SpeechTechie

JULY 20, 2022

When the iPad came out in 2010, I was skeptical. First of all Chromebooks made accessing the web and Google productivity apps cheap and easy for schools. It seemed like a big iPhone and I wasn't sure it would take off. Apple still pumps out new iPads but there is much less talk about them. Interactivity and No-BS access.

iPad 98

iPad Laptops Chromebook iPhone 98

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Here's the start to an interesting story: a Google program manager, a Twitter engineer, and a Pinterest employee walk into a bar. In today’s day and age, Google, Twitter and Pinterest are three of the largest employers in the United States and internationally. What are they there to discuss? But in reality, it’s not a bar.

Twitter 134

Twitter Google iPhone Industry 134

eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Complaint alleges Google collected students’ internet search requests through Chromebooks. Google is being accused of invading the privacy of students using laptop computers powered by the internet company’s Chrome operating system. In 2012, Google paid a $22.5

Groups 40

Groups Google Chromebook Company 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We were in the early innings of what I argued at that time was more of a supply-side-driven phenomenon: universities and companies were experimenting with new offerings, and the groundwork was being laid for a more digitally-oriented, shorter-form credentialing future.

MOOC 199

MOOC Coursera Trends Survey 199

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. billion in global annual revenue by 2010, helped immeasurably by hard work and acquisitions. billion in 2010.

Kaplan 159

Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 159

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

Google in June announced an. Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud services both offer education programs, and now Google Cloud wants a part in shaping future computer scientists — and probably whatever they come up with using the tool. Google Cloud launched in 2011, but has caught up to competitors to. Google breaking in? .

Microsoft 60

Microsoft Accessibility Google Khan Academy 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Then a couple weeks later came the hangover: the company board said it had uncovered evidence of financial misconduct and would abruptly shut down the company. John McIntire, who is chairman of Yogome’s board, is currently acting CEO of the company and overseeing the liquidation of assets. Another 10 staff based in the U.S.

Company 89

Company Education Report Analysis 89

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

In its 48-year history, Curriculum Associates has acquired only one company. His company’s flagship digital product, i-Ready , is a K-8 math and literacy tool used by nearly 15 percent of K-8 students across the country. “I The two companies have had on-and-off conversations about partnership opportunities since 2012.

Company 96

Company Chromebook Learning Gamification 96

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

peaked at the end of the last recession in 2010 , and has been declining ever since. Historically, community college enrollment is highly correlated with the strength of the job market, and it typically booms during challenging times for workers and declines when jobs are plentiful and the opportunity cost of going to school is high.

Digital Badges 211

Digital Badges MOOC Trends Industry 211

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Almost all of the PreK to 12 programming clustered in the Little America hotel, while the post-secondary, workforce training and company suites clustered in the more opulent Grand America across the street. That’s generally how much companies have to generate for most major banks to consider working with them to find a buyer.

Pearson 78

Pearson Microsoft Company EdTech 78

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

Many investors, foundations and even private equity firms have started so-called impact investment funds with a mission to support companies involved in teaching and learning. In 2016, Lumina launched a venture capital arm to make direct investments in education companies. Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast.

Company 144

Company Industry Competency Based Learning Examples 144

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In 2002, Jon received the Presidential Award for Excellence for Math and Science Teaching; and in 2010, he was a Semi-Finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year. If you just even Google competency based learning, there's so many good organizations out there doing great work based learning.

Handbook 431

Handbook Flipped Classroom Learning Competency Based Learning 431

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months. in February 2019.

Company 112

Company Survey Report Training 112

Educational Technology Guy

MAY 16, 2012

Lack of native Google apps is a major issue for someone like me. Many companies make iOS apps 1st (and sometimes only for iOS) Easy to use (although not any easier than any other device I''ve used) Widely used in education, so lots of resources on using them available. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. iPad product review'

Android 163

Android iPhone iPad Tablets 163

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2018

Imagine is owned by Weld North Education, a private equity firm that has amassed a portfolio of more than 10 education technology companies over the years. Technology companies including Google, Oracle and Cisco also gave support through providing hardware and database services.

Kaplan 65

Kaplan Common Core Education Company 65

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

and elsewhere regularly use software and curriculum developed within the past decade, often developed by small companies and former educators. Google, which officially debuted Classroom in 2014, is arguably as widespread in schools as Google’s usage is in the workplace. Ten K-12 School Technologies Created Since 2010.

Learning 106

Learning Mobility Digital Citizenship Industry 106

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Computing devices and 1:1 programs are far more prevalent now than in 2010. After a decade and a half of failing to arrive as early as we’d imagined, the pervasive 1:1 classroom snuck up on us in the last couple of years—when Google Chromebooks dropped below $150 and the cloud greatly reduced the need for maintenance expense and expertise.

EdTech 159

EdTech iPad Chromebook Industry 159

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JULY 21, 2013

It''s informative and entertaining and it was created by blur Group , a global technology company that specializes in ecommerce. Tumblr followed later that year, Instagram started using hashtags in 2010, Google Plus hopped on the bandwagon in 2011, and Flickr barely beat out Facebook to avoid last place in 2013.

Facebook 60

Facebook Social Media Twitter Google 60

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. There were several of us.

Chromebook 190

Chromebook Study Company Assessment 190

MindShift

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Would you scribble down your thoughts — or would you Google it? Terry Heick, a former English teacher in Kentucky, had a surprising revelation when his eighth- and ninth-grade students quickly turned to Google. “What they would do is they would start Googling the question, ‘How does a novel represent humanity?’

