eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Key points: It’s key to remember that AI isn’t foolproof—it can make mistakes Equity, transparency, and effectiveness should be goals when using AI in education See related article: More students are seeking an AI-powered school year The November 2022 release of ChatGTP by OpenAI was an inflection point for AI technology.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

And for six months and counting, the virus has exposed existing inequities in our society and, in many cases, intensified them, especially in education. Department of Education John B. about the ongoing pandemic and the immense challenges it has created for education. On the Persistence of the Pandemic Sigh.

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

Eva Moskowitz, the founder of New York City’s Success Academy, set the tone for this year’s NY Edtech conference by telling the crowd of 1,400 techies, entrepreneurs, researchers and educators that she may have some “unpopular perspectives” on edtech. Then, through her opening speech, she set out to put technology in its place. “I

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MAY 10, 2018

For the past few years, the annual NewSchools Venture Fund Summit has surfaced some of the resonant themes echoing in education reform: A few years ago, it featured the likes of billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and venture capitalist John Doerr. Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

I have been worried about public education for a long time. For a fleeting moment in March, I had hoped that all of these disproportionate responsibilities on educators would be laid bare and people might actually care. The message from our government is clear: the United States does not care about public education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

It’s no secret that educators and school leaders endure a lot of stress, from managing classroom and school communities to monitoring staff and student morale. Educators may even shoulder the expectation that they must solve every problem on their own. So, in the face of chronic stress, how can educators practice self-compassion?

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2021

In addition to the classic uses of IT, other areas of educational technology are becoming increasingly important at a rapid pace. Course materials and books are online, classes meet through web portals, and non-IT systems like building control and laboratory technology are beginning to shift to the IT department.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Authors’ Note: We’re often asked by educators, “what impact do you see with Google technology in schools?” Last year we engaged Evergreen Education Group on a journey around the world to answer that question. During Education on Air on Sunday December 3rd, we will share the findings in Impact Portraits.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2021

This summer, six schools in Ashe, Gates and Polk counties are using Alef Education’s mathematics technology tool that helps teachers as they try to help students with their individual learning losses. Alef Math allows students to review the content just taught and then practice without fear of failure. ” About NexGen.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

So a sideways look at consumer behaviors when it comes to music, movies and newspapers provides insight into where higher education is going and what leaders can do to prepare for the future. Higher education, of course, is decidedly different from those consumer sectors. Again, digital disruption had upended an industry.

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MARCH 29, 2021

The Sponsors for Educational Opportunity team planned an intense training. I’ve had a range of roles during my six years at NewSchools Venture Fund, a non-profit venture philanthropy that finds, funds and supports education innovators with powerful ideas focused on creating a more just and equitable education system.

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MARCH 12, 2025

The unfortunate truth is that, in addition to the unique challenges my school was facing, we are also dealing with a teacher shortage across the education sector. No, this is about how challenging it is to deal with the shame of experiencing resignations and how I am learning to cope with moments of failure in leadership.

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MARCH 31, 2023

Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. This award gave me the chance to reflect on the purpose of the arts in education and provided a platform for me to explain to those who will listen why the arts are a core subject based on their own merits.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Nearly 20 million students were projected to attend an institution of higher education in the United States during the fall 2020 semester, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. This, understandably, presented a grave concern for business and industry, legislators, educators and ultimately students.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

Amid growing demands and insufficient support, remember your why often feels like a way to shift responsibility for systemic failures onto teachers. Teachers are asked to be more than educators to serve as counselors, advocates and role models all while grappling with the same grief and trauma as their students.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

In a deal quietly announced last week, K-12 educational software services company Renaissance Learning acquired Illuminate Education for an undisclosed amount. PowerSchool also acquired Hoonuit the year before —which was supposed to help them thread together formative assessment results and students’ educational outcomes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Colleges and universities in the United States are increasingly integrating technology into developmental education programs, which are designed to bring underprepared students up to college level. Policymakers in Tennessee and Texas, for example, have explicitly encouraged the use of technology in developmental education reform.

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APRIL 2, 2024

The science says kids need to feel free to try things and fail, and that the deepest learning comes when failure happens and the student figures out how to course-correct, Eyler says. So success will require a broader effort to educate parents and students, he argues.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

The most effective educational tools and services are ones developed and informed by those with firsthand experience in schools. Having that prior experience has been a huge advantage in building products for educators. One of the sessions is dedicated to examining education standards.

