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Education Technology is a multi-billion dollar sector of companies innovating in both software and hardware for teaching, learning, and running schools, districts, and state and federal education departments. We document some of the most essential technical innovations and companies that support learning, teaching and more.
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Connections Learning Supports Network of Innovative Blended Schools
Connections Academy plans to open Nexus Academy of Lansing and Nexus Academy of Grand Rapids, two new blended learning charter schools in Michigan for high school students.
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SmartTech Roundup
On the edu-innovation calendar, we’re shifting from the market-focused ASU summit to the Sundance of edReform, the NewSchools Venture Fund-Aspen Institute Summit. There’s a big overlap between the two but there’s more innovation at ASU and a stronger equity focus at NewSchools. Rahm Emanuel, Sen. Michael Bennet, Harvard’s…
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Marysville WA Wins School Architecture Prize
Congrats to our neighbors to the north in Marysville WA for winning the Learning by Design Grant Prize. They worked with DLR Architects and Architects of Achievement and created a spectacular new campus.
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Setting the Story Straight on Essay Scoring
There was lots of press on the OpenEd-led Automated Student Assessment Prize (ASAP) this week. Unfortunately, most of it was written by reporter skeptical that an algorithm cluster can score their writing. The results are pretty clear--the scoring engines are pretty good, certainly good enough to play a role in supporting better state tests and more classroom writing.
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Ed Leaders Meet in CA for NewSchools Venture Fund Summit
Education entrepreneurs, funders and leaders meet in San Francisco, Calif. May 1-2, 2012 for the NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF) Aspen Institute Summit, produced in partnership with NBC News. The summit, which is invitation only, will feature more than 100 speakers, more than 20 session and new opportunities to connect with other attendees.
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Digital Choices Expand in MI Today
Senate Bill 619, which expands online learning for public charter schools and gives parents and students greater freedom to choose digital learning options, passed in Michigan today.
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Smarter Balanced & PARCC Will Support Tablets for Testing
The Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) and the Partnership for Assessment Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) today issued future purchasing guidance designed to inform schools and districts on hardware and operating system specifications covering the vast majority of commercially available computers and tablets.
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Fordham Launches New Digital Learning Volume for EdReform
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute today launched "Education Reform for the Digital Era," a new digital learning volume with papers in its Creating Sound Policy for Digital Learning series.
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Infographic: How to Extend the Reach of Excellent Teachers
Did you know that only 25 percent of classes are taught by excellent teachers? We need to find ways to leverage great teachers and extend their talents to more students through the use of technology, new classroom models, and more.
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Students Compete in Statewide Oregon Computer Game Challenge
The Oregon Game Project Challenge (OGPC), managed and sponsored by TechStart Education Foundation, hosts its main event at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Ore. Saturday, April 28, 2012. The OGPC introduces middle and high school students to computer programming basics through games designed to be fun, challenging and innovative around a socially responsible annual theme.