Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

In 2011, Pittsburgh-based Duolingo was founded by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker. But the real change came when Rosetta Stone’s computer-assisted language software became available for download as one of the first edtech products to become a household name within the U.S. billion, making its total valuation more than $4.7

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

But it wasn’t until Serial, a true-crime podcast debuting in 2011, that skyrocketed the listening audience. Listeners can always answer questions in a Google Form or share during a discussion to demonstrate evidence of learning. Use a Google Form to submit evidence and reflection. 25 Ways to Use Audio in Google Slides Projects.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 10, 2016

I'm a huge user of Google Apps and Evernote. I have Citrix for my Chromebook so I can remote in to our system and access everything I need, including a Windows desktop. I can do anything on it - email, web browsing, Google Apps, Evernote, messaging, photos, musics, etc. Google Apps - for both work and home. I love it.

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The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 12, 2011

applications, but once I started examining my list of Google Apps, I knew I could devote one entire post to those apps alone. Google offers so many useful applications to school administrators, I would find it hard to live without those apps now. Here is my most useful Google Apps list.

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The 21st Century Principal

MAY 21, 2011

According to the 2011 K-12 Horizon Report cloud computing and mobiles are on what it calls the “near term horizon” which means these technologies are likely to see mainstream adoption in the next 12 months. How has our adoption of Google Apps, a cloud computing solution, transformed our district and my school?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Date : Thursday, December 1st, 2011 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT ( international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). psid=2011-12-01.0600.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 This should be a great conversation. Log in at [link].

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JUNE 9, 2012

It''s new and in beta and there doesn''t seem to be too much in the news about it, other than its launching at EDUCAUSE in October, 2011. OpenClass is totally free and integrates with Google Apps For Education which we have at our school, so the system is definitely worth a look for our institution! Upcoming plans for OpenClass ?

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 27, 2017

What to do when your school or your students do not have appropriate access to technology In my travels as a national presenter and G Suite trainer, I have met many teachers from around the U.S. I personally faced these issues as a mathematics teacher in an urban high school with limited funding. A great place to start is Donors Choose.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

In 2011, large-format interactive flat panel (IFP) displays became a new alternative. Typically, free from licensing fees and software/hardware agnostic. ViewBoard Software Provides Tools for Effective Teaching. ViewBoard software lets you easily write, highlight, edit, and transform documents and images on-screen in real-time.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

I spent the week of February 7-11 attending the 2011 TCEA Convention and Exposition in Austin, Texas. tools for student and teacher use in schools as well as moving toward 1:1 computer/device access for students. tools for student and teacher use in schools as well as moving toward 1:1 computer/device access for students.

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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. One such effort is Black Girls Code , started in 2011 by Kimberly Bryant, an electrical engineer by training who has worked in biotech and pharmaceutical companies.

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Doug Levin

MAY 6, 2017

Earlier this week, an unknown person or persons launched a short-lived, but clever cyber attack against Google Docs’ users. Here is Google’s description of the incident and their response: “ Protecting you against phishing.” Comment from discussion New Google Docs phishing scam, almost undetectable.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

That’s why he’s launching Rooted School, a high school that plans to train students to enter jobs in fields like 3D printing, software development and programming right after graduation. In 2011, blacks made up 11 percent of the nation’s workforce but just 6 percent of Americans working in STEM, up from 2 percent in 1970.

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Her question prompts educators to not only choose their words and stories carefully, but to reflect on how well we plan for increased access to digital tools in schools. Technologists like Campbell, like me, see increased access as an opportunity to strengthen teaching and accelerate learning that schools may not recognize, much less seize.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – 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. In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. The quotation is from 2012.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. Members will have access to lab and office space, as well as a slew of lab equipment. Once downloaded, students will be able to access the "packs," even when they''re offline. No need to be a "professional scientist" in order to join.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

