SpeechTechie

OCTOBER 6, 2011

My dad, the head of a public school "Library/Media" department, brought home an Apple ][ (2), and I was instantly hooked. Through the years, I have loved the products conceived and nurtured by Steve Jobs, even in those years the company was expected to go under (Jobs himself got kicked out of the picture for a period of time).

iPhone 100

iPhone iPad Libraries Company 100

Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

However, it was the Chromebook (2011) that truly revolutionized 1:1. As Secretary Duncan’s chief of staff wrote at the time, the Common Core was intended to create a national market for book publishers, technology companies , testing corporations, and other vendors.”. ” In 2011, the FCC updated CIPA compliance requirements.

EdTech 176

EdTech Common Core Chromebook iPad 176

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Annually, Kahoot Pro costs $12 per teacher for K-12, the company’s primary market in education, and $60 per instructor for higher education. Premium users will also have access to a library of millions of images, which are displayed on the quizzes, and performance reports that track student progress.

Game-Based Learning 116

Game-Based Learning Company EdTech Survey 116

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Private equity firm Francisco Partners quietly announced last week that it led an investment round in Civitas Learning, an Austin, Texas-based education company best known for its predictive analytics software used in higher-ed institutions. But as the company raised new money, it also cut staff.

Software 84

Software Company Learning Industry 84

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 3, 2011

Join me Tuesday, July 5th, for a live and interactive Future of Education interview with Sandy Hirsh, the director of the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at San José State University. psid=2011-07-05.1056.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350. 9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350.

Libraries 71

Libraries Microsoft Conference Company 71

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

From 2011 to 2014, U.S. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. The company has invested in a partner rental program that should reach 400 titles in the second half of this year. billion to $3.3

Chegg 158

Chegg Software Industry Pearson 158

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

But it was also on Facebook where in 2011 Jivani, then in ninth grade, posted a video of her removing the wig. The company has also enlisted artificial intelligence to track hate speech on the platform. Both companies have also published policies around so-called “deepfakes” of manipulated and altered media on their platforms.

Digital Citizenship 133

Digital Citizenship Facebook Social Media Edmodo 133

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 15, 2011

We are pleased to announce the Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference, November 2 - 3, 2011. To be kept informed of the latest conference news and updates, please join the Library 2.0 The Library 2.011 conference will be a unique chance to participate in a global conversation on the current and future state of libraries.

Libraries 67

Libraries Conference Microsoft Social Media 67

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2019

Among the graduates were a half dozen education technology companies. CareerTu The growing number of Chinese e-commerce companies and their fight for eyeballs has created a business opportunity for Ruiwan Xu and her team at New York-based CareerTu. That’s one of the core philosophies behind his company, Edyst.

EdTech 121

EdTech Company Edmodo Course 121

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

This business model—provide the product to schools for free, rely on families to pay for the license—was a gamble for the young company, Rivard Dexter admits, but so far it’s paid off. If the model sounds unique, it’s actually catching on—and showing success—at a handful of other game-based learning companies, including Prodigy and codeSpark.

Game-Based Learning 109

Game-Based Learning Learning Company Robotics 109

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

They’re in the fading photos on the library walls of students who, over 177 years, attended the college and the boarding school from which it sprang, and of the Ursuline nuns who taught them, in their simple tunics and scapulars. Martin, was dissolved in 2011, when the population had dwindled to 129; the campus was absorbed into Fayetteville.

Education 128

Education Report Libraries Trends 128

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

MyON was previously a division of Capstone , which formed in 1990 as a print publisher serving schools and libraries. In 2011, the company launched myON as a digital service with roughly 1,000 digital titles on the platform. Brekhus adds that the company is cashflow positive. Capstone provides the rest.)

Pearson 65

Pearson Company EdTech Libraries 65

Neo LMS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Launched in March of 2011, Descomplica is Brazil’s leading ed-tech provider, specialising in the high school market. The company’s extensive library of test prep materials and study guides — many of them video-based — offer a student-centric way to access the material and content they need. Descomplica. Conclusion.

E-rate 150

E-rate Blended Learning Case Study Mobility 150

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

A company called UniversityNow—which attracted more than $40 million in venture backing and ran an experimental for-profit college—has been sold to the nonprofit National University system, which plans to use the company’s technology platform to deliver its online courses. They tried an employer-pay model—that didn’t work,” says Craig.

Competency Based Learning 64

Competency Based Learning Company System Libraries 64

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

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. And then in 2015 or 2016, my assistant says, “Hey, this company wants to meet. My oldest son, who’s 12 now, was born in 2009, and he kind of grew up on it. They were real education.

Khan Academy 163

Khan Academy Learning Meeting Company 163

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Register now for our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th, and we'll send you the information on how to either attend the live sessions or watch the recordings afterwards. Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 Sponsored with ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries.

Libraries 28

Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

We're just over a week away from our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th! Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 network to be able to connect with and correspond with 22,000 other individuals in the library world, and to be kept updated on this and future events.

Libraries 28

Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company calculated that U.S. Before the pandemic, Albalicia Espino often took her 6-year-old daughter Sara to the West Dallas Library. On special occasions, they’d make the trip to downtown Dallas, where the towering library building has a dedicated children’s floor. Those early years matter!”.

