ViewSonic Education

MAY 7, 2019

Large-format touchscreen LED displays, introduced in 2012, offered a new alternative with expanded benefits, reduced maintenance requirements and better overall total cost of ownership (TCO). With this option, the only component needed for full functionality is the LED display itself, although special pens may also be used.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Almost all of the PreK to 12 programming clustered in the Little America hotel, while the post-secondary, workforce training and company suites clustered in the more opulent Grand America across the street. That’s generally how much companies have to generate for most major banks to consider working with them to find a buyer.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. And he remembers battery life on those laptops lasting just an hour.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

They incorporated pre-made courses into their programs, and they provided laptops to their learners. (A The IT department partnered with Reaction Grid, a company specializing in virtual world projects, to create the first level in the Center. SPICE is leading the way in transforming family literacy for rural populations.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The free service also operates on the Web, allowing teachers to alternatively use a laptop, desktop computer, or any smartphone or tablet via Web browser. ClassDojo is free for teachers, and the company is dedicated to keeping it that way. To date, over 3.5 To download the ClassDojo app, visit: [link] app/classdojo/id552602056?ls=

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Google is being accused of invading the privacy of students using laptop computers powered by the internet company’s Chrome operating system. The complaint contends Google’s storage and analysis of the student profile violates a “Student Privacy Pledge” that the company signed last year.

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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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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Consider the following developments in artificial intelligence: In 2016, the Associated Press began outsourcing its minor-league baseball dispatches to a company called Automated Insights. A decade ago, I was a high school English teacher blissfully naive to what radical changes were coming thanks to edtech.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

But many of them are opening up 3D maps and taking virtual tours on their phones and laptops, thanks to location-based and virtual reality software. CampusBird is a product of Concept3D, a location-based software and 3D services company based in Boulder, CO. Some of these students are traveling campus by foot.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

The “Netflix for education” analogy has become somewhat of a cliché for edtech companies using student data to recommend anything from courses to textbooks. Private companies also took notice. The company also noticed that institutions weren’t as excited about a student-directed degree planning tool as they had expected. “We

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

When Apple released its first iPad seven years ago, the company thought one area it would revolutionize was education. Boniforti says the university chose Apple because in 2012, when they were considering a big move toward more technology, tablet options were limited and iPad had an appealing support system.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

What's more, as students increasingly use devices such as smartphones, laptops, and tablets in the classroom, schools have had to adapt to find the best way to integrate that technology into the curriculum. After reading about the results of learning studios on other campuses, JCCC partnered with classroom furniture company.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

In the foreground, music teacher Ryan Olsen operates the sound on a laptop. A two-year pilot program for a year-round, after-school theater club at Yung Wing was underwritten by Freddie and Myrna Gershon, a philanthropically minded theater-world couple (Freddie is chairman and CEO of the licensing company Music Theatre International).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. At the more extreme end of the spectrum, some high school students enroll in virtual schools for all or some classes, which may be run by states, nonprofits, universities, or private companies. Quality can vary greatly. Why Mississippi?

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. At the more extreme end of the spectrum, some high school students enroll in virtual schools for all or some classes, which may be run by states, nonprofits, universities, or private companies. Quality can vary greatly. Why Mississippi?

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

The 15-year-old today is more a sibling of cloud computing, of apps that are available from any screen, of mobile devices in many sizes and form factors that go beyond last century’s laptops. The early rise of the iPad peaked in 2012-13 at about 40 percent of shipments. First is the evolving nature of education technology.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

It closed its child care center in 2012, citing low demand. Hanging on an office door in Hawthorn Hall, for example, is a pastel-colored advertisement from Student Support Services inviting Latinx students to stop by for help with academic advising, tutoring and mentoring, book and laptop loan programs and financial literacy education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

. — On most afternoons, Jeremiah Smith, founder of an afterschool and summer program called the Rosedale Freedom Project, can be found sitting side-by-side with his students as they peer at laptops, trying to get through their assignments. The upside of using a company like Edgenuity is that it takes teachers time to build those resources.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

And if for some reason you need more ideas than what’s here—or if you’re just feeling nostalgic, as is befitting this time of year—take a look at our lists from 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , and 2009. I am also much more satisfied with their customer service than I was with the other company. Board Games.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

“If it’s plopping down some obsolete or irrelevant curriculum on a laptop and letting every kid go at their own pace, It’s hard to get excited about that,” he says. Some have privacy concerns about students’ personal data reportedly being shared with Microsoft, Amazon and other companies.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 6, 2020

When Kalyan Ray-Mazumder graduated from Yale in 2012, he wanted to work in two career paths: acting and education. He was determined to find a way to build a company that could democratize test prep access. Educator Profile: Kalyan Ray-Mazumder is Acting the Part of a Lifetime.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

based company continued its streak of education announcements with the launch of the Surface Go , a version of the hybrid tablet that Microsoft aims to sell to schools. So much that the company gave away 10,000 of those devices for free at an education technology conference in 2013.) K-12 classrooms has pitted Apple against Google.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

Metz set the journal down on her glass coffee table and opened the Dell laptop she’d received as a perk from the community health job she worked during the week. She knew, as she looked at the laptop screen, how improbable people might think earning a degree would be for her now. She’d dropped out of high school her junior year.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

in theoretical physics, he retired in 2019 as Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in England, after 13 years there including a year in 2012 as Visiting Professor at MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Roger Schank Chairman and CEO, Socratic Arts Roger Schank. movement nationally and internationally.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. Norton, as the seniors in the library close their balky laptops and head to class. The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 31, 2011

He will put it into effect in 2012, instead of 2014. The Obama Administration also announced its support of a new program, conjunction with the Young Entrepreneur Council , to create a new startup incubator program and investment company: Gen Y Capital Partners. Accolades Congratulations to the 2012 TED Fellows.

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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. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

About 20 students gazed at their laptops, an online poll open on each screen. The great irony is that the multimillion-dollar cable was planted in the Arctic by an Anchorage-based telecommunications company thanks, in large part, to global warming. Starting in 2012, an idea floated around Alaska that seemed sort of preposterous.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Thiel was one of the biggest financiers of Ron Paul's super PAC in 2012. The learn-to-code company Treehouse has launched “Techdegrees,” “a guided-learning experience designed to prepare students for entry-level developer jobs at companies across the country.” The company has raised $15.9

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” Reminder: here are the education companies Palantir founder Peter Thiel has invested in. Via Edsurge : “What Colleges Should Know About A Growing ‘ Talent Strategy ’ Push By Companies.” Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage this week, knocking many education companies who use AWS offline.

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The legislation also ordered telecom companies to provide their services to all public schools and libraries at discounted rates – from 20% to 90% off depending on the services provided and number of students receiving free and reduced school lunches.

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Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Congressional Republicans and the Trump White House appear poised to bring back year-round Pell Grant eligibility , which the Obama administration and Congress nixed in 2012 over cost concerns.” And then more money pours into other technology companies that promise to fix “ news literacy.”

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