EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

In 2013, only six states kept records of chronic absenteeism, notes the Johns Hopkins report. Technology can vastly scale these interventions. Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams, which already update students’ guardians about classroom and grade performance, can be adapted to share attendance records.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In 2013, only six states kept records of chronic absenteeism, notes the Johns Hopkins report. Technology can vastly scale these interventions. Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams, which already update students’ guardians about classroom and grade performance, can be adapted to share attendance records.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In 2013, only six states kept records of chronic absenteeism, notes the Johns Hopkins report. Technology can vastly scale these interventions. Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams, which already update students’ guardians about classroom and grade performance, can be adapted to share attendance records.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In 2013, only six states kept records of chronic absenteeism, notes the Johns Hopkins report. Technology can vastly scale these interventions. Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams, which already update students’ guardians about classroom and grade performance, can be adapted to share attendance records.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 15, 2019

Six years ago, mixed reality game designer Jane McGonigal ’s keynote at the 2013 ISTE conference focused on how video games can boost resilience in real life. Cloud technology allows video game streaming on nearly any device , from smartphones to traditional game consoles. But Microsoft ’s Project xCloud may be the furthest along.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Microsoft has acquired what it calls an “exclusive licensing” to the technology used in Chalkup , a collaboration platform where teachers can organize, annotate, share and grade digital coursework with students. The deal has all the trappings of a company acquisition, even if that’s not how Microsoft chooses to describe it.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. Districts, schools and teachers need a lot of hand-holding when it comes to technology. Is Amazon a sleeping giant of edtech?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 9, 2017

10MT | #29 Steven Anderson talks technology trends From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Steven Anderson @web20classroom brings back the veil and helps us learn about these emerging technologies. Are these technologies expensive to use? Are there any risks with these technologies?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

More than 600 exhibitors and 34,000 attendees are expected to descend on London this week for the annual Bett show , where some companies come with a barrage of updates befitting one of the biggest education technology trade shows in the world. Managing and grading assignments in Microsoft Teams. Or so it feels.)

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 2, 2017

I first met Office Mix a few years ago, before I had the required Office 2013 or higher. To set up educator accounts through Office for Education (which requires a school sign-up), all students need is a Google or Microsoft account, or just an email. You have to have MS Office 2013 or above to run Mix. Education applications.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In 2013, just months after I started working as CIO of Bridgeport School District in Connecticut, my biggest fear about the job became reality: The district firewall was attacked. It’s good to know there are a number of built-in anti-phishing tools from Google and Microsoft. marquita.brown_tC0Z. Wed, 10/30/2019 - 15:13.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Pearson is expanding the power of digital technology to help students build strong writing skills. Now, Pearson Writer digital writing resources are integrated with Microsoft Word, providing students access to support for improving their writing skills.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In 2013, just months after I started working as CIO of Bridgeport School District in Connecticut, my biggest fear about the job became reality: The district firewall was attacked. It’s good to know there are a number of built-in anti-phishing tools from Google and Microsoft. marquita.brown_tC0Z. Wed, 10/30/2019 - 15:13.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

Schultz has taken a career in building special needs software and games for people who are blind or have low vision into ObjectiveEd, a new endeavor at a time when investor interest in educational tools and investor interest in assistive technology are apparently on the rise. Schultz isn’t a stranger to technology for people with impairments.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 17, 2017

This isn’t new to PowerPoint 2016, but if you haven’t upgraded in a while or simply didn’t know add-ins are available to Microsoft Office, you’ll love these. It’s like a program within a program and is available to all PowerPoint 2013 and up users. Here are ten of my favorites: Add-ins. New charts.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

It’s rare that you have the ability to to take consumer technology and offer it to schools,” he said. MAKING THE PRIVACY CUT: A 2013 Fordham study found that less than 7 percent of the district-vendor contracts restricted the sale of student information by vendors. And then, there’s Amazon. pic.twitter.com/4ZIax3aDBA.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Upon graduating from Harvard with a Masters degree in computer science, Hadi pursued a career in technology starting at Microsoft where he rose into the executive ranks. Drawing parallels to past technological advancements like the personal computer and the smartphone, he asserts that AI is of a comparable scale, if not larger.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This week, a software engineer in Atlanta is willing to pay $40 for a referral at IBM, Microsoft, or Warner Media. It’s a cross between a career coaching service and a gig economy marketplace that connects job seekers directly with employees at top technology companies. Now, you can pay strangers on the internet to refer you for jobs.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms. But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful.

