Digital Promise

DECEMBER 11, 2018

These were just some of the challenges addressed by innovative startups from across the western United States in the semi-finals of the 2018 Global EdTech Startup Awards (GESA), co-sponsored by Digital Promise and GSVlabs, and the Michelson Foundation on November 15. What if teachers could organize their classes with the help of an app?

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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. Review of Educational Research, 88(4), 547-588. National Education Association. National Education Association. US Department of Education.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

The technology supporting these metaversities comes from Engage, an Irish company that has produced virtual-reality experiences depicting the Titanic voyage, the Apollo 11 space mission and the bombing of Berlin during World War II. The design interface comes from VictoryXR, a company that sells virtual-reality education technology.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Access to technology for all students is a major goal for many schools, companies, and organizations—yet access is only part of the equation. Once an educational technology (edtech) tool is in a school, the hard work is just beginning due to a number of potential hurdles and challenges that leadership and educators need to overcome.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The growth of educational platform companies such as Coursera and 2U is being driven in part by a surge in demand for certificate programs and “alternative credential” offerings. The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020. This trend, too, has seen a jump forward due to the pandemic.

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MAY 28, 2024

In 2018, Ohio adopted one such policy. North Carolina, which passed a version of this in 2018, released a review of its program that suggested it’s had some success. In these systems, students are automatically enrolled in algebra — unless they choose to opt out — after they achieve high scores on standard tests.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

We take a bottom-up approach to education technology in a way that is contextual and responsible. We enable organizations to have ownership over how they contextualize education technology specific to their local needs and experience. All of this is part of our theory of change.

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MAY 4, 2023

In 2018, back when Austin had just earned her Ph.D. in chemical education from ASU, she accepted a new role as managing director of online programs at the university. In 2018, Nicola Osgood was serving on active duty and considering resuming the higher education she had paused years before.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Credit: Courtesy of the Curry School of Education and Human Development. The coronavirus school closures have triggered a mass experiment in using educational technology, from video conferencing to automated feedback. Many users are underwhelmed and longing for the moment we can return to traditional in-person instruction.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It takes a really long time before technology has these really dramatic changes,” he says. “In In 2018 or so Elon Musk said there would be fleets of driverless Teslas everywhere by 2020. And he stressed that while colleges should pay attention, the changes to these fields and their related workplaces won’t happen overnight. “It

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “We see a lot of spending everywhere on tablets, computers, counting the ratio of computers per student,” said Helen Lee Bouygues, who founded the Reboot Foundation in 2018. Bouygues wants schools to pay more attention to how they are using technology.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2020

Most states, at least 37, have a policy regarding early identification of dyslexia, a learning disorder that impacts reading, spelling and writing; and 21 states have a statute or code that addresses screening students in grades K-3, according to a 2018 report by Education Commission of the States.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Our platform saw a 20 times increase in the number of conversations between educators and families compared to the 2018-19 school year. Heejae Lim is the founder of TalkingPoints, a nonprofit, multilingual educational technology platform that helps teachers and families connect for student success.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

“The pessimistic view is that [students] are going to hate it and never want to do this again, because all they’re doing is using Zoom to reproduce everything that’s wrong with traditional passive, teacher-centered modes of teaching,” said Bill Cope, a professor of education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Nationwide, one out of four teenagers from low-income households lacks access to a home computer and, overall, Latino students have less access than their black and white peers, according to a 2018 survey by the Pew Research Center. We’re doing a disservice if we’re not teaching the next generation how to use technology.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

From 2012-2018, nearly 2,800 preservice teachers within one of the largest teacher preparation programs in Texas responded to an essay prompt, “Explain why you decided to become a teacher.”

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Digital Promise

MARCH 15, 2017

SXSWedu is one of the country’s largest educational technology conferences and, as most of these conferences go, has tended to focus more on the K-12 segment than on adults who are in need of foundational skills to help them advance in the workforce. What did this year’s SXSWedu conference have to say about adult learning?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

The fifth grades at Whelan contracted with the commercial program over the summer of 2018. Although they had been using technology in the past, this school year has been their first venture in one-to-one learning. The other was a third-grade blended-learning classroom at Lincoln Central Elementary School, in Lincoln, Rhode Island.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

