Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

First announced in 2014, the challenge invited organizations to submit open-source software that showed potential to help children in developing countries improve basic reading, writing and math skills. Its board of trustees includes director James Cameron, media mogul Arianna Huffington and Google founder Larry Page.

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Tablets Game-Based Learning Company Learning 128

Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

In 2014, Palmdale School District was experiencing a major digital divide. In 2014, Palmdale School District was experiencing a major digital divide. With these regular training sessions, every teacher feels more comfortable with the panels’ features and accompanying software. So, in 2015, the “ Palmdale Promise ” was born.

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Digital Learning Digital Divide Classroom Learning 130

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The second conflict-of-interest related news story (set of stories, really) involves New America and Google/ Eric Schmidt. Google – which maintains close ties to the think tank – was alleged to pressure New America to push out a scholar and his team after they made a series of sharp statements about the behavior of the company.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Five-year-old Mykell Robinson practices his reading on the Lexia software while a small group of classmates work with a teacher. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report. What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label.

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 100

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Well I missed out on writing a review for 2013 so I thought I’d get in reasonably early and write some predictions for what might happen in 2014. It will get louder in 2014. Expect MOOCs to continue to be the most high profile focus of academic angst in 2014. These types of projects will be just outliers in 2014.

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MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 32

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

One day, a friend forwarded an email about Resilient Coders, a boot camp that trains people of color for web development and software engineering jobs. In the past few years, Apple, Google, IBM and other high-profile companies have stripped the bachelor’s degree requirement from many of their positions. Degree inflation.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

I want them to join Google classroom. and I want them to turn their photograph in as an assignment in Google Classroom. I’m experimenting with a small metal device that lets me elevate my computer so that I’m already standing and less likely to get engrossed in grading in Google Classroom or answering email.

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Classroom Course Report Maker Movement 379

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

They assume that parents, educators and yes, reporters will give learning technologies the same benefit of the doubt that we afford to movie or online shopping recommendation engines. It took a lawsuit to get Google to stop scanning students’ emails. He was named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list in Education in 2014.

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Personalized Learning Learning Facebook OER 99

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. 380 million tally in 2014. million (Seed) 2014 WI Harper Group GotIt! $9 million (A) 2014 SoftBank Ventures Korea, KTB Ventures Listenwise $600K (Seed) 2016 EduLab Minerva Project $70 million (B).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

The Hechinger Report/Joanne Jacobs. Pathways, Exposure, Academic Connection, Knowledge (PEAK) takes students to local companies such as Google and Facebook, as well as to hospitals, law firms and other businesses. A staffing agency employee, she recruits contract workers for Google. The Hechinger Report/Joanne Jacobs.

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Robotics STEM Company Software 91

Marketplace K-12

JULY 29, 2016

Source: Google Finance. Reuters reported that the company’s shares were the biggest losers on Britain’s Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 for the day. It also attributed the decline to a phasing of gross revenues and returns from course software in its division that handles North American higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

million new tech jobs will be created between 2014 and 2024, many of them requiring people with data and computer-science credentials. The Manpower Group reports that 40 percent of employers are having trouble finding workers with the skills they need. I don’t think there’s a desire to get into this space, other than that it’s not.”.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 21, 2016

You can use the CTR Flex rubric to evaluate apps and other software with your local colleagues or use a variety of possible criteria to customize your own instrument. The database is free to browse, but full reviews and reports, along with back issues, are limited to paid CTR subscribers. Alice Keeler is a Google Certified Teacher.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 3, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update June 3rd, 2014 Discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. And finally, the 2014 Global Education Conference will feature Rana Dajani, Daniel Edelson, Kern Kelley, Jennifer D. Klein, Tonya Muro, Thomas Röhlinger, Homa Tavangar, and Jennifer Vollmann.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Would 20 hours of one student logged into Google Classroom, or 20 students logged in for one hour, suffice? In 2014, the national association of EBS license holders sent the FCC a proposal to make a public inventory of available spectrum, and then gradually open it up for applications from school districts and nonprofits.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 93

MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

This story on STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Joanne Jacobs for The Hechinger Report). Fifteen miles north of Funk’s office is Google’s headquarters, known as the Googleplex, in Mountain View, once a blue-collar town.

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STEM Robotics Company Software 38

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Take Nicholas Negroponte, for example, the co-founder of the MIT Media Lab who in his 2014 TED Talk predicted that in 30 years time (which is, I guess, 25 years from now), you will swallow a pill and "know English," swallow a pill and "know Shakespeare. In this formulation, it is the machines that are, ostensibly, being taught.

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Robotics Technology Training Data 139

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Updates Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings Conversations Submit a Video or Quote Updates Kicking off OZeLive 2014 - Ed Tech Down Under. Deadlines The free School Leadership Summit online conference, March 27th, 2014 Upcoming deadlines: Presentation proposals are being accepted between now and March 15th, 2014.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. So here is the consensus from the past twelve years of the Horizon Report for higher education. The quotation is from 2012. How do you do that?

