eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2019

With technology present in almost every classroom, educators have a greater opportunity to implement computer science lessons throughout the curriculum. Personalized learning. This provides students with the knowledge and skills required to help follow job market trends when they graduate.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

Bridging this gap requires iterative refinementrecognizing that what works in theory or in controlled conditions needs real-world testing, adaptation, and continuous improvement. While there’s no substitute for real-world testing, I began wondering if AI could help with this iterative refinement.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2015

OpenEd is expanding new partnerships that now make its resources available real-time across a broad range of ed tech companies, including a learning management system (LMS), test prep app and assessment solution, enabling literally millions more teachers and students to have access to its resources for personalizing learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

4 steps to a successful literacy program Students are the ultimate beneficiaries of professional learning, technology investments, and other efforts that schools make on the literacy front. For me, the rewards also extend beyond the school day and standardized tests.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

As schools look to modernize teaching and personalize learning, technology is becoming an indispensable tool in the classroom. Though technology alone does not improve learning, it does offer a greater opportunity for students to improve skill proficiencies, test scores, spontaneous collaboration and productivity.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

One way we have taught these skills is through project-based learning (PBL), where students apply what they’ve learned during a hands-on project that is relevant to the real world — and their lives.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy. In that model, colleges are typically charged on a per-test basis.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

Necessity begets ingenuity, and for many businesses no test of survival has been tougher than the current one wrought by a global pandemic. Duolingo Passes Its English Test Don’t worry, the pandemic hasn’t shuttered Duolingo’s popular gamified language learning app. to accept its test scores. Denny’s is selling groceries.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2023

D2L, a global learning technology company, today announced a new partnership with Unity, the world’s leading platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content with a goal to transform the education landscape through classroom integration of immersive Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and RT3D technologies.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

These are exciting times in the world of assistive learning technology. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are behind next-generation improvements in a range of software tools for students with sensory or learning disabilities. How do you present mathematics?

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

Bridging this gap requires iterative refinementrecognizing that what works in theory or in controlled conditions needs real-world testing, adaptation, and continuous improvement. While there’s no substitute for real-world testing, I began wondering if AI could help with this iterative refinement.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2016

When it comes to mathematics learning technology, students want: Help preparing for tests and exams; 77 percent of instructors provide practice problems or practice tests. In fact, only 27 percent of students in a remedial math course will ever earn a bachelor’s degree.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Analytical thinking Creative thinking Resilience, flexibility, and agility Motivation and self-awareness Curiosity and lifelong learning Technological literacy To prepare students for this type of workforce, educators must design impactful learning opportunities that require the use of these AI skills.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2015

To further insure sustainable learning gains, TTM Geometry includes a wide variety of interactive item types; ensuring students are well prepared for the more sophisticated test items being used on state-level assessments. “As TTM lessons and on-line tutoring are both available in both English and Spanish.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

For more on assessments, see eSN’s Innovative Teaching page The Montana Office of Public Instruction is focusing on using assessments throughout the school year to give teachers the data they need–as early as possible–to positively impact student achievement through personalized learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Holding learning technologies accountable. With increased federal support to fund technologies in the classroom, expand broadband access, and put devices in the hands of more students, education technology continues to play an important role in the lives of educators and students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

But despite their best efforts, online learning failed to live up to in-person education, with students whose schools met mostly in person performing significantly better on math and reading tests compared to their peers who received instruction online. But it’s not the fault of teachers – they weren’t trained for remote instruction.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The most recent tests have recorded 5G latency times — how fast a signal goes to and from a device — at under 10 milliseconds. Education Researchers Test the Power of 5G. Tests done in Virginia found the distances reached by the mmWave signal were much greater than people thought — up to 10 kilometers.”. by Erika Gimbel.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

They told the board in the high-poverty district in Chicago’s south suburbs that the project would “future-proof the classroom” and “catapult Dolton into the next generation of learning technology.” We’re doing hybrid learning,” the staffer responded. A couple of members balked.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Here’s the problem: In spite of the relative success of programs like Code.org and CS4ALL, the latest data from the College Board show that only 28 percent of the AP Computer Science test-takers in 2018 were women. So what would it take to ensure all kids, regardless of gender or race, have the opportunity to learn computing ideas?

