ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with three educational leaders from Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 in Illinois about their experiences with and strategies for using technology to enrich classroom environments. Caitlin Smith, the director of technology, has been in the K-12 educational technology space for 10 years.

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ED Surge

APRIL 16, 2024

For instance, she praised Apple’s recent product release of the Apple Vision Pro, which she says solves an important challenge of the technology by allowing users to opt to see a view of the outside world even while wearing the headset. And for education, we need more. We need interactivity.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

After the demo, we worked together — through a week of brainstorming, models, labs, and notes — to figure out that the magic behind this trick is just electrons. It was during this demo that I really started to love science — when I realized a science teacher could be sort of the inverse of a magician.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Recommended Resources The NXTLVL Website Book a NXTLVL Demo Join a NXTLVL Playtest Apply for a NXTLVL pilot "There’s so much changing in our world, especially now in the age of AI,” Freeman shares. California School Embraces Power Skills Meghan Freeman, CEO of Elite Academy, a California Distinguished School, wholeheartedly agrees.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2023

Screenshot of the CoCo demo video. In CoCo’s demo video, all the different use cases for the platform seem geared toward users building projects together, like coding and playing a game live. The platform does have an element, “CoCo cards,” that might have been designed to help students collect points.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

When Bradley Denison , director of the educational technology services of the College of the Mainland (COM), was tasked with facilitating an LMS evaluation, he understood the importance of listening to stakeholder needs, carefully analyzing priorities and devising a clear plan to meet the institution’s demands.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2024

And education appears to be an area identified by tech companies as a “ killer application ” of AI chatbots, a use case that helps drive adoption of the technology. Several demos last month by OpenAI , Google, and other companies honed in on educational uses of their latest chatbots.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

Now he can, and that is the power of technology when it is effectively paired with instruction. Request a demo. See for yourself how Vivi transforms communication, boosts classroom engagement and simplifies IT management.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2022

When we learned about GoGuardian’s Beacon software, we did a demo, and I thought, "I need that." The teachers can also use the GoGuardian Teacher platform to see what kids are working on—make sure they're staying on task. It searches for concerning activity related to suicide or self-harm on students’ school-managed accounts.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

To learn more about UNIVERSE by ViewSonic and how it can help support your teaching and learning needs, you can schedule a demo with a solution expert here. This is history in the making, and it is exciting to be a part of it!

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

IEI learner dashboard demo Where does datacasting fit on the road to universal broadband? Up to eight people in a home can use the Eddie. More powerful versions called Edwards are available for school buildings and incarceration facilities and can serve thousands concurrently.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Watch a short demo video to see how an intuitive interface saves educators time. Ultimately, it is more personalized, helps things run smoothly and allows for ongoing reflection. Recommended Resources. Learn more about Jupiter’s Award-Winning Learning Platform.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

If you are a district admin and would like to book a demo, click here. Privacy and security have been at the top of educators' minds, and rightfully so. Recommended Resources: Teachers can get started by creating a free Prodigy account here. Learn more about how Prodigy can boost student achievement here.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2022

You note that just focusing on policing these sites is not the best way forward in your view, but in your book you do mention some new technologies that are being built to try to address contract cheating. There are some technologies that are being developed right now that I've had the opportunity to [demo].

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

By following these steps and considering your district’s unique needs, you can ensure your classroom technology refresh delivers to the most important stakeholders of all: teachers and students. Request a demo. See for yourself how Vivi transforms communication, boosts classroom engagement, and simplifies IT management.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2020

This common experience illuminates how challenging it can be for educational technology (edtech) companies to communicate what they do and why it is important. When schools interview a candidate for a teaching position, they ask for a lesson plan that makes clear what the teacher is doing in a demo lesson and why.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

To learn more about how Otus can help support students who are chronically absent, request a demo. This relationship-building is an important step in reducing barriers and addressing chronic absenteeism.

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I purchased iPads for each of my administrators to collect the walkthrough data and then we demoed multiple programs to see which was the best fit for us. Tri-State Educational Technology Conference (TSETC) : I have previously blogged about this event, but am compelled to mention it again.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Use the internet’s resources—some companies upload their materials online, but if the company is well-known enough, you can find YouTube videos for job applicants, from mock class demos to class flow samples. Tutors can also get a peek at the curriculum during the demo class.

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, recently posted a video demo of him using a prototype of his organization’s chatbot Khanmigo, which has these features, to tutor his teenage son. The technology shown in the demo is not yet available, and is at least six months to a year away, according to Khan.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

EdSurge: So you saw some demos of this VR school with their sixth graders and eighth graders. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts, or use the player on this page. Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. What did the VR classroom look like?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

That’s because, he says, “real-time tutoring” — such as GPT-4 Omni, which was demoed by Sal Khan and his son earlier this year — allows for interaction via voice, which makes people more likely to engage with tools in a tutoring manner, rather than only through typing.

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