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Early Edtech Giant PowerSchool Goes Public

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Companies like to talk about their journey in raising money and growing over time, and one waypost for such journeys is to reach the ringing bells of a stock-market debut. heard those bells today, as the company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange—though the initial price ended up on the low end of expectations.

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How to Keep Kids From Being Mean Online

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And as technology platforms have accelerated over the years, her job has increasingly involved keeping up with the ways young people use social media, and advising parents, teachers and even tech companies about what they need to know. A recent report from Common Sense Media showed that the percentage of teens with smartphones in the U.S.

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Virtual Reality: An Extension of the Self ?

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For instance, our smartphones are more than just a phone. From our biometric data to intimate notes of self-reflection, smartphones have become an extension of our selves, perhaps paving the way for VR as well, as we adopt and integrate this technology more fully into our ways of learning and experiencing things. References.

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Why a Robot-Filled Education Future May Not Be as Scary as You Think

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In the US, it took 76 years for the telephone to reach half the population; the smartphone did it in less than 10 years. PwC explains that the cost of DNA sequencing per genome has fallen from $96 million in 2001 to less than $6,000 in 2013. To date, 75 percent of the global population has access to a mobile phone.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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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. Erals Delao was one of the students working through the program on the day I visited.

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