March 8, 2010
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Blackboard, a company that designs an education software for school groups, has acquired mobile messaging provider Saf-T-Net for $33 million. Saf-T-Net develops AlertNow, which is a mobile messaging technology aimed to the K-12 marketplace.
AlertNow’s technology delivers voice, e-mail and emergency SMS messages at a rate up to 2.5 million per hour to parents, students and school administrators.
(Link: Blackboard Buys Mobile Messaging Company Saf-T-Net For $33 Million)
January 15, 2010
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Vedoe believes that Apex can build a $100 million company serving the at-risk population. “There are over 1 million students who drop out of high school every year. Keeping them is a very substantial opportunity. We estimate there are anywhere from 6 million to 10 million secondary students who are not performing at a proficient level. Approximately 70% of eighth graders are below proficiency in both reading and math. When you get to 12th grade, the data is not that different. We think the target market for the programs we offer is quite significant; there are approximately 15 million secondary students.” (More on Apex Learning in my interview with Vedoe here.)
(Link: America’s K-12 Education Strategy – Forbes.com)
December 4, 2009
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A new report by research firm Ambient Insight says that by 2014, 10.5 million PreK-12 students will attend classes online. As many will recall, in the book Disrupting Class, we predicted that by 2019 50 percent of all high school courses will be online—and by 2014 we had predicted 25 percent. Guess we’re not the only ones making a bold prediction here anymore.
According to THE Journal, Ambient Insight’s Chief Research Officer says that about 450,000 K-12 students attend virtual school full time and another 1.75 million take some of their classes online. If true, those numbers—particularly the first—represent higher estimates than I had been seeing.
(Link: 10.5M Pre-K-12 students to take online courses by 2014, research firm predicts | Clayton Christensen)
September 3, 2009
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the K–12 education group on YouTube. Teachers and students upload movies on this group, which has hundreds of videos on subjects ranging from making angel puppets to footage from a 2004 expedition to the Titanic.
(Link: YouTube – K12 Education)
August 20, 2009
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Welcome to the workspace for the Horizon.K12 Project, which will produce a report focusing on emerging technology and its applications for K-12 education. This space was created as a place for the members of the Horizon.K12 Advisory Board to manage the process of selecting the topics for the Horizon Report: 2009 K-12 Edition. Horizon.K12 is a new project that applies the process developed for the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project with a focus on emerging technologies for elementary and secondary learning institutions. Members of the K-12 education community are encouraged to follow the Advisory Board’s progress as the discussion unfolds and to use the wiki as a resource and reference tool.
(Link: Main Page – Horizon.K12)
July 6, 2009
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“While many of our nation’s K-12 schools clearly recognize the advantages of online learning and instruction in teacher professional development, there remains a lag in utilizing this technology for student achievement,” said Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow. “Educators must embrace these emerging technologies to enhance student learning and fully prepare today’s students for future success.”
(Link: Growing Demand for Online Learning Not Yet Matched by Opportunities at K-12 Schools, Districts – Technology News – redOrbit)
July 1, 2009
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This is a resource to share K-12 projects that have integrated student cell phones
(Link: k12cellphoneprojects – home)
