eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2015

A coordinated, intentional program of blended learning is changing teaching and learning in the Nation’s capital. Blended and personalized learning were two topics on the rise this year. In a district that has been plagued with low test scores and student performance, several D.C. That was Spring 2012.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Finally, the Commissioner of Education assessed the state and district reviewer evaluations, public feedback and cost of the materials before giving approval. Core5 is an adaptive blended learning program that accelerates the foundational and advanced literacy skills for students of all abilities in elementary grades.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Almost 10 years ago, I served as the principal of a blended learning pilot school. Then, rather unexpectedly, we were awarded a big grant to test out a hot new topic: personalized learning. A year later, our test scores had shot up. Were the blended learning programs themselves all that great?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Technology Will Revolutionize the Way We Teach One of the first computer-assisted instruction experiments occurred in Texarkana, Arkansas in 1969. Students sat at machines to take diagnostic tests, complete lessons and answer basic questions to earn a transistor radio. Technology is never going to be the magic solution to our problems.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

In spite of the effort, the creativity and the money that we’ve poured into education technology over the past decades, we, as an industry, must acknowledge a powerful if vexing truth: Not even the best among us designed products to be used under these conditions. As an industry, we are the ones being put to the test.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2016

But we note that they are not consumers in the sense of exchanging money for good or services, but rather as investing considerable time, energy and passion (the currency of teaching) in the blended learning innovation. Starting a buzz” around blended learning was a foundational part of our strategy.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

However, Taos Academy’s learning model, like that of many schools, underwent a real time stress test in the spring with our sudden shift to emergency remote teaching and learning. Limited exposure by assigning 1-2 teachers for each learning group.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

His time as a blended learning instructor in Taos, N.M., Issues With Feedback and Testing It’s much easier to hide in a digital world. And we have students who are just completely absent Lee Shawver The learning curve can mean long days for students as well. and Khan Academy, which allows for timed tests.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Examples include whole child learning models, blended learning models and high-dose tutoring ones. But, although many school districts have earmarked federal relief dollars for tutoring, some of that money may be going towards less-tested methods of tutoring , like 24/7 online tutoring, which Safran cautions against.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

For the longest time in education—the past 15 to 20 years—we've been trying to use assessment solutions for pedagogy problems. We have been operating within this mindset that, if we just test enough, we'll be able to identify the problems and then make them go away. It's all about teaching the right skills.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

On an ordinary June morning, kids descend on the campus of Auburn University to try science experiments at the college of education’s annual STEM camp. It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Teachers could also share learning resources, tests and assignments to both the classes at the same time, ensuring that both the classes were at the same level. As with China, Mobiliya Edvelop is also disrupting the education sphere in India, a country with the largest student populace in the world.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Despite their use of technology and personalized playlists, Merit Prep and Matchbook both emphasize blended learning environments in which teachers play the key role. At Merit Prep, goal-setting begins with Performance Series testing at the beginning of the school year.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. He is currently the chief product officer of Renaissance Learning, which acquired myON in 2018. Companies that provide teachers with data to inform instruction and monitor progress are still an important element of education.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The program is run by Justin Ainsworth, Director of the Office of Instruction and his team of 5 at the District’s Office of Instruction, including Jeffrey Blackburn, an Educational Technologist. One unique aspect of Mat-Su’s approach to digital learning is that edtech is housed under the office of instruction.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Staff at PowerSchool, which owns learning management system Schoology, also built new features and beefed up existing ones in response to changes in usage. They began to consider other ways that their products could be used during remote and blended learning. As a result, the company worked to support this increased usage.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Joseph Valver and his fellow instructional technology facilitators at Hamilton Township School District in New Jersey were providing numerous options for educators in their district to learn how to use education technology, but something was holding educators back. . “As

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

A great deal of initial research exists about blended learning techniques such as game-based learning, but adoption has stalled because of a lack of scalable, practical techniques that have also proven effective. Without proof of success, many school districts have opted not to adopt new technologies.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2019

Building on the success and ubiquity of its online and blended-learning formats, the university is providing instructors with new technology, modular furniture, and incentives to explore and innovate teaching practices. “We At UCF, the impact of redesigning teaching and learning experiences has broad appeal across the faculty.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Teachers want to have a space to socialize, hang out and build a network just like any other working professional,” said Kyle Liao, manager of strategic partnerships at Educate LLC, a small education technology professional development company based out of New York City.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Their participating schools can now access Lexia Core5 Reading (Core5) for grades 3-5 and Lexia PowerUp Literacy (PowerUp) for grades 6-8 as part of their school’s tutoring program in support of students with unfinished literacy learning because of pandemic learning loss. For more information, visit www.lexialearning.com.

