TeacherCast

JULY 16, 2015

Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup. It is also one of the world’s most valuable companies. He subsequently worked on the first versions of Outlook Web Access, and multiple versions of Outlook desktop. About OneNote. OneNote in Education Blog : [link].

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

These devices accelerated the unbundling of content so that students can directly access leveled news articles on Newsela, or their favorite book on Epic. That doesn’t mean every student has access to a device all the time. Introduced in 2010, iPads spurred Dumbo Drops of tablet tech into classrooms.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2016

These kits are attracting real dollars, too: MEL Science , a company based in the UK, has just raised $2.5 In 2014, he created MEL science kits to immerse the learner through blending hands-on experiments, videos and virtual reality. Access to the MEL Chemistry app is also included. alone exceeds $1 billion, he says.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. In the early years of Lindsay’s experiment, few students had internet access at home. “I

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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. So when Hiram College announced last month that it would provide every student and professor an iPad starting this fall, it made us wonder what the state of Apple’s sector-creating tablet on campuses is these days.

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The Electric Educator

AUGUST 2, 2016

Google Cardboard is the 20% project of Google Engineers David Coz and Damien Henry first announce at Google I/O in 2014. Tablets (iPad and Android) can be used to view VR content in “normal” mode. The experience is not as immersive as using a VR viewer, but is a good option to consider if you already have access to tablets.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

Dallas News → Writes Joan Hughes: "Can tablets teach children basic math and reading skills? A paper and pencil version of the SAT will continue to be available in order to make the test as accessible as possible to all students. Tagged on: August 18, 2017 Is classroom technology good for learning or wasting time?

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MAY 30, 2022

One way to address this is to partner with digital publishing companies or third-party service providers who can help in the digital content transformation. These digital versions can then be accessed on all types of reading devices including tablets and smartphones. . Digital Publishing / March 21, 2014.

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Kathy Schrock

MARCH 30, 2016

They were one of the first companies that understood how important it was to offer cases that would protect student laptops as one-to-one programs were rolled out in schools. I purchased a few Higher Ground cases over the years, as they expanded their line of products to include tablet cases and sleeves.

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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.

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Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Within educational technology, tech companies can acquire data via multiple routes. The fact that EdTech companies treat student data (which really is a track record of learning, personal interest, and growth) as an asset to be bought or sold is on very shaky ground, both pedagogically and ethically.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Through Verizon Innovative Learning, K–12 students in participating schools have access to state-of-the-art technology, including HTC Vive consoles for immersive virtual reality experiences and Ultimaker 3D printers and littleBits modular electronic sets to improve makerspace offerings. .

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

With the tablet classroom in mind, Common Sense Media, well-renowned for their digital citizenship curriculum and resources, now offers resources for teaching digital citizenship in an iPad classroom. Cynthia Cornwell Virginia So glad it is happening and is so accessible! Learn more here. Classroom 2.0 Ning Users: Your Feedback Wanted!

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Libraries Common Core Classroom Digital Citizenship 59

Kitaboo on EdTech

JANUARY 18, 2023

When content is stored on one’s laptop, smartphone, or local device, it becomes impossible for other team members to access it. Depending on the kind of content shared, creators and recipients may need to use different platforms to access it. It enables them to access it from any location at any time.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. In 2014, The Economist asserted that “nearly half of American jobs could be automated in a decade or two.”“Before

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Manheim Central School District (PA) Superintendent Dr. Peter Aiken said they partnered with a company to educate their staff about email threats. The company periodically sends phishing tests to staff; those that get caught clicking on the emails are given remedial lessons. Schools should also classify data (e.g.,

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Strategy Student Data Privacy Data Policies 53

Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 20, 2020

By converting your documents and books from doc to ePUB format , you are enabling more and more people to access it on their preferred medium. It lays down the formatting rules that are followed by all devices, including eBook readers, mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and computers. Hire an eBook Designer or Company.

