The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Tomorrow is our second Library 2.020 mini-conference! Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries ," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 17th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join this Library 2.0 Please also join this Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2020

Our second Library 2.020 mini-conference is just one week away! Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries ," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 17th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join this Library 2.0 Please also join this Library 2.0

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Edtech is booming, with 40 times more venture capital invested in the sector in 2021 than in 2010. Hate it or love – technology in education is here to stay. Parents can feel it, and the numbers back them up. Parents and educators should take time to learn more about TikTok to understand the platform and how to reach kids where they are.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 14, 2019

Michelle Luhtala is the Library Department Chair at New Canaan High School in Connecticut and was one of five school librarians named as a “Mover and Shaker” by Library Journal in 2015. She is the winner of the 2011 “I Love My Librarian” Award and the Library Association’s 2010 Outstanding Librarian Award.

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The Game Agency

MARCH 5, 2019

Generation Z refers to the group born between 1995 and 2010 and currently represents the largest population sector. Is your company ready? Here are 5 ways to get your company prepared: 1. What about company information- organization charts, handbooks, compliance information, etc. What is the best way to prepare for them?

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Back in November of 2010, I wrote a response to a superintendent’s proposed elimination of school libraries in New York State. The problem with libraries is that they are anachronisms , sacred cows. In polite company, I bite my tongue when I hear them ask: “You’re a school librarian, Joyce,” they say.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

And in the market of companies tackling the infamous employment gap between willing workers and open jobs, this maxim appears correct. The collection of edtech companies aimed at prepping educated, but still underprepared workers represents a virtual stampede of unicorns. This dichotomy is not lost on investors.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

A company called UniversityNow—which attracted more than $40 million in venture backing and ran an experimental for-profit college—has been sold to the nonprofit National University system, which plans to use the company’s technology platform to deliver its online courses. They tried an employer-pay model—that didn’t work,” says Craig.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Duck Duck Moose was the first company that could come up with really compelling apps that were good—arguably good—for kids, in 2009, 2010, 2011. And then in 2015 or 2016, my assistant says, “Hey, this company wants to meet. My oldest son, who’s 12 now, was born in 2009, and he kind of grew up on it. They were real education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In the 1980s, researchers developed an adaptive-tutoring math system used in high schools and colleges, and the tool was spun out as an independent company in 1998. Since then the company has swapped hands between other private-equity firms and private investors. He declined to share whether the company is turning a profit.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Register now for our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th, and we'll send you the information on how to either attend the live sessions or watch the recordings afterwards. Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 Sponsored with ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

We're just over a week away from our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th! Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 network to be able to connect with and correspond with 22,000 other individuals in the library world, and to be kept updated on this and future events.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2018

It was bought in 2010 by News Corporation, which invested more than $1 billion into the company and rebranded it as Amplify. The company is no longer as high-profile—or as big—as it once was. What have the past years taught him, and where is the company going? And I would say Amplify is increasingly a curriculum company.

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The Daring Librarian

MAY 2, 2010

in 2010 they don''t have ANY email support? gwynethjones i mean seriously @ netflixhelps your company name is NETflix. How this relates to School Libraries: When people want to find something they want to find it and fast! Have your library collection catalog available online! I don''t want to chat. LOVE Netflix!

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techlearning

MAY 18, 2018

These are important tasks and I look forward to working with the company as we move forward with this work both in the UK, and the U.S.” Walters also has extensive experience in the non-profit sector including as chair of Book Aid International, a charity that equips libraries in sub-Saharan African countries with textbooks and readers.

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techlearning

APRIL 11, 2018

Our acceptance to STEMworks provides us the opportunity to introduce our award-winning, researched-based STEM programs to child care centers, public and private schools, libraries and museums, and more.” For more information, please visit KinderLabRobotics.com.

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

My guess is that opening your library, and your school culture, to global opportunities is already high on your to-do list for 2015/16. The team is especially interested in soliciting more events in other languages and would particularly love to see more libraries, museums, and institutions of informal learning get involved.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

A 40+ year veteran educator, Sheryl has served as a school principal, K-5 teacher, library/media specialist, classroom teacher, university professor and is an ISTE Certified Educator and Ed Tech specialist and consultant. In 2010 the FCC appointed her to the USAC board representing the nation’s schools and libraries on ERATE.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products. James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. Foundations had given seed money.

