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Sony, Edmodo, partner on math challenge

eSchool News

Sony’s Global Math Challenge will expand to more than 190 countries. Sony Global Education, Inc. By working with Edmodo, Sony Global Education will make its Global Math Challenge, a worldwide online math competition, accessible to teachers and students in over 190 countries. will partner with Edmodo, Inc.,

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The Uphill Battles Facing Asia’s Education Technology Startups

Edsurge

In technology, Sony and Nintendo are among the most internationally recognized brands. Last year, Tokyo-based Arcterus won the Global Edtech Startup Awards, an annual international competition that began in 2014. Japan has earned a reputation for exporting successful products and services from different industries.

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Edtech Bootstrapping 101: A Survival Story

Edsurge

Summer 2014 After 10 years in business, our tutoring company, SurePrep Learning goes under after the elimination of a federal tutoring program. October 2014 My wife and I patch things up. As a former video game designer for Sony Playstation, I’m pretty sure this is going to be easy. My mom passes away.

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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

million new tech jobs will be created between 2014 and 2024, many of them requiring people with data and computer-science credentials. It usually manages to fill just two or three of those positions, Soni said. Soni is more blunt. “The industry would be very satisfied if higher education was taking care of it,” said Eaton. “I

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This Workforce Partnership Trains Tech Talent. Can It Boost Civic Engagement Too?

Edsurge

That effort got a boost in 2014, when the California Department of Education awarded Career Pathways Trust Grants to K-12 and community college districts to support work-based learning and career pathway opportunities for high school students. Today there are three main components to PilotCity’s programming.

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

Edsurge

In 2014, Kings College in New York became the first university in the U.S. Sony and IBM, for example, say they have developed a system for storing education records using blockchain technology, which relies on people called “miners” to solve cryptography problems in order to add transactions (in this case, digital transcripts) to the ledger.

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10 Super Geeky Tips for the New Year

The Daring Librarian

At first I thought I could leave out the password comic & tip and then the Sony thing happened. It was recently released that some Sony employees had a password of s0ny123 and the worst, "password!" Also, with brute force hacking making the rounds, I decided to update a few of my tips. centuries. —

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