eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Education is experiencing a technology-fueled rebirth as it moves into 2024. Trends in K-12 education in 2023 will continue into 2024, most notably immersive technologies, artificial intelligence, personalized learning, and online and hybrid learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

I predict two issues will take center stage- artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education. We will see more districts leveraging real-time data so families can understand more than just what their child’s grades are.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A recent chart from Bloomberg on the future of artificial intelligence and employment lends evidence to a point I have been making for years : teachers will not be replaced by machines. Fortunately, the future of learning technology is not replacing teachers, but amplifying their ability to meet the learning needs of their students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

DreamBox Learning ®, the K-8 digital math company that pioneered Intelligent Adaptive Learning technology, announced today that the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) has selected DreamBox Learning Math to support teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate student learning loss.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Highlights Engaging Topic: Student presentations warm up students and foster excitement for learning. Technology Integration: Essential for implementing Common Core standards without adding extra layers. Structured Approach: Students present on three topics across grading periods, emphasizing quick research.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

That move is predicted to prohibit Chinese education firms teaching core subjects to students from kindergarten through 9th grade from making a profit, going public, raising capital or offering tutoring services during weekends and holidays. It’s almost like having a teacher looking over you,” Gokulnath says.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

How can educators prepare students for an evolving future influenced by artificial intelligence? One day, at the harvest festival, an eighth-grade history teacher questioned the student about some historical facts, and he answered them correctly. The student questioned her back, and she didn't know the answers!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2023

For years, educational technology has promised to fill that gap, but that promise has remained largely unfulfilled. Now, as technology continues to evolve, a new era of personalized learning is dawning, fueled by the power of artificial intelligence. Image Credit: eSpark. That is what you love to see as a teacher!”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2024

Engaging in research and design work with communities of researchers, practitioners and edtech product developers has led us to define several principles we believe will assist in building learning technology that is attuned to the needs of diverse students and educators, based on modern learning principles and designed for broad adoption and scale.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Additionally, as students gradually begin to return to in-person learning, technology will remain an ever-present part of the learning and on-campus experience, as the students and staff on campus use their devices at the same time. Artificial intelligence-based digital assistance drives immediate feedback to students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. based software company that offers AI-assisted grading tools. You don’t buy a grading company for almost $2 billion just to keep focusing on grading.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

A first grade student is trying to read a passage on her iPad. 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. A digital avatar Amira, clad in olive green, is listening.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Add the time required for all the other parts of the job—lesson planning, providing students extra support, grading, and parent and staff meetings—and teachers can expect to put in a 12- to 16-hour workday. Recent advancements in data analytics and artificial intelligence, however, may help teachers gain back some of those hours.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2022

April 6, 2022 — DreamBox Learning , Inc. This is all possible through DreamBox’s patented intelligent adaptive learning technology, which generates insights from high-quality and pedagogy-driven information about each student’s learning. BELLEVUE, Wash.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2024

Look for apps and programs that cover key concepts and skills taught in early elementary grades, such as phonics , early literacy , basic math skills and foundational science concepts. Ensure that the content is relevant to your curriculum goals and supports the learning objectives you want to achieve in your district.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

If I were to use Writable to create a rubric for writing and grading funding announcements of the type you might typically see on EdSurge , it might look something like this: The K-12 writing-support tool is not (currently) designed for publications covering startups and venture capital. Writable has been used in more than 1,000 schools.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2021

New Lesson Recommendations feature helps teachers understand where students are in their math learning to support academic growth toward proficiency. Last year, DreamBox launched DreamBox Predictive Insights, which shows educators early in the school year how each student is likely to perform on grade level state tests in the spring.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

At its core, education technology aims to make learning more efficient, engaging, personalized, and accessible. Education technology includes various tools such as interactive whiteboards, learning management systems (LMS), educational apps, virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered adaptive learning programs.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Higher-order thinking skills are essential for success, so we should use edtech to drive that thinking Artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting the education landscape. Memorization and other lower-order skills represented at the bottom of Bloom’s Taxonomy or Level One of Webb’s Depth of Knowledge wheel are part of the learning process.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Taking into account analytics skills, social and emotional learning, and importantly, the human experience, will always remain its cornerstone. ChatGPT is only one example of how educators and learners can start to analyze and shift grading practices, allowing for more curiosity and interest in the industry. Learn about AI.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Erika, grade 10 math and science teacher Clear Guidelines Pave the Way for Teachers to Embrace Technology More Fully I was able to create lessons with no preparation. Christine, grade 1 teacher Fully leveraging one’s LMS can also help teachers save time. I was able to create lessons with no preparation.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

