Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Like Lego blocks clicked together, two educational robot companies have combined to offer their collective programming and robotics lessons to students spanning from 4 years old to college. Modular Robotics , the Boulder, Colo.-based based maker of Cubelet robot blocks, has acquired Dexter Industries , a Stafford, Va.-based

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Notes from a TCEA 2011 Concurrent Session Dr. Stephen Waddell Superintendent of Schools Birdville ISD Kelli Montgomery Coordinator of Instructional Technology Birdville ISD "OMG, I CNT BLIEVE WE R REALLY GTTNG 2 TXT WILE WE LRN!" Mini-storage is a multi-billion dollar industry in the US. 21st century learning tcea tcea 2011 web 2.0'

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The Principal of Change

MAY 28, 2017

We are more than robotic bookshelves, conditioned to blurt out facts we were taught in school. We are not here to get a degree, to then get a job, so we can consume industry-approved placation after placation. And quite frankly, now I’m scared. We are all very special. There is more, and more still. Do we look for that brilliance?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ”) How accurate are her observations?

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011. 2011 – the phones in their pockets. So it is predicted. So it is written.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In 2011, Tim founded Draper University to teach entrepreneurial skills, fostering young leaders and innovators as they set out to light the world on fire. Determined to know everything he can about the tech industry, Malcolm vows to use programming to change the world. Twitter: @malcolmtyson. Sharon Winter. Hometown: Los Angeles, CA.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Larry Hogan (R) declared via executive order that beginning in September 2017, the Maryland school year won’t start until after Labor Day – a decision that prompted sharp criticism from school leaders, who are accusing Hogan of favoring the tourism industry over education.” Robots probably won’t take your jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The strong downturn in production industries in this country can be traced to 1983. Ever since then, the percentage of jobs in these industries and the average pay have steadily dwindled. The reality is that in recent years, 88 percent of job loss in manufacturing is due to gains in productivity , such as increased use of robots.

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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. Four years ago, only one school out of 39 in Providence used personalized learning; the model has since spread to 25 schools.

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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. “Robots are coming for your job.” Cheaper how?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The students learn how to use industry-approved software programs and are often granted paid internships at local design firms and research labs, and Greeley’s planning and development departments. They also take field trips to area manufacturing firms. But computers are expensive. It’s perhaps not surprising.

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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. Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D Printing.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Cumulative Growth in Number of MOOCs , 2011–18.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “Kids connect with robot reading partners ,” says the PR office of the University of Wisconsin Madison. Sounds legit.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. No neoliberalism here.

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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 The USA Today : “Kids on winning robotics team told, ‘Go back to Mexico’ ” The kids were from Pleasant Run Elementary School in Indianapolis. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. million total.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Bridget Foster has been named the head of the SIIA’s ed-tech association, the Education Technology Industry Network. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “In an age of robots , schools are teaching our children to be redundant,” says George Monbiot. Contests and Awards. Forget Design Thinking.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” I’ve updated my calculations on the amount of venture capital funding in the ed-tech industry for the month of May. As Inc notes , the report has ballooned to 355 slides, up from 66 in 2011. ” Venture Capital and the Business of Ed-Tech. advertising!

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Hack Education

AUGUST 18, 2017

Tune into the Contrafabulists podcast this weekend, when Kin Lane and I will discuss the response (or lack thereof) from the tech industry, including Cloudflare , Spotify , Squarespace , GoDaddy , Google , the EFF , and others. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Other National) Education Politics. ” asks Mindshift.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

11, 2001, has not been in use since 2011, so the move is largely symbolic and appeared to be aimed at distancing the departing administration from any effort by the new president to revive the program, known as the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, or Nseers.” “Could robots be marking your homework ?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. Why was so much ed-tech “fake news”? Are standing desks ? Is ESP real ? Should you ban laptops ?

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