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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

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In the past couple of years the company has hired hundreds of software engineers, from the likes of Chinese internet giants Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, to make that happen. Sinovation Ventures , a venture firm founded in 2009 by Google’s former chief in China. Limited Partner, Global Reach. edtech startups. The San Mateo, Calif.-based

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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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?

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An After-School Education Program Aims to Diversify the Tech Industry

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Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. Teenagers come to the lab to develop their own projects under the tutelage of Google employees and Code Next’s academic coaches.

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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. “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011. The quotation is from 2012.

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How This Famed Chinese Venture Capitalist Thinks AI Will Reshape Teaching

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He then went on to work at Apple, Microsoft and Google, where he served as president of Google China. He started a venture capital firm in 2009 based in Beijing called Sinoventures. Not in terms of the science-fiction robot overlords. The output of the AI is up to the designers of the AI software.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

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Bush and Obama administrations, with initiatives such as No Child Left Behind (2001) and Race to the Top (2009), spurred what’s been called a “ nationalization of education politics ” and, many teachers say, a relentless cycle of shiny fads promising to revolutionize the field. We use Google all the time. The George W.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via EdScoop : “ Google adds new terms to comply with Connecticut student data privacy laws.” If you Google him, you might surmise there’s a lot more going on here than just textbook sales.). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Despite the headlines , Google Duplex did not defeat “the Turing Test.”