With many schools going fully or partially remote this fall, Codecademy is making its learning platform more accessible for students and teachers. For college students, Codecademy is launching a new Pro Student membership, which includes complete access to Codecademy’s catalog for a more affordable price. About Codecademy.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Now he’s at Syracuse University studying software engineering. “My CodeNow, a nonprofit coding education organization founded in 2011, recently launched a YouTube channel of explainer videos starring students like Robinson and Boahen. My confidence had been really low, and this was a whole new world for me,” Robinson said. The Videos.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. Can Google Challenge Over-Zealous Web Filtering at Schools? and aims to address some of the obstacles to broadband adoption -- in terms of cost, access, relevance, and digital literacy. We have attendees signed up from 133 countries!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 11, 2011

Matthew Peskay of KIPP LA Schools will discuss what students in his schools have experienced with the Google Cr-48 pilot program. link] "MINI-GEEK FEST" MONTHLY ONLINE CONVERSATION JUNE, 2011 (AzTEA 2.0 How can schools become collaborative technology centers - using existing computers, software, and skills?

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom. Google Classroom ? The graduation rate rose dramatically, from 81 percent in 2011 to 91 percent in 2017.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

Get Your House in Order In Allen and Kusky’s 2011 book, “The Little Book of Leadership Development,” they wisely suggest a preliminary step before designing, managing, evaluating and refining a new system: get your shop in order. Google Hangouts/Meet. Google Hangouts/Meet. Google Classroom. Administrators / Area Leaders.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

We have seen from the shutdowns of Dev Bootcamp and Iron Yard that coding bootcamps growing around values like community or open access have struggled to achieve financial sustainability. That’s what we saw towards the end of 2017, as many of the first-wave bootcamps that started between 2011 and 2013 have been acquired or are in the process.

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There is no box

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Google Apps for Education. The key is good fiber between buildings and good cable into the classrooms for the Access Points. We installed a Meraki Access Point in every classroom. Google Apps for Education. For our small school, we moved all users off of AD and into Google Apps for Education. Teacher Devices.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Perhaps we’ve grown too accustomed to paying for purchases with a mobile app, or booking reservations online, or using Google to plan our daily commutes. This was one of the needs behind the development of Ed-Fi , a set of education data tools and standards, in 2011 with support from the Dell Foundation.

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TeacherCast

MAY 8, 2019

It was at that moment when I was encouraged to do so and on July 11, 2011, I bought the domain TeacherCast.net and the rest was history. February: Google for Education. Week 1: Google Docs Tips. Week 2: Google Slides Tips. Week 3: Creating Assessments with Google Forms. Google Hangouts / Meet.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Started in 2011, Imagine K12 has inspired many other accelerators and incubators to prop up across the globe; the U.S. What good is technology if it fails to make educational opportunities more accessible? Amazon Inspire is currently still accessible by invitation only. Imagine K12 Merges With Y Combinator.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

The state’s largest district, in Providence, has dramatically increased its spending on web-based instructional programs, from $158,000 in the 2011-12 school year to $928,000 in 2015-16, the latest data available. apps and software, with some classes much more tech-reliant than others. We use Google all the time.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But you can own access to the full library by buying the Summit all-access pass, which is $99, a $50 savings from the price after the 25th. Buy the all-access pass here and have access to all the sessions and bonus materials forever. Join for free to watch the current sessions and the upcoming interviews here.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The lawsuit contends that the publisher is “ predatory ” because it charges scholars to have their work published in open-access journals. ” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. Meanwhile on Campus. million, $6 million goes to San Francisco and $2.5

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

“The Vastmanland court ruled Tuesday the Malardalen University ’s two-year program ‘Analytical Finance’ that Connie Askenback attended from 2011 to 2013 ‘had no practical value.’” ’” More on court cases in the sports and testing sections below. The company has raised $41 million total. (I

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) “ Seen ” cheating.).

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 29, 2011

It was great to meet and talk with some very creative and inspirational people during my travels in 2011. Mackintosh believes that 'no learner should be denied access to an education because learning material is locked away behind copyright or because people may not have the resources to pay for licensed software'.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

“The Snooki bill” is a response to $32,000 that the Jersey Shore star received from Rutgers in 2011. Via Google’s blog : “ Howard University opens a new campus at the Googleplex.” ” It’s a three-month summer program with classes taught by Google engineers and Howard faculty.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

And, those most likely to be able to avail themselves of this technique (because of access to expertise, resources, and privilege) are least likely to need the protection it provides. But not in the case of our software." To quote Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Act I, Scene 4), “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

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