eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

While computational thinking has been core to the advancement of computing in the 20 th century, visionaries like Seymour Papert ( 1980 ) and more recently Jeanette Wing ( 2006 ) have illustrated the need for broader adoption as a foundational skill for all students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

While computational thinking has been core to the advancement of computing in the 20 th century, visionaries like Seymour Papert ( 1980 ) and more recently Jeanette Wing ( 2006 ) have illustrated the need for broader adoption as a foundational skill for all students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

His efforts paid off: he boosted his SAT score by more than 350 points and landed a spot in Yale’s class of 2006. After 25 hours of work on the software and 10 hours of one-on-one time with Phan, one student's score jumped from 1450 to better than 1500, putting her in the top one percent of students globally, says Phan.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

His efforts paid off: he boosted his SAT score by more than 350 points and landed a spot in Yale’s class of 2006. After 25 hours of work on the software and 10 hours of one-on-one time with Phan, one student's score jumped from 1450 to better than 1500, putting her in the top one percent of students globally, says Phan.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

In a trend that has been widely lauded, the proportion of high school graduates who go straight to college has increased from 63 percent in 2000 to 70 percent now, the Department of Education says. These trends together mean that there are nearly 2.9 That’s up 4 percentage points since 2006.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

Amazon Web Services has dominated the cloud service business by being around longest (2006) and nabbing corporate and governmental customers like Comcast, Adobe and the Department of Defense. Having launched earliest in 2006, Amazon has “matured for a while,” Gupta says. Vikram Tiwari, Google Expert and developer at Omni Labs, Inc.,

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

As I have done for the past six years, I will spend the rest of November and December publishing my review of what I deem the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” of the year. I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. (Of Apple sold just 50 million iPads.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

The idea is to find trends and patterns in huge amounts of historical data and use those patterns to predict the future. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave grants to colleges to buy data tools and software. By 2006, the school was majority minority. A growing trend. Other vendors do, too.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

Of all the learning trends of the past 20 years, one of the most sweeping and impactful has been the rise of the maker movement. Their message was simple: Think creatively about hardware, much like people think about software. Dougherty had spent most of his professional career publishing books about software and the internet.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Source: EdSurge One trend is clear: The dollars invested in the US edtech industry has ticked up steadily since 2011 (considering 2015 as an aberration). On the whole, bigger but fewer deals is a trend common across all U.S. Investment Trends Breaking down the $1.45 In other words, they’re cutting fewer—but bigger—checks.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2019

Another activity takes advantage of GIS software, and has students analyzing civil war battle sites by year. Decomposition : What’s a trend versus what’s an outlier to the trend? From there, students can have fun with it. Civil war battles by year. Green represents a battle fought in 1861-2; red in 1865.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. ”( Holmes & Gardner 2006 ). (7). Connected Learning. Genius Hour. Google Apps for Education. Google Classroom.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 23, 2020

Apps and software are a boon for special needs students, but teachers shouldn’t download whatever they feel like. All software—and hardware—should be vetted by a team of faculty and IT staff. Ann served as co-chair of Texas Education Technology Advisory Committee which developed the Texas Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” Industry, not the child’s imagination as Seymour would have it, largely dictates the shape and direction of the CS trend. The school emphasizes teaching over research, hiring and rewarding professors on the basis of their classroom performance, says Maria Klawe, Harvey Mudd’s president since 2006.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Keep that in mind when you see Course Report’s data touted, cheerleading the coding bootcamp trend.). Google has released an update to its Course Builder software. CourseStorm has raised $760,000 from Maine Venture Fund for its online course registration software. ” You can earn a micro-credential. million total.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

million to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission and the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General that it installed software on its TVs to collect viewing data on 11 million consumer TVs without consumers' knowledge or consent.” Educator Hans Rosling , well known for his 2006 TED talk on statistics , passed away this week.

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