The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Just beneath the surface, however, Burlington has become home over the last few years to an invisible economy of people who work remotely for the world’s biggest technology businesses, including Apple, Google, Twitter and IBM, hundreds and even thousands of miles from these companies’ chic and sprawling headquarters. And they let me.”

Company 131

Company Trends Report Survey 131

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 Edtech Companies With Asia-Based Investors. Based Company. Authess $2.2

EdTech 98

EdTech Knewton Company Robotics 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2017

It’s not exactly a move from Mr. Robot , but some students have figured out a way to change how their grades appear on online to someone looking at a website presented to them, for a moment at least. The aforementioned video, made in 2013, is not the only grade “hack” tutorial available online.

Robotics 84

Robotics Company System Video 84

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In 2013, after watching her three-year-old daughter work through phonics exercises on an iPad, it struck Scanlon that the apps at the time often did poorly measuring oral fluency. The company said it has fixed the glitch.) A few years ago, a video went viral of a child asking Alexa to play a song and getting raunchy results in return.

Exercises 64

Exercises Company Data Assessment 64

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

The magazine’s “30 Under 30” list, which highlights young leaders in fields such as technology, music and healthcare, added education to the list in 2013 and since then has grown from nearly 90 nominations in 2014 to more than 450 last year. (Shots at getting into Stanford and Harvard are both higher.)

Education 121

Education Learning Advocacy Blended Learning 121

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

A couple decades later, tractors were assembled here for Caterpillar, the construction machinery company. They have been working with local governments and tech companies to design solutions to problems such as homelessness, water conservation and clean energy. It was subsequently used as a storage warehouse.

Training 113

Training Sony Company Industry 113

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2017

Her work founding a leading a company landed her on Inc. 2013 Southeast Dallas Chamber of Commerce Principal of the Year. In 2013 she was honored by the Southeast Dallas Chamber of Commerce as Principal of the Year. @kylesmitley. Jen and Kyle are cofounders of Detroit Prep. N_Bernardino.

Robotics 113

Robotics Meeting Elementary Company 113

TeacherCast

JUNE 4, 2015

Vikas from WonderWorkshop first got me thinking about you music could help teach programming last year when I heard him speak about why Dash, one of their robots, plays the xylophone. is one of the companies in the Imagine K12 startup incubator this year. The trinket team has been working towards this vision since 2013.

Chromebook 68

Chromebook Robotics iPad Industry 68

My Paperless Classroom

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Vikas from WonderWorkshop first got me thinking about you music could help teach programming last year when I heard him speak about why Dash, one of their robots, plays the xylophone. is one of the companies in the Imagine K12 startup incubator this year. The trinket team has been working towards this vision since 2013.

Robotics 88

Robotics iPad Industry Software 88

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

Robotics 117

Robotics Education Company Industry 117

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

MOOCs Recent virtual upstarts, MOOCs—massive open online courses—catapulted onto the global learning stage when Stanford University computer scientists Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig in 2011 came upon the bright idea of streaming their robotics lectures over the Internet. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

Online Learning 130

Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 130

Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

No doubt, today’s technology companies view students and schools as a largely untapped market. Technology companies – particularly those hawking aspirational, education-related products – have long viewed parents in a similar way. Mattel is, after all, a toy company with lots of intellectual property.

Robotics 67

Robotics Company Technology System 67

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

So, this fall, the company added three new features, dubbed the “Classroom Conversation Toolset,” to let teachers pause the app classroom-wide, snap every computer to a particular screen, and cloak student identity to anonymously share answers with the entire class. Photo: Chris Berdik.

Blended Learning 40

Blended Learning Robotics Laptops Tablets 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 Okay, okay.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Stryker Orthopaedics, the Mahwah-based medical devices manufacturer; Sandvik Coromant, a Fair Lawn tooling company; Triangle Manufacturing of Upper Saddle River, which makes surgical implants; and Goya Foods of Jersey City are among eight manufacturers on the MechaForce advisory board. You are using robots, geometry, algebra, science.”.

Training 40

Training Industry Company Robotics 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. It also invested in software like ST Math and the reading program Lexia, created by the Rosetta Stone company. DeVonté Trask, 11. Lexia costs around $5,000 per year.

Personalized Learning 100

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 100

MindShift

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

“Technology addiction” doesn’t appear in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-V, published in 2013. Zichermann calls this, “a robot sitting on your shoulder — the angel of your good intention.” He runs Summerland, which he calls “a summer camp for screen overuse,” for teens.

Facebook 58

Facebook Social Media Study Gamification 58

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

. “Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.” ” – Thomas Friedman, 2013.

Technology 0

Technology Education Robotics System 0

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

And from 2013, by Harvard Business School professor, author of the book The Innovator’s Dilemma , and popularizer of the phrase “disruptive innovation,” Clayton Christensen: “In fifteen years from now, half of US universities may be in bankruptcy. The quotation is from 2012. So we can reorganize the bar graph.

