Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

When I started graduate-level work with machine learning tools at UC Berkeley in 2011, few people outside academia were discussing artificial intelligence. To the best of their abilities, software engineers try to tweak the AI to account for the conditions under which a teacher was grading (and thus labeling) the data.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2017

She authored Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education (published by ISTE in 2008), Cell Phones in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for the K-12 Educator (published by ISTE in 2011), Help Your Child Learn With Their Cell Phone and Web 2.0 I mean, I think people forget the greatest software every invented is the human brain.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

So we probably had more education software in the early, early days of the PC than anyone else. And that assessment should not be something where you take the kids out of a learning environment, throw them into a lab and test them separately. We equated it to writing a software program. Steve would say, "Education is in our DNA."

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Education iPad Strategy Technology 82

The Principal of Change

MAY 27, 2016

The employees had all taken a computer proficiency test, which assessed their knowledge of keyboard shortcuts, software programs, and hardware, as well as a timed test of their typing speed. November 29, 2011 Does talent mean as much if no one sees it? It is great to promote initiative, but deterring it is simply unacceptable.

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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 17, 2011

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. Can Google Challenge Over-Zealous Web Filtering at Schools? Last year, the National Federation of the Blind filed a complaint against Penn State, charging that the school''s adoption of Google Apps for Education was discriminatory.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

We are focusing primarily on communication—both delivering it and managing it—rather than learning or assessment techniques. If you don’t have enough of it, teaching and assessment won’t even be possible, let alone optimized. Google Hangouts/Meet. Google Hangouts/Meet. Google Classroom. BlueJeans Events.

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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. The i-Ready Standards Mastery system allows apples-to-apples assessment for grades 2–8 in ELA and math. Reading Eggs ?

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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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Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

And so for those who have never seen that, this was a portable camera that had a, I don’t remember how much video it could record, but it had a USB connector built in and some software that made it very easy to get that video online. And in February of 2011, I was full time building the company into what it is now.

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Professional Learning Video Learning LMS 59

Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

And so for those who have never seen that, this was a portable camera that had a, I don’t remember how much video it could record, but it had a USB connector built in and some software that made it very easy to get that video online. And in February of 2011, I was full time building the company into what it is now.

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Professional Learning Video Learning LMS 52

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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Video Social Media Google Conference 68

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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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 97

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. ” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp. “The San Francisco-based software company will continue a four-year partnership with San Francisco Unified School District.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

So instead of a zeppelin, we got to ride in one of Google’s self-driving cars, which was of course the project that Thrun had been working on when he gave his famous TED Talk in 2011 – and that, in turn, was where he heard Salman Khan give his famous TED Talk. Google versus Uber. Efficiency.

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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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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. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 million as compensation for problems that derailed a spate of its assessments last year,” Education Week reports. Via Education Next : “The Politics of the Common Core Assessments.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment. The learning management system is a piece of “enterprise” software after all. Everything’s a business opportunity.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Cumulative Growth in Number of MOOCs , 2011–18.” Via CNBC : “ Google , Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree.” ” Via the Google blog : “ VR Labs open doors of opportunity for STEM students.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Two debt collectors said in separate statements this week that they will not assess collection fees on defaulted student loan borrowers who quickly enter repayment, despite new guidance from the Department of Education.” Hopefully it’s not the robots that power Google’s search algorithm.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The “nation’s report card” is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom.

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