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When Education Giants Stumbled and Data Ruled

Edsurge

The company that I started, myON , helped to transform literacy in the classroom with unlimited books, and it continues to deliver on its promise. Renaissance just acquired Schoolzilla , which was launched in 2011, for this reason. What's been most disappointing in edtech? What predictions never panned out?

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Sal Khan on Expanding Into Early Learning and Launching a Peer-to-Peer Tutoring Platform

Edsurge

But then you see so many kids who might show up in kindergarten the first day—and this was eye-opening to me—who haven't seen a book, some of them have never been read to. 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. We've seen that.

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How Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s iZone Went from ‘Cool’ to Cold

Edsurge

Ten years into his 12-year tenure as mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg and his then education chief, Joel Klein, kicked off a program that they hoped would transform education in the city by making schools “centres of innovation,” Bloomberg told the BBC back in 2011. Driving organizational change is enormously hard.

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Video-Powered Professional Learning (The Pulse Podcast)

Edthena

And in February of 2011, I was full time building the company into what it is now. So today I think there’s a kind of healthy and vibrant ecosystem for let’s call it EdTech as a general category. Does your product work equally as well with online learning? So that was, let’s see, summer of 2010.

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Video-Powered Professional Learning (The Pulse Podcast)

Edthena

And in February of 2011, I was full time building the company into what it is now. So today I think there’s a kind of healthy and vibrant ecosystem for let’s call it EdTech as a general category. Does your product work equally as well with online learning? So that was, let’s see, summer of 2010.

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School Librarians Can Save Democracy

edWeb.net

The internet, online learning environments, and edtech software are not replacements for highly qualified, certified school librarians. 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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Wednesday Early - Reforming Ed Reform Panel with Downes, Gardner, Kohn, and Stager

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Affiliated with the Learning and Collaborative Technologies Group, Institute for Information Technology, Downes specializes in the fields of online learning, new media, pedagogy and philosophy. Most recently, Gardner received the 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences.