eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2021

When school districts made the rapid shift to online learning due to the pandemic, many educators scrambled to find the right mix of learning tools, apps, and platforms to support instruction. As a result, more and more companies began offering online learning apps and products for free–often for a limited trial period.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

With the rise of digital tools, teachers now have innovative ways to assess learning that provide deeper insights and engage students more meaningfully. Here are five powerful resources that can transform how you evaluate student progress.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 22, 2020

You chatted with colleagues on Twitter and Facebook about learning tools they loved. The first evaluates the big picture. What’s your secret for evaluating new webtools, apps, or programs? Can I learn from you? Ready or not, it’s time to go back to school. But that list could take hours to preview.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Lexia Learning, Rosetta Stone’s literacy education division, was founded more than 30 years ago and is a leader in the literacy education space. Today, Lexia helps students build fundamental reading skills through its rigorously researched, independently evaluated, and widely respected instruction and assessment programs.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2024

This process aims to help schools quickly and reliably select and implement edtech tools, said ISTE CEO Richard Culatta during the opening of ISTELive 24 in Denver. “To fulfill this vision, we must urgently seek strategies to reduce the lift for school systems to identify quality digital learning tools,” Culatta said.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams for Education: Find the Blended Learning Tool that Works Best. While both have similar features, they each offer unique tools that suit some classrooms better than others. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 02/13/2019 - 14:12.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2024

Self check: Taking time to periodically evaluate the team’s own work, considering how much it is centering student voices, who may not be accounted for, and whether it aligns with the design principles, in order to keep accountable and maintain quality. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2024

Seven leading edtech organizations have developed a system intended to reduce the burden on schools and educators when it comes to assessing digital learning tools. This process aims to help schools quickly and reliably select and implement edtech tools, said ISTE CEO Richard Culatta during the opening of ISTELive 24 in Denver.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The first complex challenge the UW College of Education will use AI-human collaboration to tackle is co-creating and co-evaluating Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students with disabilities in Wyoming and beyond. under review ). educators, families, students, school psychologists, and school administrators).

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2023

Additionally, evaluating tech and app user usage is another way we are freeing up funds to support cybersecurity. With so much money being invested in educational software, it is critical to monitor if teachers and students are using our paid learning tools.

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eSchool News

JULY 24, 2024

Demands for easy-to-find and easy-to-understand standards Encompassing the expansion of edtech safety and security evaluation is a growing preference for transparency and clarity from vendors. Each measure contributes to the layers needed to protect students and the school.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each quiz contains around 10 questions, with roughly half of the questions evaluating student knowledge of topics covered in last week’s lecture, and the remaining half covering topics from earlier in the course. In this way, I continue to evaluate students’ mastery of topics from the whole course each week.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

As a public school teacher, I had to constantly evaluate how my teaching practices and materials could better include and empower the vast diversity in my classroom. My students loved having subtitles on during short videos because it gave them more opportunities to interact with and learn from the content. Evaluating accessibility.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

–Jessica Campos, Instructional Technology Coach, Mesquite Independent School District In the 2024 to 2025 school year, districts will be asking more questions about evidence of impact when they’re evaluating and selecting education technology solutions. Schenker, Ed.D.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

AI, digital learning tools, and personalized supports have become central to the classroom. make this shift, districts must evaluate AI tools that can enhance not only classroom learning but also operations like data management, administrative workflows, and communication.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2019

After a thorough evaluation of our options, we decided to go with Aruba and are now running two 8320 switches as the foundation of our network. Lessons learned: When you implement the right network, you’ll know it – when we first deployed Aruba wi-fi, all the connectivity problems we’d experienced in classrooms vanished.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2016

The findings come from an analysis of three years of data from AdvancED’s learning observation environments observation tool, eleot, which measures and quantifies active student engagement through learner-centric classroom observations, to determine how extensively technology is being used to engage students in learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Over time, this dynamic instruction cultivates critical thinking skills that empower students to view problems from multiple angles, discern between reality and fallacy, and evaluate the credibility of information from a variety of sources. This leads to a culture of experimentation, creation, and inquiry.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2016

“In New Mexico there is an academic gap between rural and urban communities—students in some areas have access to a wider menu of course options, while others leave school ill-equipped for college,” explained Amy Jaramillo, executive director of IDEAL New Mexico, who served on the RFP evaluation committee during the selection process.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2025

The most common uses of AI teachers reported were to personalize student learning, interactive learning tools and getting insights on student performance with data analytics. He says the appeal of data science is that it provides a concrete onramp for students to learn about artificial intelligence.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

These maps go beyond traditional static maps, allowing students to investigate, evaluate, and engage with spatial information. Teachers can integrate maps into lessons related to history, cultural studies, and geopolitics. Interactive maps help students develop a more comprehensive understanding of spatial relationships.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Digital learning tools and digital technologies have broken down geographical barriers and provided access to educational resources for students no matter their socioeconomic status or geographic location. Battling this so-called “opportunity gap” makes personalized learning and skill development more inclusive and accessible.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

“At Laredo ISD, we want to provide the very best learning tools for our children,” said Dr. Gerardo Cruz , Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction. The district also appreciated IXL’s ability to work as both a synchronous and asynchronous platform, as mandated by the Texas Department of Education.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2016

CodeCombat was designed to make learning to code as easy as playing a game. The computer science learning tool has students typing real code from day one, and CodeCombat enables teachers without any CS background to teach a course on coding. I’ve evaluated many programs, and none are as good as CodeCombat.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The practice shows that the AI Writing phenomenon contributes a lot to the cases of plagiarism and poses a severe problem for educators as they have to check assignments manually and spend more time evaluating the content. The trick is to use analytical tools and evaluate the readability factor! 2 Authorship Detection.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This means, as education technology providers, it is our obligation to put our solutions under the harshest scrutiny and come prepared with third-party evaluation proving our commitment to student learning growth. Supporting the learning needs of teachers and students today, not just preparing for the assessments of tomorrow.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The kid-specific speech recognition that now powers oral reading fluency tools are much more accurate and effective, and have the potential to offer what I have described as an increased “return on instruction” for children and their teachers. These new voice-enabled learning tools also have the potential to address equity and bias.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2016

Next we discussed whether and how this adaptive learning technology might apply to a research university. Some of the responses that stood out to us: We heard from a few administrators who stressed the importance of proper evaluation and review of the technology they bring on campus. I hope you enjoy the videos.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

That’s because edtech pilots are far more costly and time consuming than factoring trinomials, and leave many busy educators feeling overwhelmed by the process of self-evaluating product quality and effectiveness. Step 2 points the user toward evaluation rubrics, studies and indices (including EdSurge’s own Index and Concierge ).

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Faculty Focus

MAY 6, 2025

The focus of this article is to share examples of AI input prompts to generate case studies as a learning tool to help students learn course topics and learning outcomes. Case studies provide opportunities for students to learn and/or reinforce what they have already learned.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2020

After reviewing over a hundred articles, reports and whitepapers, we pulled together essential findings that shed light on promising practices when it comes to creating or evaluating social-emotional, or SEL, tools. The SAFE method for choosing social-emotional learning tools. Put the social in social-emotional learning.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2016

Oftentimes, the desire for urgency looks more like drawing small circles around teachers through evaluations, ranking, and sorting. Teachers say that professional development doesn’t help educators prepare for the rapidly changing nature of certain aspects of their jobs, like using technology and digital learning tools.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

Staff members work with student fellows and faculty to design curricula, dive into education data and develop personalized-learning tools. Having an in-house innovation team allows the university to draw on the expertise of faculty residents and student fellows when designing tools intended for their use.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

With support from a teacher and an optional mentor, students simulate real scientific research to outline how they plan to evaluate their ideas and create mock websites to illustrate their concepts.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

One notable piece of K-12 tech innovation news is the integration of interactive devices and digital learning tools, transforming static learning spaces into dynamic, multimedia-rich environments. Students must be proficient in navigating digital tools, critically evaluating online information, and using technology responsibly.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2016

“Twig and Tigtag support student engagement and enthusiasm in science learning and are an excellent means to affordably update an existing curriculum with modern, compelling, real world STEM content,” says Bruce Wilcox, Vice President for Carolina Biological.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

We can evaluate a student’s progress and adjust plans as needed. We are now largely past the hard work of putting the infrastructure in place to enable access to digital learning tools. I’d posit that it’s a false choice, and here’s why: We can have both. While we haven’t completely cracked that nut yet, the data is promising.

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