Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2017

2015 Broad Fellow. 2015 Pahara Aspen-Fellow. 2015 Michigan Charter School Teacher of the Year. Most recently her students were in the 99th percentile for growth in both math and literacy, and she was named the 2015 Michigan Charter School Teacher of the Year. 2015 Finalist for Dallas ISD Elementary Principal of the Year.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 8, 2018

These little ball robots have opened up so many possibilities. And the beauty is you can use this little robot in any lesson, in any subject, and with any age. For me, it all started in 2015 when I asked for a Sphero to use with my after-school Environmental Club. Students then coded the robot through their challenges.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

One of the national winners from the 2015-2016 program was a group of middle school students from Colorado. Selected 2016-2017 National Finalist Schools and Projects. Designed and built a robotic car seat to alert adults when children are left in hot cars. Applications are open until November 9, 2017. Project Overview.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Robotics Engineer. They initially came together in 2015 when they created coding activities around Mattel’s Hot Wheels and Monster High brands. Pastry Chef. Tynker CEO and co-founder Krishna Vedati tells EdSurge that users can customize features such as skin color of the virtual Barbie that guides them through lessons.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

During the 2014 to 2015 school year, LAB’s first operational year, school leaders focused on implementing an academic model that supported both student and adult learning. The LAB high school will open in fall 2017. In that year, high achievement in the rigorous college-prep model was what LAB would have considered student success.

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Tech Helpful

MARCH 7, 2018

According to code.org, " Tennessee had only 625 computer science graduates in 2015; only 18% were female. Only 934 exams were taken in AP Computer Science by high school students in Tennessee in 2017." We are one of only a handful of school's that even offers any AP Computer Science classes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2017

For us, it was at EdFoo 2017 , an un-conference of teachers, edtech gurus, funders and others gathered at Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters for three days of spontaneous learning. When was the last time you walked into a conference without an agenda? Or, for that matter, without the slightest idea of what you might learn?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In 2015, when I started teaching American Literature at McClarin Success Academy, I knew I had an opportunity to break the stigmatization of at-risk youth. I had my first evidence of success with the Georgia Milestone test, doubling my passing rate from 2015 to 2016. My students deserved more. I knew I had to switch gears.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Education technology accelerator programs are often studded with robotic kits or educational games. The Whether was the 2017 winner of the SXSW EDU startup Launch competition and has partnered with more than 500 colleges and universities. Motley said the company is looking to raise $1 million by September 2018.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. The robot learner would be delighted to have you say, ‘Okay, you made three errors in problem number one,’ and being a robot learner, they’d be able to take out those bugs and do better the next time.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

Many ESSA requirements went into effect during the 2016-17 school year; others will be enacted during the 2017-18 school year. Since 2015, Mississippi has required all 11th-grade students to take the ACT assessment, which measures whether students are ready for college and careers. The plan will be submitted to the U.S.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 17, 2017

We live in an era where robotics and artificial intelligence will replace many of our current jobs. EmpowerBook July 9, 2015 Blogging for Staff Professional Learning. It was about putting in your time so that you could make it in the world. Global connectivity will continue to allow companies to outsource labor to other countries.

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In the 2015-2016 school year, in decision with our fifth grade teachers, the fifth grade became a 1:1 required BYOT iPad grade. 2016-2017 brought another tremendous change to the lower school due to a grant for STEAM experiences. After school this year our STEAM coordinator has offered circuitry and robotics clubs as well.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 3, 2017

With the 2017 LRNG Innovators Challenge ongoing, we revisit the continuing success of some of our past grantees. In 2015, we once again challenged teachers to reach beyond the schoolhouse door for young people to follow their interests and do ambitious work. Two Broadcast Media, three Digital Design Labs, and one Robotics/Engineering.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015. A 2015 RAND study , which looked at 62 schools that had received various Gates Foundation-funded grants for personalized learning, found gains of 11 percentile points in math and 8 in reading. “The

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. ” (For what it’s worth, Kleiner Perkins made just one major investment in education in 2017, participating in Coursera’s $64 million round this summer. Venture Capital in 2017. Is this really a trend?

