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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Dear Colleague Letter: Resource Comparability , which emphases technology-related equity issues (October 2014). FY 2006 $272,300,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). FY 2006 $272,300,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). FY 2014 $0. FY 2003 $700,500,000. FY 2007 $273,100,000 (President Bush’s request: $0).

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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

As more schools went online and demand for education software grew, more companies began designing and commissioning their own studies about their products. Others sell some of the most widely used education software in schools today. Between 2009 and 2014, records provided by the district show it spent about $4.7

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Owl Ventures’ New $185M Edtech Fund Has Global Backers—and Ambitions

Edsurge

Fueled by an explosion of broadband access, education software and, of course, the irresistible allure of financial returns, investors across the world want a slice of the U.S. Dreambox, a provider of online math materials, dates back to 2006. edtech industry. Still, other education investors are re-upping their war chests.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

Despite the failure of AllLearn, in 2014, Levin was named the CEO of Coursera. Plagiarism detection software originated at universities. And online test proctoring software has roots at universities as well. The former would pay $200 a course; the latter $250. His Wikipedia entry also fails to mention AllLearn.).

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LIVE: Access All Of Your Files On All Of Your Devices Using @Microsoft_EDU OneNote | @MSOneNote

TeacherCast

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. It is the world’s largest software maker measured by revenues. About OneNote. About Our Guests.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

The Social Web is comprised of software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. It is literally the ‘ architecture of participation ’ (O''Reilly, 2004; Barsky and Purdon, 2006) and demands active engagement as a natural facet of its character (Kamel Boulos and Wheeler, 2007). Retrieved 7 February, 2014.

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Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that

The Hechinger Report

The non-profit organization Mentor, which works to ensure that everyone “has the supportive relationships they need to grow and develop,” conducted a national survey in 2014 of youth aged 18 to 21 and found that one in three reported growing up without a mentor of any kind.

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