Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2018

Late last month, as Apple revealed its new education-focused iPad to the nation, it coupled its offerings with a battery-powered stylus, called the Apple Pencil, which costs an additional $89 each for schools. Microsoft does, too, and various pens from third-party manufacturers are beginning to dot the touchscreen Chromebook market.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 4, 2015

Over the past century, radio, television, video cassette recorders, desktop computers, laptop computers, handheld devices, tablets, and cell phones have all been heralded as potentially transformative classroom tools (Cuban, 1986, 2003). The pockets of excellence are ever-present and inspiring.

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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. The company has also partnered with Microsoft to bring its speech-recognition tools onto its cloud computing platform Azure. Let's call the whole thing off!

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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 14, 2012

Microsoft in Education - [link] Teaching guides, lesson plans, and product how-tos specifically aimed at classroom and higher ed practitioners. Microsoft Office Training - [link] General training resources for Microsoft Office products. Resources exist for Office versions back to 2003.

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In the last few days of the first semester of the 2003-2004 school year I was given the opportunity to speak with the teacher that was leaving the school briefly before he left for Christmas break to understand what the curriculum expectations were for the stand alone computer classes in the elementary school. We've come a long way baby!

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Technology Digital Citizenship Khan Academy Elementary 40

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. Take iPads , for example. This is part one of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. Fads fade, of course. Hype wanes.

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