Elementary 145

Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 145

edWeb.net

JUNE 14, 2019

Michelle Luhtala is the Library Department Chair at New Canaan High School in Connecticut and was one of five school librarians named as a “Mover and Shaker” by Library Journal in 2015. She is the winner of the 2011 “I Love My Librarian” Award and the Library Association’s 2010 Outstanding Librarian Award.

Libraries 40

Libraries Professional Learning Future Ready Industry 40

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

PowerSchool purchased an IEP management business while ed-tech companies including Speakaboos, FreshGrade and Nearpod received significant investments. based MAXIMUS partners with state, federal and local governments to provide health and human service programs and solutions to a diverse array of communities, according to the company website.

Company 49

Company Pearson Software Libraries 49

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].

Blackboard 68

Blackboard Google Libraries Software 68

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

MOOCs have evolved over the past five years from a virtual version of a classroom course to an experience that feels more like a Netflix library of teaching videos. The change has helped companies that provide these courses find a business model, but something crucial has been lost for students taking the courses.

MOOC 98

MOOC Coursera Course Trends 98

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 1, 2011

Brenda Anderson will discuss how Montgomery County Public Schools, MD empowered the library media specialists to build personal learning networks with technology to explore the new Maryland school library media standards.

Libraries 44

Libraries Strategy Personal Learning Network Training 44

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products. James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. Foundations had given seed money.

Data 108

Data Dropout Company Report 108

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Roux Institute opened last year in borrowed space in this tech company building on the Portland, Maine, waterfront to teach computer science and other subjects. Postsecondary enrollment has been falling since 2011 , with particularly big dips last year and this , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

Report 117

Report Dropout System Company 117

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Venture capital deals in the ed-tech market dominated the news over the past week, with companies such as Knewton, SchoolMint, and NuuEd announcing the completion of funding rounds as well as ed-tech accelerator Imagine K12 merging with the Y Combinator fund. million PreK-12 students. NuuEd Receives $3 Million from Swiss Firm: Oakland, Calif.-based

Knewton 40

Knewton Edmentum Company Professional Learning 40

techlearning

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

8, 2018 – CDI Computer Dealers announced today it has partnered with littleBits to offer STEAM Coding Starter Kits for classrooms, makerspaces and libraries. The company holds ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certifications, and processes more than one million I.T. Chicago IL – Feb. assets annually.

Industry 40

Industry Common Core Chromebook Tablets 40

NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

My guess is that opening your library, and your school culture, to global opportunities is already high on your to-do list for 2015/16. The team is especially interested in soliciting more events in other languages and would particularly love to see more libraries, museums, and institutions of informal learning get involved.

Blackboard 40

Blackboard Conference Libraries Twitter 40

MIND Research Institute

MAY 30, 2019

HMA has partnered with MIND Research Institute since 2011 and has committed over $2 million to our ST Math program in the eight years since. The group then headed over to the Catoma Elementary school library for a press conference and check presentation. Morris Elementary. Stay tuned. May 21, 2019. and Coretta Scott King. May 23, 2019.

STEM 40

STEM Elementary Industry Libraries 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In order for colleges to manage the complex financial math behind tuition discounting, many have turned to enrollment management companies that provide software to game out their strategies. The $81 million Joe and Rika Mansueto Library opened in 2011. Pete D'Amato/The Hechinger Report.

Data 93

Data Report Strategy Study 93

eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2015

These efforts led to the formation of the Guilford Parent Academy (GPA) in 2011, a multifaceted parent engagement initiative that is partly supported by federal Race to the Top money. The district also provides access to a large library of e-books for students and their families. Free online tutoring.

E-rate 40

E-rate Social Media Video Survey 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

It’s a typical day at GSoft, a technology company whose meteoric rise from its founding in 2006 has required a constant supply of workers — and the over-the-top amenities increasingly needed to recruit and keep them. I like to think that if there’s a place I want to go, I’ll be able to,” Ladd said outside McGill’s main library.

Industry 67

Industry Report Study Survey 67

MindShift

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

” Daphne Bavelier , a professor at the University of Geneva, wrote in 2011 that we may have lost the ability for oral memorization valued by the Greeks when writing was invented, but we gained additional skills of reading and text analysis. The few studies available, however, do not seem to bode well for the Google generation.

Google 28

Google Learning Study Company 28

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

A banner on UW-Milwaukee’s library celebrates the end of the school’s most recent capital campaign, which raised a record-setting $251 million over seven years. Villagomez first enrolled in 2011, straight from a Milwaukee public high school. That’s less money than UW-Madison’s foundation gave to the university in 2018 alone.

Report 116

Report Policies Meeting System 116

MindShift

JULY 19, 2018

. “What you have is an increasing number of schools that are requiring their teachers to receive professional development in technology integration,” says Dee Lanier , a program coordinator for EdTechTeam , an international company that trains educators on how to use technology in the classroom.

Classroom 35

Classroom Mobility Tablets Google 35

IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Depending on how far we want to take our data collection, we could potentially collect library records, e-book consumption patterns, social network information, etc. ” There are three crucial elements involved in this definition. Other systems: provide multiple types of information.

Learning Analytics 62

Learning Analytics LMS Analysis Learning 62

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

ANNOUNCEMENTS The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference is almost here! Huge thanks to the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science , the founding sponsor of the conference. The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. November 2 - 4, all online, all free.

Knewton 43

Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43