources from eSpark. Tour Frontier’s inquiry-based solution.

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Technology Differentiated Instruction Broadband Academic Standards 156

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

My question comes at a time when states like Louisiana are imposing academic standards for preschool education, and as the state education department there is giving $265,000 for technology to 29 parishes participating in a pilot program. Knowledge pills, robo-graders, brain implants and other dystopian edtech.

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Guidelines Coursera Academic Standards Blended Learning 90

eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

At the end of the day, edtech can feel like one more thing on a teacher’s plate. Edtech initiatives that reduce teachers to the role of facilitator often overlook the important role the teacher plays in activating rich learning experiences for students. This piece originally ran on Edsurge.

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EdTech Academic Standards Chromebook Tools 40

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

Kelly met him through Planet3 co-founder Albert Yu-Min Lin when Lin received an award sponsored by Switch, Kelly told EdTech Digest at the time. White says developers often wrestle with building a product that’s fun and engaging or a product that’s more direct in addressing a district’s academic standards.

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Education Company Chegg Pearson 106

Hapara

AUGUST 16, 2023

Educators can do this through consistent formative feedback based on academic standards so learners can progress toward more complex activities. The goal is not to overwhelm them but to provide scaffolding so they can reach a level where they stretch their thinking.

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Gamification Learning Assessment Strategy 130

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2018

curriculum market shifted towards purchasing materials aligned materials to Common Core and state academic standards, the organization began building new offerings based on these U.S. Much of this work was done by a team in Moscow, while those in the U.S. office adapted it for use by American students. Later, as the U.S. and Russia.

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Kaplan Common Core Education Company 86

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

First Comes Plans, Then Comes (Effective) PD Stephanie Avera, secondary TOSA, and John Morgan, Director of EdTech, of Capistrano Unified School District decided it was time to rethink technology PD. The EdTech team at Valverde Unified School District put on a student STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) showcase.

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Technology Education EdTech Future Ready 60

techlearning

MAY 24, 2018

Some sessions dove into the weeds, exploring systems like IMS CASE (Competencies & Academic Standards Exchange), which supports learning standards and competencies, digital resources, and assessments. Christine Weiser, Content Director SETDA Launches New Resource to Support K12 Interoperability.

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Conference Competency Based Learning Report Academic Standards 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Though many teachers remain against reckless #edtech integration, the conversation is clearly shifting from should technology play a central role in the learning process to how should technology be used to promote learning? What might be considered a kind of basic standard for education technology in 2016. Socioeconomic status?

Technology 40

Technology Common Core Academic Standards iPad 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

For example, specific policies regarding academic standards, testing requirements, and charter school authorization caps can give rise to specific types of products. Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, etc.). Two key factors drive this complexity. First, many educational markets are shaped by public policy.

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Policies Academic Standards Common Core Exercises 60

techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Combined, Faria and Rubicon will serve over 10,000 schools in 130 countries with curriculum support for over 600 academic standards. The hub allows for comprehensive edtech management, informed decision making and increased transparency in purchasing for schools and districts. edtech market.

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Chromebook Pearson Student Data Privacy Data 58

edWeb.net

MARCH 26, 2021

Both districts agreed the pandemic forced everyone to jump headfirst into edtech, whether or not the capacity was there. She is a contributor to state and local academic standards and teaching exemplars that help create high learning expectations and opportunities for all students.

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Professional Learning Academic Standards Outcomes Secondary 63

EdNews Daily

AUGUST 27, 2019

Then a re-write of academic standards that had to be mapped to teaching and learning, constantly in revision. At the micro level, schools and districts themselves are starting to feel the burn from a lack of systemic innovation. First came the cries for accountability resulting in increasing numbers of required reports.

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Industry Survey System Academic Standards 100

eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps. ESSA encourages districts to bring edtech into the classroom. For over ten years, districts across the U.S.

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Policies Blended Learning Education EdTech 40

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He has been recognized by EdScoop (EdTech Hero, 2017), SETDA (Leader of the Year, 2013), and Common Sense Media (Educator of the Year, 2012). Before joining IMS Global, Bruce worked as an Edtech data analytics consultant after a brief tenure at the big data analytics company Brightbytes. Bruce holds an M.B.A

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Professional Learning Data Future Ready Academic Standards 52

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

Content-based academic standards. Let’s pretend for a moment that we will eventually be able to design a system of teaching and learning where every single student will be able to master every single academic standard their local government has set out for them. It’s Not About The Thinking. by Terry Heick.

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Academic Standards Mobile Learning Flipped Classroom Mobility 40