Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

Gone are the days when a college advisor’s main duty was to help students choose their major and register for courses. Swipe one direction and see all upcoming courses, then zoom in and plan for the next term. The grants helped us scale more quickly and advance the work we were already doing,” says Harris.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2018

With that in mind, and after exploring other options, in late 2016 Barnett, Kelly and colleagues finally settled on a promising solution. It comes pre-engineered with integrated hardware and software , and includes everything necessary for plug-and-play connectivity. There are other solutions to the data center dilemma, of course.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2019

As technology companies from Google to Salesforce plant roots in Australia, government and business leaders down under are trying to figure out ways to train students and workers to keep up with a changing workforce. Also new is Trilogy’s recent acquisition of Firehose Project, an online coding course.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

Google in June announced an. Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud services both offer education programs, and now Google Cloud wants a part in shaping future computer scientists — and probably whatever they come up with using the tool. Google Cloud launched in 2011, but has caught up to competitors to. Google breaking in? .

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

Goegan also argued that he was forced to fail 30 percent of his students, which he said university officials wanted so that an adaptive-learning project being developed for other sections of the economics course would be made to look good by comparison. On Amazon, the book alone sells for $148 without the MindTap software.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Lambda School allows students to pay nothing upfront, in return for 17 percent of their salary for two years once they get a software-related job that pays more than $50,000. The company currently offers two live, online and interactive 6-month programs in software engineering and machine learning. million in revenues this year and $1.5

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Chin went on to do just that, using his software development skills to create an application that would connect hungry students with classmates who had extra meal swipes. Jon Chin discussing Share Meals, 2016. Course Hero Faculty Club member, Jon Chin. Source: Course Hero. Source: TEDxMU. Jon Chin’s Share Meals app.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 11, 2018

Along with gauging a student’s learning style and pre-existing knowledge, AI systems can meticulously design courses catering to the specific needs of the students. An ITS is an AI-based learning software capable of imitating the methods and dialog of human tutors to impart knowledge in real time and on demand.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

According to a 2016 poll by Gallup and Google , more than 90 percent of parents think computer science is a good use of school resources, but less than half of schools offer even a single class. Finally, “micro-tutoring” could be a way for full-time software engineers to support the work being done by educators in the classroom.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

Among them are concerns over what happens to data in learning management systems like Canvas , to questions over whether campuses should ban facial-recognition software. Listen to this week’s podcast on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music , or wherever you listen to podcasts, or use the player below.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

I also knew creating such a space could be pricey, especially when you start talking about robots, advanced software and 3D printers. So with some research and resourcefulness—and generous donations—I launched our makerspace for the 2015-2016 school year. Our learners love to create obstacle courses and chariots for the Spheros.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2018

Technology companies including Google, Oracle and Cisco also gave support through providing hardware and database services. According to the nonprofit’s most recently available 990 form , the organization took a net loss of $4 million in fiscal year 2016 (ending on Aug. 31 that year). million in the previous fiscal year to $3.2

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

They largely market edtech tools and services, like online tutoring and digital courses, directly to consumers, not to institutions. Case in point: Online course provider Coursera reported more than 13 million new registered users since mid-March, a 535 percent increase from the same period last year. billion in venture capital.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

The course, which he thinks kids can finish in seven hours, is free of charge. A spokesperson for Tynker tells EdSurge that Mattel funded Tynker to produce the course, and Mattel created “all Barbie assets.” Writing again for Slate in 2016, Fiesler had a positive take on “Game Developer Barbie,” a doll released that year.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Five-year-old Mykell Robinson practices his reading on the Lexia software while a small group of classmates work with a teacher. Good teachers, of course, have always personalized lessons based on their students’ needs. It also invested in software like ST Math and the reading program Lexia, created by the Rosetta Stone company.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Consider the following developments in artificial intelligence: In 2016, the Associated Press began outsourcing its minor-league baseball dispatches to a company called Automated Insights. A quick Google search resulted in no immediate hits of others writing such an essay. Recently I wrote " What If Your Co-Teacher is a Computer?

