article thumbnail

10 edtech experts you should follow

Hapara

As a two-time Teacher of the Year, he teaches middle school math, robotics and YouTube video production. She began her popular blog Cool Cat Teacher in 2005, and in 2017 she launched a podcast, 10-Minute Teacher Show. Before New EdTech Classroom, he worked as a teacher in northern California and as a lead instructional coach. .

EdTech 301
article thumbnail

Going to School, Running a Startup: When Students Build Their Own Edtech

Edsurge

Quizlet , the studying tool he built in 2005, is now one of the most widely used education apps, claiming more than 50 million active users in 130 countries who have created over 300 million study sets. Andrew Sutherland had no idea that the thing he programmed as a 15 year old would become a full-time profession. Fast forward 14 years.

EdTech 151
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

Edsurge

Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality. From 2015 to 2019, entrepreneurs created 11 times the number of education unicorns compared to 2005 to 2014.

Udemy 134
article thumbnail

Is Education Entering the ‘Age of Alternatives’?

Edsurge

Even popular culture, where robot teachers and wired students have been a staple of science fiction for decades, demonstrates our tendency to project current beliefs that schools should “leverage” (i.e., be built around) those technologies perceived as representing the latest form of modernity. into a common identity.

Trends 154
article thumbnail

Making MAKEing More Inclusive

User Generated Education

In an analysis of every MAKE magazine cover since the first issue in 2005–36 in all–Buechley found that the photos portrayed a “very narrow definition” of Maker activities. You gotta do more than robots,” she said. ( MAKE’ing More Diverse Makers ).

article thumbnail

The cost of not investing rural high speed Internet: Why one school upgraded to fiber

Education Superhighway

Jim Beasley’s mission to upgrade Llano Independent School District’s network began when he first started working there in 2005. A telepresence robot that allowed a senior to participate in classes in real-time so that she could graduate on time, despite an extended absence.

E-rate 60
article thumbnail

Maker Programs Strive to Reach All Students

Educator Innovator

That’s particularly true in the maker movement, a term coined by Make magazine for its audience of hobbyists and would-be inventors tinkering with robots and rockets and cloning figs in their basements.