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TechSteps K-12 now includes new Cyber-Safety Curriculum designed to meet updated CIPA requirements for E-Rate program
TechSteps provides a valuable curriculum designed to teach students to be safe, secure and responsible online as well as a convenient means for administrators to track program participation and implementation.
Edvation announces the addition of a newly developed comprehensive Cyber safety curriculum to its TechSteps K-12 technology literacy and assessment product. This valuable resource, available to all TechSteps users, has been specifically designed to assist schools in implementing online behavior and cyber bullying programs that comply with the newly updated CIPA requirements for the E-rate program. The TechSteps program is unique in that it not only provides grade appropriate interactive activities designed to teach students to be safe, secure and responsible online but also the means by which to record program participation and implementation.
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Edvation TechSteps named Tech & Learning Magazine Award of Excellence Winner
Awards Recognize the “Best of the Best” Products that Help Educators in the Business of Teaching and Managing with Technology
Edvation announced today that its award-winning K-12 Technology Curriculum and Assessment tool, TechSteps, has been awarded Tech & Learning Magazine’s 2011 Award of Excellence in its “Best Upgraded Products of 2011″ category.
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SchoolKit changes company name to Edvation
SchoolKit today announced their new company name – “Edvation” – accompanied by a corporate-wide re-branding initiative to present a consistent approach to their innovative product and service offerings.
“The new corporate name helps to further position us as a provider of innovative educational solutions to advance teaching and learning for success in the 21st Century,” stated company president and CEO, Adam Smith. “While our company name and branding has changed, our customers and partners can be assured that we will continue to deliver the same high-quality, innovative products, service, and support that they have known from us over the years.”
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TechSteps Featured on Best in Tech Today
Student-Driven Learning with Technology
Richie County Middle School teacher, Judy Bragg shares how she uses TechSteps to integrate technology and 21st Century learning into her Language Arts classroom.
SchoolKit Names Dr. Rim Razzouk as Director of Measurement and Assessment
This appointment reflects Edvation’s continuing commitment to the teaching and assessment of 21st Century skills to ensure that students are college- and career-ready.
Edvation today announced that Dr. Rim Razzouk has been named Director of Measurement and Assessment. At Edvation, Dr. Razzouk will oversee the design and development of valid, reliable, and transparent 21st Century skills assessments through evidence-centered design processes. This work will further enhance Edvation’s innovative inquiry-based learning materials and performance assessments that require students to exercise and demonstrate 21st Century skills in meaningful contexts.
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SchoolKit Takes Top Honors in Best Educational Software Awards
Edvation wins twice in “ComputeED GAZETTE’s” 17th annual Best Educational Software Awards. This prestigious program honors innovative and content-rich programs and websites that provide parents and teachers with the technology to foster educational excellence. TechSteps, a K-12 technology literacy curriculum and assessment solution receives its first BESSIE Award for best Multi-Level Technology Literacy Integration Website. pd21 wins its first BESSIE in the category of Teacher Tools: Professional Development Online Course.
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TechSteps wins BESSIE Award
K-12 Solution Named Best Technology Literacy Integration Website for 2011
BELLEVUE, WA (April 8, 2011) – Edvation, a leading provider of rigorous and relevant 21st Century education solutions, is pleased to accept the Best Educational Software Award (BESSIE) for TechSteps as the Best Technology Literacy Integration Website for 2011.
The BESSIE awards, sponsored by San Diego’s ComputED Learning Center, honor innovative, content-rich programs and websites that provide teachers with the technology necessary to foster educational excellence. Winners were chosen from educational sites and providers worldwide.
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TechSteps Recognized in 2010 National Educational Technology Plan
Moving Assessment Data from the Classroom to the State
West Virginia’s TechSteps program is an example of an assessment system coordinated across levels of the education system. TechSteps is organized around six technology integration activities per grade level. The activities are sequenced to introduce technology skills developmentally and in a 21st-Century context and are largely open-ended and flexible, so they can be integrated into county and school curricula.
Each TechSteps activity includes a classroom assessment rubric. After a student completes a TechSteps activity, the teacher enters an assessment of his or her performance against the rubric into the TechSteps website. TechSteps uses the teacher-completed rubric form to identify the target skills demonstrated by that student and uses this information to build the student’s Technology Literacy Assessment Profile.
Through TechSteps, West Virginia is able to have statewide student data on technology proficiencies at each grade level without requiring a separate “drop-in-from-the-sky” technology test.
Anytime, Anywhere PD Now Even More Accessible
Anytime, Anywhere PD Now More Accessible With Classroom-Ready Technology Integration Projects
AUSTIN, Texas (February 8, 2011) – In response to increasing teacher demand Edvation recently announced the addition of classroom-ready technology integration activities to pd21, their personalized, online professional development system for teachers. “Now, more than ever”, suggests Adam Smith, CEO of Edvation, “Administrators are able to witness the immediate impact of professional development on student academic outcomes. Using the new integration activity library in pd21, every educator, regardless of their comfort level, is now able to use technology as a tool to promote rigor, relevance and student engagement in every classroom.”
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Alabama selects TechSteps for Technology Education
Alabama districts may now choose a full K-8 technology education solution that integrates authentic assessment, 21st Century and technology skills into core academic instruction
Bellevue, WA – June 10, 2010
The Alabama State Department of Education has approved TechSteps K-8 technology education curriculum for purchase and named it to the 2010-2011 Alabama Technology Education Textbook Adoption. TechSteps is a technology literacy curriculum and assessment tool that engages students in motivating learning experiences with inquiry-based technology integration activities that infuse technology and 21st Century learning into any standards-based curriculum. Each well-design challenge guides students in using open ended real-world technology applications to design and build information products or presentations that communicate their best thinking. Each artifact provide an authentic demonstration of technology literacy proficiency and 21st Century skills development while also generating all the data needed for reporting purposes
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