Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 9, 2015

A few shout-outs that this blog has gotten this year… Onalytica calculated Dangerously Irrelevant to be the 5th-most influential educational technology and e-learning blog in the world. EdTech magazine named Dangerously Irrelevant as one of its ‘must read’ K-12 IT blogs for 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Previous research has generally shown more promise for education technology in math than in reading. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation. That was true for both fourth-grade and eighth-grade students and across school poverty levels. Math scores didn’t deteriorate as much as computer usage increased.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

8 PM ET, March 27, 2015. Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. Click here to share it.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

But, he adds, it creates an opportunity for parents, educators and the kids themselves to think intentionally about the “content and context” of their daily media use. According to Common Sense, between 2015 and 2019, screen use among teenagers (ages 13 to 18) increased by 11 percent. One platform in particular stands out.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

As access to technology becomes increasingly commonplace in schools, discrepancies continue to emerge concerning not whether technology is being used, but how it is being used. National Education Association. US Department of Education. Preparing 21st century students for a global society.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It’s popular these days to argue that a pandemic boost of online education will lead to a wave of college closures. But this kind of rhetoric irks Clay Shirky, the vice provost for educational technologies at New York University and an influential voice on how technology is changing our culture. It had to close.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015. DeVonté Trask, 11.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

Elizabeth Public Schools (EPS) was nominated as a HP Spotlight School district based on their recognized leadership in educational technology. A Closer Look at Our 2019 HP Spotlight School.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. Superintendent Matt Miller pushed for a better deal, but Apple said it would not budge from its price list.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

Both the federal Department of Education and ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) also offer information about quality resources on their respective websites. Technology is an accelerator,” said Richard Culatta, a former federal education technology official who now heads ISTE. “If

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

That may be because, for all the focus on professional preparation, the schools are also giving students the academic education to equip them for college — not just the workforce, say CAST leaders. The CAST schools underscore the fundraising success of Martinez, who was hired three years ago from the Nevada Department of Education.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2022

The world’s complexity has been catapulted to a new level, and higher education is feeling the repercussions like never before. In 2015, I wrote a book responding to the declining-enrollment crisis faced by many small liberal arts colleges throughout the country.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In 2018, my journey took a new turn as I stepped into the role of a computer science education manager, with a mission to sprinkle the seeds of meaningful computer science education across the vast educational landscape of NYC Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2017

Bill Fitzgerald, director of the privacy initiative, Common Sense Education. A simple Web search reveals a bonanza of free or nearly free education technology applications to tempt resource-strapped teachers. Get Schooled” created by Data Quality Campaign in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This was not the first drop in national test scores since the biennial test, called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, was first administered in the early 1990s. Scores also dropped between 2013 and 2015.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2022

So the issue of school start times really hit my radar in the fall of 2015. And 2015 was when he started high school. I am a parent, and I am a parenting journalist, and there are times when those roles overlap. I have two kids. My oldest is now in college. And at the time our local high school started at 7:30 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Nineteen pilot schools participated in 2015; this year, the number skyrocketed, with 113 more joining the Basecamp ranks. There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Data science is changing their view of math,” said Jay Sorensen, Oxnard’s educational technology coordinator, who helped design the class. “It In 2015, Tom McCoy, then the assistant superintendent of education services, jokingly asked Sonny Sajor, the district’s math instructional specialist, “Can I get some math for poets?”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In a 2015 interview with the New York Times, when asked about the name “Generation Alpha,” McCrindle said “It didn’t make sense to go back to A,” noting that it’s the first generation to be fully born in the 21st century. From their earliest years, he says, “they have been screenagers.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Strengthening public pre-K The National Institute for Early Education Research has been publishing annual State of Preschool reports for more than two decades, and for each of the last 18 years, Alabamas universal public preschool program has achieved the highest possible quality rating.

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ED Surge

MAY 21, 2024

She experienced years of what she describes as “pretty intense” climate anxiety, beginning around 2015, as she watched natural disasters unfold in the news and up close. “I Heidi Rose, an elementary school teacher in Denver, Colorado, knows that all too well.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A Gallup Poll found that confidence in higher ed among American adults has fallen from 57 percent in 2015 to 36 percent last year. In the past, that number was about 15 percent. These trends appear to be happening nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2018

According to one study , more than 635,000 students under 18 took community college classes in 2015, an increase of 122 percent from 2001. Ninety-four percent of them do so, spending a median of $297, according to a Department of Education survey. Participation in Advanced Placement classes has risen, too: 2.7 million in 2006.

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Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

Over the years, I’ve been involved in developing research programs and projects in education technology, games, and virtual reality. As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Expect changes at this year’s ASU+GSV Summit , an annual education technology gathering with a reputation as a bustling conference for high-rolling financiers and hoodie-wearing start-up founders. An influx of public school educators at this year’s conference could help change the tone. Digital Promise, a Washington, D.C.-based

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ED Surge

APRIL 16, 2024

Supporting Upward Mobility Another piece of good news from the analysis is that Latinos are entering STEM majors at a rapid pace, with a 44 percent increase in STEM degree attainment from 2015 to 2020. There’s more that colleges and universities could be doing to help Latino students break into higher-paying jobs, Santiago says.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

But the future of educational technology here is starting to emerge from a pixelated past. There’s some real potential for kids in rural areas in Alaska to use computer science and coding as a career path,” said Sam Jordan, education technology coordinator at the state education department.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Tailoring to Tykes Outschool CEO Amir Nathoo says that his company planned to serve children from ages 5 to 18 when it launched in 2015, through its online courses covering both academic and niche subjects. For starters, most 3-year-olds can’t read.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

The story started in 2015, after a student captured video on her cellphone of a white school resource officer violently flipping over a Black student in her desk and dragging her across the room before arresting her. A lawsuit that has been playing out in South Carolina offers a powerful example of the systemic issues involved.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

By 2015, technology had become an integral facet of learning , with devices ubiquitously present in students' hands. Meanwhile, a trend that began in the 1990s was picking up steam — one-to-one computing. Then, in March 2020, schools across the globe closed their doors, quickly pivoting to online instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2016

Even proponents of educational technology admit that a lot of software sold to schools isn’t very good. Almost 20,000 college students and 300 instructors participated in the experiment over the course of three terms between 2013 and 2015.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 11, 2022

From 2015 through the 2020-21 school year, the rate of office disciplinary referrals (ODRs) issued to Black students held steady at around 80 percent. Before the pandemic, according to the study, Black students were three times more likely to face out-of-school suspension than their white peers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2016

Can education technology help put the brakes on summer backsliding? Studies of “summer math loss” find that the average kid forgets more than two months of math over the break. The numbers are worse for lower-income students, and those losses pile up, contributing to math achievement gaps. So far, it seems to be working.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Croft and Nardolilli also launched their own STEM game design company, Catilli, in 2015. “It A neurobiologist by training, Croft also designs her own STEM games for students, and like Nardolilli and Baselice she is trying to gather more evidence that games can lead to learning outcomes.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Our journey began in the Fall of 2015 with the convening of a Future Ready Leadership Team representing a cross-section of school and district leaders. The team’s primary goal was to develop a shared vision for deeper learning through innovative uses of digital technologies. You can view our evolving implementation timeline here.)

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In 2015-16, community colleges enrolled more than a third of dependent undergraduate students whose families earned less than $20,000 a year. Some public flagships are paying attention to the transfer pipeline’s potential for educating people of varied backgrounds.

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