EdTech
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.
EdTech 10: When Working Together Works
This week's EdTech news revolved around working together to get things done with new leadership opportunities, support for strategies and models, insights into trends and perspectives, and advances in platform integration,
IMS Global Accelerates Adoption of Integrated Digital Curriculum
IMS Global worked with leading districts and suppliers to create a new interoperability standard, called OneRoster, to simplify the exchange of roster data by eliminating the need for multiple custom formats.
Technology Will Save Us is Powering MakerEd in UK
BBC is ensuring that every 12 year old in the UK will have a DIY Kit in their hands this fall and is working with Technology Will Save Us to make it happen. The kit that will be distributed - and the strategy to inspire - was an updated homage to the original BBC Micro, an early programmable home PC that introduced many people in the UK to computers for the first time.
Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will
By: Daniel Rabuzzi. Geoff Colvin, long-time senior editor of Fortune, has written a very important book for all of us engaged in education and youth development: Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will.
Leading Personalized Learning Literacy Tools
By: Emily Kirkpatrick. With literacy tools, as we get better and better at engaging student passions and stoking their curiosity, we will continue to open doors to new possibilities for learning and achievement.
No Cost. No Catch. How One Company Hopes to Close the Achievement Gap
By: Lucy Kosturko. Educational agencies talk a lot about achievement gaps. One emerging factor--technology--has shown both positive and negative effects, which begs the question: Do EdTech solutions run the risk of widening the achievement gap by widening the opportunity gap?
Knod: Eliminating the Education to Employment Gap
By: Katie Vander Ark. Knod is a Salt Lake City based talent development company working to eliminate the education-to-employment gap by producing job candidates who are ready for the workforce by focusing first on employer needs, not student needs.
Toward Better Growth Measures
Better growth measures are key to the future of personalized learning and the end of heavyweight year end tests. As more students progress on personalize pathways, it is necessary to develop comparable growth rates to ensure that all students are making adequate progress.
Smart Review | The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools?
In the fall of 2010, Mark Zuckerberg dropped himself smack in the middle of that debate. Appearing on the Oprah show with New Jersey’s Republican Governor Chris Christie and Newark’s Democratic Mayor Cory Booker, he announced a 100 million dollar ‘challenge grant’ for Newark. Did it work? That's the focus of Russakoff's new book.
Zeal: Teaching Math with Tickets and Tutors
With 15,000 questions in both literacy and math, Zeal makes it really simple for teachers to conduct a quick end of class check--an exit ticket. Questions which align with the Common Core, SBAC and PARCC standards.