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MAY 2, 2024

It will actually create more opportunities and free our teachers and counselors from bureaucracy and allow them to do the social, interactive activity that builds on the promise of public education.” So what, specifically, does the system do? That’s the part of the system leaders are referring to when they say it can “accelerate” learning.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Feelings of AI anxiety are valid for a technology that brings so much change and uncertainty. Instead of teaching specific facts and skills, teach timeless skills that allow students to adapt to any challenge or solve any problem. Teaching students Power Skills now prepares them to succeed and adapt in an uncertain future.

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JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall. The tools are coming fast, though.

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JULY 15, 2024

A statement issued by the school district said “several educational technology companies are interested in acquiring” AllHere to continue its work, though nothing concrete has been announced.

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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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MAY 9, 2023

Deepak Cheenath That puts CoCo’s strategies to keep students engaged or motivated to learn at complete odds with what many edtech companies have been trying to do to teach literacy or STEM — mimic online games like Robolox or Minecraft that children spend hours immersed in outside of school. Screenshot of the CoCo demo video.

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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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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In my first-ever job, I sat in front of a computer teaching English over the internet to a group of students in South Korea. My then-employer was part of the growing education industry in the Philippines. For one thing, the curriculum I was expected to teach asserted that learning English is a matter of memorization.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

EdSurge had the opportunity to speak with Mirecka-Jakubowska about her exploration of UNIVERSE, its impact on student engagement, the need for open-mindedness among educators and the exciting potential of the metaverse in education. Watch this video to see what teaching and learning in UNIVERSE looks like!

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JANUARY 24, 2022

Justin Hall, who teaches math at Rancho Cucamonga Middle School , understands this need well. A 16-year veteran middle school teacher, Hall is a big proponent of increasing access to information for all education stakeholders. Watch a short demo video to see how an intuitive interface saves educators time.

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APRIL 3, 2024

This newfound mobility allows teachers the freedom to interact with students on a more personal level by teaching alongside them while remaining in control of the classroom display through wireless screen sharing. 3 Crowd Source: Ask Those Who Know Which districts are upending the status quo and empowering their teachers through technology?

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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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This common experience illuminates how challenging it can be for educational technology (edtech) companies to communicate what they do and why it is important. Like these society-transforming innovations, when they first emerge, new approaches to teaching and learning often make us wonder, “What is it?” and “Why would I want it?”

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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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JULY 2, 2024

And even the bill’s leaders say they can imagine positive uses for AI in teaching, and the bill wouldn’t stop colleges from using generative AI to help with tasks like grading or creating educational materials. 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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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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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

But the tools were also targeted at math teaching. For instance, Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy — which built the AI tool Khanmigo — argues that the tools represent the “probably the biggest positive transformation that education has ever seen.” Because we all wish we had magical tools to make [teaching] easier.”

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