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JULY 15, 2016

CI's VoiceThread accommodations plan empowers CI faculty to cultivate humanized, connected online and blended learning experiences that align with our institution's values of innovation, high-quality teaching and student-centered experiences.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

When people used to say things like, Oh yeah, there’s blended learning all around us and and my response was, you know, in in more mainstream schools and be like, you know, there’s a definitional issue there. But to me that looks a lot like using technology in a traditional classroom. Let me give you an example.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2019

Teachers began by exploring the why and what for personalized learning by focusing on blended learning as one of the first paths to personalization. A prototype is often something scrappy, with the purpose of testing to learn and gather quick feedback from the end-user before putting an idea into implementation.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

And while these may just seem the latest bright and shiny objects to capture our trending eyes, if we step back and examine the pedagogy supporting these “buzzwords,” we can see the importance they have in reaching our students in both in-person and hybrid-distance learning classrooms.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

Off-the-shelf education technology platforms can often fall short when aligning with educators’ specific approaches to instruction. Rather than developing solutions independently, LPS and Gooru merged their teams to collaboratively design a tool that has already shown positive learning results for LPS students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

I think we were hoping to see, or were curious to see, if districts would say, ‘This is where we can test out a blended model,’” says Gill, referring to the mix of online and in-person instruction that might become necessary as COVID-19 infections continue. But blended learning options are few and far between.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. Nancy Carlsson-Paige was nominated to share her thoughts by Diane Ravitch, who wrote for the project in 2017.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

has been a leader in implementing stringent supervision and high-stakes evaluation for teachers, these practices are part of a national education reform movement that seeks to standardize teaching in an (ultimately ineffective) quest to boost student test scores. My experience is not unique: While D.C.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary is one of 10 “wall-to-wall” personalized learning schools that recently emerged as part of an initiative at Dallas ISD—one of the largest school districts in the country, serving 157,000 students. Anecdotally, she notes that the initiative is having a far greater impact on students than the test scores can ever reveal.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Blended learning. Personalized learning. Competency- and project-based learning. All of these terms can easily be written off as buzzwords in education. While this performance demonstrates that our model works on many levels, these test scores alone are not good enough measures for our students.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The program follows six key tenets: project-based learning, learner agency, whole person development, blended learning and competency-based assessment. For example, when fourth-grade students learn about their state government, they used to be tested on who the governor is and how parts of the legislature works.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

As we wind down another year of chronicling education technology, we wondered: Which stories made the biggest impact? This year, you looked to trendsetting districts, thought leaders, tech giants and one very sage high school student to help make sense of rapid changes in education technology.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The lab is a blended-learning shared space where students can choose pre-made projects and design challenges from our four pillars—Computer Science, Engineering, Digital Arts, and, now, Entrepreneurship. I never thought I would be part of a startup, but SiLAS —which helps students with social-emotional learning—is my great idea.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2022

A recent study on the Lexia® English Language Development (Lexia English) program found that emergent bilingual students who used the program scored an average of 15 points higher than nonusers on the English Language Proficiency Assessment for California (ELPAC) test. About Cambium Learning Group.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

- In 2008, Adam Rubin and Todd Kern co-founded 2Revolutions , or 2Rev, because they believed the field of education was siloed, preventing innovation at scale. They created 2Rev as an education design lab—a place where designs for innovative learning models could be developed and tested.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2017

This is exactly what we set out to do last spring when we applied for the North Dakota Educational Technology Council Build Grant to create the. This allowed us opportunities to simulate how our teachers might go about developing flexible, personalized blended learning environments. BPS Assessment Academy.

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