A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

This made clear the sheer need and readiness for offline-first edtech tools that address challenges in connectivity and access to quality digital learning materials in low-resource contexts. All of this is part of our theory of change. Our goal is to enable sharing in a way that isn't directive.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2019

Edtech has the potential to ignite the power of learning by helping teachers tailor learning environments and instruction to reach the full diversity of learners. The post Reach Each Student: Design Edtech for Learner Variability appeared first on Digital Promise. But how can we accomplish that goal?

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This blog post is the second of a two-part series discussing relationship building in the edtech purchasing process. In our first blog post , we addressed how educators can build and maintain good working relationships with edtech developers. As an edtech vendor, you should do the same. Focus on teacher impact and usage.

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Edthena

AUGUST 4, 2021

Here’s a better solution: a 3rd-grade teacher working on checks for understanding searches for that term in your district’s Edthena video library. Edthena makes it possible for districts to build and host a private video library that becomes available to all teachers across the district, accessed securely using their district emails.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

The National EdTech Plan goes on to state the following: Preparing students to be successful for the future requires a robust and flexible learning infrastructure capable of supporting new types of engagement and providing ubiquitous access to the technology tools that allow students to create, design, and explore.

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Digital Promise

MAY 22, 2019

In my school, many students don’t know what edtech is, let alone have access to the resources edtech could provide. Another huge setback for students without access to devices is the requirement to check out textbooks from the school library. But that’s not the case. How to overcome the challenges of equitable technology use.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 13, 2020

Next, we began building and curating an Online Learning Resources Library , a place where educators can find materials based on type, grade level, and subject. This database includes tips for finding accessibility features on devices and suggestions of what to look for in edtech products designed for learners with different needs.

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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

MAY 17, 2022

I'm always experimenting and finding different edtech tools. So, in this container, I think about which edtech tools are going to help me maximize the lesson. I always go back to, “Okay, what content lesson am I going to pair with my edtech tool so that it's engaging? EALA Tech Tool Library. The UDL Guidelines.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

New toolsets from Edthena allow any district to curate a video library of searchable lesson segments, tagged to teaching standards, and shared securely to all staff members within the district. Now, teachers can see best-practice instructional examples of their peers in a searchable Organization Library. Send an email to.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Edtech and Professional Development. Provide high-quality teacher professional development in selecting and using edtech that is inclusive of all learners and encourage teacher input and ownership of the edtech they use in their classrooms.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

During these listening sessions, EALA members, including CAST and Digital Promise, facilitated conversations with educators and students currently implementing, and being impacted by, UDL, usability and accessibility features of edtech tools in their classrooms. UDL expert, Loui Lord Nelson, Ph.D., percent to 22.5

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2018

It is no coincidence, however, that students with access to strong library programs demonstrate stronger literacy proficiency. These findings suggest that staffing libraries with certified librarians can help close achievement gaps.” This is especially the case with striving readers.

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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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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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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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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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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2020

We also launched a public VPL2Go Library , where each session, presentations, and resource hubs are loaded for educators’ asynchronous use later. “It Explore the Edtech Marketplace Today blog series to hear other voices from the field share important perspectives on challenges and strategies around technology use for learning.

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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

As educators, we tend to be on a continuous quest for innovative edtech tools that will enhance the learning experience for students. Launched in 2011, Goodnotes started as an improvement to physical paper notes — introducing the ability to take handwritten digital notes, search handwritten text and organize everything into a digital library.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 24, 2020

Organizations and coalitions including Learning Keeps Going , Tech for Learners , Google , and Digital Promise have also compiled lists of resources from various education organizations as well as available edtech products. Bridging The Digital Divide. And, how are the children? Just fine, we want to say.

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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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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2022

The Role of EdTech Providers in a Post-Pandemic K-12 Landscape. 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. Recommended resources from Smith. Digital Promise Learner Variability Project. Aurora Institute's CompetencyWorks Blog.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 14, 2018

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. Following LPS’s Partnership Cycle , the collaboration began with an exploration of the mission and goals of ReadWorks.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Build a Teaching Video Library. If you want your teachers to see great teaching, build your own districtwide library of video observations. What can Group Stats data from video observations tell you? Plenty about how to better target teacher support. Make Teacher Feedback More Concrete and Actionable.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2023

We dove into the role of teachers in edtech decision-making and the use of evidence in the development of learning technologies. We explored new efforts by school districts to address staff shortages and other ongoing fallout from the pandemic, including four-day school weeks and more flexible, better-paying teaching programs.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2017

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.”. What if we created a human library? BROADENING CONNECTIONS: THE WORK WE DO.

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Digital Promise

JULY 31, 2018

Building on their first adult learning XPrize that asked edtech companies to create high-quality mobile learning apps for adults, the Communities Competition is now challenging organizations to design ways to use the power of the community to get these apps into the hands of adults.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Students at Revere High School in Revere, Massachusetts, worked in groups in the school library in 2015. And the relatively new Massachusetts Personalized Learning Edtech consortium, known by its acronym MAPLE, has recently provided the means to do so. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2020

My district uses LearnPlatform as its system for managing the ed-tech library, streamlining our workflows and informing our decision-making with real-time information. Promoting equity in the modern school district takes work, focus and an embrace of systems that may be new to district leaders.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The SparkNotes of this coaching protocol is that teachers compare their own teaching videos to two video examples from the MQI video library. The coach selects two short clips from the MQI video library that identify with teaching aspects of the teacher’s lesson. It’s not enough that the videos exist.

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Edthena

MAY 13, 2022

Instructional coaches added teaching video clips to their Edthena Video Library. This kept the clips focused on specific teacher actions aligned to the instructional vision. Quality Control. “We put all the videos through a rigorous review process … to ensure that the practices captured did indeed support all learners.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Lisa Petrides is founder and CEO of the nonprofit ISKME , an international leader in information-sharing and innovation in the education sector that manages OER Commons , a public library for open education resources.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

LearnLaunch has graduated 31 #edtech companies and has 120 mentors. Patti Constantakis and Susanne Nobles of Digital Promise as well as Karisa Tashijian of the Providence Public Library discussed ways to bring marginalized adult learners into the EdCluster ecosystem. EileenRudden #edclusters16. Mapping your EdCluster Ecosystem.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The answer: Video libraries. This eSchool News article, from Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller, names four important ways video libraries help school districts share their best practices across buildings. The highlights: Teaching video libraries tap districts’ existing expertise.

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