Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. 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.

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 161

techlearning

JULY 19, 2018

Really Simple Syndication for me was the poster child technology for the era where the early internet began to shift from a place where only certain folks with technical skill and software could contribute to the web to a place where user-generated content was now dominant and more importantly, anyone could easily interact with that content.

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Facebook Social Media Twitter Software 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

One day, a friend forwarded an email about Resilient Coders, a boot camp that trains people of color for web development and software engineering jobs. In the past few years, Apple, Google, IBM and other high-profile companies have stripped the bachelor’s degree requirement from many of their positions. billion in revenue last year.

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Company Survey Report Training 112

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Of course, towers, base stations and routers are nothing without a license to beam all that data through a sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum. Would 20 hours of one student logged into Google Classroom, or 20 students logged in for one hour, suffice? We can flip the classroom. There’s been a real positive change in the culture.”.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 90

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It’s an intense research project that usually tops out at about 75,000 words, written over the course of four to six weeks. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.).

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Trends Report iPhone Software 40

Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

That is the purpose of the Horizon Report, of course: it’s a story about the future. But now “software is eating the world,” as venture capitalist Marc Andreessen wants to us all to believe. Baby monitors have a history, of course – a social history and a history of the technology itself.

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Robotics Company Technology System 67

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

During 2020, WLS is finding new ways to help teachers make the shift to remote learning, including 5-day virtual teacher courses. In 2004, she started her Rethinking Learning blog in My eCoach. Google Certified Innovator, Microsoft Innovative Innovator, and New Media Consortium K12 Ambassador. Founder of CoffeeEDU.

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