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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017.

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Does Your Company Really Need AI? Stanford Executive Course Aims to Demystify the Hype

Edsurge

Stanford University has been a breeding ground for artificial intelligence innovation and research, as well as the starting point for many of today’s giants of AI, including Google. In the past couple of years, the tech industry has struggled through a dark time. And it will also include lessons on how that can go wrong. “If

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. This doesn’t mean simply knowing everything, even though we live in the “Age of Google.”

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How Three Nonprofits Are Connecting Kids With Diverse Mentors During the Pandemic

Edsurge

By training a diverse team of gamers that come from underrepresented communities, we can change the narrative and direction of an entire industry.” With support from AT&T and Google , Roadtrip Nation now focuses on digital skills as well. Students from across the U.S.

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4 Keys to Student Success Online: Part 3

The Electric Educator

Note: While research regarding best practices for online learning is difficult to obtain due to the relative infancy of the industry, four key areas of focus critical to program success have been identified. You can find me on Twitter (@jrsowash), Google+, Linkedin (jrsowash), and YouTube (jrsowash). Sloan Consortium. 29 Apr 2011.

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

There is some thought that a certain percentage of instruction must be digital to qualify as “blended learning,” but there is no clear industry standard. Google Apps for Education. A collection of software bundled by Google that is available on a subscription model for schools and classroom. Google Classroom.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He has advanced degrees from leading European universities, is a former industrial chemist, published photographer, and consultant to MOMA. BIO : Jaime Casap is the Global Education Evangelist at Google, Inc. Jaime evangelizes the power and potential of the web, technology, and Google tools in education.