September 15, 2021 — DreamBox Learning, the leading education technology provider that in 2006 pioneered intelligent adaptive learning, today announced new expansions and partnerships with school district customers, including Prince George’s County Public Schools and East Baton Rouge Parish School System. BELLEVUE, Wash.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

More than 50 years after Don Rawitsch introduced Oregon Trail in his eighth grade class, the debate continues : Can games become a legitimate tool for learning? Proponents of game-based learning have good reason to be optimistic—but also cautious. This vision of a future learning platform features some compelling elements.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Collaboration is not confined by physical barriers–global learning communities connect and share insights in real-time. Adaptive learning technologies cater to individual needs, optimizing educational paths for diverse learners. In this model, the importance of learning in the digital age is emphasized.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

It’s an unusual buyer for an education technology startup. According to Nelson Gonzalez, Declara’s co-founder, the buyer was drawn primarily to Declara’s machine learning technologies, which it hopes to roll into its blockchain software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. But Declara is not going away.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2019

These days, he quips, nearly every startup pitch includes a mention of artificial intelligence. Owl has invested in several, including Quizlet and Bakpax, a mobile grading tool.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

I predict two issues will take center stage- artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education. We will see more districts leveraging real-time data so families can understand more than just what their child’s grades are.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

The IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) plans to update its existing standards based on this work. Last updated in 2007, the international standards body has defined a data model for describing, referencing, and sharing competency definitions, primarily in the context of online and distributed learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2023

Tools, such as AI-powered writing assistants and language-analysis platforms, offer real-time feedback and aim to empower students to engage in self-directed learning and refine their writing and editing skills. Related Resources: Teaching Partner, Grading Assistant or Substitute Teacher?

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

I started working with classroom technology in 1989 at The Dalton School in New York City. We taught sixth-grade students ancient history through an archaeology simulation we developed on black-and-white Macintosh computers. This is why over the next several years we will see a massive increase in online learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

Teachers’ perspectives on the rubric underscore the questions we must continue to ask as edtech products embed and evolve logics that reduce—rather than increase—transparency in how the technology facilitates student learning. Teachers pointed to how Organization reinforced Claim and Focus as related dimensions.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Once educators are comfortable with this step, Dembo introduces a faux student essay relevant to the lesson plan, to show educators how the AI can grade the paper on the rubric and provide feedback — an end-to-end process that could save time, and drudgery. We can go back and forth with it, change three assessment points to five,” says Dembo.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Students are rarely told why they have to do papers, projects, essays, discussion forum posts, or other assignments other than “to get a good grade.” While grades provide extrinsic motivation for some students, not all students are driven by the sole purpose of getting a good grade. Students cheat for good grades.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Students are rarely told why they have to do papers, projects, essays, discussion forum posts, or other assignments other than “to get a good grade.” While grades provide extrinsic motivation for some students, not all students are driven by the sole purpose of getting a good grade. Students cheat for good grades.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

The launch of the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model ChatGPT was met with both enthusiasm (“Wow! Two resources to help you get started with helping students critically evaluate AI tools are the Civics of Technology Curriculum and the Critical Media Literacy Guide for Analyzing AI Writing Tools. References Anderman, E.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

The launch of the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model ChatGPT was met with both enthusiasm (“Wow! Two resources to help you get started with helping students critically evaluate AI tools are the Civics of Technology Curriculum and the Critical Media Literacy Guide for Analyzing AI Writing Tools. References Anderman, E.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 23, 2025

Thats why success in online learning doesnt just rely on intelligence or curriculum. Long-term goals could focus on improving grades or mastering a subject over a semester. Technology plays a dual role. It can either support or sabotage learning. It depends on strategy.

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