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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

FY 2004 $695,900,000 (President Bush’s request: $700,500,000). FY 2006 $272,300,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). Rationale: “ The Congress eliminated much of the program in 2006; the request would complete the process. Appropriations: FY 2002 $700,500,000 (President Bush’s request: $817,096,000).

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. Working closely with partners, I spent the years from 1993 to 2004 starting and leading a handful of technology startups. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. Observing the internet revolution, Marc Andreessen famously wrote “ software is eating the world.” Not yet convinced?

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Silver Lake Acquires Majority Stake in Weld North’s Digital Curriculum Business

Edsurge

The deal comes after KKR’s allotted capital for its investment in Weld North, which came from KKR’s 2006 fund, had run out. Frontline Education, which provides a suite of school administrative and human resources software, recently swapped private equity owners (from Insight Venture Partners to Thoma Bravo). Yet that’s not all.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

The Social Web is comprised of software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. It is literally the ‘ architecture of participation ’ (O''Reilly, 2004; Barsky and Purdon, 2006) and demands active engagement as a natural facet of its character (Kamel Boulos and Wheeler, 2007). and Purdon, M. Maramba, I.

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Why I Still Believe in the iPad’s Positive Impact on Classrooms

Edsurge

The computers were equipped with educational software and wireless connectivity. Over one-half of participating school districts allowed students to take home their laptops by 2004; a second RFP was issued in 2006; and the MLTI program expanded into high schools in 2009.

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LIVE: Access All Of Your Files On All Of Your Devices Using @Microsoft_EDU OneNote | @MSOneNote

TeacherCast

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. It is the world’s largest software maker measured by revenues. About OneNote. About Our Guests.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

Second International Conference, iTrust 2004, Oxford, UK. 2004, November 6-10). Cognitive divergence and shared mental models in software development project teams. Organizational learning: A socio-cognitive framework. Human Relations, 56 (7), 839-868. The Knowledge Evolution. Newton, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann. Castelfranchi, C.

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