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. Teenagers come to the lab to develop their own projects under the tutelage of Google employees and Code Next’s academic coaches.

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Industry STEM Education Survey 142

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Its popularity for presentations is the engine behind the burgeoning growth of podcasts: In 2014, Apple had over 1 billion people subscribed to podcasts. There are three great options for audio writing in your classroom: Audacity –software download; free. Slides–online free slideshow tool from Google.

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Microsoft iPad Digital Citizenship Video 156

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

In 2014 — the last year for which data is available from the National Center for Education Statistics — 75 percent of public schools reported using security cameras to monitor their buildings. And a 2017 survey revealed that 70 percent of teachers felt cameras in the classroom might help prevent theft, vandalism and cheating. “So,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Its popularity for presentations is the engine behind the burgeoning growth of podcasts: In 2014, Apple had over 1 billion people subscribed to podcasts. There are three great options for audio writing in your classroom: Audacity –software download; free. Slides–online free slideshow tool from Google.

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Microsoft iPad Digital Citizenship Software 150

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is a throwback post, first published in March 2014 (and referring to yet another post all the way back in 2007). Second, I’ve been using computers and software more and more in my teaching. The tool stack is pretty simple: We use SymPy , running in Python via Jupyter notebooks that are hosted through Google Colab.

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MOOC Software Study System 52

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. As defined by the CoSN report, accelerators are megatrends that drive change.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 81

Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

She was worried about reports that men received disproportionately more financial aid than women. When Young ran for president of the American Library Association for 2014 and 2015, she asked Schlachter to serve as her campaign treasurer. When Weber finds new information about a scholarship, he enters it into his database software.

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Libraries Company Data Accessibility 184

Hack Education

JULY 2, 2016

VR appeared in some of the earliest Horizon Reports for example, with the 2007 report positing that virtual worlds would be adopted by higher ed institutions within two to three years’ time; funnily enough, the 2016 report offers the same outlook: we’re still two to three years out from widespread adoption of VR.

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Education Training Company Report 68

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

In our community’s next webinar, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center will share the results from Learning at Home: Families’ Educational Media Use in America, a report from a national survey of over 1500 parents of children ages 2-10. Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community.

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BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 52

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

DIRECTIONS: The Google Slide presentation will be made available for viewing after the presentation. We will also discuss the uses of Google Hangouts, Google Forms for gathering information, and wordpress for establishing a web presence for a project. DIRECTIONS: Participants will be encouraged to connect via the Google Hangout.

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Secondary Conference Survey STEM 73

Learning in Hand

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Like I did for Miami Device 2014 , I thought I’d link to these resources (starting with digital handouts from the three sessions I presented). Creating Googley Infographics by Laura Bates, Melanie Burford, and Angie McNally See lots of example infographics made by elementary students in this Google Slideshow. Device-less Memory!

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 98

Learning in Hand

JANUARY 6, 2015

#iPadEd #Slide2Learn pic.twitter.com/jdFnLo4psG — JonathanNalder JNXYZ (@jnxyz) July 17, 2014. My #ADE2014 One Best Image :) #adeonebestimage #iphoneography pic.twitter.com/kmEPDXHSWh — JonathanNalder JNXYZ (@jnxyz) July 18, 2014. JamesHumbers pic.twitter.com/2gkutYCm6j — JonathanNalder JNXYZ (@jnxyz) July 18, 2014.

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2019

A McKinsey & Company study from 2014 suggested that textbook rentals would cannibalize new-textbook sales by 2017, resulting in a reduction in new-book sales of 5 to 10 percent by 2020. Related: New report reveals 10 ways students are outpacing their schools. This is just a taste of what’s possible.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Lenore Skenazy President, Co-founder, Let Grow A journalist by trade, Lenore spent 14 years at The New York Daily News as a reporter-turned-opinion columnist, and two more at The New York Sun. She holds three honorary doctorates and is the author of Moonshots in Education (2014) and best selling How to Raise Successful People (May, 2019).

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Learning Conference Social Media Secondary 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

” It’s been over a decade since comedian Stephen Colbert introduced the word “ truthiness ” on The Colbert Report – his attempt to describe political arguments, particularly those made by conservatives, that need no facts or evidence because they “just feel right.” So who do you believe? “Soon.”

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Technology Education Report Training 40

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

“The FCC Is Threatening to Gut a Program That Provides Internet Access to Minorities,” Pacific Standard reports. Fines Google $5.1 Anyway, Techcrunch reports that “WeWork takes meat off the menu as part of environmental policy drive.” Via The New York Times : “ E.U. The Business of Job Training.

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