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

This is the progression of technology integration at CCS lower school since I came on staff in January of 2004 as a part-time related arts computer teacher. After being a high school computer teacher, I decided to teach the Microsoft computer applications of Word and Powerpoint to the fourth and fifth grade students.

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The Innovative Educator

OCTOBER 8, 2014

While watching lessons automates what is done in the traditional classroom, there is a new tool called Microsoft Office Mix which brings lectures and lessons to life by turning PowerPoints into interactive lessons called “Mixes” that are very simple to create. OfficeMix is free if you have PowerPoint 2013 for Windows. I want more ».

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

Flocks of educators and entrepreneurs have made their way down to San Antonio this week for the mecca of edtech conferences, hosted by the International Society for Technology in Education—better known as ISTE. MICROSOFT CLASSROOM IS NO MORE. Instead, educators will be able to use Microsoft Teams in Office 365 for Education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

2000) which sells HELP Math, and Boulder Language Technologies (est. Kinems : Founded in 2013, Kinems aims to use Microsoft's Kinect to develop games to support special education, particularly students in grades K-9 with dyspraxia, autism, and ADHD. MIcrosoft's Innovation Center in Greece is a partner.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The company says it has trained more than 14,000 students since its founding in 2013. Graduates have landed jobs with employers like Microsoft, Facebook and Boeing. And Springboard recently finalized a partnership with Microsoft to help train and place 5,000 students into analytics jobs with the tech giant over the next three years.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

She is an engineer who holds a doctorate in speech-recognition technology, and has spent the past two decades researching this field at Columbia University, IBM and Bell Laboratories. She noticed another problem: Many of the apps used speech recognition technologies that were trained with adult data samples.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2018

This is a challenge for students who will be unable to create a form from their personal or Home Microsoft account. Office Mix is one of the many amazing add-ons now available through PowerPoint (2013 and newer). For those with PowerPoint 2013 and later, it is free, online, and available on all platforms and all digital devices.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

When New Markets Venture Partners first began fundraising for its second education technology investment fund, Barack Obama was in office, Brexit for up for debate and iPhones still had headphone jacks. They last did so in 2013.) Now, more than two years later, New Markets is finally calling it a wrap.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 27, 2017

Absent an ethical framework to guide our decisions, I am increasingly of the mind that the answers to the important questions about educational technology are ‘turtles all the way down.’ That we go through elaborate theater to suggest that this is NOT true of online testing says more about education policy than technology.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. CB Insights projects 2016 funding totals to fall back to 2013 level , after three consecutive years of increase. His newest role—as general partner at New Market Venture Partners—coincides with the first closing on a new education fund. The Fulton, Md.-based

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

AVID also launched a website, “Open Access,” that curates digital instructional materials from nine content providers including Code.org, Microsoft and MIT. We were really lucky; we already had a technology solution and mindset of serving students in China over our technology,” says Chris Hoehn-Saric, general manager of Shorelight Live.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 16, 2015

July 16, 2015 Here is an interesting short video from Microsoft in Education showing you how to use PowerPoint 2013 to create educational infographics and design communicative visuals. The tutorial.read more.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 11, 2013

Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses This is part 8 in the series on the future of learning and technology. The first week of 2013 saw many articles appearing on what we can expect to see this year. These are not future technologies. They are technologies for today, 2013. They are technologies for today, 2013.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 15, 2016

The three major operating systems—Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Mac OS and iOS, and Microsoft’s Windows—are battling for dominance in sales, says Futuresource Consulting , the London-based research company that completed the study released earlier this month. K-12, But Is Microsoft Poised for Global Growth. In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In 2013, co-founders and childhood friends Kim Taylor and Cecilia Retelle started Ranku out of the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator, raising $500,000 in seed funding led by Mark Cuban, GSV and Microsoft Ventures. Ranku offers a recruitment platform using predictive analytics to help colleges increase online degree enrollment.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

He started by contributing to engineering courses and increasingly focused on technology in Further and Higher Education. He worked on computer-aided design then moved to developing Cisco Networking Academy and Microsoft Academy courses and integrating them into broader qualifications. psid=2013-02-26.0632.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

WriteLab was founded in 2013 by Matthew Ramirez, then a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley and Donald McQuade, a long-time English professor at the same school. In December 2013, he began to work with McQuade to write algorithms that would capture some of the feedback he so regularly provided.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 3, 2014

"If you can imagine it, you can invent it" - unknown I recall Nicky Hockley''s keynote for the Reform Symposium 2013. She argued that the future is found in the present, and that many of the top science fiction films feature technology that already is in existence. One technology that caught my eye was the universal translator.

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