Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Microsoft : “Microsoft launches Intune for Education to counter Google’s Chromebooks in schools,” Techcrunch reported in January. “Microsoft is really scared of Chromebooks in businesses and schools,” The Verge reported in June. ” “ How Google Chromebooks conquered schools.”

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 9, 2015

2007: The Year of the Network (Can we say Twitter and Facebook). 2007: The Year of the Network (Can we say Twitter and Facebook). 2012: Mobile and Integration (Chromebooks, iPads, laptops, tablets, phablets, phones…yeah the list goes on and on). Predicting the future is fun…if you’re right people think you’re amazing….if

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There is no box

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Having used Google Apps for Education since 2007, I’ve been through a lot with the platform. Chromebook logins that only need the username, no GAFE domain required. A way to Auto Login a user to a chromebook. Remote control to a chromebook. Image Source: [link]. For younger students, it’s just too much.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Started in 2007, the program now serves 3,500 students, over 80 percent of whom come from Maori and Pasifika families. weekly, for three years via micro finance to lease a Chromebook for their child. Seven schools formed the original Manaiakalani Cluster in 2007. What’s been crucial has been the role of the families.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 29, 2023

Steve himself built one of the first modern social networks for teachers in 2007 (Classroom 2.0), developed the "conditions of learning" exercise for local educational conversation and change, and inherited and grew the Library 2.0 He may or may not have invented an early version of the Chromebook which he demo'd to Google.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 24, 2023

Steve himself built one of the first modern social networks for teachers in 2007 (Classroom 2.0), developed the "conditions of learning" exercise for local educational conversation and change, and inherited and grew the Library 2.0 He may or may not have invented an early version of the Chromebook which he demo'd to Google.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Extra money has allowed these wealthier districts to invest heavily in Chromebooks and iPads, state-of-the-art robotics programs, computerized blackboards, and high-end 3-D printers. It’s perhaps not surprising. Many now have a laptop for every student. Still, technology can bring widespread benefits as well.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

VR appeared in some of the earliest Horizon Reports for example, with the 2007 report positing that virtual worlds would be adopted by higher ed institutions within two to three years’ time; funnily enough, the 2016 report offered the same outlook: we’re still two to three years out from widespread adoption of VR. (The

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Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

Bresch had previously been involved in another education-related scandal when, in 2007, it was revealed she had been awarded an MBA by West Virginia University even though she’d only completed half of the required credits. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ U.S. .” ” Spoiler alert: by pivoting away from ed-tech.

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