Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. Even in more normal times, Newkirk’s overall strategy has limitations.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

Karen Bosch Is the PreK – 8 Technology Instructor at Southfield Christian School in the Metro Detroit area, a position she has held since 2001. She was named as a 2015 PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator and serves as a Book Creator Ambassador. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

of Education, author of 12 books including the recent Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Danger to Our Public Schools; Cindy Cisneros , Vice President of Education Programs at the Committee for Economic Development at The Conference Board; and Gavin Dykes , from England, Managing Director of Cellcove, Ltd.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In 2001, she joined a staff development company, TechKNOW Associates, where she worked as a mentor and professional developer for schools throughout New York and around the country. myON is a student-centered, personalized literacy platform that offers unlimited access to thousands of enhanced digital books. About the Presenter.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

This isn't a new story: even PCs, which were widely available in classrooms by 2001, rarely had a real impact on classroom instruction. But in recent years, we've seen a spike in the number of smaller, tightly focused, niche edtech product companies. So, what can be done? " Let's master pedagogy first.

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Veative

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In his book, Defying Reality: The Inside Story of the Virtual Reality Revolution, David M. Norton & Company, 2018. Routledge, 2001 (first edition: 1964). However, as we push ourselves to the frontiers of reality, one must ask, how have technologies such as VR changed our perception of the self? References. Bailenson, Jeremy.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Indiana’s foster care intake has more than doubled since 2001 , the sharpest increase in the nation. That’s the thing that shocked me more than anything,” said O’Brien, who is now retired after decades working at Eli Lilly and Company, the pharmaceutical company. In Indiana, where Tessa lives, the situation is especially dire.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

schools, Thorndike Press from Gale, part of Cengage Group, has released its first-ever collection of youth large print books in Spanish. Simplify Reading for Emerging Bilingual Students Large print books can have a significant impact on ELL student language development.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

State spending on the University System of Georgia fell from more than $15,000 per student in 2001 to about $6,000 during the recession, adjusted for inflation, and has only climbed back to about $8,000, Suggs’ analyses found. “I The recession in 2008 caused state tax revenue to plummet and accelerated a decline in higher education funding.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 12, 2010

He is CEO of Socratic Arts , a company whose goal is to design and implement learning-by-doing, story-centered curricula in schools, universities, and corporations. This was the basis of his most famous book, Dynamic Memory: A theory of reminding and learning in computers and people. He later wrote a book for parents on how to do this.)

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

After 15 years of inspiring millions of people to be creative and “make” something out of just about nothing, Maker Media, the company behind much of momentum, shut down due to financial shortfalls. It was still recovering from the economic crash in 2001. Go way beyond “thinking outside of the box.” Imagine an electric amoeba.

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Fractus Learning

AUGUST 17, 2016

Without further ado, I am going to share the five main answers that my students came up with between 2001 and now to the question “ What is wrong with the curriculum in your school? ”. I went to his company when I was a kid and he let me drive the forklift. They’d shrug at me at say “ Yeah, pretty cool, I guess…. ” This is simple.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Electronic Village Online (EVO) has developed as a community of practice that in 2001 facilitated a program of online discussions and workshops that have been held every year since then each January-February. APACALL Book Series Volume 3. Connectivist Learning: Reaching Students through Teacher Professional Development. In Son, J.-B.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

BIO : Religious thinker Karen Armstrong has written more than 20 books on faith and the major religions, studying what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common, and how our faiths shaped world history and drive current events. And it is a rewarding journey, don’t feel burdened by it: compassion can be a lot of fun. Father Goose).Sea

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Their answers to that question, plus.mp3 audio files for listening to these special interviews, as well as a number of articles and books, are all part of the bonus package for buying the Summit all-access library pass. I also asked each speaker, " What do you think the secret to success in life is?

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

But as it turned out, the zeppelin company had gone out of business – I imagine that many people, like myself, could only think about Christopher Walken and Grace Jones’ characters and opted not to go. In the meantime, these companies continue to collect a lot of “driving” data. Google versus Uber.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

“Technology companies can no longer turn a blind eye to the human rights abuses of one of their largest investors.” And there’s a blog post on Medium , because I guess someone thinks it’s a good idea for the Office of Ed Tech to outsource its website to a for-profit company. Edsurge was there too.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 16, 2020

He was lead advisor of the Program for Analysis of Educational Systems (PASEC) from 2001 to 2005, where he was in charge of implementing assessments and analyses of learning outcomes in primary schools in African French-speaking countries.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The Center for American Progress also took a look “Inside the Financial Holdings of Billionaire Betsy DeVos,” and the list of education- and tech-related investments is long: KinderCare Education, the childcare company. Theranos, the troubled blood-testing company. The for-profit college company Sextant Education.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

It was a nod, in part, to Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking , a book that I’ve found useful in understanding how grief clouds our thinking, how grief makes use want to believe the unbelievable, how it “ruptures the rational,” as I wrote then. A racist post-fact nation, to be clear. Small world, I guess.).

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