The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. One day, a friend forwarded an email about Resilient Coders, a boot camp that trains people of color for web development and software engineering jobs.

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Company Survey Report Training 112

The 21st Century Principal

JANUARY 9, 2011

Consider using open source software rather than purchasing more proprietary software. Honestly, I’ve used it, and there just isn’t enough added functionality to warrant an upgrade from Office 2007. Also, our system now has access to Google Apps, which reduces the need for many other applications.

Technology 71

Technology Microsoft Edmodo Software 71

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

This is so important to consider, as Tufekci noted on Twitter, in light of Google’s domination of the K–12 computing market.). ” The Wall Street Journal weighs in on laptop bans. ” From the NCES : “Changes in Bullying Victimization and Hate-Related Words at School Since 2007.” million total.

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Education MOOC Company Report 46