Trends 40

Trends Report iPhone Software 40

Educator Innovator

AUGUST 6, 2014

Referring to P-TECH in his 2013 State of the Union address , Obama proclaimed: “We need to give every American student opportunities like this.”. While the press and even the President claim that P-TECH students will get entry-level jobs at IBM, the company makes a softer claim: that students will be first in line for available jobs.

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. million new students have been connected to high-speed access since 2013, and 98 percent of school districts now meet the Federal Communications Commission’s 100 kpbs/student goal for internet access, there remain 2.3

Analysis 158

Analysis Trends Chromebook EdTech 158

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

JULY 13, 2016

The Internet did become more privatized, more commercialized around that date – 1991 – and thanks to companies like AOL, a version of it became more accessible to more people. Our Internet service providers today are likely telephone and TV companies. So we can reorganize the bar graph. But it’s still got problems.

Technology 40

Technology Learning Data Libraries 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2017

Skye Morishita working on the robot she programmed at a recent CoderDojo session in Boston. On a recent Saturday, a squad of Lego robots fitted with markers limped, hopped and spun dizzily across the table. Quintyn Scott (left) and Ella Bartholomew program robots at a recent CoderDojo session in Boston. Photo: Chris Berdik.

Robotics 65

Robotics Blended Learning Laptops Software 65

EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Tim Draper will lead his students in learning about the fundamentals of launching a startup company under the mentorship of America’n business leaders. Background: A financial consultant before being crowned Miss USA in 2013, Erin is married to fellow student Tony Capasso. Twitter: @SequoiaB. Who are the Amazing Students? Erin Brady.

Twitter 177

Twitter Industry Robotics Video 177

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

African-Americans and Latino/Hispanics make up a tiny fraction of the overwhelmingly white, male-dominated workforce of major technology companies. based technology companies is African-American or Latino/Hispanic, and only one is a woman—Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM. In 2013, among B.A. In 2013, among B.A.

Industry 60

Industry STEM Software Course 60

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

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? The thread on this tweet has the details. “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

EdTech 170

EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Instead, each team member spent a few minutes sketching out how one part — a marble run, say, or a Lego Robotics kicking foot — would operate within the machine. There are two other STEAM labs in this school for third, fourth and fifth graders, which South Fayette opened in 2013.

Robotics 28

Robotics Elementary Technology STEM 28

eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2017

According to Philanthropy magazine in spring 2013, DeVos serves as chairman of the Windquest Group—a privately held, multi-company operating group that invests in technology, manufacturing, and clean energy—which she founded with her husband in 1989. Here’s What We Know. She invests in technology.

EdTech 75

EdTech Robotics Policies Trends 75

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Related: Is the future of education teacher-robots bumping into walls? In the fall of 2013, the education nonprofit EDUCAUSE awarded VLACS a $450,000 grant to help develop “learning through teams” and “learning through experiences,” which will debut by this summer. Soon, students will have even more ways to earn competencies.

Education 0

Education Course Laptops Blended Learning 0

User Generated Education

JULY 7, 2016

New tools that enable hands-on learning — 3D printers, robotics, microprocessors, wearable computers, e-textiles, “smart” materials and new programming languages — are giving individuals the power to invent. ( Dougherty, The Maker Mindset, 2013 ). The maker movement: A learning revolution ).

Maker Movement 150

Maker Movement Education STEM Software 150

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly sharing five school districts’ private information with an advisory company while it was negotiating for the districts’ contracts.” For-profit higher ed company Education Management Corp says it will close 22 out of 26 of its Brown Mackie College locations.

Education 49

Education Coursera Microsoft Company 49

User Generated Education

OCTOBER 16, 2015

New tools that enable hands-on learning — 3D printers, robotics, microprocessors, wearable computers, e-textiles, “smart” materials and new programming languages — are giving individuals the power to invent. ( Dougherty, The Maker Mindset, 2013 ). The maker movement: A learning revolution ).

Maker Movement 120

Maker Movement STEM Education Software 120

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via the AP: “A new federal lawsuit by Pennsylvania ’s attorney general says the nation’s largest student loan company engaged in abusive practices that have cost borrowers billions of dollars.” ” The largest student loan company is Navient. She’s an investor in a company that targets that group.)

Education 49

Education Robotics Company MOOC 49

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Pennsylvania judge has banned fraternity Pi Delta Psi from the state for a decade, a punishment for a hazing death in 2013, and an unprecedented step likely to rock the national Greek system.” awards debt collection contract to company with ties to DeVos.” Private city.

Education 43

Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

And a state push to fund schools more equitably with another tax measure failed in 2013. 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. It’s perhaps not surprising.

Laptops 40

Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40