ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. A small but mighty movement was building – and it needed time to grow.

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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

APRIL 23, 2019

Unfortunately, too many of our investments in educational technology (edtech) have fallen far short of our civil rights aspirations. Taking a more critical look at edtech. Why do we hold edtech products to a lower standard than many other educational factors that interact with our students? We need to make a change.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Once an educational technology (edtech) tool is in a school, the hard work is just beginning due to a number of potential hurdles and challenges that leadership and educators need to overcome. Evaluating Edtech Quality and Use Matters. Visit the Edtech Pilot Framework to learn more about the edtech marketplace.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

But one longtime edtech expert sees an even better fit for new AI chatbots in education: helping educators design course materials for their students. There’s a push among AI developers to create an AI tutor , and some see that as a key use case for tools like ChatGPT. The question is, can AI do that?”

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ED Surge

JULY 15, 2024

But it was the chatbot that was touted as the key innovation — which relied on human moderators at AllHere to monitor some of the chatbot’s output who are no longer actively working on the project. This is the well-known hard part of edtech.” He said he is waiting for the district to share more information about what happened. “I

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ED Surge

JANUARY 22, 2024

That AI tool had pulled off some big wins, including beating humans on the Jeopardy quiz show in 2011. It is a deeply human process that AI is hopelessly incapable of meeting in a meaningful way. It is a deeply human process that AI is hopelessly incapable of meeting in a meaningful way. They’re tools. They’re strange tools.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The webinars, sponsored by Amazon Web Services (AWS) , served as a platform for gaining valuable insights from education leaders, policymakers and edtech product developers. Educator and edtech consultant Rachelle Dené Poth agrees, sharing how she encourages her students to use AI-powered tools in the classroom.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

For edtech firms, this partly means figuring out how to prevent their bottom line from being hurt, as students swap some edtech services with AI-powered DIY alternatives , like tutoring replacements. Primarily, for instance, it stresses that humans should be placed “firmly at the center” of AI-enabled edtech.

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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

JULY 19, 2023

At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Who Is Edtech Made for?

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Edthena

MARCH 18, 2022

AI Coach Platform: When Edtech Concepts Become Practical Classroom Realities. So, you know, when we think about what the AI coach platform represents, it represents a tool that absolutely has been informed by humans and experienced instructional coaches designing a process for teachers to support the professional learning.

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ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2023

Edtech has become inseparable from the education system. to find out which edtech products those schools most often use or recommend to students — as well as what risks those tools raise and whether schools are prepared to meet them. Vetting processes tend to mention privacy but are relatively fuzzy on the details, the report found.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2023

For some parents, researchers loaded up tablets with vetted apps designed to teach math skills, and then handed them to the families and walked away for six months, says Ariel Kalil, a professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and the director of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy.

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2024

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. Can these tools make us more human, not less? (if AI can do all of this.)

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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. As a student acts and speaks, his or her avatar will perform in front of a virtual audience, but other humans in the room won’t see the virtual theater that the student sees. To immerse, or not to immerse?

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

More than 26 members of local and national media were on hand for the splashy announcement (a detail that Carvalho noted in his remarks), and the event also featured a human dressed in a costume of the shiny animated character of Ed, which has also long been a mascot of the school district, for attendees to take selfies with.

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Edthena

AUGUST 5, 2021

In this interview on the MarketScale EdTech Today Podcast, host Kevin Hogan and Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller talked about lessons learned about professional learning for educators moving forward, including how to help teachers embrace new technologies. Wondering where professional development is headed post-pandemic?

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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. An increasing amount of data around personalized educational models like "blended learning" and content-specific software suggests that edtech makes instruction in diverse classrooms more efficient.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Throughout her educational journey, she has spanned various roles, including teaching elementary math, instructing web communications for career and technical education students and serving as an edtech consultant and speaker. The science activity Human Eye in McGraw Hill AR My job is to facilitate and learn beside them.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Danger of a Myopic Focus on AI Technology Tools It reminds me of the early days of the edtech boom when I would attend the Computer Using Educators (CUE) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conferences, and the most popular sessions had titles like “50 Tech Tools in 50 Minutes.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2023

A Booming Sector The edtech industry is eager to build on ideas like that one. This makes AI-related features accessible to almost every edtech company,” he added. “I look at it as the future of: What if we could program it to be our substitute teacher at school?”

