Digital Promise

JULY 9, 2019

Despite the challenges educators face when trying to purchase edtech tools, new procurement tools have emerged that support evidence-based decision making when choosing and buying edtech products. Start with a Needs Assessment to Prioritize Students when Purchasing Edtech. Discovering Edtech that Aligns with Students’ Needs.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2018

Though many edtech companies claim their products are research-based and effective, some educators say they have trouble believing these claims when targeted students and school contexts are ambiguous. Each of the six edtech entrepreneurs we interviewed agreed that research is important in product development. Demand Research Use.

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2022

As such, it should come as no surprise that, upon learning about Course of Mind: ISTE’s learning sciences initiative , she jumped at the chance to enroll a cohort of her colleagues. Here, she discusses her experience in the course and shares some key takeaways that she hopes will improve learning outcomes in her district.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2022

While edtech isn’t explicitly within her purview, she works hand in hand with the district’s technology department because, as she says, “in this day and age, it's hard to do much without some form of technology in the classroom.” EdSurge: What led you to enroll in the Launch into Learning Sciences course ?

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Passionate about the intentional integration of technology, she views the role as essential to amplifying learning and a key element in her district’s five-year plan to increase the overall graduation rate from 60 percent to 75. Here, she explains how Course of Mind: ISTE’s learning sciences initiative factors into that ambitious plan.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The model is built on a whole learner framework of adult literacies, cognition, social-emotional learning, and learner background—all of which research shows are essential factors of learning. Instead, it can be used to supplement and support any program or edtech platform being used to provide rigorous instruction for adult learners.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2021

For educators, finding high-quality products in an enormous edtech market is challenging. Educators’ plates are already full, which can make the time-consuming task of vetting edtech tools feel overwhelming. Product companies need third-party, external validators to be trusted by edtech decision makers, purchasers, and users.

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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. Amid the chaotic deluge of new generative AI tools, claims and calamities inundating school leaders, Carnegie Learning has been all in on AI for nearly 25 years. And grow, they have.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Earlier this year, Digital Promise spoke with more than 50 stakeholders across the country to understand the most pervasive challenges facing the current edtech industry. Today, learning sciences research has discovered more about how people learn than we have ever known—and much of this research demonstrates that people learn differently.

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2023

In today's fast-paced educational landscape, technology plays an increasingly vital role in supporting student learning. First, it seeks to assist educators and district decision-makers in effectively evaluating and expressing requirements for edtech products that align with robust, research-supported instructional practices.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2021

This year, we celebrated our 10-year anniversary —a milestone that speaks to a decade of improving educational outcomes through powerful and innovative learning experiences ??grounded grounded in learning sciences research. The relationship between edtech and learning is now deeply and permanently interwoven.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2023

Listeners to the EdSurge Podcast like to learn about brains—and what research shows can best reach and teach them. Our two most popular episodes of 2022 addressed just that subject, exploring fresh findings in learning science and how educators can apply them. A Venture Capitalist and an Edtech Critic Face Off By Jeffrey R.

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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

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.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

With that in mind, we invite you to help us tell our stories at SXSW EDU 2019 to spread the word on topics like learner variability, educator micro-credentials, immersive storytelling with 360° technology, maker learning, edtech pilots, data interoperability, and more. Empowering Educator Voice through Edtech Pilots.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 14, 2018

At the same time, a growing field of learning sciences research offers more precise knowledge of how learners learn. Still, not enough edtech entrepreneurs use research to inform how their products can reach the full diversity of learners because of how labor intensive it can be to find, collect, and analyze quality research.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

But some big names got the most listens, including our interviews with civil rights pioneer and longtime university president Freeman Hrabowski, with emeritus president of Columbia University's Teachers College Arthur Levine and with prominent edtech critic Audrey Watters. Below are the 10 top episodes of 2021 as voted by listeners.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

Which strategies and tools can ground our work in equity, increase edtech efficacy, and develop stronger networks? Excited to learn from other #EdClusters18 it is awesome to know hear about how so many people are working to unite people and find common ground to improve our world in this age of polarizing every subject.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2017

The third installment in Digital Promise Global’s Making Learning Personal For All series, “ Supporting Research-Based Personalization for Reading Success, ” provides an overview of the learning science research behind learning to read. Get your copy of the report here.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Researchers discussed their role as partners shaping the future of learning science. EdTech Entrepreneurs spoke of moving beyond testbeds to collaborations. Additional research breakout sessions look at “Networks and the Future of Learning Science” and “EdTech Efficacy Research, Pilots, and Rapid Cycle Evaluations.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2023

Michael Crow, president of Arizona State, said the technology creates a memory of learning that isn’t associated with a rigid, structured way of learning science. “We At the end of each section, students are tested with real-world problems that are similar to what they’ve encountered in the Alien Zoo.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The hope is that by partnering with the government, we can bring the latest learning science, the best content and the best technology to every worker and parent who is associated with early childhood development. Sachdeva: With any edtech initiative, there are barriers to access and digital literacy.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2022

By this point, calling edtech big business is probably an understatement. spent $100 billion on edtech during the last decade–with companies raising up to $8 billion in 2021 alone. But despite explosive growth in edtech spending, there’s still very little that’s known about which educational products actually work.

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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 by collaborating on research with colleagues through WiKIT, an international research organization focused on edtech evidence, I’ve reviewed multiple tools using generative AI to teach children to read.

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