ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Impossibility of EdTech To my school’s credit, they knew there was a problem. While it’s difficult to determine how much has been spent on Edtech , we do know that investments in education technology companies have nearly quadrupled since the beginning of the pandemic. Need to foster relationships between students?

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

Bearing that in mind, unless you've spent years in classrooms full of students, working against the demands of curriculum mandates, IEP or 504 modifications and state testing requirements, I implore you—each of my colleagues in edtech proffering your solutions to schools—to begin conversations by asking teachers what they need.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2019

The infusion of technology into our culture is the greatest change that our educational system has ever experienced. Not long ago, many schools required teachers to include the use of technology in their daily lesson plans. Teachers were grasping at anything that could fulfill the “obligation” of using technology.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

But as someone who has long helped entrepreneurs enter and grow within the edtech space, I can say that turning a good idea into a working innovation that helps educators and students remains a challenge. They address problems that were either too big or too small for traditional kinds of companies.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2022

Equipped with a set of tech skills gained from pandemic remote learning and the rise of technology in teaching generally, current teachers are making a huge career pivot into edtech or other education organizations. Our world seems so siloed from other professional settings, with specific language, practices and culture.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 26, 2015

An idea is wasted if it is not acted upon leading to change in culture and/or practice. It is a natural compliment to the work school leaders are already doing. It is time to do what you do better. Instead of conformity, rules, and maintaining status quo schools need to focus on choice, ownership, and autonomy.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Our report also found areas of opportunity in districts’ investments in education technology. Edtech plays an increasingly important role in the classroom. Edtech can also free up teacher time to focus less on administrative tasks and more on building relationships with students.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Every content experience is embedded in a cultural or community framework.” Meeting the Demand Since the start of the pandemic, usage and engagement of the early childhood classes and products has soared, edtech leaders say.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2023

This is the second in a three-part series of conversations with Latino educators and edtech experts. Education researchers now know that Latino students were dealt an outsized blow to their learning by the coronavirus pandemic. It’s generally a culture of helpfulness and inclusivity, he expands, one that uplifts everyone.

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2024

Integrating generative AI into education is complex. As an assistant professor of edtech, I often think about the implications of AI on teaching and learning, especially as I experiment with implementing various practices and approaches with the pre-service educators I teach. (if AI can do all of this.)

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

This is the third in a three-part series of conversations with Latino educators and edtech experts. Before we get into the educator perspectives shared below, there’s something I have to explain about Latino culture. Read the first part here and the second part here. It would be worse to make waves and risk getting fired.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ten years ago, Pooja Sankar set out to build an edtech tool that gave shy students superpowers in their college courses. So it seemed like a good time to ask what she learned over the past decade, how COVID has changed teaching and what advice she has for other edtech entrepreneurs. program at Stanford University.

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2022

If they have a healthy digital culture at home, you have a healthy digital culture at school,” he said. Creating good digital citizenship is a “team sport” that will take not only teachers but the whole school and parents, he added. “If

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Online Teaching, Technology, and Learner Variability : Teachers with a high degree of comfort with technology are significantly less likely than others to say the pandemic has worsened their ability to work with each student’s individual learner variability. Edtech and Professional Development.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2022

The answer(s) may have implications for designing new edtech tools—and VR technology intended to be used beyond the classroom, too. Does edtech work better as a solo encounter or a group experience? To immerse, or not to immerse? For professors designing virtual reality versions of Shakespeare’s plays, that is the question.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

It was an example of how in the past few years edtech has been both a success story—allowing schools to keep learning from stalling out during the COVID-19 pandemic—and a spotlight alerting schools to the knotty social challenges confronting them. Superintendents at the panel noted some of those successes.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

What defines an exemplary edtech company that serves K-12 needs? While the edtech market continues to grow with innovative ways to engage students, not many companies provide products rooted in three decades of cognitive research that continue to provide solid returns on investment. We take this very seriously.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Other essays published by fellows examine pressing themes related to the intersection of teaching, learning and identity including embracing identity , leading with joy , teaching through grief , feeling undervalued in the profession and rethinking classroom culture. They are meaningful, in and of themselves.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