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MindShift

APRIL 6, 2017

The company offered weekly classes in fencing and swordsmanship for all ages, as well as story-based educational adventures. Guard Up then launched educational summer camps that eventually became the largest part of the company. Guard Up opened a full-time facility in Burlington, Massachusetts, in 2001.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Angie Perez and some of her classmates are studying together in a covered plaza that connects a classroom building with the law library at St. Even with that, financial documents show, the company has yet to turn a profit , thanks to the high cost of recruiting new students. Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In order for colleges to manage the complex financial math behind tuition discounting, many have turned to enrollment management companies that provide software to game out their strategies. The $81 million Joe and Rika Mansueto Library opened in 2011. “Even though institutions will say, ‘No, no, you probably won’t pay that.’ ”.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Little did they know then that the first word in its name would become a fitting pun for the private equity firm’s consolidation of education companies. Last week, the firm announced what will be its 14th deal: Glynlyon , a digital curriculum company based in Chandler, Ariz. Founded in 1977, Glynlyon consists of two product divisions.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

1-4, 25-26) While children who visit the library to immerse in their favorite books may not realize it at the time, they’re building the skill of thoughtful reading—the foundation of critical thinking, academic success, and, eventually, a happy and productive adult life. (1, Bayless 2010. Robinson 2010. Schubert and Becker 2010.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

A banner on UW-Milwaukee’s library celebrates the end of the school’s most recent capital campaign, which raised a record-setting $251 million over seven years. After classes, he’d go to his job — at a marketing company at first and, later, working with children with autism. He pays $500 a month toward his student debt.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Whenever new technology emerges — including newspapers and television — discussions about how it will threaten our brainpower always crops up, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker wrote in a 2010 op-ed in The New York Times. The few studies available, however, do not seem to bode well for the Google generation.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 8, 2016

The session got me wondering why so few of us seem to be gathering podcasts as resources for teachers and parents and our libraries. Sparkle Stories : Sparkle Stories, an independent media company based in Austin, Texas and Vermont, has been producing original audio stories for children since 2010.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

These machines are all intertwined with how we imagine the future of intelligence and knowledge, along with the future of the institutions traditionally responsible for these things – namely schools, universities, libraries, museums. Our Internet service providers today are likely telephone and TV companies.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference starts in just over a week! The company is also lifting some of its "per-seat" licensing fees so that those not enrolled in classes aren''t charged for accessing the material. November 2 - 4, all online, all free. of Text-Messaging at School A Big Step for Gesture-Based Learning?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2016

Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. billion last year on construction, an all-time high, according to Dodge Data & Analytics , a private company that tracks this. Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report. Still, in spite of their financial woes, universities and colleges spent $11.5 On Campus Photo: University of Minnesota.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 16, 2020

In their presentation, sponsored by Mackin Educational Resources, “The Transformative Power of Digital Reading,” Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, New Canaan High School (CT), and Jane Lofton, Teacher Librarian “In the Wild,” offered tools and strategies for effective engagement with digital sources.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

The first year was 2010. In her consulting life, she has led CoSN’s Leadership for Mobile Learning initiative, developed strategic plans and content for companies, provided professional development coaching to school districts, and presented at numerous conferences. It started eight years ago.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2021

VARs will be able to leverage a unified support infrastructure for products across both company product lines. Bosch cameras feature a full library of essential and intelligent analytics capabilities which can proactively detect a variety of objects and events, which helps to create healthier, safer workspaces. “By About LenelS2.

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techlearning

JULY 12, 2018

Baltimore, MD – July 12, 2018 – Edtech company Workbench Education today announced the expansion of a partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for the 2018 - 2019 school year. The Workbench mission is to make teaching with projects easy and scalable in schools, districts, and libraries across the globe.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 31, 2021

I remember as a teacher checking out stacks of professional development books from the library and reading them poolside in the summer over my break and creating new activities to do with my kids. . I am not an employee of any company — I do not get any vacation time, sick days, or holiday leave. I’m trying to be fully human.

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TeacherCast

MAY 8, 2019

In 2010, I had the opportunity to listen to my first podcast while taking a trip with my wife and from that moment, my life and my career would forever take an amazing turn that has given me the opportunity to connect with thousands of educators and hundreds of companies and make a pretty nice life for my family in the process.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Virtually all school districts buy web filters from companies that sort the internet into categories. The Markup requested records from 26 school districts.

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