Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2020

Edtech coaches also supported families by assisting with the use of technology, providing information around appropriate home environments for learning, and serving as a liaison between families and the school/district. COVID-19 has forced a lot of changes in our formal education. Technology use is now widely considered indispensable.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

Robinson is inspired by Francis Su, former president of the Mathematical Association of America and author of Mathematics for Human Flourishing (2020). Its crucial for students receive good math instruction at the lower elementary and preschool levels so that they start their math journey with a strong foundation, she adds.

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MARCH 1, 2021

When the coronavirus pandemic first hit in March 2020, the research unit inside the U.S. Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To understand how technology can change the way students learn and work together, you only have to go back to March 2020. Coincidentally, the “edtech” industry experienced an unprecedented renaissance in 2020 that was only outpaced by an even bigger boom in 2021.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school. Attacks by cyber criminals were rare, the GAO found.

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AUGUST 9, 2020

As the start of the 2020-21 school year approaches, states and school districts are wrestling with decisions about when, how and whether school will take place inside brick-and-mortar classrooms. As the district’s chief technology officer, I co-direct a district-wide team devoted to maintaining student equity.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

NEW ORLEANS—Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. By the end of 2020, the 44-year-old was agonizing over whether the school year might be her last teaching there. This story also appeared in Time. Into a burning house.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Digital Promise first launched our Micro-credential Policy Map in January 2020 to share valuable information on how states and districts across the U.S. were engaging with micro-credentials. Since then, micro-credential interest, earning, and pathways have only increased.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

It spiked in the fall of 2020, when three quarters of all students were taking classes online. It’s not 100 percent, as it might have been in the spring of 2020, because some states and campuses had reopened by the fall. The green line of online course taking was growing steadily before the pandemic.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

But that shortage is nothing new, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, which shows that more than one-fifth of school districts had trouble filling at least one bilingual education or English as a second language role back in 2011-12. percent to 10.7 percent over the 20-year period.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Related: Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology. Source: “Effectiveness of Crowd-Sourcing On-Demand Assistance from Teachers in Online Learning Platforms,” August 2020 Learning at Scale. I see that you haven’t done anything in three days’,” Heffernan explained to me.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

In many cases, she said, “they’re getting an education that’s largely created by a whole other entity that may or may not have good outcomes.”. Educational technology: $16 billion. They spend $16 billion annually on educational technology , projected to rise to $20 billion by 2024, BMO Capital Markets estimates.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

For much of the previous decade, advocates of education technology imagined a classroom where computer algorithms would differentiate instruction for each student, delivering just the right lessons at the right time, like a personal tutor. So it was interesting to see McKinsey & Co.,

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in elementary education, Hensons career spans multiple grade levels and roles across Texas: teacher, instructional coach, principal and associate superintendent in various districts. EdSurge: Marlin ISD has shown remarkable academic growth under your leadership.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

Photo: screenshot from Sean Willems, “Designing A Home Video Studio For Online Synchronous Teaching,” September 2020. Photo: Sean Willems, “Designing A Home Video Studio For Online Synchronous Teaching,” September 2020. You might find inspiration atop a Tennessee garage.

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MAY 27, 2024

Although the idea is relatively new in education, many schools tried a different version of it – evaluating and paying teachers based on how much their students’ test scores improved – in the 2010s. The foundation is also seeking to expand the use of outcomes-based contracts beyond tutoring to education technology and software.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Percentage of New Online Courses 20202021Coursera31%39%edX16%26%FutureLearn38%51% Class Central analyses show that the fraction of new non-university courses created on Coursera increased from 31 percent in 2020 to 39 percent in 2021. It led me to call 2020 the “Second Year of the MOOC.”