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eBook Outcomes Software Mobility 59

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].

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2015

Over the last few years of the Speak Up survey, more students and administrators have signaled the importance of being able to access mobile devices in the classroom, whether through Bring Your Own Device policy consideration and implementation or through school-provided technology.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

It’s also looking at the potential changes, said Dr. Gabe Soumakian, CEO and Founder, Sup Du Jour Consulting Group, like what happens when a software or hardware company goes out of business. ClassLink empowers your students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources. Are they prepared to adapt to other systems?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

But the authors of the 2014 report also noted that research thus far has failed “get inside the black box of what works,” in terms of specific models of instruction and curriculum delivery. It lets users access music, movies and other entertainment on their tablets as an incentive to view an equivalent amount of self-improvement programming.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

Zach Leverenz speaking to students at New York City middle school MS 258 during the New York launch of EveryoneOn, in June 2014. Yet, the fact remains that too many students still scrounge for the vital internet access their classmates (and technology-enamored school reformers) take for granted. Photo: Clay Williams. That matters.

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Broadband Mobility Digital Divide Learning 87

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.” awards debt collection contract to company with ties to DeVos.” ” Via Buzzfeed : “Here’s How A Student Loan Debt Relief Company Preyed On Its Customers.” ” The company: the Student Loan Assistance Center.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything. Like many students in the district, she has no access to the internet at home. In 2014, the district solicited grant money from the federal government to install fiber optic networking that has allowed for better internet connections.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Via Education Week : “One million high school students from low-income families will receive free internet access under President Barack Obama’s ’ My Brother’s Keeper’ initiative for minority males, the White House announced.” ” That’s after paying £4,327 in UK taxes in 2014.

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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. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um,

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

She and her husband also donated $200,000 to AFC’s charitable arm in 2014 and 2015 through the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation. Here are the education technology companies that have raised money from ISPs. The open-access publisher PLOS has a new CEO : Alison Mudditt. ” More via Education Week.

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The act called for “universal service” so that all Americans could have access to affordable telecommunications services, regardless of their geographical location. In 2014, the FCC undertook a “modernization” plan for E-rate in part to address the changing demand for telecommunications services.

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E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Via The Phoenix New Times : “The Battle Isn’t Over Between ASU Professor and Cop Who Arrested Her in 2014.” The “pioneer in the science of learning,” as Inside Higher Ed puts it , will help the technology company with its internal training program. ” The company, which has raised some $107.4

Education 45

Education MOOC Company Pearson 45

Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

| The Hechinger Report → In three years, no one will be able to explain why it was that colleges and universities continued to hand more than half of their tuition to companies marketing and supporting their online programs – the online program managers. It’s gives fake news a business model. It is that bad.

EdTech 150

EdTech Data Broadband Company 150

Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

| The Hechinger Report → In three years, no one will be able to explain why it was that colleges and universities continued to hand more than half of their tuition to companies marketing and supporting their online programs – the online program managers. It’s gives fake news a business model. It is that bad.

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EdTech Data Broadband Company 150

Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I wrote “an explainer” of sorts on Thiel and his politics, and I listed the education companies that he’s invested in. Have any ed-tech companies, particularly those funded by Thiel or Zuckerberg or Y Combinator, spoken out about this? women of groping and sexual assault. Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

’” Via Education Week : “ FCC Seeks Comment on Access to WiFi for Schools and Libraries.” Via the Future of Privacy Forum : “ Law Enforcement Access to Student Records : What Is the Law?” ” ( No disclosure that Edsurge shares investors with the company.). From the HR Department.

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Education Company Data Report 47

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “DeVos Abandons Plan to Allow One Company to Service Federal Student Loans.” Buzzfeed’s Molly Hensley-Clancy looks at the acquisition of EDMC – the parent company of the Art Institutes chain – by The Dream Center Foundation , a network of Christian missionary centers.

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