EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

We spoke to Welcome about why he thinks students need to have more freedom to explore the technology available to them in their classroom, and how teachers can use technology to build relationships with their students. . EDTECH: As an education technology consultant and speaker, what is your main message?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A parent from Iowa : “As it happens my daughter is a freshman in ME taking Calc 2 this semester and I was helping her study for her first big exam last night. While the content of the course has changed almost completely since I took it 40 years ago, in my opinion it is still way too based on memorizing dozens of formulas for the exams.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

In California, students at Chula Vista Elementary School District’s Salt Creek Elementary improved their scores by 137 percent over the state average on California’s performance exams in the first year of introducing a blended learning program. . 3 Education Technologies Improve Blended Learning Initiatives.

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Technology Blended Learning Lecturing Exams 167

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

That’s the approach the College Board is taking this spring with its adapted AP exams. Because students would be watching the shows at home without guidance from teachers, the stations created learning prompts and questions—similar to those found in textbooks—to run before and after shows. LA schools did indeed close.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

What are tools and techniques in education? From traditional classroom learning tools like textbooks and whiteboards to innovative techniques such as flipped classrooms and educational software, these resources aim to optimize educational outcomes and engage students effectively.

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Textbooks Metacognitive Skills Education Teaching Methods 130

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

These aren’t concepts found in most high-school math textbooks. states , as well as the ACT, SAT and International Baccalaureate exams, now rely on Desmos to power its online graphing tools. million in a Series A round from Reach Capital, an education technology investment firm. “We Last November, the company raised $4.5

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

There’s a high-stakes exam that’s created an entire industry selling test-preparation products and services to people willing to shell out big bucks for help honing their skills and strategies. It’s the exam to become a licensed construction contractor. A full collection of exam books can cost thousands of dollars.

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Exams Testing Attention Skills 149

Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that scores for eight-grade students on civics, history and geography exams all dipped from 2014 to 2018. Often these are assignments, exercises and drills that resemble what one may find in a textbook. And perform worse on tests.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

Although it’s true that the law requires this kind of assistive technology at some schools, I believe ASR is now more than just assistive technology; it’s on its way to becoming foundational educational technology for all students. Source: Echo360.

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 164

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Policymakers in Tennessee and Texas, for example, have explicitly encouraged the use of technology in developmental education reform. Khan Academy) also fall within the category of instructional technology, as do digital textbooks and “open educational resources,” materials that are available online for free or at a low cost.

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Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 154

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

It’s a divide that universities can and should work to close by setting clear technology standards, and then making sure all students can meet them, Francis argues: “We should be filling in that gap.” ‘I One student described relying on a laptop that could not handle exam-proctoring software, causing the student to miss a test.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I watched one of your talks about your book “Choke” and was really struck by the idea that in the brain, the anxiety of just preparing for something like a math exam triggers pain responses. So actually people who are anxious about math read the textbook instead of doing the practice problems, which are hard.

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Math Study Exams Textbooks 216

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding. This was in part because first-generation students who received texts were more likely to complete assignments and participate in a required in-person field trip, they spent more time reading the digital textbook and they scored higher on exams.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 194

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

She took inspiration from what she found (though she said she didn’t copy anything verbatim), and the site made her feel like she had a handle on how others using the same textbook were running their classes. Or, as she put it, “It gave me an idea that at least I was on track.” per month, or $119.40 for one up-front payment for a year.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Summative: the more comprehensive tools used to measure what a student has learned at the end of a school term, such as exams and final projects. Benchmark/Interim: a type of formative assessment given throughout the year that tracks how students are progressing in relation to curriculum standards/benchmarks. And it’s mind-bending stuff.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning methods like lectures and textbooks to innovative technologies such as interactive whiteboards and educational apps, these tools aim to facilitate effective learning experiences and foster student growth. What are some examples of teaching techniques?

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Teaching Textbooks Learning Styles Teaching Methods 130

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Since the days of “Oregon Trail,” educational games have teased at the possibility that learning in school can be freed from the doldrum of textbooks and tests. So if games are fun, and learning should be fun, doesn’t it behoove the education and gaming industries to join forces?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Byju’s customers pay for animations, simulations and video lessons for students in grades 4 to 12 and for students preparing for competitive entrance exams to Indian colleges. This makes Byju’s one of the rare unicorns in education technology and the fourth most valuable privately held company in India. billion, per TechCrunch.

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Exams Internet Math Teaching Methods 118

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

In the early days of "course cartridges”—an LMS feature that allowed instructors to plug published content right into their courses—online courses were essentially digitized versions of static (textbook) content. Smart courses aren’t just about simple plug and play or digitized textbook content. Is that adaptive? A good experience?

