The Innovative Educator

MAY 8, 2019

GADD was launched in 2012 to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) Seven-Day GAAD Challenge One such event is being organized by website management company Siteimprove. access/inclusion and people with different abilities. You can join their s even-day GAAD challenge.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Since 2012, Verizon Innovative Learning has helped to close the digital divide by providing 450,000 students in Title I schools across the country with connectivity, technology and an immersive STEM curriculum, investing over $535M in market value towards STEM education. billion in 2019.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

Another bootcamp has been gobbled up by an education technology company looking to break into the corporate learning and career readiness market. Still, the deal is less than the estimated $168 million that Galvanize has raised since it started in 2012, according to Crunchbase. 31, according to company earnings also released Monday.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2021

23, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, today announced the formation of its customer advisory board, a group of key customers who will support the company’s goal of helping more learners read, write, and speak with confidence. “It BOSTON (Aug. Eddie Ruiz is the Florida state director for Charter Schools USA.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2019

The annual tradition dates back to 2012, and features early-stage companies showing off the latest efforts to solve intractable problems across the education landscape. The company offers a suite of administrative software to help daycare providers execute a variety of tasks, from managing government subsidies to financial bookkeeping.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JULY 21, 2013

It''s informative and entertaining and it was created by blur Group , a global technology company that specializes in ecommerce. Tumblr followed later that year, Instagram started using hashtags in 2010, Google Plus hopped on the bandwagon in 2011, and Flickr barely beat out Facebook to avoid last place in 2013.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2017

Young companies, however, rarely have the luxury of a dedicated human resources team to give each application more than a cursory vetting. That’s the first thing Jamila Amarshi did when she saw a job post at Clever in December 2012. “I Knowing what makes a company click—and tick—can also quickly grab the staff’s attention.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”)

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

There is a full web console to control and monitor things and you can either create a Celly login or login with Facebook or Twitter. The company also announced today availability of the Celly Android App for free download on Google Play. “We ly , or follow us on Twitter , Facebook and our blog. Get started with Celly at cel.

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techlearning

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

This research is the second wave in an ongoing study tracking teens' attitudes about social media; we released our original report in 2012. Back then, Snapchat was just a fledgling start-up, and Facebook was a top choice for teens. In 2012, that number was 34 percent. Facebook is out. Instagram and Snapchat are in.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2023

In 2012, when Luciano started teaching preschool, the median annual salary for IADT graduates in Chicago was just $25,000 ten years after graduating, and more than half of students with federal loans were either delinquent or in default five years after starting repayment. “It was just so demoralizing,” she said.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

This research is the second wave in an ongoing study tracking teens' attitudes about social media; we released our original report in 2012. Back then, Snapchat was just a fledgling start-up, and Facebook was a top choice for teens. In 2012, that number was 34 percent. Facebook is out. Instagram and Snapchat are in.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 6, 2018

When the power goes out, you’re the last people that the power company comes to. It’s our new private Facebook group. In 2012, Jeff was recognized as one of top 50 educators using social media at the first ever Bammy Awards and has been nominated three times in the category of Innovator of the Year. Vicki: (agrees).

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 25, 2016

Company cofounders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don to the publication that the funding round closed in late 2015 and that the company plans use the new capital to “grow their team, and to figure out what kind of content and features can be useful to parents who use the app, not just during the school day, but at home.”.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Mark Zuckerburg might think that fake news on Facebook didn’t sway the election , but Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci (and many others) aren’t buying it. In a piece for the New York Times (where she is a regular contributor and a must-read), Tufekci writes: He is also contradicting Facebook’s own research.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 11, 2017

The basic premise (I suggest you read the whole article ) is that a 17 year old working at BlackBoard (a technology company), is ridiculed for using their phone during a meeting by some older adults, because it looks like he is texting, while he is actually taking notes. The ending (spoiler alert!)

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

This research is the second wave in an ongoing study tracking teens' attitudes about social media; we released our original report in 2012. Back then, Snapchat was just a fledgling start-up, and Facebook was a top choice for teens. In 2012, that number was 34 percent. Facebook is out. Instagram and Snapchat are in.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

This research is the second wave in an ongoing study tracking teens' attitudes about social media; we released our original report in 2012. Back then, Snapchat was just a fledgling start-up, and Facebook was a top choice for teens. In 2012, that number was 34 percent. Facebook is out. Instagram and Snapchat are in.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2016

Uversity , formerly known as Inigral, had been first to market with an app, built on the Facebook platform, that provided a safe, professional environment for incoming college students. The company had agreed to that goal as a condition of the Gates Foundation investment. Uversity’s pipeline was thin.

