The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. The project that has caused the biggest splash came from the Innovation Center’s aquatic robotics team. LONGMONT, Colo. —

STEM 101

STEM Report Robotics Company 101

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education.

Education 217

Education Learning Software Knewton 217

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.

Education 98

Education Company EdTech Robotics 98

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2019

Even popular culture, where robot teachers and wired students have been a staple of science fiction for decades, demonstrates our tendency to project current beliefs that schools should “leverage” (i.e., be built around) those technologies perceived as representing the latest form of modernity.

Trends 156

Trends Education Analysis Robotics 156

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Yesterday, the New York-based company announced that Ryan Prichard, who has been with the company since July 2012, most recently as Chief Technology Officer, will assume the CEO position. Ferreira, who founded the company in 2008, will remain on the company’s board of directors.

Knewton 60

Knewton Adaptive Learning Company Education 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

based company now touts itself as a provider of adaptive-learning technologies for educational content providers. Kidaptive first entered the edtech market in 2012 with Leo’s Pad, a game-based learning app that offered mini-games and puzzles to assess cognitive skills in young children.

Adaptive Learning 69

Adaptive Learning Knewton Pearson Company 69

edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2021

While tech jobs were clearly the wave of the future, many students in Compton were not being exposed to STEAM programs, coding classes, and extracurricular activities such as robotics competitions. Dr. Darin Brawley , Compton Unified School District’s (CUSD) Superintendent, has been with the district since 2012. About the Presenters.

E-rate 57

E-rate Professional Learning Elementary Robotics 57

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.”)

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

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. can make political donations.

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The quotation is from 2012. Indeed, according to the latest statistics from the Department of Education – now granted, this is from the 2012–2013 academic year – there are 4726 degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States. The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company.

Trends 40

Trends Report iPhone Software 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

“Over the next few years, textbooks should be obsolete” – Arne Duncan, 2012. ” Robots are coming for our jobs. The robots of education technology boast of “machine learning,” then create frameworks and models for learning that they try to fit humans into in turn. Or so we’re told.

Technology 0

Technology Education Robotics System 0

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

Through summer immersion camps and clubs like the one Locklear helped establish in Pembroke earlier this year, the organization has helped more than 185,000 girls learn to code since its founding in 2012. In the meantime, they used funds from a small Girls Who Code grant to purchase a robot for the girls to keep at the Boys and Girls Club. “We

Robotics 167

Robotics Groups Resources Technology 167

Educator Innovator

AUGUST 6, 2014

A recent employment forecast by the Bureau of Labor Statistics notes that between 2012 and 2022, only occupations that require a master’s degree will grow faster than jobs requiring an associate’s degree. The chance to earn an associate’s degree could have significant payoff in terms of income earning potential. Tomorrow’s Opportunities.

Education 29

Education STEM Outcomes Robotics 29

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Not quite enough time for our robot overlords to overtake us, but both distant and soon enough to make us wonder. The early rise of the iPad peaked in 2012-13 at about 40 percent of shipments. And if you’re still wondering about our robot overlords and where they fit in—well, what do you think the current K-12 boom in coding is for?

Analysis 160

Analysis Trends Chromebook EdTech 160

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

So Joffe created eLearn.fyi , a database of more than 300 online learning tools, including a civics curriculum founded by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and engineering lessons on how to build a robotic arm. She spent $19 to host a website and contacted software companies for free licenses. – CAYLA BAMBERGER.

Education 108

Education Online Learning Report Elementary 108

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.

Exercises 40

Exercises System Software Comparison 40

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A firm believer in the fact that technology can make a difference in the ways that schools connect and protect students, Migliorino co-founded School Connect, a company that provided a web-based platform for schools to create their own mobile-messaging applications. The company was sold to Jostens, Inc.

Education 128

Education Learning EdTech Data 128

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Previously, she was a Technology Integrator at Sacred Heart teaching robotics and programming to 5th through 7th grades and supporting the faculty''s technology and integration needs. In the past, he turned his interest in technology into several successful online companies, including MyDesktop.com, which sold to Internet.com in 1999.