Then, Public Education. by Dominik Dresel Amazon’s efforts to expand its footprint in K-12 education through digital tools have largely fizzled. But Jeff Bezos is known for playing the long game, and public education is very much part of it, opines Dominik Dresel, a school administrator and edtech entrepreneur. “I

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 12, 2010

So many exciting things have happened recently as a result of my own learning and growth in educational technology and leadership. and begun to collaboratively change the culture of my school. Forming partnerships are an extremely important aspect of educational leadership. So why is this a big deal?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Solving deep-seated equity challenges in education is complex for a myriad of reasons. One key and solvable challenge is for solutions to be informed by the cultural and contextual expertise of the communities in which they’re implemented.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education. Some groups call themselves “learning DAOs,” organized to educate members of their communities. The Crypto, Culture, & Society DAO is also an experiment in building an educational institution directed by learners, not administrators.

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ED Surge

APRIL 13, 2022

Widespread faculty opposition to digital education over the years did not keep remote instruction from taking hold. As the digital revolution elbowed its way into the nation’s cultural and commercial spheres, virtual versions split off from earlier industrial-era products, often overturning them. million from fall 2012 to fall 2020.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Whether a feature film or an instructional video, the ‘80s and ‘90s were a ‘press-play’ culture that expected students to sit still, absorb and retain, while the educator sat in the back grading. Body Paratext There are edtech tools that can help incorporate these strategies even as a video progresses.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Recently, the world of edtech financing has exploded. At the same time, many game-making professionals have grown tired of entertainment-only games and leery of the often toxic culture. This has raised the question of whether the gap in quality and popularity between entertainment games and impact games can be closed.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Through this work, we see powerful examples of innovation across education — from students creating their own virtual reality (VR) films, to researchers working with technology developers to improve edtech efficacy, to educators rethinking their own professional development with the use of micro-credentials.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Educational technology adoption has grown significantly in the past decade, and it’s clear that K-12 schools are now comfortable with and embrace the new technology norms. Susan Uram Director of Educational Technology at Rockford Public Schools But effectively evaluating edtech products is no small feat.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2018

teachers are) just learning how to get the technology into their classroom and how to incorporate it with their curriculum so that it's meaningful and embedded. Teaching with Technology. Districts are using technology tools in powerful ways to enhance student learning and engagement. Explore the Challenge Map.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

And the people arguing for and against the motion were both devoted educators. The venue was the Teacher Tech Summit, a two-day virtual event last month run by T4 Education, and co-hosted with the World Bank and the edtech investment firm Owl Ventures. A university is also the best place to acquire social and cultural capital.

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Edthena

MAY 19, 2022

Perhaps it’s looking at data and trends from education technology such as teacher video coaching , or eliciting feedback through school surveys. For Founding Principal Sarah Martin, it’s clear that her school has a culture of continuous improvement. Three ways to measure school success.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2022

From time to time, Jeff Livingston gets a call from an entrepreneur looking for advice about getting into the edtech market. As founder of the Center for Education Market Dynamics, Livingston has spent the better part of two decades thinking about how to get edtech innovations to the students who need them most.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Department of Education has approved 46 state plans for the latest round of $122 billion in federal funds to help schools recover from the pandemic. Education technology is a priority in many plans. That is, there is little information about what edtech works, where it works and in which contexts. Can you explain how?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

That fits a pattern of universities reasserting control over functions previously outsourced to OPMs, says edtech analyst Matt Tower, a principal at Workshop Venture Partners. Some for-profit colleges from an earlier era are doing well, like Chamberlain University and Grand Canyon, says edtech consultant Phil Hill.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

AI-driven tools may signal the integration of technology into learning in profound ways; however, the long trajectory of edtech has not yet changed the fundamental organizing structure between teacher and student.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In a 2021 survey from the College Innovation Network, 20 percent of students at four-year colleges said they struggled learning new edtech tools. Fluent in Digital Culture — Not Academic Tools It’s understandable that many educators perceive members of Gen Z to be internet-savvy.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Cross-posted at The Educator''s Royal Treatment. As I mentioned in a previous post I have been working on a educational technology presentation for principals in a NJ school district. Sustainable change relies on understanding people, culture, and processes. educational technology Leadership Opinion Social Media tools'

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