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. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. Between 2004 and 2011, I worked as an executive in SchoolNet and Kaplan, both of which grew into successful and innovative education companies.

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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! Or does it?

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 22, 2022

This post originally appeared back in 2011 , when the blog was part of the Chronicle of Higher Education. I used the free software VoodooPad for this, and it was a great resource as I moved forward in the search. Do you not know how to Google something? As far as I’m concerned, I’m done forever with that.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Five-year-old Mykell Robinson practices his reading on the Lexia software while a small group of classmates work with a teacher. Good teachers, of course, have always personalized lessons based on their students’ needs. It also invested in software like ST Math and the reading program Lexia, created by the Rosetta Stone company.

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 98

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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Technology Learning Software Google 110

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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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

But I do want to quickly note the other meanings of the phrase -- the ones that show up in the "Google Alert" I have set for the title. We already see this when we talk on the phone with customer support; we see this in Amazon warehouses; and we see this in adaptive learning software. Humans being bent towards the machine.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It’s an intense research project that usually tops out at about 75,000 words, written over the course of four to six weeks. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.).

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. The degree requires the traditional 120 credit hours, but features small classes, extra supports, accommodation for different learning styles, and a modified course schedule to meet the students'' needs. Khan told the attendees at Web 2.0

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Codecademy is also providing free access to its online coding courses for high school teachers and their classes via a new partnership with Clever. Codecademy Pro courses will be available in Clever Library, a catalog of high-quality digital resources that teachers can deploy to their classroom within seconds. About Codecademy.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

peaked in 2011 and is currently declining. At Northeastern, for example, we’ve partnered with both Google and IBM to recognize Google’s IT Support Professional Certificate and IBM’s digital badges for academic credit in our degree programs for working adults. According to some measures , adult higher ed enrollment in the U.S.

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Late last spring my alarm rang early so I could join a Google Hangout with two eighth graders from Jack Zangerle’s 8th grade English class in New York’s Hudson Valley. Teachers opted instead to seek training on Google Docs in the classroom, or similarly practical concerns. What’s the point of having the equipment, then?

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Accessibility Edcamps Training Pearson 32

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 11, 2011

You’ll have an opportunity to discuss with Waleed how his facilitators benefitted from the recent GAC Facilitation Course (GFC) and how he manages the support structure using up-to-the-minute online tools such as Dropbox. link] "MINI-GEEK FEST" MONTHLY ONLINE CONVERSATION JUNE, 2011 (AzTEA 2.0 On Monday June 13 at 5.30

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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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Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

I, of course, would only accept sponsorship from companies and products that I’m very fond of. Of course, we hear about Adam’s background and how he founded Edthena. Of course, it can be used in the classroom or 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

I, of course, would only accept sponsorship from companies and products that I’m very fond of. Of course, we hear about Adam’s background and how he founded Edthena. Of course, it can be used in the classroom or 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

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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There is no box

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Google Apps for Education. He’s always just a Google Hangout away from support if he needs it, but by reducing the complexity of the network down to a few key components, the level of troubleshooting required when things don’t work is greatly reduced. Google Apps for Education. So what’s our secret sauce?

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EdTech E-rate Google Company 40

TeacherCast

MAY 8, 2019

Topics inside of this category involve purchasing and using audio and video equipment, editing, publishing, and of course promoting. 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.

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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.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 96

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

During 2020, WLS is finding new ways to help teachers make the shift to remote learning, including 5-day virtual teacher courses. In September of 2011, Chris was honored by the White House as a Champion of Change for his work in education reform. Alice has developed math curriculum and innovative online courses.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. ” Carl Straumsheim writes that “One of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ’s most popular massive open online courses is adding a feature not seen in any of its other humanities MOOCs: instructors grading essays.”

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Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 52

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.’” “Should for-profit crash courses get federal funds? “Should for-profit crash courses get federal funds?”

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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. Efficiency.

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Education Robotics MOOC Company 40

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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Data Technology Education Software 40

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. There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

The big ed-tech news this week is, of course, that Betsy DeVos is considering allowing schools to use federal funds to arm teachers and staff. ” CPS is, of course, the Chicago Public Schools. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Cumulative Growth in Number of MOOCs , 2011–18.”

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Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Even without providing you the final tally of funding for 2016, I can point to other signals about what’s happened to ed-tech startups over the course of the last twelve months – their sustainability, their viability. (Or These are just the ones that were reported by the press, of course.). Why, schools of course.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

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

" Tagged on: September 14, 2017 Alphabet Continues to Have Highest Cash Holding in Internet Industry | Market Realist → Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL), Facebook (FB), Alibaba (BABA), Amazon (AMZN), and Baidu (BIDU) have the largest cash holdings among their peers in the Internet sector. But not in the case of our software."

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EdTech Software Facebook Data 150

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

" Tagged on: September 14, 2017 Alphabet Continues to Have Highest Cash Holding in Internet Industry | Market Realist → Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL), Facebook (FB), Alibaba (BABA), Amazon (AMZN), and Baidu (BIDU) have the largest cash holdings among their peers in the Internet sector. But not in the case of our software."

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EdTech Software Facebook Data 150

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. According to Summit’s own reports on those piloting the Basecamp software, “student growth has been positive amongst the cohort schools thus far. average by 1.23 in math and 1.95 in reading, shown below.

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Technology Pearson Education Facebook 73

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” The Trump Administration is calling it “ restoring Internet freedom ,” because of f **g course. ” Via Newsweek : “ Rand Paul to Teach ‘Dystopian Visions’ Course at George Washington University.” There have been several stories recently calling the Google Books project a failure.

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