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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

Edsurge

Computers, laptops and mobile devices became more affordable. Among the competitors Billings and Joseph named: the ASU GSV Summit , launched in 2010 by investment firm GSV Capital and Arizona State University, and which has become the annual dealmaking venue for education businesses and their financiers.

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Why Teacher Recruitment Needs to Change

Insight Education Group

With teacher salaries flat or falling since 2010 , many people are not entering teaching, while teachers are leaving education altogether for fields in which there are more career ladder opportunities and earning potential. In addition, 45% of job seekers use their mobile devices every day in their job search. & Pearson, R.

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TEA Update: New Options with Digital Content in Texas

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Commissioner''s List of Approved Vendors for Proclamation 2010 and 2011 AWARD Publishing iStation Compass Learning APEX Leaarning Achieve 3000 A+Rise - ELPS - every teacher in Texas has access to these resources through Project Share Epsilen Glencoe/McGraw Hill Pearson Longman How do you get to the products?

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‘A Deal With the Devil’: NPR Reporter Anya Kamenetz On Teaching With 'Addictive Tech' Like Facebook

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I was watching a video that you did from a Ted Talk a while ago, back in 2010, and you were talking about transforming higher education institutions by getting conservative institutions to embrace technology. K-12 Inc, which is a standalone company, and Connections Academy, which is owned by Pearson Education.

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What Kids Need for Optimal Health and School Engagement

MindShift

For all ages, research suggests that play—especially when it is freely chosen, unstructured, and kid-directed—is linked to a wide variety of positive outcomes including increased cognitive skills, physical health, self-regulation, language abilities, and social skills (Alliance for Childhood, 2010; Barker et al., Courtesy of Denise Pope.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. But in 2010, the company, co-founded by Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen, announced that it would no longer offer a free version. Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless. Bundling Textbooks with Tuition. “To

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