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ProfHacker

MAY 11, 2018

There are now an estimated 400-plus DTC startups that have collectively raised some $3 billion in venture capital since 2012." The study has wide-reaching implications for advertising giants like Facebook and Google, which increasingly find themselves under pressure to disclose more about their targeting practices."

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2016

Companies, unsurprisingly, are happy to help "prove" their effectiveness by publishing their own studies, sometimes in partnership with third-party research groups, to validate the impact of a product or service. “[Educators] need to look beyond the flash of marketing language and bold claims, and dig into the methodology,” Huh says.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

One high-profile version of this type of event occurred in Newark back in 2010, after Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg gave a matching $100 million-dollar donation to the New Jersey school district. One of the major components of this reform was enacted in 2012 when the district received $19.3

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We spoke to Harris recently about how his company is trying to shift the demographics of the coding bootcamp industry and what that looks like. But coding bootcamps have only existed since 2012, and they’ve been pushed to hold themselves accountable to getting people into jobs. It’s amazing.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

In 2012 those in the bootcamp space had discovered a secret: the popularization of open-source languages like Ruby and JavaScript and the growth of startups that used those technologies combined to reinvent the way that programmers could be trained and become effective quickly. The Gartner Hype Cycle. The "Peak".

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 29, 2012

Your allies, your connections, can help you to navigate the larger number of challenges that can ultimately derail a startup company'. Twitter feed into your blog, or Facebook links mirrored in LinkedIn) means that teachers are never alone. Other networks are available. The ability to connect these networks together (e.g.

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The Innovative Educator

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Department of Education has failed to reauthorize funding to enhance education through technology so in August 2012 ed tech offices in all five boroughs of New York City were shut down as the funding ran dry. When companies and school systems partner to develop educator expertise, everybody wins.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 16, 2015

Do companies use these technologies, and how? 450 people attended representing many major companies, from for example, banks, manufacturing companies, the police, the military and government departments. Do companies support the use of these technologies by their employees? Can we apply this also to corporate learning?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. In the city’s two traditional high schools — Deering and Portland High School — classes look, and sound, much as they did prior to 2012. We’re not ready for this.”.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2012

Notes from SXSWedu 2012 Concurrent Session Kalmus ( @TedKalmus ) & de Haan ( @TeachWithIntent ) ( TeachWithIntent.com ) Storify Archive of this Session (also embedded below): [link] Students like to track themselves online when shown how to do that. 20% of the 6th graders they surveyed in their Seattle school had Facebook accounts.

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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. ” he asks. Whatever “it” is.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

From Twitter to Facebook and Pinterest to Vine (hey--what about Classroom 2.0 ?!), During its inaugural year last year, more than170 education organizations, companies, and communities came together, offering 450+ events and activities.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Here’s another hint: they haven’t created a new open textbook since 2012. They understood the outsized influence that billion dollar behemoths like Microsoft would continue to have, and knew that the only way the open source model could “win” would be if proprietary software companies adopted it.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 26, 2015

Ed note: This post was first published in 2012, and is in the process of being updated. Palabea The Facebook of language networking, Palabea lets you upload video and audio, record, translate, and of course, dialogue. 100 Resources To Learn to Speak Another Language. by TeachThought Staff.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 11, 2022

Schweik and English, 2012 ) is significantly further along than anything in OER, and there have been many more interesting experiments in open source sustainability than in OER. According to Wikipedia there are bug bounty programs at Mozilla, Google, Reddit, Square, Microsoft, and Facebook, among other companies and organizations.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

textbook or testing company). These resources can include YouTube videos; tutorials from companies such as Spark- fun, Make: Magazine, Instructables, and Adafruit; relevant books and magazines; social media accounts and hashtags (e.g., #mak- mak- ered, #stem); and online communities, such as Facebook groups.

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TeacherCast

MAY 8, 2019

In 2010, I had the opportunity to listen to my first podcast while taking a trip with my wife and from that moment, my life and my career would forever take an amazing turn that has given me the opportunity to connect with thousands of educators and hundreds of companies and make a pretty nice life for my family in the process.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

We now face everything from network-based ransomware worms to devastating wiper malware,” the company stated. “At He predicts some companies will choose to ignore it, accepting the risk. For example, a major trend toward platform personalization — whether it be on Facebook or Spotify, Wave or NextDoor — raises the privacy stakes.

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