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

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Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”.

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AeroFarms Celebrates World Environment Day with Bronx School PS 85

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This program promotes hands-on environmental education and year-round access to fresh and nutritious leafy greens through the proprietary AeroFarms unit and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) curriculum.

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

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Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow’s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings. The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023), you are likely an individual who "prefers to figure out things on your own but always think about the best way to say things before speaking. NG) This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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CDI Receives Award from Microsoft for Deploying More than 1 Million OS Licenses

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CDI partners with educators across schools and districts in North America to deploy and support technology in the classroom. The company provides student and teacher devices, a wide range of classroom technology and accessories, deployment services and warranty programs. CDI has been a Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher since 2010.

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CDI Partners with littleBits to Provide STEAM Coding Starter Kits to Schools

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o Educator resources. To learn more about CDI Computer Dealers, please visit: [link] About CDI CDI is the leading provider of technology-based solutions to the North American education market and has worked with over 10,000 schools and colleges. It includes: o Four games to invent and code such as “Ultimate Shootout and “Hot Potato.of

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A Billionaire Benefactor, a Disputed Ballot Issue and a Community College Turnaround

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“It was about as big a mess as you can ever imagine,” says James Henry Russell, who left his previous role as superintendent of Texarkana Independent School District to become president of the college in 2011. Graduation rates didn’t budge above 13 percent between 2004 and 2010, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.