Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

In fall 2007, Larry Berger, CEO of Wireless Generation (now Amplify) was invited to submit a paper to an “Entrepreneurship in Education” working group led by Rick Hess, the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. The company was renamed “Amplify.” I’d recently moved to Washington, D.C.

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Instructional Materials Case Study Assessment Company 147

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. Virtual worlds in 2007, for example. The markets, according to the press releases, are always growing. So we can reorganize the bar graph.

Trends 40

Trends Report iPhone Software 40

Evelyn Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

Bill Gates dropped out of college at the age of 20 and made a revolutionizing company, “Microsoft”. A classroom has become an e-classroom, with tablets on each and every desk. We have some really great examples of billionaires and geniuses who do not have a college degree. Now, the time has changed.

How To 40

How To Secondary Education E-rate 40

MindShift

JULY 8, 2019

Three students, paid as interns, used digital tablets to process orders, while peers handed out free samples of a pasta salad featuring produce from the farm. It’s part of a new weekly “food box” service set up in the school’s foyer.

Survey 51

Survey System Study Report 51

MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

An after-school club of middle school girls assembled and programmed these printers with grant-purchased kits from the Ohio-based education technology company INVENTORCloud. You have to keep trying until you get the result that you want.”. Some districts feel that the only way to raise test scores is to focus on the test,” Loughead said.

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Robotics Elementary Technology STEM 28

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

Bush called for universal broadband access in America by 2007. A 2015 Pew Research Center report revealed that the disconnected included 5 million households with school-aged children, who either couldn’t afford home broadband or lived in rural areas avoided by for-profit internet companies. That matters. Here’s why.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything. The district has already spent more than $3 million since 2011 on tablets, laptops, software programs, fiber optic wiring, and engineers to oversee all the instructional technology. But computers are expensive.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Sometimes they strike a deal.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Shaw, which is a hedge fund, and I started in June 2007, so right before the credit crisis started breaking. If lessons on tablets really work well, let's use them. I haven't seen any place where these edtech companies are describing what their evidence is. Nor was I particularly psyched with the actual department I was in.

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Data Facebook System EdTech 101