Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 8, 2014

All the details are available here: [link] speakup/speakupamerica.html They are also offering sneak peeks every day at the data from the more than 340,000 surveys completed so far by teachers, students, parents and more. You can see all the data reveals here: [link] speakup/speakupamerica_ snapshot2014.html. Since 2003, more than 3.7

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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. She noticed another problem: Many of the apps used speech recognition technologies that were trained with adult data samples. The company said it has fixed the glitch.)

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. Between 2004 and 2011, I worked as an executive in SchoolNet and Kaplan, both of which grew into successful and innovative education companies. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. billion in 2010.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 28, 2019

We have known for some time now that tech companies extract massive amounts of data from us in order to run (and ostensibly improve) their services. By shaping our behaviors – through nudges and rewards “data pellets” and the like – technologies circumscribe our ability to make decisions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2023

We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now. And I had a really entrepreneurial colleague named Tom Daccord, and we started this company called EdTechTeacher that did consulting for schools that were making big technology purchases.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Columbia University invested $30 million into its own online learning initiative, Fathom, that opened in 2000 and closed in 2003. But I want to call out Proctorio in particular in this talk because this company has demonstrated it has no business in schools; its products have no business in classrooms.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 9, 2016

The investment company Weld North Holdings LLC today announced its acquisition of Performance Matters, a student assessment and data analytics company that it will merge with Truenorthlogic, a K-12 ed-tech business focused on continuous educator improvement. million were reported to Inc. 5000 list last year.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 11, 2019

MIND’s Chief Data Science Officer Andrew Coulson has made the case time and time again that the “one good study” paradigm is insufficient for edtech practitioners to base decisions on, and that a model of repeatable results at scale is one that should be adopted across the education industry. Dietrich, 2004), to name a few.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 Edtech Companies With Asia-Based Investors. Based Company. Authess $2.2

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 13, 2015

ALEXANDRIA, VA Statistics—the science of learning from data—is the fastest-growing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) undergraduate degree in the United States over the last four years, an analysis of federal government education data conducted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) revealed.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2018

In 2000 he co-founded Wireless Generation, which pioneered the use of data, digital diagnostics and assessments to support students. It was bought in 2010 by News Corporation, which invested more than $1 billion into the company and rebranded it as Amplify. The company is no longer as high-profile—or as big—as it once was.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

Key aspects of the innovative model include the use of data and analytics, as well psychometricians and statisticians, to drive instruction that can be enhanced by the use of digital resources and artificial intelligence, which can complement content and help each student spend more time working in a zone of proximal development.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

For two years we’ve had sort of a petri dish of experimenting with learning online,” said Anant Agarwal, chief platform officer of the online program management company 2U and former CEO of edX, the online provider created by MIT and Harvard and sold last year to 2U for $800 million.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This story was based on data from Tuition Tracker, a tool from The Hechinger Report. Looking at data from 2003 and 2012 for 448 small private colleges, it found that higher tuition discounts did not correlate with increased low-income or minority student enrollment. college or university. The number of U.S.

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eSpark

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Matt Akin was a visionary early adopter of classroom technology when he deployed iPads throughout his district in 2003, long before edtech was the norm. Leaders at Elizabeth Forward have weighed in on White House summits, transformed libraries into makerspaces, and organized trips to local museums, tech companies, and universities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Instead, they continued to decline, from a peak of 8,339 in 2010 to 4,081 last fall, according to government data. At Hawaii Pacific, for example, federal data show that since 2013-14 tuition and fees paid by the shrinking number of students have increased more than twice as fast as the national average. That’s up from $28.7

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Almost all of those companies went out of business. One of my very memorable failures was in 2003, when I went to Austin ISD to present to the technology team as the final step of a large purchase. Collaborative Learning, 21st Century Skills; Blending Learning, Student Engagement, MOOC; Flipped Classroom; Gamification; Big Data.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Almost all of those companies went out of business. One of my very memorable failures was in 2003, when I went to Austin ISD to present to the technology team as the final step of a large purchase. Collaborative Learning, 21st Century Skills; Blending Learning, Student Engagement, MOOC; Flipped Classroom; Gamification; Big Data.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