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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.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 10, 2019

VIDEO: See how K–12 educators are emphasizing personalized learning for the class of 2030. Use Classroom Technology to Fill the Gaps. While innovation in learning technology can provide significant relief for oversaturated classrooms, it does not automatically fix the problem.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2016

In Spring 2016, faculty, support staff and administrators at Oregon State University met to candidly share their experiences with adaptive learning technology. Next we discussed whether and how this adaptive learning technology might apply to a research university. How do real educators refer to the tools they’re seeing?

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Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2019

Instead, my classmates and I faced an endless loop of lectures, notes and tests. We wanted to learn in the same ways that we lived. Students want learning technology that straddles their social lives and school lives. Students want learning technology that straddles their social lives and school lives.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

Rapid Growth Byju’s got its start by delivering what students and their families would readily pay for: Test prep. Cofounder Byju Raveendran built a reputation as a compelling and successful tutor, helping students gear up to take India’s Common Admission Test, the entrance exam for the country’s top graduate management schools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Feldstein is not completely convinced it will work, though, so he says he has invited plenty of people to test it who are skeptical of the idea. He argues that if AI could serve as an effective instructional design assistant, it could help colleges significantly reduce the time it takes to create courses. The question is, can AI do that?”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2015

Murphy & Beland’s recent study is making the rounds online, particularly among those who are eager to find reasons to ban learning technologies in classrooms. Here are my thoughts on this… The outcome measure is standardized test score improvement. if they did, how sad is that?).

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2023

– The Social Institute announced that it has expanded its pioneering peer-to-peer learning technology to meet the needs of third-grade students, available starting Fall of 2023. In each #WinAtSocial Lesson, 3rd graders will: Embark on a choose-your-own-adventure experience that tests their decision-making skills.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

Marten Roorda, who for the past four-and-a-half years has presided as CEO of ACT , the nonprofit best known for its college-admissions test by the same name, is leaving the organization. Under his watch, the Iowa City, Iowa-based nonprofit invested heavily in education technology companies to expand its services beyond test prep.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

When students can bring models to life and test them in real world situations, they are expanding beyond paper and screen into the world around them. Michael Arquin, Founder, KidWind The integration of AI in education has the potential to revolutionize the way students learn, especially for non-traditional learners. Simonds, M.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2024

The origins of AI have been traced back to 1950 when Alan Turing published “ Computer Machinery and Intelligence ,” which proposed a test of machine intelligence called The Imitation Game. However, the term itself was coined by John McCarthy in 1955.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

For most of its years as a startup, Knewton focused on building adaptive learning technologies that it would license to publishers, before pivoting to sell its own courseware in late 2017. That’s a hard hit for investors in the New York-based company, which had raised more than $180 million since its founding in 2008.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Justin Reich, Executive Director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, and I summarized this existing evidence in our report that resulted from the series of meetings this past year, “ From Good Intentions to Real Outcomes: Equity by Design in Learning Technologies.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Equipping Learning Engineers with Technology Technology can streamline the way Learning Engineers collect student learning and engagement data as they interact with digital tools, getting valuable information that would otherwise be hard to get in remote learning environments.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

“We have learned not all education technology is created equal, so we are excited to offer our teachers an evidence-based solution proven to increase student achievement. Furthermore, Reading Plus produces 2.0-2.5

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We are coming from a really similar place: How we can improve a kid’s ability to learn from media?” In general, we found that kids learned more, are more engaged and had more positive perceptions,” Xu says. And the researchers are especially excited about what their findings might mean for alleviating disparities in early learning.

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