ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2022

Schools are confronting vast achievement gaps among students and an exhausted teaching force. The Role of EdTech Providers in a Post-Pandemic K-12 Landscape. Some say it’s time to finally commit to scalable personalized learning. Recommended resources from Smith. Digital Promise Learner Variability Project.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2024

Today’s education leaders have unprecedented access to edtech products, but there’s no clear way to determine a product’s quality or effectiveness for learning. How can decision-makers know if a product meets learning standards and drives student achievement without a shared definition of what makes a product usable, valuable and effective?

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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.” How would you describe your district’s approach to edtech procurement prior to enrolling in this course?

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2022

How would you describe your district’s approach to edtech procurement prior to enrolling in this course? How might your experience with the course impact your district’s approach to edtech procurement in the future? What do you hope to achieve with this support? I wanted to find a better way.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JULY 31, 2022

Today’s guest, Al Kingsley, has worked with edtech for over thirty years. Episode #788 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast The Future of Edtech Al Kingsley, Thought Leader. Resources in The Future of Edtech episode 788. Al Kingsley is CEO of the EdTech company NetSupport and is Chair of a Multi-Academy Trust. That's right.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Edtech plays an increasingly important role in the classroom. In addition to driving collaboration and productive social interactions, innovative edtech can enable personalized learning based on a student’s individual SEL needs to support differentiated learning recovery.

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ED Surge

JUNE 19, 2024

Below are nine key features I look for during the edtech selection process. Ensure that the content is relevant to your curriculum goals and supports the learning objectives you want to achieve in your district. Appropriately aligning digital tools with curriculum standards can enhance student achievement and retention.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Recent headlines suggest it will take until 2028 for students to recover from these pandemic-related achievement declines. Focus on Pathway to Learning Instead of Right and Wrong Answers How do we measure the effectiveness of improving achievement and closing learning gaps? Others say it will take decades.

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ED Surge

JULY 15, 2024

Some edtech experts contacted by EdSurge say that the implosion of the cutting-edge AI tool offers lessons for other schools and colleges working to make use of generative AI. This is the well-known hard part of edtech.” Building the Holy Grail of a data-informed, personalized achievement tool is a big job,” he added.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Institutions cannot achieve the goal without incorporating technology-based learning into the programs themselves.”. 4 Action Steps to Prepare New Teachers to Use Edtech. He can be found on Twitter @T4edtech and on his YouTube Channel Transformative Edtech. T4Edtech #edtech. And here lies the problem.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Student-centered learning leads to quantitative and qualitative benefits , such as increased student engagement in learning and other school activities, higher academic achievement gains and stronger relationships between students and teachers. UDL expert, Loui Lord Nelson, Ph.D., percent to 22.5 percent, just since last year.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2024

The ESAs often provide guidance, training and support to LEAs in selecting, implementing, and integrating edtech products into their educational programs. Without interoperability, data silos emerge, making it difficult for stakeholders to access and use the full range of capabilities offered by different edtech products.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 6, 2015

Mike Daugherty is the director of technology for a high-achieving public school district in Ohio, an occasional contributor to AATT (see his last post, 5 Things You Need to Know About 3D Printing), and the author of Modern EdTech Leadership , a discussion on how today’s administrators handle the blending of tech and ed.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2016

Here’s his article on how edtech fosters a child’s social-emotional development: As technology has become mainstreamed in modern education, learners are able to enjoy many key advantages. EdTech can also be used through its various eLearning, social media and learning management systems to teach and boost empathy.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Identify and achieve your DEI goals. Leaders across the education ecosystem recognize the importance of putting achievement within the reach of all students. Magic EdTech reshapes learning solutions for clients during different stages of their product and platform journey. Why Interactive Comics are the perfect DEI resource.

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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. This way, teachers can help students achieve the lesson's goals by providing more diverse examples and problem-solving.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We came away wondering why people don’t talk more about this bit of recent edtech history, and what lessons could still be learned from it. Schonfeld is a longtime leader in the library community and is a program director at Ithaka S+ R a nonprofit education consultancy. And the catalyst had a couple of elements to it.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It won’t necessarily have those pedagogical pieces baked in or the accessibility and other edtech integrations that you need. It won’t necessarily have those pedagogical pieces baked in or the accessibility and other edtech integrations that you need. Check if the AI tool is actually designed for education specifically.