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JULY 10, 2019

Over the last decade, we’ve seen educational institutions—from K-12 schools to colleges and universities—make tremendous strides in seizing the opportunities that modern technologies provide. Here are the top five ways that the cloud is changing education today; many of them may surprise you.

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OCTOBER 1, 2016

If you are an educator or a school administrator, what’s your opinion of edtech startups? Is it based on personal experience as an early adopter of new technology? When schools and technology providers attempt to work together without understanding each other, the result can be a costly failure. Most startups fail.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2015

His knowledge of and interest in both the EdTech world and the importance of a STEM education highlight the importance of inquiry-based education, DIY cultures and technology for enhanced learning as crucial 21st century activities. Education used to be thought of as the 8-2 in a child’s day with maybe an hour or so of homework.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Brian Kelly, director of the cybersecurity program at Educause, a higher education and technology nonprofit, says the trend has followed other business sectors, and that higher ed has seen an uptick in the number of CPOs over the last two years in particular. There was some resistance,” Sutherland remembers.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

As educators, we craft learning experiences based on the pedagogical foundations set by those who came before us. In higher education, the student persistence and retention strategies used by institutions all over the world are built on the seminal works of great theorists such as John H. All of that is now in jeopardy.

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MARCH 11, 2019

To Sam Moulton, Director of Research for Panorama Education , a student failing a course is a wailing siren, signaling deep academic and personal challenges. Moulton's work has centered on psychology, education and cognition. He got to work analyzing the connection between SEL and course failures. The answer?

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

That’s according to the latest State of Computer Science Education report , released last week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance. Students learn problem solving, communication and how to bounce back from failure.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

By Friday, March 6, the conference was cancelled, my meetings were over, and I laid in bed freaking out: “This is going to change the whole trajectory of education. My aim is to help other startup and education leaders make wise decisions through this incredibly tumultuous period. How is Wayfinder going to fit in?” None of us did.

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MAY 15, 2017

She’d witnessed the heartbreak of watching a one-size-fits-all education system fail to engage students who needed it most. They're tools educators can use to understand students' needs and provide them a structure where they can build on their abilities—no matter what level they’re at—and integrate their passions in learning.

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DECEMBER 31, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. They were the most powerful companies in education. On the other hand, companies like Curriculum Associates took the path of blended learning and have seen significant growth driven by a technology-first model.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Education technology is similarly beset by high-profile failures. In “ Why For-Profit’s Fail in Education ,” which is just out, Jonathan A. Knee recounts the tales of several doomed education ventures, including those emerging from Michael Milken’s Knowledge Universe. We know this story ends badly.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

As a humble participant in a range of education reforms, I am aware of reformers’ less-than-stellar-track record. It is tempting to stop trying to bring about change within educational and political systems that are not designed to produce and absorb innovation. How does the history of education inform our proposed innovation?

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JULY 5, 2022

The conversations I’ve had this year with educators got real deep, real fast. Teachers have broken down in my office sharing that this year, they felt like failures, they felt like first year teachers all over again and that this year, they contemplated leaving the profession. That’s what education needs right now.

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JULY 31, 2019

In the early 2000s something new appeared on the education scene, adapted from the worlds of innovation and business where it was developed. Unlike some education trends, it didn’t catch on overnight. In education, a design thinking curriculum immerses students and teachers (i.e., What Is Design Thinking? the end users).

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APRIL 18, 2018

The concept of gradual release of responsibility is second nature to me when working with students in grades K-12, but in my new role teaching graduate students in an education technology program, I am struggling to model so many of the practices I expect these teachers to use in their own classrooms.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. But despite the compelling nature of this "Netflix of Education" vision, it can encourage a misleading view of personalized learning.

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JUNE 21, 2023

In this context, Digital Promise welcomed four exceptional student interns from Sunnyside School District—Anjelica, Citlalli, Iracema and Judith—enrolled in the Education Professions career and technical education class taught by Elizabeth Skeggs. Why should students be involved in education R&D?

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Recently, I was at Meow Wolf with five small teams of New Mexico educators—teachers, coaches, and administrators, both district and charter—who came together in Santa Fe to take on one such very large and complex problem: how to redesign school to more equitably and successfully launch students into the world that Meow Wolf represents.

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