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PROOF POINTS: A spate of recent studies on the “Google effect” adds to evidence that the internet is making us dumber

The Hechinger Report

But neither of these great thinkers could anticipate how the debate would play out in the Age of Google. Not long after the search engine company was founded in 1998, psychologists began to wonder how the ability to have so much information instantly available was changing our brains. When we need it, we will look it up.”

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2011 Virtual School Symposium Recap

The Electric Educator

2011 iNACOL Virtual School Symposium This week I attended the 2011 Virtual School Symposium in Indianapolis, Indiana. Over 1,900 educators interested in online learning were in attendance. K-12 Online learning is in a state of great flux. Apple and Google, are resistant to support of these products.

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Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng Wants to Bring ‘AI to Everyone’ in Latest Course

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Lessons will include how to select AI projects, as well as how to work with and manage AI teams within companies. The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He He left the company in 2014.)

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PROOF POINTS: Free, no frills programs lead the class in new federal study of remote learning

The Hechinger Report

Almost a year later, in February 2021, the results are in: a mere three online learning technologies have clear evidence for improving student achievement. These tough requirements whittled down an initial list of more than 900 studies to just three remote learning programs. Another company, Class Technologies Inc.,

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News from the Y: The Latest Edtech Startups in Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 Class

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Among the graduates were a half dozen education technology companies. From K-12 classrooms to professional sales training, many entrepreneurs would say that learning is better together, with peers and instructors. That also applies to “bootcamp” models of online learning, which made up half of the six edtech graduates.

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EdSurge HigherEd Year in Review: Our Top Higher Education Stories of 2018

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How the Company Aims to Catch Tutoring Requests That Go Too Far. Here’s a look at how the education company is responding. But these massive open online courses still continue to shape the way people around the world learn and access education. In 2016, the company reported its largest loss in its history, down $3.3

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How Indian Tutoring App Provider Byju’s Got So Big

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In this still from a Byju's provided video, about 20,000 students pack the country's largest indoor arena for a math lesson from the company's CEO in 2013. The stunt came years before the CEO’s company, Byju’s, launched a learning app that would take the company to 35 million downloads, with 2.7 million) this fiscal year.

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