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. Guiding Principles for Building Feedback Loops 1. Feedback loops should be designed with bidirectionality for mutual benefit.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Academic research requires a lot of dedication and diligence. From reading the literature to writing up the first draft of your paper, engaging in academic research means that you are in an ongoing process of learning and growth. Web technologies can be of tremendous help in this regard.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

When a school or district decides to cut a check for an edtech product, the end goal isn’t about owning a shiny new piece of hardware or app. And how much say do they—or should they—have in edtech decisions? And how much say do they—or should they—have in edtech decisions? So what explains the disconnect?

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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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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. I am very proud of that fact.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Edtech is ubiquitous in classrooms today, especially considering that the COVID-19 pandemic did something that previously seemed impossible. It thrust virtually every school into the deep-end of edtech, starting with remote learning. Amid those struggles, the global edtech market has surpassed $100 billion in value.

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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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MARCH 8, 2023

For the technically inclined, pivoting to a job in the education technology industry seems like a natural fit. When teachers pack up their classrooms for the last time to start their edtech careers, where exactly are they going? Edtech is not going to be the solution for every teacher,” she says. Which Path to Take?

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

After nearly three years of disruption to learning caused by the pandemic, government funding has enabled many schools to invest in new devices and upgrade their technology infrastructure to accelerate learning and improve the education experience for all students.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JULY 31, 2022

Education technology has good uses, but as we’ve moved through the pandemic, sometimes it may have been mis-implemented or implemented without teacher PD. Today’s guest, Al Kingsley, has worked with edtech for over thirty years. He shares observations on where education technology is and where it is going in the future.

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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. The appeal of voice technology as a screening tool, a method for playful reading practice and a strategy for offering feedback is clear.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Not everyone is sold on the idea that virtual reality technology could or should bring higher education into a future of avatars and holograms. As the industry that develops VR grows, it will need workers who are trained in how to build and apply this technology. Virtual reality could also create new career opportunities for students.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2022

The people who build and fund edtech tools occupy different professional worlds than the educators who use those tools. That was clear when we invited a venture capitalist who invests in edtech companies to have a dialogue with a professor who has been critical of the edtech industry. And those worlds can sometimes collide.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The hearing will test what critics of the case say was a suit meant to silence concerns about a controversial edtech service. In 2020, the digital proctoring company Proctorio brought a lawsuit against Ian Linkletter, who was then a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia. But it hasn’t stopped criticisms.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Impossibility of EdTech To my school’s credit, they knew there was a problem. While it’s difficult to determine how much has been spent on Edtech , we do know that investments in education technology companies have nearly quadrupled since the beginning of the pandemic. Edtech has a product that takes care of it for you.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

A new study co-authored by one of the world’s most prominent researchers on the effectiveness of edtech, Richard Mayer, offers some answers to that question. The researchers guessed that the students watching in VR would report higher enjoyment and higher interest, and that they would do better on tests of the material as a result.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Wally Clipper, has a great run-down on 8 trends you’ll want to watch in 2020: 8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020. Technology has vastly disrupted and improved numerous sectors around the world, be it the government and banking, or retail and marketing. Video-assisted Learning. 3D Printing.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 5, 2022

The best Instructional Technology Coaches are partners, culture leaders, encouragers, and easy to work with, says Dr. Katie Ritter. She covers ten essential points for being a successful education technology coach based on her research and her personal coaching of instructional technology coaches and teachers.

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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.” We also have to make sure it meets the technology requirements.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2022

Yet, I was excited by the possibility of exploring my passion for educational equity, technology and learning design. Equipped with a set of tech skills gained from pandemic remote learning and the rise of technology in teaching generally, current teachers are making a huge career pivot into edtech or other education organizations.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Whether these executives are seeing dollar signs hovering over the heads of tykes or finally waking up to the wealth of research that exists on the importance of learning and development in the early years, there exists a kind of new energy in this corner of the education market. “I Most apps, such as Kahoot!

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Properly evaluating education technology comes down to pedagogy and instructional design, asserts Dr. Liz Kolb, creator of the Triple E Framework. How are people using it to evaluate educational technology, and how should it impact the evaluation of teachers? TARA Edtech. TARA sponsored today’s show. Click Here.

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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. The path to their collective goal is equally succinct: continuous research, customer feedback and growth. EdSurge: What makes Carnegie Learning's approach to AI different from other edtech offerings? And grow, they have.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2023

That’s why one group of researchers asked what can be done to close the cognitive development distance that opens between children from high- and low-income families, which they argue is a watershed in equality of opportunity. Researchers sent text reminders to some parents to use the materials they received. The result?

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MAY 16, 2024

In order to share their expertise with others, many of these edtech educators and professionals publish their knowledge, ideas, and experiences online through blogs, podcasts, video series, or other virtual resources. This resource dives into topics including instruction, classroom management, technology, and equity.

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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Some of these folks will probably make it into your dissertation or research papers hence the importance of organizing and properly formatting references early on. Do not postpone formatting references till the end of your research project; that is a sure-fire recipe for extra stress and unwarranted work.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Research from McKinsey revealed that, on average, K-12 students lost up to four months of mathematics and four months of reading progress in the last school year. Research has shown a direct link between students’ mental health and their academic performance, placing SEL at the forefront of the learning recovery effort.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 2, 2024

million views and 2901 comments from about 11,500 followers who read some or all of our 2,454 articles on integrating technology into the classroom. We have regular features like: Weekly Websites and Tech Tips ( sign up for the newsletter ) Edtech Reviews Lesson plans If you’ve just arrived at Ask a Tech Teacher, start here.

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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

APRIL 17, 2023

Edtech has become inseparable from the education system. Not very, according to “Uncovering Privacy and Security Challenges In K-12 Schools,” a new study of how districts handle privacy and security issues from researchers at the University of Chicago and New York University. The researchers also note that many sites — 7.4

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2024

In the realm of education, it means breaking down barriers so that educational technologies and data systems can collaborate effectively, ultimately enhancing the educational experience for leaders, staff, specialists, teachers, students and parents. The best advice is to start with a solid use case. million students in over 880 LEAs.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2023

The school’s headmaster, David McGrath, hoped the novelty of the technology would appeal to students. This virtual version of Ada Lovelace is an example of technology known as generative AI, which is composed of algorithms that can essentially produce new content from raw information. Chocolate-Covered Broccoli’?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

And the list included an interview with a Nobel prize winner about his research to improve science instruction; a set of reader responses to our coverage of “math wars”; and a look at what’s keeping teachers from embracing edtech. Can technology help make them less time-consuming to deliver?

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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. This calls for a renewed look at the full array of opportunities made possible through learning technology in the classroom. So, how do we put this all together? percent to 22.5

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s that sharing of student photos, especially those with identifying information, that has researchers questioning what the implications may be for student privacy and whether it’s ethical for schools to post pictures at all. One group of researchers analyzed 18 million photos posted by U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

As Educational Technology Director for the entire district, Susan Uram is responsible for ensuring that roughly 28,000 students and their teachers have access to the most impactful learning technology available. How would you describe your district’s approach to edtech procurement prior to enrolling in this course?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 5, 2022

million views from visitors, about 10,000 followers who have read some or all of our 2,731 articles on integrating technology into the classroom. Edtech Reviews. 16 Great Research Websites for Kids. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Lesson plans. 12 Websites to Teach Mouse Skills.

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