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China’s NetDragon to Acquire Edmodo for $137.5 Million

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Edmodo was started in 2008 by a teacher and IT support person as a “Facebook-like” community aimed at connecting educators with students and with one another. Edmodo brings a vibrant social community to the company, which is amassing education assets that already include both hardware and software.

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The new labor market: No bachelor’s required?

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When the economy tanked in 2008 and millions of laid-off workers began competing for scarce jobs, employers got pickier about who they hired and increasingly added four-year degree requirements to some “middle-skills” jobs that had frequently been filled by workers without degrees. The Google campus in Mountain View, California.

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How can teachers use VR in the classroom?

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Google Cardboard. Google Cardboard was the result of a 36-hour hackathon by Google’s education team, where staff were tasked with finding ways to boost student engagement. The cardboard goggles when combined with an Android phone, preloaded with any of Google’s Cardboard apps, are a simple way to bring classroom lessons to life.

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

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Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. We primarily used Craigslist for all hires except sales and software development. We screened them using a pre-interview questionnaire built in Google Form.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is). It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. The company has raised some $77.5

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OPINION: The case for a Bachelor of Arts — what Betsy DeVos doesn’t understand about this “Noble Pursuit”

The Hechinger Report

In Silicon Valley, the non-profit Zero 1: The Art and Technology Network , places artists in large tech companies to work alongside engineers designing products and software for the future. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

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

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