Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

In his latest EdSurge column , Michael Horn laid out how Google Maps offers an aspirational metaphor for what the future of educational tools could look like. Today, Google Maps is an open ecosystem for accurate, real-time geospatial and navigation data.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is a throwback post, first published in March 2014 (and referring to yet another post all the way back in 2007). First, I know more computer science and computer programming now than I did in 2007. Second, I’ve been using computers and software more and more in my teaching. and then somewhat sparingly.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. As a folklorist, of course, I did catch the reference to the Oracle of Delphi. Virtual worlds in 2007, for example.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The work is also supported by companies including Apple, Google and Expedia, as well as education organizations including the CollegeBoard, Teach For America and STEMx.” According to the latest jobs report , unemployment in the US is at 4.6%, the lowest since 2007. Google’s Alphabet Inc. and Facebook Inc.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

As she writes, “many of these models encoded human prejudice, misunderstanding and bias into the software systems that increasingly manage our lives.”. Shaw, which is a hedge fund, and I started in June 2007, so right before the credit crisis started breaking. Nor was I particularly psyched with the actual department I was in.

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