eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. As a managed service, it’s no extra work for IT.

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User Generated Education

JULY 2, 2017

Articles, resources on social media, and conference presentations on these topics are proliferating at a rate that most educators are now familiar with maker education. Let me be really clear, making is not simply 3D printing, Art Lino, Raspberry Pi, LEDs, robots, laser and vinyl cutters. ” Mitch Resnick in [link].

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 15, 2019

For many teachers, edtech conferences are a major highlight of the school year and a great opportunity to connect with fellow educators. From lesson creation to assessment and gamification, there is something for K-12 schools, universities, vocational schools, and so on depending on the purpose of the conference.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

at the CoSN 2018 Annual Conference. With the theme of exponential change, thought leaders and presenters at the conference will focus on how to design learning for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. “We SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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Edsurge

JULY 4, 2017

On the floor of the ISTE conference, it’s easy to meet educators and administrators from all over the country (and the world at large). You can discuss edtech implementation strategies, hear about favorite tools, and get to know those practices that teachers are excited to bring back to their students.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2018

Whether this is your first time attending the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) or your 10th, here are some tips and new approaches you can use to ensure you get the most out of the information-packed convention : SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! Time flies at FETC!

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2018

Whether this is your first time attending the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) or your 10th, here are some tips and new approaches you can use to ensure you get the most out of the information-packed convention : SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! Time flies at FETC!

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Neo LMS

APRIL 9, 2020

Design Thinking: The phrase has become ubiquitous at education conferences and during professional development. Read more: What’s edtech got to do with growth mindset? Some people may make the mistake that Design Thinking must involve technology such as 3D printers or robots. Test: Ask for feedback and make changes accordingly.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

During my “freshman year” in the classroom, I made it a point to ask colleagues at my school, members of my professional learning community, educators I met at conferences, and others: “What are the best edtech resources for a new teacher to engage students and ignite their curiosity about learning?”

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Philly Teacher

JUNE 25, 2013

With all of that said, I did find that there was also a missing element to this year’s conference. “EdTech” should not be solely about building fun toys that “trick” students into learning the same things they were learning before. This, to me, is what we need more of in EdTech.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2017

This year’s ISTE Conference was all about technology-charged learning–and from the keynotes and sessions to the fast-paced exhibit hall, the conference’s more than 20,000 attendees (15,000 educators plus expo hall staff) were immersed in just that. In all, ISTE 2017 produced 159,000 tweets from people across the U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2019

Join us today for the first annual CONFUSION conference featuring vague, stab-in-the-dark definitions and more questions than answers. But some administrators say the tool feels impersonal and, well, robotic. A stealth San Francisco-based edtech startup offered a glimpse of a “revolutionary” new product. Neither do we!

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

In its 20th year, the Summit had a feeling of rolling up its sleeves: People talked about the tensions of trying to have civil dialogue between people who hold different points of view; they struggled with the ongoing challenge of trying to figure out “what works” in edtech and reform, particularly when efforts don’t seem to live up to expectations.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) welcomes forward-thinking educators and edtech leaders as they seek to transform and innovate teaching and learning in their classrooms, schools, and districts. GuyKawasaki opens the conference with a keynote on the future of learning. Running Jan. 15 at 1 p.m.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2018

Earlier this week more than 18,000 attendees from 87 countries gathered in Chicago for ISTE, one of the largest K-12 education technology conferences and trade shows in the world. UBTECH Robotics introduces a new robotics kit and curriculum, UKIT, and Yanshee, a robot with an AI interface with a programmable Raspberry Pi.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2019

Not the driving rain or 50-degree temperatures could keep edtech enthusiasts from the opening day of FETC 2019 in Orlando. Because this is my 13th FETC, I confidently walked into the conference center as a tour guide for an FETC first timer. Not surprising is the continued focus on STEAM, STEM, coding, and robotics.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

Even an investment firm that has supported dozens of edtech startups appeared on the list. When school closures started happening, edtech companies started hurting for cash. Funding for Big Fishes Among venture-funded edtech companies that received a PPP loan, Altitude Learning has raised the most capital.

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The Web20Classroom

APRIL 4, 2016

The ASCD Annual Conference is the must attend conference for any educator each year. The quality of the sessions is not something you find at too many conferences. The shear amount of educational leaders and growers that are so accessible is not something you find at many conferences. Now this is daunting.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Perhaps one of the few areas of overlap was that three of the four conferences featured the similar talk by Andreas Schleicher, OECD’s education lead, who shared snippets from his team’s latest “Trends Shaping Education” report. There was also an “edtech surgery” where startups could seek advice from experienced educators.