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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. EdSurge recently posed a question to a panel of three educators and an edtech CEO: What is the greatest strength that Latinos can leverage to transform public education? Read the first part here.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Organizations that embrace the promotion of DEI tend to establish and follow a core set of guiding principles, particularly in the creation of their educational products, that resemble the following: Respect for human rights; they endeavor to create content that is free of discrimination, implicit or explicit prejudice and bias.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For businesses, artificial intelligence has proven immensely profitable, by some accounts even lifting the overall amount of funding flowing to edtech last year. Artificial Tools, Human Judgments When EdSurge first spoke to Kohn, the lab coordinator, he was using ChatGPT as a teacher’s assistant in biology courses.

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ED Surge

JULY 3, 2023

What’s It Like to Leave the Classroom for a Job in Edtech? When teachers pack up their classrooms for the last time to start their edtech careers, where exactly are they going? With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. Who I am is gone.’” Teaching has consumed me.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

climate report highlighted how our dire climate crisis is “unequivocally” and “irreversibly” caused by humans. It’s long overdue that we acknowledge the harms we as humans are causing to the planet. A recent U.N. This is the crisis facing early childhood. We are both underfunding this area — and under innovating.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

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 The Next Wave of Edtech Will Be Very, Very Big — and Global by Betsy Corcoran Braced for the next wave of edtech? We Need to Make Schools Human Again.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

Amira is the invention of Amira Learning, a six-year-old edtech company that fuses voice-based artificial intelligence into reading activities, guided by an eponymous AI bot. So it’s helpful if each voice-based edtech company offers every tool these educators might need. Keep going,” Amira says, softly.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2024

When it comes to AI in education, one edtech company stands out as a sage leader and trailblazing pioneer. EdSurge: What makes Carnegie Learning's approach to AI different from other edtech offerings? Malkin: Our origin story is one of an AI-driven product initially launched by Carnegie Mellon University through Carnegie Learning.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

To answer this question, examining the conditions enabling online classes and exploring how EdTech technology can help address educational disparities and teacher shortages in our education system is crucial. So, is the low effectiveness of high-dose tutoring simply due to its online nature?

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the report “Healing, Community, and Humanity: How Students and Teachers Want to Reinvent Schools Post-COVID,” Justin Reich and Jal Mehta consider that one of education’s biggest challenges in the years ahead will be to harness “the experience and urgency for change” and apply that energy to the sustained improvement of schools.

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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. When I recently invited a panel of Latino educators and edtech experts to share their perspectives about the state of education, they specifically wanted to talk about this cultural belief of “just be grateful” and how it impacts their work.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Credentials that adhere to the Open Badges or CLR [Comprehensive Learner Record] standards have a specific way of packaging that data to be both human-readable and machine-readable. As an edtech organization whose background is in standards and interoperability, 1EdTech is positioned to contribute here.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Michael Paul Ida Michael Paul Ida , a high school math and computer science teacher in Hawaii shared insights on the importance of bringing a healthy dose of skepticism to edtech and how teachers are disengaging from professional development. They are meaningful, in and of themselves.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Before transitioning to EdTech, Levine enjoyed 30 years working in various positions in K-12 and higher ed. It really demonstrates what's possible when we look at connected learning not as a luxury but as a basic human right. is excited about the newest technologies and their impact on the learning experience.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Advisory Council, whose goal is to provide the government with independent advice on AI technology and how it can impact policy, build public trust and foster the development of unbiased AI that keeps human beings at the center of the experience. Such policies have recently been gaining appreciation and, more importantly, traction.

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