Google 28

Google Learning Study Company 28

edWeb.net

JUNE 14, 2019

A panel of innovative educators in different leadership roles in the school community will present ideas and PD plans for using the free professional learning platform, edWeb.net, Google and other free tools to provide a PD buffet of learning that inspires and motivates teachers and impacts learning. Panelists: Dr. L.

Libraries 40

Libraries Professional Learning Future Ready Industry 40

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

According to the Edcamp website, since 2010 there have been over 700 events in 25 countries. JAMF has an active and responsive online forum where educators who are managing iPads for kindergarten students are sharing practices with and asking questions of IT administrators who are managing enterprise deployments in Fortune 500 companies.

Edcamps 60

Edcamps iPad Industry Groups 60

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Telecom companies often forget about rural areas because they don’t have high population density. He then transitioned to the role of Instructional Technology Resource teacher at the same school, which he continued until 2010. In 2010, he was hired by Albemarle County Public Schools as an instructional technology specialist.

Broadband 54

Broadband Accessibility Advocacy Elementary 54

TeacherCast

MAY 26, 2019

In 2010, I was driving up the New Jersey Turnpike and on a whim, decided to check out a few podcasts that I was hoping would teach me a few things about how to use the computers in our new Mac Lab at school. Reach out and join a community on Google Plus, Facebook, or any other popular social network. In the beginning. I certainly did.

Education 68

Education CMS iPhone Company 68

Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

But we should forget Google Glass. Now, several companies have built on the initial concept of Glass and have developed more stylish, discreet versions of wearable augmented reality. Wearing your computer on your face as a heads-up device in the form of spectacles sounds like a very good solution for untethered activities of all kinds.

Microsoft 48

Microsoft Video Company Technology 48

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2022

In fact, life expectancy has increased since 2010 for people who went to college even as it’s declined for those who didn’t, according to researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and others. Related: From Google ads to NFL sponsorships: Colleges throw billions at marketing themselves to attract students.

Study 127

Study Report System Analysis 127

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

The company prohibits most third parties from selling new devices to school districts, so Miller couldn’t place a bulk order with Best Buy as a district official. A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. Apple backed down. classrooms.

iPad 80

iPad Broadband Software Company 80

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

And career preparation here isn’t just a buzzword but more like a guiding principle: When the end-of-day bell sounds, some children transition from students to employees of the district, and earn $10 an hour for working on a variety of projects for local technology companies. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

STEM 100

STEM Report Robotics Company 100

Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 1, 2013

This perspective is championed by Nicholas Carr (2011), who provocatively argues that habituated use of search tools such as Google is 'making us stupid'. In his most recent edition, Keen turns his ire specifically onto user generated media such as blogs and YouTube (Keen, 2010). Norton and Company. References Brabazon, T.

Social Media 69

Social Media Study Technology Google 69

Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Exposure may be one factor: A Google-sponsored Gallup report ( PDF ) that found that female students are less aware of online and local opportunities to learn computer science. Gender is just one part of the diversity problem confronting many technology companies today. And I want to run a video game company.”.

Meeting 60

Meeting Broadband Industry Education 60

The Electric Educator

APRIL 18, 2011

[Note: this post was written in April of 2010. The old system of top-down decision making and closely guarded company secrets is over. I say that Wikinomics was different than I expected because it is written (IMO) to help large existing companies adapt to the demands of the 21st century. For whatever reason I never finished it.

Industry 49

Industry Company Twitter System 49

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2018

Benjamin Pring, co-founder of the Center for the Future of Work at technology company Cognizant. In 2010, the Institute of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation issued an influential report calling for 80 percent of nurses to hold bachelor’s degrees by 2020. But a few years of college education can yield big dividends.

Robotics 83

Robotics Report Course Company 83

The Electric Educator

JANUARY 24, 2011

At the 2010 Virtual School Symposium sponsored by iNACOL it was clear that blended instruction is quickly becoming a viable instructional option as many states adopt seat-waver initiatives. Microsoft announced the deployment of Office Web Apps as a competitor to Google Apps. Cloud computing is here to stay. 5 things to watch'

Trends 58

Trends Broadband Mobility Android 58

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

The program’s focus on regional theatre of the era – with its hierarchical breakdown of roles (producer-director-designers and actors – crew) — offered little preparation for my first out of college job as the managing director of an arts nonprofit in which I was also a company member. Forwarding looking enterprises like FaceBook and.

Survey 40

Survey Study Training Data 40

ProfHacker

MAY 11, 2018

The study has wide-reaching implications for advertising giants like Facebook and Google, which increasingly find themselves under pressure to disclose more about their targeting practices." It turns out advertising transparency can be good for a platform—but it depends on how creepy marketer methods are.

Social Media 52

Social Media Facebook Software Guidelines 52

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

For this week’s podcast, EdSurge connected with Couch to talk about some of those frustrations, his time at Apple, and where he sees the company going next in education. We saw a big push by schools back in 2010 and 2011 to adopt iPads on a large scale. Our [textbooks] are not about problem-solving. Apply it.’

Education 77

Education iPad Strategy Technology 77

The Electric Educator

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A lot of the posts that Danny puts up are related to ways to use Google''s products to make your life easier, like how to automate birthday announcements using Google Calendar and Google Groups. The last post that I read was on the cool gadgets that he picked up in 2010. It''s quite a list! That''s my list!

Mobility 61

Mobility iPhone Google Twitter 61