Conference 59

Conference Education Pearson Technology 59

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. ” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. ” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp.

Education 52

Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 52

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The company said that the Department of Education’s decision to bar it from federal financial aid forced it to do so. Employees claim they were not notified that the company would be closing. Reminder: Do not write for free – particularly for venture-backed companies like Edsurge. ITT has closed its doors.

Khan Academy 40

Khan Academy Education LMS Company 40

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

In December 2012 – we all remember 2012 right? But as it turned out, the zeppelin company had gone out of business – I imagine that many people, like myself, could only think about Christopher Walken and Grace Jones’ characters and opted not to go. Let me begin with a story. ” ( Machines have no wants.).

Education 40

Education Robotics MOOC Company 40

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

In fact, three of the 10 most popular courses on Coursera aren’t produced by a college or university at all, but by a company. That company—called Deeplearning.ai —is a unique provider of higher education. Since the course began in 2012, it has drawn more than 1.7 That company is now valued at more than a billion dollars.

Coursera 127

Coursera MOOC Course Company 127

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot.

Technology 85

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

“ Daniel Greenstein , who has overseen the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ’s work on postsecondary education since 2012, announced Monday that he would leave the foundation next month,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. million from the testing company ACT.

Lenovo 51

Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 51

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Via the AP : “One of the nation’s largest student loan servicing companies may have driven tens of thousands of borrowers struggling with their debts into higher-cost repayment plans. the nation’s third-largest student loan servicing company.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

Education 52

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

Monica Crowley , Trump’s pick for director of strategic communications for the National Security Council, has decided to not take a position with the new administration following revelations about her plagiarizing her dissertation and her 2012 book. ” The company in question: Dipont Education Management Group. ”).

Education 40

Education Pearson E-rate MOOC 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Extra money has allowed these wealthier districts to invest heavily in Chromebooks and iPads, state-of-the-art robotics programs, computerized blackboards, and high-end 3-D printers. In 2012, for instance, researchers found that only 26 percent of low-income teens attending a science and technology camp wanted to become chemical engineers.

Laptops 40

Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

“After Gayle Manchin took over the National Association of State Boards of Education in 2012, she spearheaded an unprecedented effort that encouraged states to require schools to purchase medical devices that fight life-threatening allergic reactions,” writes USA Today. ” The company in question: edX.

Education 40

Education Coursera Facebook Social Media 40

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. And “free” doesn’t last. 3D Printing.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

” More news about a data breach at a testing company in the infosec section below. Edsurge covers Clever ’s new product “Clever Goals,” which takes the data that the company gleans about student usage of technology and sells it back to schools. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Empathy?!

Education 44

Education Elsevier MOOC Knewton 44

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

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. Roughly 14 percent of children statewide live in poverty. “If

Broadband 82

Broadband Report Accessibility Video 82

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.” .” Presidential Campaign Hellscape.

Education 52

Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens. That spending, in turn, produces more than 2,600 patents and 400 companies a year, according to the National Science Board. billion allocated annually by the federal government for research.

Industry 84

Industry Trends System STEM 84

Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

Via The USA Today : “Kids on winning robotics team told, ‘Go back to Mexico’ ” The kids were from Pleasant Run Elementary School in Indianapolis. More on racism at a robotics competition in the immigration section above. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The robotics company has raised $36.03

Education 52

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The administration said it will phase out the program, which was established by President Obama in 2012, after a six-month period to give Congress a chance to act on legislation that could restore the program.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The company offers “virtual science labs” and has raised $13.67

Education 45

Education Broadband Company Data 45

Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

Solocron Education LLC , a company whose entire ‘education’ business is filing lawsuits, owns U.S. The company has raised $57 million total. The company has raised $61 million total. The robot startup, formerly known as Play-i, has raised $35.9 I wish more education companies would follow his lead.

Education 40

Education Company Report Data 40

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.”

Education 47

Education Coursera Robotics Broadband 47