Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

In China, families are looking beyond tutoring and test prep “for things that they think are critical for their children’s futures, such as STEM and robotics,” observes Angela Bao, Senior Investment Manager at. Sinovation Ventures , a venture firm founded in 2009 by Google’s former chief in China. edtech startups. The San Mateo, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Education technology accelerator programs are often studded with robotic kits or educational games. Founded in 2009, the company gathers and shares data from student transcripts and uses predictive modeling to “correlate this transcript data to future performance,” the company describes.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Allan Wilger, a regular parent volunteer at Edmondson Elementary, helps (left to right) fifth graders Gabe Wooten and Aresa Rodriguez, and third grader Tyler Goyne, in the after-school LEGO Robotics Club. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report. The idea for the GET Togethers emerged from parents’ suggestions at that inaugural meeting.

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There is no box

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

As I’ve been an advocate for 1:1 in schools since 2009, I immediately drafted a response, one that I uncharacteristically then let sit for several months so I could stew on it a bit more. I think things like Spheros, LittleBits, 3D Printers, Lego Robotics, Drones and their like are the modern day equivalent of the Computer Lab.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Venture funding in the edtech sector has increased from $385 million in 2009 to an expected $2 billion this year. Too many edtech initiatives treat teachers as robotic implementers of a higher plan. But in recent years, we've seen a spike in the number of smaller, tightly focused, niche edtech product companies.

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There is no box

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

As I’ve been an advocate for 1:1 in schools since 2009, I immediately drafted a response, one that I uncharacteristically then let sit for several months so I could stew on it a bit more. I think things like Spheros, LittleBits, 3D Printers, Lego Robotics, Drones and their like are the modern day equivalent of the Computer Lab.

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Blended Learning Accessibility Robotics Assessment 58

Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Two moms launched Little Passports in 2009, and since then, the company has become an international brand with exciting choices to keep kids entertained and engaged. Adventures include discovering galaxies, alien encounters, roving robots, and of course, the ultimate blast-off!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2016

Four years ago, in 2009, I wrote a book called “ 21st Century Skills ” — the moniker is now used around the world, but initially people were unclear that it meant the 4C’s of Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication and Collaboration. How do we learn math in the context of robotics? What is a 21st century curriculum?

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Robots in warehouses now move the shelves and racks. Schools should be learning organizations, but how can we be learning organizations when we ban the use of the very tool that is creating learning today? (RE: Russia = $650/month. Tax returns are outsourced to India for completion. Focus on Design: "I see us being in the art business.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

Key to that success, Johnstone says, was that the district had already started teaching math differently back in 2009. In that year, they hired two recent graduates of Loyola Marymount University’s Center for Math and Science Teaching, and began training veteran teachers.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 25, 2017

After selling a very successful business, I decided in 2009 to pursue my passion by earning another degree in Elementary Education, with an emphasis in English. Chinese education involves a lot of rote memorization, and as an English educator, you will see that often reading by your Chinese students is very robotic. Click to tweet.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Some students have started businesses, while others have designed apps or built robots. In 2009, at the subway station, local transit police shot 22-year-old Oscar Grant, an event many consider to have started the Black Lives Matter movement. Fruitvale is also the scene of some of Oakland’s most painful recent memories.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In Brockton – a once-prosperous town called “shoe city” until the last of its footwear factories closed in 2009 – drugs are plentiful. Among the fatalities were a confirmed 114 individuals under age 25. A tainted batch of heroin hit the streets in January 2016, causing 40 overdoses in just two days. Limited course offerings.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

In 2009, Hispanic students made up 46 percent of the student body but just 26 percent of gifted students, according to federal data , whereas white students were about 20 points in the opposite direction, comprising 38 percent of the district but 57 percent of gifted students. What happened between 2009 and 2018?

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

2009 – the phones in their pockets. I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs. The markets, according to the press releases, are always growing. And look at the predictions about mobile computing: 2006 – the phones in their pockets. 2007 – the phones in their pockets.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

He started a venture capital firm in 2009 based in Beijing called Sinoventures. Not in terms of the science-fiction robot overlords. Originally from Taiwan, he came the U.S. at age 11 and went on to earn degrees from Columbia University and Carnegie Mellon University. Why do you think that’s going to happen?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. Someone generously re-posted all the content from that blog to a Posterous site. But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. It’s a theme that runs throughout almost every article in this series.“Fake

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2021

In 2009, Hispanic students made up 46 percent of the student body but just 26 percent of gifted students, according to federal data , whereas white students were about 20 points in the opposite direction, comprising 38 percent of the district but 57 percent of gifted students. What happened between 2009 and 2018?

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

And if for some reason you need more ideas than what’s here—or if you’re just feeling nostalgic, as is befitting this time of year—take a look at our lists from 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , and 2009. Wow, we’ve been at this for a long time! Board Games.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 4, 2015

A swarm of mobile devices **in 2009**. Not to mention robots, which we can’t carry, but are portable on their own terms. The mobile phone was the first major step in that direction, followed by PDAs, mp3 players, ereaders, then tablets. Handheld game machines predate those.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In February 2009 the words of the world were collected and given to the Council of Conscience, a gathering of religious leaders and thinkers, who are now crafting the final document. The Charter was launched in November 2009. In late fall 2008, the first draft of the document was written by the world, via a sharing website.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Why are “virtual assistants,” “learning analytics,” “adaptive learning technologies,” and “robotics” distinct from the overarching category of “artificial intelligence”?). “the Internet of Things”) have been on the horizon since 2009. Were they adopted?

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 23, 2018

College and career readiness was popularized in 2009 under the Obama administration's Race-to-the-Top initiative and it is what fuels the Common Core Standards. There students make things that matter using tools like laser engravers, 3D printers, robotics, and more.

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Digital Badges Common Core Industry Robotics 95

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Chris Gilliard on “ How Ed Tech Is Exploiting Students.” Edsurge also interviewed Goel this week.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

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. The George W.

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Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : "Starting a robotics company out of school? ” Via Edsurge : “Report: Class of 2018 Has Better Job Prospects than Classes of 2009–2017, but Still Faces Challenges.” ” (Compare/contrast with this pretty terrible piece on Fortnite.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot,” The Wall Street Journal gushed in 2016 , documenting an experiment undertaken at Georgia Tech in which a chatbot called “Jill Watson” answered questions in a course’s online forum. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.)

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

TULSA, Oklahoma — On a fall morning in 2018, veteran technology teacher Abraham Kamara was working with his robotics team at Memorial Junior High School when Tulsa school superintendent Deborah Gist entered the classroom with a TV news crew. Abraham Kamara at Memorial Junior High School. Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. Why was so much ed-tech “fake news”? And even if those photographs were somehow misleading, the 1.5

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