Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Back in 2005, one of the biggest stories in tech was a project by a group of MIT professors to build a $100 laptop and give them to children in schools around the world. EdSurge recently connected with Ames to talk about the book and about her theory about the dangers of what she calls “charismatic technology.” How was it pitched?

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2019

From an economics lens, it’s no accident that the idea of smaller and flexible schools is being picked up during an era when the small and flexible entrepreneurial organization is perceived as the new norm for the successful and innovative company, versus the large, centrally organized corporation that defined business success until very recently.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Mazza’s innovative work has been written about in fifteen books since 2005. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. ” This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show. Blog: Dr. Joe Mazza.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

These books won’t fit neatly into a traditional classroom, but they speak to a mindset that all teachers can relate to and apply. I graduated in 2005, so the great teachers of almost one-third to half of my adult life have been pretty much mentors from afar or dead people. And since then I haven’t had any formal schooling.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2014

Over the next week or so, The Hechinger Report will be publishing excerpts from Richard Whitmire’s book On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools are Pushing the Envelope. February 2005: Bellevue, Washington. It would be a real-world version of “the Primer,” the nanotechnology device that starred in Stephenson’s book.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Digital Promise and other nonprofit organizations including EveryoneOn and The Learning Accelerator have been working with companies and schools to ensure these programs and offers are making their way into the hands of teachers, students, and families across the country. Safari Books. Read more about Safari Books’ work.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. One feature of Netflix in particular seems to have captured the imagination of edtech companies. It will not push you to go read a book, even if it is better than the movie. Karpicke, J.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

of Education, author of 12 books including the recent Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Danger to Our Public Schools; Cindy Cisneros , Vice President of Education Programs at the Committee for Economic Development at The Conference Board; and Gavin Dykes , from England, Managing Director of Cellcove, Ltd.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 27, 2015

Our colleagues at ASCD have also verified Grant’s death, as has Grant’s professional development company, Authentic Education. Sometime around 2005 I think, I was walking through the booths at a major conference. His writing is always available–here, in his books, on his own blog , his twitter account, and more.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 4, 2012

Mightybell Discussion and Resource Space: https://mightybell.com/spaces/602f13080095d22f Marcia Conner advises executives in some of the world’s largest companies, aligning social strategies with corporate culture to speed innovation, inform decision-making, and invigorate an organization’s value chain. psid=2012-07-05.1028.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 18, 2023

They were curious if framing employees’ work by their results (instead of “you have to be at your desk from X to Y”) would improve both company outcomes and employees’ experiences. Between 2005 and 2007, productivity increased by 41% and employee turnover decreased by 90%. Where, when, and how they chose to do the work was up to them.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years. Algebra I is the air you breathe to be in STEM,” said Nathan Levenson, a former CEO of a crane-manufacturing company and later a school superintendent in Massachusetts. Nathan Levenson, former CEO at a crane-manufacturing company.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Join me Friday, February 24th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Dennis Littky to talk about "The Big Picture:" his book , Big Picture Schools, and Big Picture Learning. as featured in an NBC movie, A Town Torn Apart based on the book Doc: The Story of Dennis Littky and His Fight for a Better School.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

Steve: You wrote a book recently with Olaf Zawacki-Richter - what are the main themes of this volume? Terry: The book, Online Distance Education - Towards a Research Agenda will be published by the time of the EDEN conference. The book is part of the Athabasca University Press Issues in Distance Education series and available here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 21, 2011

He works with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies and some of the world’s leading cultural organizations. In 2005, he was named as one of Time/Fortune/CNN’s ‘Principal Voices’. In 1998, he led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the UK Government.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 15, 2015

Malicious intent, willful blindness, or benign myopia--whatever the causal cognitive mechanism at play with individual actors in this game, it doesn't make any sense for us to allow food companies and their agents to set food guidelines, or bankers to help set banking policy, or. or testing companies to influence education policy.

