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Does Ownership of Instructional Materials Matter?

Doug Levin

. – I want to focus instead on one aspect of how we are shifting from print to digital: the procurement decision schools make about whether to license digital instructional materials or purchase them outright, because I think ownership of instructional materials matters.**. Image credits. Image credits.

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Choosing Edtech: Three Learnings from Five Districts

Digital Promise

How might districts find edtech to support learning? Fortunately, educators can leverage learnings from some leading-edge K-12 districts who have developed thoughtful processes for making edtech decisions despite limited available evidence. Districts will have access to the nearly $190 billion which the U.S.

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Quality over quantity: Rethinking edtech time in the classroom

eSchool News

But when it comes to evaluating the return on edtech investments, that line of thinking can be disastrously misleading. Of course, when confronted by a market flooded with edtech companies hawking seemingly endless supplemental programs and promising to change the trajectory of student performance, it can be challenging to gauge what works.

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5 Hidden Building Blocks for a Successful Scholastic Esports Program

EdTech Magazine

We would revisit the most recent research, begin our instructional materials adoption process, find additional supplemental materials and manipulatives that align, build out a scope and sequence, implement a new professional development series, build out the courses in our learning…

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Milestone reached as NH takes advantage of free instructional materials

eSchool News

These instructional materials have been incredibly valuable to the state’s educational system. About Discovery Education Discovery Education is the worldwide EdTech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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US Edtech Raises $803M in First Half of 2020 As COVID-19 Forces Learning Online

Edsurge

With COVID-19 jeopardizing in-school learning, we expect the widespread adoption of edtech software to continue, and this is not a short-term trend,” says Jeff Lieberman, a managing director at Insight Partners, a private equity firm that has backed nearly two dozen education companies. And that has private investors piqued. In the U.S.,

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 18 Edition)

Doug Levin

We have a choice to make about the future of instructional materials in a digital age. As physical books are replaced by digital replicas and - increasingly - by interactive software, do we continue to believe that public school instructional materials should be subject to public inspection?