ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

The use of education technology continues to increase in classrooms across the country, presenting new opportunities to engage all learners. For EALA, this is a clear signal that we, as an education community, must commit to the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for the benefit of all learners. percent to 22.5

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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

APRIL 17, 2024

The edtech market is saturated with various tools designed to improve children’s literacy from e-readers to apps to digital libraries. And like many edtech tools, it’s common for these to use reward systems, such as giving learners the ability to collect badges or prizes as they progress.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

Looking forward, this will become even more important as the speed of edtech product life cycles increase, as evidenced by the recent release and adoption of generative AI tools across the landscape. As generative AI becomes more commonly integrated into edtech, we see a need to build better research, vetting and use cases for these tools.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It is not uncommon for teachers to spend hours searching through edtech tools to customize and differentiate for individual student needs. A curated activity library is a fundamental tool in this process. The Widget Library. Identify the intended learning outcome and create activities around it. Image Credit: BookWidgets 2.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

And we also talked with edtech experts to try to better understand this new tool and how it compares to other approaches for using AI in education. EdSurge recently sat down with the developers of the tool, custom-made for the district by Boston-based AI company AllHere, for a demo, to try to find out.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Recently, I attended the 2019 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Portland, Oregon, hosted by NTEN , to catch up on the newest trends in educational technology (edtech) and learn about cutting-edge tools that may be integrated to boost adult learning and workforce development initiatives at Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2020

In fact, it’s so important that our district views all decisions through our “ equity lens ,” which aims to increase equity in educational technology to reduce inequities within the district, including disproportionality in student outcomes. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 14, 2018

Education technology and innovation continue to evolve, making it easier for teachers to harness the power of technology to improve education outcomes for learners. At the same time, a growing field of learning sciences research offers more precise knowledge of how learners learn.

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ED Surge

APRIL 22, 2024

According to edtech consultant Phil Hill in a recent blog post , most revenue-sharing ventures have either lost money or barely reached breakeven. It’s a $4 billion industry, with about 550 U.S. colleges partnering with them and about a quarter of students in fully online 4-year programs enrolled in them.

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ED Surge

MAY 6, 2022

“Now is the time,” said a recent promotional email from Udemy, a library of online courses. That was one prediction of the late David Noble, a critic of edtech, in the 1997 essay “Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the evolving landscape of education, one topic has taken center stage: generative AI. As educators, we tend to be on a continuous quest for innovative edtech tools that will enhance the learning experience for students. Today, Goodnotes is pioneering generative AI for digital handwriting in the productivity space.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2022

The Role of EdTech Providers in a Post-Pandemic K-12 Landscape. Ultimately, we need to make teachers more efficient and let technology do what manual labor was doing in the past. We’ve opened up our content library and provided 10 to 15-minute digital lessons that target the topic or standard a teacher is working on.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2023

We published numerous stories about the plight of teachers today, including investigations into the experiences of educators whose mental health concerns are pushing them out of the profession and the lives of teachers who work multiple jobs to cover their basic needs. Can Four-Day School Weeks Keep Teachers From Leaving?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

It’s not just a question of exposure to advertising and commercial branding, but of the ethics of public education in an increasingly digital world. Related: Students’ worry: education technology might predict failure before they have a chance to succeed.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 1, 2017

“Educators will appreciate that the authors tackle the issue of trust building while at the same time providing best practice and practical examples that promote successful implementation,” said Stephanie Hirsh, executive director of Learning Forward. This book is an important tool that belongs in every school’s professional library.”.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rhode Island also emphasized the importance of involving state government in their efforts (the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, led by former Office of Educational Technology Director Richard Culatta, has been a key partner in EduvateRI). LearnLaunch has graduated 31 #edtech companies and has 120 mentors. edclusters16.

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Edthena

JANUARY 14, 2019

We could hire someone to examine each video, apply compression settings, and move the videos into users’ libraries. So it’s now possible for a teacher to upload a video from a variety of sources directly to our server, but there are still a few steps that still need to happen in order to get the video ready for Internet streaming.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

student at the University of Chicago and one of the authors of a study released earlier this year on the privacy and security challenges facing K-12 education. Related: ‘Don’t rush to spend on edtech’ The federal government is starting to step in. School districts that have been hit say they are taking new safety precautions.

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