ViewSonic Education

JUNE 5, 2019

In fact, 65% of Millennials in a study felt they are not confident in face-to-face interactions from a survey from One Poll. They also come with software packages that allow teachers to produce and manage their lessons using the latest technologies.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

We can build robot teachers, or even robot teaching assistants. The company’s co-founder, Derek Li, said during a keynote that replacing some teaching functions with AI-powered software would supercharge the country’s education system. Fill out this five-minute survey , and you can enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card.

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Perry Hewitt

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

A survey of >4,000 designers revealed the most commonly used design tools , from brainstorming to wireframing to project management. Federalist is an excellent example of combining open source software, canny feature tradeoffs, and excellent design to deliver a platform users will adopt.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The next big move came when instructional designers, as part of their skillset, turned to digital authoring systems, software introduced to stimulate engagement, encouraging virtual students to interface actively with digital materials, often by tapping at a keyboard or touching the screen as in a video game.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Credit: Reba Saldanha/AP There are deep shortages of workers in information technology fields, according to the labor market analytics firm Lightcast, which says that there were more than 4 million job postings over the last year in the United States for software developers, database administrators and computer user support specialists.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

Other students in their engineering class were constructing a robot for the Dell-sponsored Silicon Valley Tech Challenge and designing a “tiny house” to shelter a homeless person. percent are African-American, according to 2015 data from the American Community Survey. percent of the Valley’s tech professionals are Latino and 2.2

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 29, 2024

They are leveraging interactive learning software such as KITABOO to make content engaging for learners of diverse age groups. This blog explores interactive learning software , the key types of effective interactive content, and the benefits of using such software tools. What is Interactive Learning Software?

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 22, 2020

The Learning Counsel released the results of its sixth annual Survey of School and District Digital Curriculum Strategy and Transformation. Some of the top takeaways from the 2019 survey include: The K-12 Ed-Tech Market is experiencing the results of an unsustainable growth in spending without commensurate results. 462 K-12 U.S.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. Most analysts -- and the school district itself -- blamed the failure on buggy software. Too many edtech initiatives treat teachers as robotic implementers of a higher plan.

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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. What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Exactly how many remote workers live in Burlington “is hard to gauge because we all are sort of like hermit crabs in our own little shells and under our own little rocks,” said Tyler Littwin, art director at the marketing software developer HubSpot, who moved here from HubSpot’s headquarters outside Boston and started telecommuting in 2013.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

This story about robots and jobs was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Yes, the robots are definitely coming for the jobs of America’s 3.5 Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2016. Sign up for our newsletter. million cashiers.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

A review of the data by EdSurge for notable education technology software and service providers found more than 60 for-profit and nonprofit organizations that were approved for a loan between $150,000 to $5 million. In April, he surveyed education businesses about how the pandemic impacted their operations.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In 2003, a team of Harvard University researchers concluded a survey and mapped out the idiosyncrasies in the pronunciation of common English words across the globe. They include the MIT Media Lab, which is using the system for an educational robotics project, and Lingumi, a developer of an English learning app for young children.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

Now, she’s referred to as LEGO Lady at P.S. 34, where she teaches science, LEGO engineering, and robotics. Andrew-Lamon suggests surveying your students to determine whether they want to use code to create a game, meme or a Snapchat filter. Williams is not alone in having had initial reservations about computer science.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

Other students in their engineering class were constructing a robot for the Dell-sponsored Silicon Valley Tech Challenge and designing a “tiny house” to shelter a homeless person. percent are African-American, according to 2015 data from the American Community Survey. percent of the Valley’s tech professionals are Latino and 2.2

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Related: Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code? Another challenge has been finding computer-aided design software suitable for kindergartners. What paper lacks in glamour it makes up for in being “familiar, friendly, accessible and really fast,” said Peggy Healy Stearns, the software designer who created Maker Studio.