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2016

Although these investments can take many forms, they typically include software programs that are designed to deliver curriculum content through educational learning applications. At the same time, the number of studies of the effectiveness of learning software is huge. 08 seconds.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The state of Oregon requires two terms of composition for graduation, thus Writing 121 and 122 were courses that almost all students had to take. These were the days before TurnItIn and other plagiarism checking software were widely adopted by schools. Google a sentence or two to see if the passage could be found online.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2016

Today I’m celebrating my friend Jennifer Gonzalez’s 2016 The Teacher’s Guide to Tech. She also has a Technology Jump Start Course with 8 modules to help get you comfortable with technology in the classroom.) It also links with other tools we use like Trello, Google Docs, Dropbox, and more.

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Kathy Schrock

DECEMBER 1, 2016

This article originally appeared in the Discovery Education blog " Kathy Schrock's Katch of the Month " in December 2016 and is re-posted here with permission. __ What was hot in educational technology in 2016 and what are some cool new things that are on the horizon for 2017?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

The Google campus in Mountain View, California. Opportunity@Work calls such workers “STARs,” because they are Skilled Through Alternative Routes, like workforce training, community college courses and job experience. His first job was a $45,000 “tier one” tech support position with a health care software developer.

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Hack Education

JULY 22, 2017

All this runs counter, of course, to the pervasive belief in a “ skills gap ” – that there aren’t enough qualified programmers to fill all the programming jobs out there, and that as such, folks looking for work should jump at the chance to pay for tuition at a bootcamp. .

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

high school students have the opportunity not just to take an online class for credit but a significant proportion of their course load online. percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. public high schools (42.5 percent offered ‘all classes online.’

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

high school students have the opportunity not just to take an online class for credit but a significant proportion of their course load online. percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. public high schools (42.5 percent offered ‘all classes online.’

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

How : Google Slides, PPT, Buncee , Thinglink , Genially , Canva School librarians can create choice boards aligned with different ability levels, and students can choose according to how they feel comfortable. Handbooks can summarize library services, events calendars, and important updates. Holzweiss asked. Evolve your programming.

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 88

Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

This is part five of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” As in previous years, it would be quite easy to fill a whole article in this series on “ data insecurity ,” on the data breaches and cyberattacks that continue to plague education – both schools and software. million students.

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

And of course current Undersecretary of Education, Ted Mitchell, is a former VC.) From the Coursera blog : “Coursera pilots a new course format.” ” More via I Programmer on Coursera ’s decision to remove old courses from its platform. .” Presidential Campaign Politics. weeks in 2015.”

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2019

By 2016, most schools and districts were in a buying mode, scooping up vast amounts of digital curriculum, but not always with the necessary tactical maps behind them, or a plan to administer cost negotiations with the thousands of publishers or a proper vetting of the purchased or custom home-built digital learning objects.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

A number of colleges have partnered with big MOOC providers, principally Coursera and edX, to offer large-scale online courses at far lower prices, in part to attract new students to their higher-priced online degrees. Enrollment in the school’s online MBA, launched in 2016, jumped from 114 initially to 1,955 today.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Additional resources such as ViewSonic’s myViewBoard software , can be used to combine content into a single presentation, which can then be shared with children online. While the focus is often on students and teachers who are undertaking the course, it is just as important to win over parents. not having to attend classes).

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100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

It is important that learners develop their skills through a universal perspective that goes beyond the information that their textbook – or Google and YouTube – provide. We deal with digital natives, so they will probably surprise you with the use of blogs, interactive software, and other forms of instant communication. Gibson, K.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. Miller is one of many vocal critics of the wide disparities in education technology pricing, which he and others contend is becoming an increasingly pressing problem as more devices and software enter U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 29, 2016

The second annual Student Technology Conference, a free one-day online event bringing together students, educators and innovators from around the world, is tomorrow, Saturday, January 30, 2016 from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm US-EST. We invite all to attend! We also always need volunteer moderators--more info HERE.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Education’s Proto-Platforms.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online ACHIEVE3000 & ICIVIC ( www.achieve3000.com The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions. The application is free to download from the App Store or Google Play.

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Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 56

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

percent of all school-age children in the fall of 2016, the last year for which such data is available. Even schools that manage to give all children access to devices and the internet cannot escape the fact that much of the educational software they’re using is not specific to the needs of ELL students, Sugarman said. Yes, of course!”

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