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GitHub?s New Education Bundle Equips Students With Industry-Standard Coding Tools

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“Our mission is to help developers learn to code with the real-world tools of industry.” million companies across the world, GitHub is considered the standard when it comes to software development platforms. GitHub is where many companies, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, host their open-source projects.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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And in this environment, the education industry sees an unprecedented transformation due in part to a new industrial revolution. During the past decade, we have seen only the beginning of changes in the education industry. All of this creates an industry ripe for further disruption on a global scale.

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Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?

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and elsewhere regularly use software and curriculum developed within the past decade, often developed by small companies and former educators. Google, which officially debuted Classroom in 2014, is arguably as widespread in schools as Google’s usage is in the workplace. Google Classroom-2014. Clever-2012.

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What Problems Has Edtech Solved, and What New Ones Did It Create?

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As we bid farewell to the teenage years of the 21st century, we posed these questions and others to longtime industry entrepreneurs, analysts and stakeholders about the highs and lows, wins and woes of the past decade. In education, does technology create just as many problems as it solves? If so, what new challenges have emerged?

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Pathrise, a Career Accelerator ‘By Students, For Students’ Raises $1.2 Million

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But what the team may lack in age, it makes up for with a staff whose resumes are padded with stints at some of the most sought-after companies including Yelp, Facebook, Salesforce, GitHub and, of course, Google. He dropped out of UC Berkeley in 2014 to work at Salesforce. After some Googling, he contacted Wu and decided to apply.

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The Digital Transition: When Will Schools Be Transformed?

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Educators can’t imagine a world where their industry isn’t able to stay the way it’s always been. In 2013-2014, the real beginning of the digital transformation, schools mostly stumbled about as they either considered or implemented a widespread acquisition of computing devices. Here are the stages you can expect. Strategy Years.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

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" I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago that interviewed Anthony Levandoski, the Uber engineer sued by Google for stealing its self-driving car technology. It's entertaining, I guess — the dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution, and stuff like that.