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Multiple Choice Questions Instructors Textbooks Feedback 127

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Founded in the United Kingdom, the Raspberry Pi Foundation set out to inspire young people to study computer science by inventing a programmable computer for the price of a textbook. Over the last 15 years, its commercial arm, Raspberry Pi Ltd.,

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Education Science Internet Accessibility 178

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

Subjects were willing to offer feedback via the bot, and also expressed support for further relying on chatbots to achieve some of the course improvements they desired, such as getting help answering basic questions about textbooks, office hours and due dates.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

That makes it especially valuable to an education company like HMH, which is best known among teachers and students as a textbook publisher. The last time it did was back in 2015 when the NAEP exam, also known as the Nation’s Report Card, found that nearly three-quarters of eighth graders scored below proficiency in the subject.

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History Exams Culture Knowledge 165

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

One way he looks at the online course is as a competitor to commercial textbooks, but one that is updated and enhanced by a community of professors. The other half are like, ‘This isn’t on the exam so I’m not going to do this.’” But there are some important differences in what Wesch wanted to do.

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Textbooks Teaching Assistants Instructors Exams 164

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

OER stands for open educational resources; these are open resources with Creative Commons Licenses applied to them. Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. Assessments should be diverse with less focus on high-stakes exams. Education Technology, Research, and Development, 69, 411-414.

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Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 98

Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

More recently, Alfie Kohn provided another summary of the numerous reasons to be skeptical of education technology solutions. Experience Over Knowledge First, the most effective way to view K-8 education is not in terms of “content” to be covered, acquired, mastered (and regurgitated in an exam) but as an experience.

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Learning Math Exams Textbooks 107

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

For students who had previously been told to sit at their desks and open their textbooks to page 37, these choices could feel overwhelming, Watkins shared. They didn’t know if they preferred working in a small group, directly with the teacher or independently using a self-paced video. Their math scores improved only marginally.

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Learning Math Elementary School Elementary School 167

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

OER stands for open educational resources; these are open resources with Creative Commons Licenses applied to them. Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. Assessments should be diverse with less focus on high-stakes exams. Education Technology, Research, and Development, 69, 411-414.

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Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 95

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Here are three strategies for digital tool use to consider, particularly at the start of a new term or when organizing for exams. We’ve presented them from our dual perspectives of student and professor: Getting Digitally Organized. Student: With the start of a new year comes the promise of getting digitally organized.

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Lecturing Exams Assignments Textbooks 156

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

The popularity of the private tutoring industry may also be a response to how educational—and therefore economic—opportunity is awarded in China. High-stakes entrance exams determine which students are admitted to the top high schools, then the top colleges, then the top jobs in cities that citizens view as “ first-tier.”

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Culture English Exams Cognitive Development 156

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

He needed the educators to incorporate his platform as part of their class. “If If students can really cruise on their own, we’d give them 12 years of textbooks and have them study the entire content at home,” Arbaji says. Scaling an education technology company has been an ongoing lesson for Arbaji.

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Schools English Exams Testing 103

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Founded in 1986, the company is perhaps best known for its Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Math programs, along with its STAR formative assessments that help teachers and students prepare for their end-of-year state exams. The company claims to service a third of U.S. schools and more than 90 countries.

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Schools Failure Exams Learning 103

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

The program is delivered through an all-inclusive tuition model, where students pay between $125 and $150 per month, allowing them access to their courses and e-textbooks and to a full suite of academic support services that includes free tutoring, writing help and coaching. I can do my homework on my phone at my kid's soccer game.

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Coaching Exams Textbooks Writing 156

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

It's an adaptive course — think of it as an interactive high-tech textbook. And so we've got thousands of students at a university in Georgia who are using this stats course instead of a textbook. Bier: The Open Learning Initiative has a statistics course.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 120

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

Although it’s true that the law requires this kind of assistive technology at some schools, I believe ASR is now more than just assistive technology; it’s on its way to becoming foundational educational technology for all students. Source: Echo360.

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 94

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2018

Companies that make learning software now gather unprecedented amounts of data on student behavior as students do things like read online textbooks or study for tests with digital review tools. But when online learning aids can study students, could that give professors new ways to help learners?

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Instructors Exams Motivation Study 102

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

Universities usually have strict honor code policies about students cheating on exams, homework and other assignments. “You can come here and ask [someone to do your work for you], we can’t stop you from that,” said Deb. One source in the story called online tutoring services a “‘gateway drug’” to cheating.

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Essay Ethics Exams Academic Integrity 90

Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

Sharma has a background in technology and video production (he actively researches and writes about educational technology and knowledge translation) led him to consider how to bridge that divide. There are a growing number of students who use Google and YouTube to study instead of buying textbooks.

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Lecturing Exams Textbooks Learning Styles 82