The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Learn more or connect with Amanda on Twitter @ AmandaFoxSTEM Brad Weinstein Brad Weinstein founded TeacherGoals in 2014 as a way to inspire educators that do such important work with students. We have to go back in and continually edit, check for accuracy, check for bias, make sure it's meeting and serving the needs of our students.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2020

The collaboration comes as a result of both companies’ goal to give teachers, students and makers everywhere the ability to make a positive impact on their communities by 3D printing respirators for those in need. Schools around the world use pi-top to teach core STEAM skills in coding, robotics and AI. About pi-top.

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Laptops Robotics Analysis Online Learning 52

EdNews Daily

JUNE 16, 2016

Meet the career and college-planning app, Schoold.co. Government can garnish wages and withhold tax refunds to meet student loan debt requirements. billion in free federal grant money unused over the last academic year (via 2014). By Robyn D. You can now hold the future in your hand before this phrase comes to life.

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Game-Based Learning Android Robotics Data 181

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.

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Training Sony Company Industry 110

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. (The

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 100

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.”.

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Training Industry Company Robotics 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

But a recent reorganization of the NSF’s grantmaking portfolio and personnel has raised concerns about whether that support will continue—especially after a dozen edtech companies that recently applied for funding said they were all unfairly rejected. The NSF is one of 12 federal departments and agencies that participate in this program.

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EdTech Robotics Education Company 139

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Soon, employees from one of the world’s most influential companies will arrive to teach these students about computer science: how to program computer games, how to work with data and how to found and run a business. Some students have started businesses, while others have designed apps or built robots. Who Isn’t Being Served?

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Industry STEM Education Survey 130

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

DECEMBER 20, 2015

After a week of crossing the country, visiting places, companies, and organizations, and meeting the students and adults I discovered many innovative practices that are incorporated into their schools and culture. The First Robotics Y Team 3211 of Yeruham needs donations from the community to fund these young makers.

Robotics 40

Robotics Education Facebook Company 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

It also means fewer language programs, robotics labs and other enrichment opportunities that parents increasingly perceive as necessary. But Koehler would need to meet many more kids like this one to stave off school closures forever. For two years, SFUSD has also worked with digital marketing companies.

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E-rate Elementary Education Report 120

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

A London-based company in the crowded market of do-it-yourself programmable hardware for students seeks to shake off negative headlines as it restructures and changes focus to the U.S. As part of this restructuring, Pi-Top , founded in 2014, has battled bad press related to its products and its decision to lay off staff.

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Company Strategy Robotics Pearson 78

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

There’s an assumption that virtual school students are closed off, online all day, and they don’t ever meet anyone. During these introductory sessions, by phone or web chat, Kent explains course logistics — for example, how she and the student will meet (virtually) at least once a month and how to upload weekly assignments.

Education 0

Education Course Laptops Blended Learning 0

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

” Via NPR : “Outcry After Louisiana Teacher Arrested During School Board Meeting.” 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.” This is how well your district does.”

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Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43

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. Mayor Tom Norton (center) meets with the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) advisory board at Northridge High School. Greeley, Colo.,

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Via Masslive.com : “ Massachusetts state government announced a new partnership with an online education company on Thursday to help public employees and the state’s public universities take advantage of online classes.” ” The company in question: edX. ” From the HR Department. Edsurge has hired Jeffrey R.

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Education Coursera Facebook Social Media 40

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. Related: Most students go to a school that meets federal standards for internet speed. Roughly 14 percent of children statewide live in poverty.

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Broadband Report Accessibility Video 86

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.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” Greiff has previously been a partner at the 1776 venture fund and he was also a co-founder of the test prep company Grockit. Jeff Fernandez, the co-founder of the online learning company Grovo , has resigned.

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

” Via The Kansas City Star : “A lawyer for the largest teachers union in Kansas told the state Supreme Court on Tuesday that lawmakers’ 2014 decision to get rid of a job protection for tenured K–12 educators was unconstitutional.” – to the New York-based company Cyndx. The company has raised $7.45

Education 40

Education Report MOOC E-rate 40

Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

Via Broadly : “ Betsy DeVos to Meet with Men’s Rights Groups , Reports Say.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “After Meeting With DeVos, Title IX Activists Say They Still Have Many Questions.” ” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. for Robotics Contest.”

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Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. ” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots.

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Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook, like many digital technology companies, promises that in exchange for collecting your personal data – your name, your age, your gender, your photos, metadata on your photos, your location, your preferences, your browsing and clicking habits, your friends’ names – it will deliver “personalization.”

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Technology Pearson Education Facebook 73

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 proposal would expand the gainful employment rule to all schools that receive federal aid, but it would remove any penalties for schools that fail to meet acceptable levels.

Education 45

Education MOOC Company Pearson 45

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via ProPublica : “Meet the Hundreds of Officials Trump Has Quietly Installed Across the Government.” ” Via The Washington Post : “ Muslim students tried to meet with a lawmaker. ” New Nanodegrees from Udacity : Digital Marketing and Robotics. ’s Financial-Responsibility Test.”

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46