Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 5, 2013

It was published by Routledge in 2008 and is now also available as a Kindle reader version. We did not foresee the touch tablets and their rapid success in schools, nor did we predict the rapid rise of smart phones and apps, or the potential of augmented reality. Many of the new apps and games will be made commercially available.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 5, 2013

It was published by Routledge in 2008 and is now also available as a Kindle reader version. We did not foresee the touch tablets and their rapid success in schools, nor did we predict the rapid rise of smart phones and apps, or the potential of augmented reality. Many of the new apps and games will be made commercially available.

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Classroom Wiki Gamification Game-Based Learning 28

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. In 2008, ever hopeful, Gartner insisted that “This thing certainly isn’t dead and maybe it will yet blossom.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

On the homepage of the health technology company Akili Interactive , there sits an intriguing line of copy: “Time to Play Your Medicine.” Training the Brain Back in 2008, Gazzley’s team created Neuroracer, an early experiment in brain training. Players use a controller to navigate a fast car along a twisting road.

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Fractus Learning

JUNE 17, 2015

In 2008, a bunch of us at Google India went through a selection process to be the founding team of YouTube India team. This is always preferable over having the roles reversed between the tablet and the teacher. Teaching is not the only profession that is ready for disruption by tech.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ).

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ).

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The program, called UPSTART, was developed by a nonprofit company and advertises itself as a kindergarten-readiness program. Now, a small but growing number of nonprofits and for-profit companies are saying they can deliver at least some of these experiences — and benefits — via the internet, and thousands of parents are signing up.

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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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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The “pioneer in the science of learning,” as Inside Higher Ed puts it , will help the technology company with its internal training program. Via Techcrunch : “ Sphero ’s CEO discusses the company’s shift from Star Wars to schools.” ” The company, which has raised some $107.4

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I wrote “an explainer” of sorts on Thiel and his politics, and I listed the education companies that he’s invested in. Have any ed-tech companies, particularly those funded by Thiel or Zuckerberg or Y Combinator, spoken out about this? ” The company in question: Dipont Education Management Group.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

EdSurge connected with O'Neil to hear how her behind-the-scenes view of the 2008 financial crisis led her to try to push for tools that can audit Facebook, Google, and other algorithm-fueled systems now asserting themselves in human affairs. If lessons on tablets really work well, let's use them. Yes, the edtech stuff.

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Hack Education

JULY 22, 2016

.” From the Republican National Convention: TurnItIn was pleased , I’m sure, to be invoked many times following Melania Trump ’s convention speech, which plagiarized passages from Michelle Obama ’s 2008 speech. Excluding the debt financing (it raised $275 million that way in January), the company has raised $78.61

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