Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

One of the best books I read this year was Bad Blood by WSJ journalist John Carreyou. DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $130 million. Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. DadaABC (English language learning): $100 million. Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

But I've put that series to rest while I focus on book-writing, and I'm thrilled to be able to join you here this year. I'm also thrilled that the book is mostly done.). I'm finishing up my book, as some of you know, on teaching machines. I did speak, a few years ago, at the OEB Midsummit event in Iceland. Why the glee?

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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. They’re supposedly “engines of innovation.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

They returned a syllabus that was all-white in composition – not just in that the primary authors of the books selected contained no people of color but the books themselves largely avoided America's colonial-settler, chattel-slavery, and racist-imperial history.” Learn-to-code startup Piper has raised $2.1

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Perhaps we’ve grown too accustomed to paying for purchases with a mobile app, or booking reservations online, or using Google to plan our daily commutes. Vendors agree that interoperability has become a fundamental necessity for how software can support teachers’ instruction. “I Data interoperability should be invisible.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. Basecamp is essentially a learning management system (with the adjective “personalized” appended to it). AltSchool, a private school startup, was founded in 2014 by Max Ventilla, a former Google executive.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Billion Federal Block Grant Makes Ed-Tech Training Higher Priority Than Software, Devices.” Amazing what reading a book will do for you. From the Google blog : “ Chromebook tablets for versatile learning.” ” Via The New York Times : “Apple Unveils New iPad to Catch Google in the Classroom.”

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Software & Online ACCELERATE LEARNING STEMSCOPES SCIENCE ( www.stemscopes.com ) Accelerate Learning announced a new platform using the best of CNN’s digital content to create a new science education product. The new video tool runs inside the web browser already installed on teachers’ devices. Illuminate 10.0

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Via The New York Times : “Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built.” Doesn’t seem like any journalists caught this, tho: A couple of things about that group of former FB and Google employees who have founded the Center for Humane Tech: 1. .” ” $3000 for three headsets.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

” Melinda Anderson talks to Beverly Daniel Tatum about the 20th anniversary of her book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? ” Google announces it is “Funding 75,000 Udacity scholarships to bridge the digital skills gap.” For Online College Programs, Google Is Kingmaker.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The Rise of the Low-Cost Tablet & the Promise It May Hold for Learning BYOD: Does It Solve or Does It Worsen K-12 Tech Woes? Can Google Challenge Over-Zealous Web Filtering at Schools? E-book provider Overdrive reports that e-book checkouts from libraries are up over 200% from last year. What makes this newsworthy?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

of Text-Messaging at School A Big Step for Gesture-Based Learning? The presentation software SlideRocket announced SlideRocket EDU this week, making its tools available to students and teachers via the Google Apps Marketplace. Updates and Upgrades Google announced a change to the way it will sell its new Chromebooks.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.” A report via Google Research : “ Unconscious Bias in the Classroom.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

Via The Washington Post : “ A South Carolina school district just abolished snow days – and will make students learn online.” Or just have them read a book. The company: RIB Software SE. DreamBox Learning has raised $130 million from The Rise Fund. The adaptive learning company has raised $175.6

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. “The San Francisco-based software company will continue a four-year partnership with San Francisco Unified School District. This and other findings are in the latest Pew Research on “ Book Reading 2016.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The work is also supported by companies including Apple, Google and Expedia, as well as education organizations including the CollegeBoard, Teach For America and STEMx.” Google’s Alphabet Inc. We also see it in many instances of adaptive-learning software. Read Mindstorms. and Facebook Inc.

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

But now “software is eating the world,” as venture capitalist Marc Andreessen wants to us all to believe. This is the story we hear and we tell about computers, about algorithmic systems like adaptive learning, predictive analytics, personalization. But that’s not new. Enhance, not replace.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 10, 2022

For long organizations have been using Learning Management Systems (LMSs) but as training requirements started changing, there was a strong realization of the need for a more diverse and robust learning environment. The environments together with the unique types of experiences create a Learning Experience Platform (LXP).

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