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eSchool News

JULY 11, 2019

If not, don’t worry–we’re highlighting some of the newest and most innovative edtech tools we saw at the show. Coding and robotics (check out our ISTE 2019 robotics round-up), social and emotional learning, and building employability skills were at the top of the many trends and focus areas highlighted during the conference.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2018

5G Source: nycmedialab / YouTube In the fall of 2018, NYC Media Lab launched the Verizon 5G EdTech Challenge in partnership with the Verizon Foundation and Verizon 5G Labs. The 10 Challenge winners will be announced in early 2019, with each team to receive a $100,000 grant from Verizon to work on 5G and EdTech solutions next year.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH : How project-based learning is helping students build 21st century skills. MORE FROM EDTECH : The do's and don'ts of project-based learning technology integration. Here’s how. Boosting Academic Rigor with the PBL Approach. Other great STEAM tools include littleBits and Teq.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH : How project-based learning is helping students build 21st century skills. MORE FROM EDTECH : The do's and don'ts of project-based learning technology integration. Here’s how. Boosting Academic Rigor with the PBL Approach. Other great STEAM tools include littleBits and Teq.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH : How project-based learning is helping students build 21st century skills. MORE FROM EDTECH : The do's and don'ts of project-based learning technology integration. Here’s how. Boosting Academic Rigor with the PBL Approach. Other great STEAM tools include littleBits and Teq.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH : How project-based learning is helping students build 21st century skills. MORE FROM EDTECH : The do's and don'ts of project-based learning technology integration. Here’s how. Boosting Academic Rigor with the PBL Approach. Other great STEAM tools include littleBits and Teq.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH : How project-based learning is helping students build 21st century skills. MORE FROM EDTECH : The do's and don'ts of project-based learning technology integration. Here’s how. Boosting Academic Rigor with the PBL Approach. Other great STEAM tools include littleBits and Teq.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH : How project-based learning is helping students build 21st century skills. MORE FROM EDTECH : The do's and don'ts of project-based learning technology integration. Here’s how. Boosting Academic Rigor with the PBL Approach. Other great STEAM tools include littleBits and Teq.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH : How project-based learning is helping students build 21st century skills. MORE FROM EDTECH : The do's and don'ts of project-based learning technology integration. Here’s how. Boosting Academic Rigor with the PBL Approach. Other great STEAM tools include littleBits and Teq.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Edtech gatherings that attract more than 1,000 attendees, such as LearnLaunch’s Across Boundaries Conference last week in Boston, are usually echo chambers of hubbub and hoopla about technology’s potential to transform education. Throughout the conference sessions, there were no shortages of ideas on how to address those issues.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

In the daily edtech trenches, the forest is easily lost for the trees. In his opening keynote at the ISTE 2016 conference, noted physicist Dr. Michio Kaku showed educators the forest that he and others believe will encircle the classroom of the future. Remember, robots are [just] adding machines. Dr. Michio Kaku.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

No matter the product, edtech entrepreneurs share one bottom-line goal: sell their stuff. At this year’s Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) in Orlando, Fla., companies ranging from robotics to assessment tools showed up to share how they plan to bridge this gap.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2017

When was the last time you walked into a conference without an agenda? For us, it was at EdFoo 2017 , an un-conference of teachers, edtech gurus, funders and others gathered at Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters for three days of spontaneous learning. Or, for that matter, without the slightest idea of what you might learn?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

What's been most disappointing in edtech? Touring the halls of ISTE, a major education technology conference, you would see banners like “assess, align, instruct, evaluate” in nice marketing packages. That may be the overarching lesson of the last decade in edtech. The largest companies in 2010 were the textbook providers.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

In addition to a collection of print books (which can be delivered via robot ), the library features spaces including a creativity studio, a gaming lab, study rooms, recording studios, and yes, a makerspace. Cut through edtech market noise by crowd-sourcing Concept? Here we embrace the trials and tribulations of purchasing.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 17, 2019

Teachers do not need computer science degrees to engage, enhance and extend student coding experiences due to the abundance of easily accessible creative coding and robotics programs. Dash and Dot are programmable robots that target students in grades K-8 with progression apps that are customizable for optimal learning in the classroom.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A better question might be, what’s hot in EdTech this year ? In 2017, EdTech industry investments rose to a record-breaking $9.5 Just the first half of this year alone, the United States neared one billion in EdTech funding. We’ve touched on “what” and “why,” but “when” is just as crucial in EdTech adoption.

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