Researchers pulled data for two years (the 2017 and 2018 academic years) from Missouri’s state-wide teacher evaluation system, in which students rated teachers’ effectiveness. A University of Missouri study found that students who feel their teachers care about them also report receiving better instruction.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Their suicide rates between 2014 and 2018 were well above the national average. We lost a student to suicide in May 2018. A few years ago, Neosho School District in Southwest Missouri realized they were in a crisis. In fact, this small district of roughly 4,700 children was averaging two suicides per year. It's horrible.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2019

What stands out for me is how popular education trends, from social-emotional learning to school discipline, aren’t standing up to scientific scrutiny. The research evidence for education technology continues to be weak. Related: 10 of the most important stories about education research in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

According to an April 2018 Department of Education report, 18 percent of 5- to 17-year old students in “remote rural” districts have no broadband access at home. The broadband expansion is supported by the managers of the existing network, and the plan’s backers could tap multiple statewide funding sources for education technology.

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ED Surge

JUNE 20, 2023

It was 2018, on the first day of seventh grade. In 2018, I believe the fall of 2018, because we had found that students having cellphones was interfering with student learning. It was boiling, and there was lots of disgruntled chatter. It’s a company that makes lockable phone pouches. Right,” she said.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyzed students’ performance following Hurricanes Matthew and Florence, which hit the state in 2016 and 2018 respectively. Students can academically bounce back after a natural disaster, but it’s not a guarantee.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A 2018 meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of children ages 14 and younger demonstrated that math performance in children emerges from areas of the brain that are associated with number processing, such as the parietal and frontal areas.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

Witnessing a classroom buzzing with excitement and brimming with knowledge was an educator's dream come true. My students were captivated by the game, and together, we crafted an unforgettable classroom experience and clinched victory in the annual holiday door decoration contest with a Minecraft masterpiece!

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A $33 million voter-approved bond passed in June 2018. If housing was the main driver of high turnover rates and district leaders couldn’t adjust salaries in line with housing costs, they thought, why not just build staff housing? The remainder of the $75.5 million housing project was financed through a Certificate of Participation (COP).

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2022

In contrast, the European Union put in place the General Data Protection Regulation , or GDPR, in 2018 which spells out the expectations around data protection and personal information. What schools can do, experts say, is to diligently vet the edtech they use. Lack of National Consensus The U.S.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

wrote one educator on Twitter. In 2018, the company was acquired by the China-based NetDragon Websoft , which led to speculation that the deal could mark the decline of standalone education companies offering free services. Its folding led to some eulogizing on social media platforms like Twitter. It's so sad!”

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

During the last pre-pandemic college application cycle, 2018-19, nearly 1.2 Overall, they found that 24 percent of students who started the Common App in 2018-19 did not complete it. The COVID-19 pandemic complicated the application process further with disruptions to in-person advising, testing and extracurricular activities.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That’s because since 2010 the number of students enrolled in teacher prep programs at colleges has fallen by more than a third, from about 900,000 students in 2010-11 to only 600,000 in the 2018-19 academic year, according to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Maria and her husband arrived at Adventist HealthCare’s The Lourie Center for Children’s Social & Emotional Wellness in 2018, seeking answers for their then-2-year-old middle son, Lucas. Their household is a busy one, occupied with wrestling matches, filled with outdoor adventures, and covered all over in Legos.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

From 2018 to 2023, the college recorded a 39 percent increase in Monmouth County high school students enrolling in its college-level courses. That push is evident at Brookdale. The institution hopes to increase enrollment among high school students by 50 percent more by 2028.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

He’s worked with kids since 2018 through Wings for Kids, a nonprofit that operates after-school programs in Georgia and South Carolina. They are also practicing how to be a man. For Jackson, the question of how to model manhood is an obsession, something he thinks about all the time.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2022

Oklahoma, Virginia and Arizona—notably, some of the states whose teachers went on strike in 2018—are not far behind. But in Rhode Island, Wyoming and New Jersey, the disparity is less glaring, with a difference under 5 percent. In Colorado, the gap is widest, at 35.9

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

“I like to have kids talk in class, to me and to each other, about how they’re trying to figure out a problem,” Young said in an interview, and that makes for an ambivalent relationship with education technology. Ron Berger, chief academic officer, EL Education.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

Community Impact and Student Leadership In 2018, I worked with a group of students who inspired the creation of MIStudentsDream , a community organization focused on immigration and education justice.

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