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.

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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. Another recent survey found that, on average, districts saw more than 700 different edtech products used each month during the last school year.

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EdTech Libraries Software Company 144

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In a study of 140,000 classrooms in K-12 schools across 39 states, more than half showed no evidence of students using technology to gather, evaluate, or use information for learning. And in nearly two-thirds of the classrooms, students didn’t appear to use technology to solve problems or work collaboratively.

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Technology Differentiated Instruction Broadband Academic Standards 151

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 206

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. Here were the tips that the mock board members, comprised of education technology investors and founders, had to offer. The same principle applies to edtech companies.

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Outcomes 115

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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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

JUNE 5, 2020

The company licenses its calculator to publishers and other edtech developers for use in their software. 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.

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Company Exercises Common Core Academic Standards 218

Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

There is every reason to expect that both entrepreneurs and enterprising educators will continue to generate new and compelling ideas about how to effectively address the challenges facing public education through technology, and for this we should remain optimistic and hopeful.

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Instructional Materials Education Academic Standards Software 150

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 121

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

A growing corps of entrepreneurs, supported by record-setting investments in education, are creating new technologies, experimenting with business models, and living their own bouts of euphoria and terror. The State of the K-12 Sector The edtech boom of the past two decades promised efficacy and new instructional models.

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Instructional Materials Case Study Assessment Company 161

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 139

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 Of that figure, about $12.3 million will be paid in Instructure common stock, according to a U.S.

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LMS Assessment Company Comparison 129

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 147

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

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. School, district, and state leaders make technology decisions every day that will affect student tech fluency, not to mention learning outcomes. Rapidly emerging technologies.

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EdTech Accessibility Future Ready Academic Standards 60

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

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

There are also upstart competitors offering writing tools such as Turnitin and WriteLab, which are attempting to use artificial intelligence technology to parse a student’s submission and offer constructive feedback. Each lesson, Murphy shares, will “break down academic standards around literacy into discrete subskills.”

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Instructional Materials Academic Standards Company Industry 260

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

Many leaders spoke about the importance of collaborating across districts for a variety of initiatives—from planning a technology implementation to creating buy-in from teachers and providing professional development opportunities. But the innovative work happening in each district is very closely aligned.

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Technology Education EdTech Future Ready 60

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 90

eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

At the end of the day, edtech can feel like one more thing on a teacher’s plate. 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. This piece originally ran on Edsurge.

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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 133

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

The Bare Minimum Of Learning Technology. What is the bare minimum of learning technology integration in a classroom? Prevailing local technology use? In that light, we felt like it represented another kind of idea–a bare minimum of technology integration in an average classroom. by TeachThought Staff.

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Technology Common Core Academic Standards iPad 40

eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

At the end of the day, edtech can feel like one more thing on a teacher’s plate. 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. This piece originally ran on Edsurge.

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EdTech Academic Standards Chromebook Tools 40

Hapara

AUGUST 16, 2023

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. Educators can do this through consistent formative feedback based on academic standards so learners can progress toward more complex activities. The following are some examples.

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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? by Terry Heick. That changes everything.

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Technology Gamification Digital Citizenship Academic Standards 40

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

AUGUST 1, 2018

Imagine is owned by Weld North Education, a private equity firm that has amassed a portfolio of more than 10 education technology companies over the years. 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.

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Kaplan Common Core Education Company 79

edWeb.net

MARCH 26, 2021

Due to COVID-19, most of our educational systems reflect a new normal, with hybrid and remote learning, increased use of technology, and teacher professional development. Both districts agreed the pandemic forced everyone to jump headfirst into edtech, whether or not the capacity was there. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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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. ISTATION AND BOULDER LEARNING SPEECH RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY UPDATE ( www.istation.com ) & ( boulderlearning.com ) Istation recently announced a partnership with Boulder Learning, Inc.,

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Chromebook Pearson Student Data Privacy Data 61

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 98

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Technology and Professional Development. Whether face to face, virtual, or both, technology has the potential to personalize professional learning for teachers. Jeff Mao is an education technology leader with over 25 years of experience. Bruce holds an M.B.A in public administration from Michigan State University.

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Professional Learning Data Future Ready Academic Standards 52

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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

School libraries have evolved from strict, quiet, hush-hush rooms to more interactive spaces with flexible seating, readily-available edtech tools, and educators on hand to help with research, critical resource evaluation, makerspaces. What are the emerging technologies in a library? What are the new trends in libraries?

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 98

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

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. Technology. It’s Not About The Thinking.

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Academic Standards Mobile Learning Flipped Classroom Mobility 40

eSpark

APRIL 14, 2022

How can technology build these connections? Most teachers simply don’t have enough time or energy to write rigorous lessons that both engage students and meet a diversity of academic needs. Ready to see how technology in the classroom can transform student engagement in reading and math?

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