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Wired Campus

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Horn, a co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, stepped down Friday as director of its education program to begin working more directly with companies in the education market. Horn, who was a student of Mr. Christensen’s at Harvard Business School in 2005.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

We''ll use Clark''s recently-published book, Unschooling Rules , as the basis for the conversation. His experience ranges from spending years working with children at a leading environmental education foundation to serving on boards of universities, of companies, and in the intelligence community. Based in New York City, Ms.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2020

Jennifer also worked with public libraries to extend access to e-books via the Big Shift project, create vibrant outdoor spaces and events via the Redbox funded Outside the Box program and taught libraries how to use community based advocacy to extend their reach to their communities and stakeholders. A little goes a long way.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Most of the parents of those children are not even literate in Spanish, so they’re not reading books of any kind.”. The product features interactive books that can “read themselves” to children in English or Spanish, Nemko said. Audio books aren’t ‘cheating’. Almost every family now has at least one smart device,” Nemko said.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Unicorns don’t exist, except as an analogy for private companies supposedly worth at least $1 billion. But Glotzbach’s point is that camels are hardy and steady—just as he hopes his company can be. With this latest fundraise, the San Francisco-based company has raised $62 million in venture capital to date.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

As origin stories go, the founding of Blackboard twenty years ago lacked that single light bulb moment that tech companies like to tell. The winner of the LMS market would be the company with the most widely adopted platform. In recent memory, we launched Blackboard in 1997 and took the company public seven years later in 2004.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 19, 2020

Jennifer also worked with public libraries to extend access to e-books via the Big Shift project, create vibrant outdoor spaces and events via the Redbox funded Outside the Box program and taught libraries how to use community based advocacy to extend their reach to their communities and stakeholders.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2020

Jennifer also worked with public libraries to extend access to e-books via the Big Shift project, create vibrant outdoor spaces and events via the Redbox funded Outside the Box program and taught libraries how to use community based advocacy to extend their reach to their communities and stakeholders. A little goes a long way.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Jennifer also worked with public libraries to extend access to e-books via the Big Shift project, create vibrant outdoor spaces and events via the Redbox funded Outside the Box program and taught libraries how to use community based advocacy to extend their reach to their communities and stakeholders. A little goes a long way.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

And while the nationwide rate of foster care entrances is not as high as it was at its peak in 2005, many states have seen drastic increases in recent years. That’s the thing that shocked me more than anything,” said O’Brien, who is now retired after decades working at Eli Lilly and Company, the pharmaceutical company.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

After 15 years of inspiring millions of people to be creative and “make” something out of just about nothing, Maker Media, the company behind much of momentum, shut down due to financial shortfalls. The story starts in 2005 when Dale Dougherty founded MAKE: magazine as a quarterly publication with his long-time business partner, Tim O’Reilly.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Of course, test scores are just one piece of data colleges turn to when predicting which students are likely to excel in rigorous courses, enrich campus life with a unique perspective, graduate in four years, or even help balance the books with a large tuition check. Enter the algorithms. Student success' is a slippery concept.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2022

Those videos got the attention of the company, which offered her a sponsorship. Vicki Davis: I just finished reading a book about hooking people in ( Hook Point: How to Stand Out in a Three Second World by Brendan Kane), and he says, you have three seconds. 00:15:00] So I got onto social media in 2005. And he emphasizes that.

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MindShift

MAY 1, 2019

Norton & Company. Oliva & Piqueras, 2016; Simons & Gaher, 2005). He stumbles badly, falls and hits his knee, dropping the athletic equipment and books he is carrying, and lands face downward on the stairs. Used with permission of the publisher, W. Skillful Responding: The Mindful Way of Dealing with Challenges.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

BIO : Religious thinker Karen Armstrong has written more than 20 books on faith and the major religions, studying what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common, and how our faiths shaped world history and drive current events. 2005), recorded at the Knitting Factory in New York City.' Father Goose).Sea

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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. ” I found her book comforting, while its material horrific, in part because it was a book. The scientists?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He has also been selected as a Master Educator by the education technology company Course Hero , which produced a ten-minute film that features Stepanic and his crowd-pleasing class. When I came here in 2005, the course had been taught for at least two decades. But students didn’t like it; they hated the book.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Dr. Gaudino is the author of two books: A Choral Legacy and Joan Yakkey and Her Children's Choir Legacy in Florence, Italy. Both books can be purchased on Amazon. Her first book, The Global Education Guidebook: Humanizing K-12 Classrooms Worldwide through Equitable Partnerships, was published by Solution Tree Press in June, 2017.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

” I’m concerned, in no small part, because students are often unaware of the amount of data that schools and the software companies they contract with know about them. Since 2005, US universities have been the victim of almost 550 data breaches involving nearly 13 million known records.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 16, 2020

He was lead advisor of the Program for Analysis of Educational Systems (PASEC) from 2001 to 2005, where he was in charge of implementing assessments and analyses of learning outcomes in primary schools in African French-speaking countries.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

” Shares in for-profit higher education companies were up on news of Trump’s election. ” Via AFR : “ Peter Thiel’s company Palantir Defense could win contracts under Donald Trump.” Inside Higher Ed profiles homework help company Course Hero. ” Emphasis on “pays.”

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