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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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And in this environment, the education industry sees an unprecedented transformation due in part to a new industrial revolution. During the past decade, we have seen only the beginning of changes in the education industry. All of this creates an industry ripe for further disruption on a global scale.

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Meet the 5 Education Technology Startups From Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Class

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Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. Here’s what they’re working on: Lambda School The San Francisco-based startup combines some of the hottest trends in the edtech industry: computer science education, small classes, and income-share agreements. million in revenues this year and $1.5

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

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There is some thought that a certain percentage of instruction must be digital to qualify as “blended learning,” but there is no clear industry standard. Google Apps for Education. A collection of software bundled by Google that is available on a subscription model for schools and classroom. Google Classroom.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

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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. Say, the Android device in Google’s Cardboard Viewer and Expeditions program.). No evidence. “Soon.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. And “free” doesn’t last. 3D Printing. I know, I know.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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From 1995 to 2005, DeVos sat on the board of the Acton Institute , which recently published a blog post decrying child labor laws. Simons in New York will develop software tools and apply cutting edge computing techniques to science often not possible in academia and industry.” ” (emphasis mine).

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The Politics of Education Technology

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It treats “ed-tech” as the result of markets and industry and “innovation,” and not as the result of policy or history. There is No Technology Industry (There is Only Ideology). “ There is no ‘technology industry’ ,” technology writer and entrepreneur Anil Dash wrote in August.