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2023

However, districts often do not have the capacity to effectively evaluate the functional qualities of edtech products, resulting in teachers being frustrated with tools that may not be intuitive or usable vehicles for delivering instruction. Building a Common Language The Teacher Ready framework has been instrumental in this transformation.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Walberto Flores EdTech Coordinator, Highlands International School San Salvador Artificial intelligence has entered our classrooms — sometimes invited and other times not — leaving educators to ask essential questions about its implementation and impact. Walberto Flores: How might we redefine teaching and learning?

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2022

The past two years have shown a need for better learning environments, Culatta said, and he shared four shifts he believes are needed to achieve them. “The main difference between those two is one is built on a solid foundation, inclusivity and principles of ISTE standards.” One school’s includes a whopping 35 things not to do.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In most places, student data exists in silos, separated by the multiple edtech platforms within the schools’ data ecosystems. In the latest State of EdTech Leadership Report from the Consortium for School Network (CoSN), interoperability was identified as one of the largest needs in school districts—second only to cybersecurity.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2022

Class Technologies became one of the best-funded new edtech startups since the start of the pandemic, having raised more than $164 million to build out a series of classroom features on top of Zoom. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because Chasen actually co-founded Blackboard back in 1999, and he served as CEO for many years.

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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2023

Recently, EdSurge met with field experts, all part of the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA), to discuss how they leverage edtech to provide an inclusive learning environment for all students. Sometimes a simple edtech tool can make a significant difference.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The ultimate question remains, how does it affect student achievement? He can be found on Twitter @T4edtech and on his YouTube Channel Transformative Edtech. T4Edtech #edtech. Christian Miraglia is a recently retired 36 year educator and now Educational Technology Consultant at t4edtech where he also blogs.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Skills-based credentials are valuable because they state specific skills in which a learner achieved or displayed competence. A Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) and other types of Learning and Employment Records (LERs) can help package those various achievements in one place for learners to share over their lifetimes.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Not only are you communicating what the data is, but you're doing it in a way that can be used by people and machines, verifying various academic and workplace achievements. The Open Badges and the CLR standards help learners express the skills and knowledge they have achieved. That's where the credential value comes in.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2021

Integrated in the instructions were screen recorded examples of what I wanted students to achieve in the form of the assignment. He can be found on Twitter @T4edtech and on his YouTube Channel Transformative Edtech. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2019

Traditional classrooms may not go extinct anytime soon, but edtech will certainly change the way we learn and think about learning. Moreover, AI-empowered edtech can keep updating content with the latest findings from leading academic researchers and scientists. 2. Videos and Tutorials. 5. Digital Mentorship.

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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. If done right, “it could be more than just a gimmick,” creating a tool that does what Waze achieves for drivers trying to find the best route on a road, only for getting through school or college.

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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. Malkin Carnegie Learning CEO "At the root of everything we do is the goal of supporting students, teachers and leaders in raising student achievement using learning science — and AI," explains Malkin. And grow, they have.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

AI-driven tools may signal the integration of technology into learning in profound ways; however, the long trajectory of edtech has not yet changed the fundamental organizing structure between teacher and student.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 9, 2023

In 2022 she became the CEO of Tools for Schools, the developers of Book Creator – an inclusive, creative edtech tool. An open-ended task in Book Creator is a great way to achieve these objectives. She is a former educator with 15 years experience in the classroom. I think I would have liked being in her classroom.

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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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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 3, 2015

In his current position, he is the director of technology for a high-achieving public school district in Ohio. His site, morethanatech.com , looks at EdTech from the district administration point of view. 3D printing, Maker Spaces, and Fab Labs are the latest darlings of the EdTech world and for good reasons.

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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2022

We urgently need a comprehensive and modern curriculum, which thoughtfully incorporates edtech, along with a scalable and practical teacher development program to build a sustainable learning ecosystem that supports future generations. We aim to focus our strategic efforts on achieving results in a few specific areas.

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