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Text messages to students at more than 700 high schools across 15 states also failed to improve the number of students who applied or enrolled in college, according to a 2020 study. In a November 2020 study, he argued that they’re ultimately more cost effective. But that’s a couple of dollars down the drain when it doesn’t work.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

The district rolled out the class in fall 2020, in an attempt to offer an alternative math course to students who might struggle in traditional junior and senior math courses such as Algebra II, Pre-Calculus and Calculus. Calculus simultaneously to prepare for computer engineering courses in college.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 21, 2022

In this new role, effective May 2, Gupta will oversee Digital Promise’s national program team and an expanding international portfolio in partnership with leading international education and education technology organizations.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Since 2020, three things have become clearer than ever: Our students of color, English learners and students with disabilities have faced a disparate impact on their educational experience from COVID-19. So, how do we put this all together?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

But when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools in March 2020, Mrs. Stamey realized that everything she had been doing suddenly needed to become digital. She had her students put their devices away when they entered her classroom and continued teaching the same way she had for the last two decades.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But educators may not have the capacity to address their students’ many needs, especially in high schools where teachers spend less time with more students, and where adolescents may be less receptive to adult guidance. Here is where the reach, flexibility, and familiarity of educational technology (edtech) can be leveraged.

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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2022

However, the cliche of “public markets are not the economy” holds just as true today as it did in the heady days of the 2020 V-shaped recovery, only in reverse this time around. Selling educational products directly to consumers had already been gradually increasing, but exploded as a viable business model in the last two years.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

When COVID closed the door on in-person schooling in spring 2020, one of the biggest concerns for school districts was how to address the needs of students who experience cognitive learning challenges and/or physical disabilities. Advisor for Innovation & Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Using an array of digital communication technologies, messaging platforms and learning management systems, institutions were able to continue operations and maintain their student market share. The CARES Act that Congress signed into law in March 2020 earmarked $2.2 In total, since March 2020, higher education has received $74.8

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In theory, education technology could redesign school from a factory-like assembly line to an individualized experience. The Department of Education commissioned a $3 million replication study in North Carolina, in which 3,000 seventh graders were randomly assigned to use ASSISTments. But a private foundation salvaged it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A 2020 review of 100 tutoring programs found that intensive tutoring is particularly helpful at improving students’ reading skills during the early elementary years, and most effective in math for slightly older children. This comparison of the two approaches using education technology is promising, but more research is needed.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. Dozens of companies raised venture funding at equal or lesser values —“down rounds”— compared to rounds raised during the pandemic-induced edtech boom of 2020 and 2021. This shift makes sense in a lot of ways—the Zoom classes of the early pandemic stunk.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

We’re about to start year 3 of teaching in the pandemic, and it seems like an appropriate time to think back to March 2020 to think about what new things I’ve started to adjust to COVID-19 disruptions, what I stopped doing and what I plan to continue for 2022.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

As organizational psychologist Scott Sonenshein told Brene Brown on a recent episode of her Dare to Lead podcast : “If you’re going to come in and operate your business like it’s February 2020, you’re going to get crushed. We pivoted in March 2020, then again in fall 2020, then again in fall 2021. There’s no turning back.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In 2020, the digital proctoring company Proctorio brought a lawsuit against Ian Linkletter, who was then a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia. When the suit was brought, in 2020, it gave critics of edtech companies pause to consider that lawsuits could be an effective corporate tool for silencing them.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Those are vital questions for education technology innovators as they build ventures, secure funding and expand their impact. Catalyst @ Penn GSE, a global center for education innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, is passionate about supporting education entrepreneurs. If you build it, will it work?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Beginning in October 2020, it texted them twice a week, week after week, as they started their applications, then considered financial aid packages, decided where to enroll, made plans over the summer for getting to campus and settled into their routines as freshmen.

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ED Surge

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. But looking out my window at the New York City streets and I just saw a yellow cab go by that’s not a Tesla. I’ve never seen a driverless Tesla.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

American schools have a long-running, unrequited love affair with education technology. And the dismal results of remote learning circa 2020 only reinforce how far ed tech is from delivering on these grand promises.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

percent between 2020 to 2030. percent from 2020 to 2030. Bringing career outcomes into early conversations is important, because 65 percent of students report that their colleges didn’t deliver enough support in connecting education to meaningful careers, according to a nationwide Strada College Pulse survey from 2020.

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