For one thing, NCLB forced states to shine a brighter light on their lowest-achieving students and publicly share data on their progress — often for the first time. That data has become a valuable tool for educators, policy makers and researchers. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Meanwhile, data from states that track graduates’ income show that, even after all that debt, people with master’s degrees in some fields, including early childhood education, philosophy and art, make less than others with only bachelor’s or even associate degrees. Many say they got inadequate advising and support. Thomas University.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

Krislov was vice president and general counsel at the University of Michigan in 2003 when the Supreme Court ruled in Gratz v. Colleges, he said, require “people of different viewpoints: religious diversity, urban, rural, economic, public school, private school.”. A challenge specific to Harvard, said Julie J.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

In 2003, before the Great Recession, Whitmore Lake was like thousands of other school districts across the country. Census data. In addition to the housing development falling through, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, one of the region’s major employers, pulled up stakes in Ann Arbor. Census data.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 23, 2016

One pays a fee for the right to register (and renew) a domain name for a website; one likely also pays a fee to a company that hosts the files for that website so that it is accessible over the network. Increasingly, we work for free for major Internet technology companies, on their platforms. It’s a fair point. What do you own?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 It’s a ton of data entry, but none of it has appeared on students’ report cards, which still include traditional numerical grades. And, like Lee-Winship, she finds the data entry meaningless. Trust me, professionally, that I’m teaching to the standard,” she said.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Beginning in 2003 and continuing consistently thereafter I have depicted learning resources as words in a conversation , and applied the logic of language to the logic of reuse. Some individuals, government agencies, community-based networks, non-commercial organizations, and for-profit companies share these values. Others don’t.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 11, 2022

Longtime readers may recall that the research group I founded at Utah State University in 2003, the Open Sustainable Learning Opportunities group, became The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning in 2005, which I directed until I moved to BYU.) I’ve been interested in sustainability models for OER for decades.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

I am also much more satisfied with their customer service than I was with the other company. If they like the footy, a couple of books: Michael Calvin’s Living on the Volcano: The Secrets of Surviving as a Football Manager or Amy Lawrence’s Invincible: Inside Arsenal’s Unbeaten 2003-2004 Season are likely to interest.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

How do we as media consumers and creators advocate for ourselves and protect our data and intellectual property? The Data Detox Kit (by Tactical Tech): This elegant site breaks down simple steps you can take to protect your data from being captured and used by various media platforms. Deepfakes and Cheap Fakes.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

In fact, if you Google “rainbow starburst bracelet” and the official video from the company has been viewed a fraction of the times. The thing that we most need students to do is to solve problems that do not have data, systems, or precedence, and design thinking provides a method. Shifts are happening in the labor market.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2015

Of note this year, among students using mobile devices provided by their schools, half (51 percent of high school students and 46 percent of middle school students) say that their out of school internet connectivity is through a mobile data plan. The report can be found online at: [link].

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Virtually all school districts buy web filters from companies that sort the internet into categories. Survey data show how these inequities play out. Is that fair?”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Zovio, Ashford’s parent company, declined to discuss Baca’s case unless he signed a waiver, but generally denied assertions that it improperly told veterans they were not eligible for GI Bill benefits. Formerly Bridgepoint Education, the company now called Zovio has raised eyebrows for years. Former Sen. Photo: Scott J.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

The private student loan company has raised $50 million total, but I’m told “fintech” doesn’t “count” as ed-tech so let’s just ignore this trend, right? The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total. The learn-to-code company has raised $1.19 million total. Completion Rates.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

million people since 2003.” Coursera ’s Daphne Koller announced in a blog post that she’s leaving the MOOC company she co-founded to work at a Alphabet (a.k.a. Google) biotech company, Calico. Various updates from Google : The company is “killing Google Hangouts on Air,” says The Verge.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. This is part one of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. So who do you believe? The scientists? The engineers? “Soon.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In November, Bloomberg reported that WeWork , a co-working space startup that acquired both the coding bootcamp Flatiron School and the meet-up company MeetUp this year, planned to open a private K–12 school in one of its facilities. It’s also about the vulnerability of data to various cyberthreats.

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Consider this results of this report in the context of with the decline of the newspaper industry also documented by recent Pew Research Center data. Hoax-Slayer : Australian Brett Christensen has been debunking email and social media hoaxes and spam since 2003. ” ( Wikipedia ).

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