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MindShift

AUGUST 11, 2016

It looked at college courses that are using so-called “adaptive learning” software as an enhancement to blended courses. The creators of one of the products looked at in this report compared the technology to “a robot tutor in the sky that can semi-read your mind.” NPR Ed has covered adaptive learning before.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It may be the biggest question in college edtech during the pandemic: Should tests be allowed to robotically watch students? The more recent rise of automated proctoring tools replace those humans with software robots, thereby reducing the cost. The issue involves so-called automated proctoring services.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Some students have started businesses, while others have designed apps or built robots. Students work with hardware like microboards and single-board computers, as well as software, learning coding languages like Java, Python, HTML and CSS, and C++. Students polled echoed Kurani’s sentiment.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” Gartner says, rather vaguely, that it relies on scenarios and surveys and pattern recognition to place technologies on the line. “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011. I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). That meant open source software, open education resources, and open access in scholarly publication.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 17, 2024

In their recent survey of over 40 high schools in the United States, the amount of students who admitted to have cheated at some point has remained the same 60-70% range that it has been for years. In a brief handout with the paper's core messages, a comparison was made between electronic bikes and robot vacuums.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2017

Skye Morishita working on the robot she programmed at a recent CoderDojo session in Boston. On a recent Saturday, a squad of Lego robots fitted with markers limped, hopped and spun dizzily across the table. The pair launched the first CoderDojo in June 2011, hosted by the National Software Centre in Cork. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

“What we realized in the classrooms was that there were a lot of things being done by the gut—it looked good and felt good, but there was no science behind choices teachers were making,” Kolb tells EdSurge, rifling off robots, flexible seating and Chromebooks as among the trends and tools that aren’t being used to their full advantage.

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Kathy Schrock

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Student observation : Having students complete a simple survey with their thoughts about the lesson can provide valuable information for the teacher, too. This can be a paper survey that is handed out, or students can enter information into a Google Form or SurveyMonkey online survey. Introducing Swivl from Swivl on Vimeo.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2022

At the start of our journey to pull back some of the edtech curtain, we set out to survey roughly 30 edtech companies of varying sizes and subject areas. What’s more common is for edtech companies to be founded by engineers—software or otherwise—who source teachers’ perspectives from people they personally know, he says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Educators around the world use video to teach kids about everything from robots to rainforests. Post-Production : You can use any myriad of video editing software out there. Nearly two-thirds of young people say GIFs are better than words for conveying emotions , according to a recent survey reported in TIME.

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MindShift

MARCH 5, 2021

In our survey, half of parents said their children were learning virtually, a third were attending in person full time, and the remainder were in person part time. survey found that about 1 in 5 district s are considering it. This includes just over half of parents who support the idea of summer school. Louis and Lincoln, Neb.,

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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. One of the most popular items we received through the site were our Sphero SPRK robots ($130/ robot). Free apps are available for multiple platforms to program and control these robots.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Raritan put a chunk of its relief money — about $250,000 — toward a new software package that helps students map their shortest pathway to a degree. Without the HEERF money, there’s no way the school could have afforded the software, said Raritan President Michael McDonough. They’re talking about long-term goals. So the school used $1.6

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Via The AP : “ Learning software in classrooms earns praise, causes debate.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. .” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The New York Times : “ The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher.” Facial recognition software. ” 1600 cameras.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 15, 2016

First, here’s an account of an Israeli-American robot designed to teach children. Most compelling, the robot has an emotional function, a form of “affective computing,” where the bot identifies learners’ moods and reacts. In Boston, home of the Atlas robot. Notice the lack of robot-fear among children.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. School administration software-maker Connexeo has raised $110 million from Great Hill Partners. million total.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “ Imagine how great universities could be without all those human teachers ,” says Quartz , lauding the fantasy that robots will replace teachers. ” Via Campus Technology : “BYU Researchers Aim to Stop Robots from Eating Tables with Wikipedia.” million total. .”

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” “Mixing Automation and a Human Touch, New Software Helps Keep Students ‘ On Task ’,” says Edsurge. Also via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Growing Pains Begin to Emerge in Open-Textbook Movement.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” That’s Joel Rose ’s School of One software. ” I mean, as long as data isn’t an issue and tech companies can build voice recognition software that recognizes languages other than English and accents other than Californian. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The LA Times : “Former L.A.

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