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Doug Levin (@douglevin) March 17, 2017. 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. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition). Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 28, 2017

We are more than robotic bookshelves, conditioned to blurt out facts we were taught in school. October 5, 2015 Did we do that? I have no clue about what I want to do with my life; I have no interests because I saw every subject of study as work, and I excelled at every subject just for the purpose of excelling, not learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 2, 2017

This Saturday, March 4th (Sunday, March 5th, in parts of the world) is the 2017 STEM + Entrepreneurship Conference , this year's annual student-organized global conference, being held online and featuring student presenters and a student keynote speaker (with a couple of adult keynote speakers who shepherd youth projects thrown in for good measure)!

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Not quite enough time for our robot overlords to overtake us, but both distant and soon enough to make us wonder. In 2017—the last full year for which it publicly released numbers— Futuresource Consulting estimated that Chromebooks had 58.3 percent in 2017, and has been just north of 20 percent every year since 2015.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

By 2017-18, the most recent data available , the district was 54 percent Hispanic — and its gifted classes were 48 percent Hispanic. The district, which is 8 percent white, went from having 38 percent white gifted enrollment in 2015 to 28 percent in 2017 , according to federal data. No, that is not likely.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

I don’t have AP classes, Russian literature, or robotics because we don’t have the critical numbers to staff those,” says Michael Durchslag, the director at PEASE Academy (which stands for Peers Enjoying a Sober Education), a recovery high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that currently enrolls 50 students, according to administrators.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2017

In 2015, his Somerville, Mass.-based The idea was enough for BrainCo to win awards including “Most Innovative” at a pitchfest during the 2017 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) national conference. based startup was incubated in the Harvard Innovation Lab, and last year the company received $5.5

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

To spotlight such books, MSRI created the Mathical Book Prize in 2015. 2015 Mathical prize winner. 2017 Mathical prize winner. 2015 Mathical prize winner. “Mathematics is very creative and playful and joyful,” says Kirsten Bohl, a spokeswoman for the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. Have You Seen My Dragon?

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2021

By 2017-18, the most recent data available , the district was 54 percent Hispanic — and its gifted classes were 48 percent Hispanic. The district, which is 8 percent white, went from having 38 percent white gifted enrollment in 2015 to 28 percent in 2017 , according to federal data. No, that is not likely.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

I mean, 2017 really sucked, and we’re all feeling it. It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us. ” “ Can Grit Be Measured?

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition). Tagged on: August 27, 2017 DeVos Invested in Company Under Investigation for Misleading Claims | Education Week → When U.S. public high schools (42.5

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition). Tagged on: August 27, 2017 DeVos Invested in Company Under Investigation for Misleading Claims | Education Week → When U.S. public high schools (42.5

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

And in Austin, Texas, one school official has started training elementary teachers to use Lego robotic toys as a play-based learning tool during class time. Watertown began to increase its focus on playful learning in 2015, when the district received a federal grant that helped expand play in its pre-K program.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

And indeed, according to my calculations too, the amount of money invested in education technology companies is up from this time last year and up from this time in 2015 as well. And 2015 was a record-setting year for ed-tech investment.). 2017 vs. Previous Years. MakeBlock (robotics) – $30 million.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Trump's Ed Dept civil rights chief listed her videos attacking Hillary & campaign event w/ Bill accusers as "top 5 qualifications" on resume pic.twitter.com/U4YHXMWkN3 — Michael Stratford (@mstratford) August 31, 2017. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The private equity firm acquired PowerSchool in 2015.).

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Via KPCC : “ Ref Rodriguez has given up the role of president of the Los Angeles Unified School Board – but is not resigning his seat on the board altogether – one week after the announcement he’d face felony charges for alleged campaign finance violations during his 2015 run for office.” support, EFF resigns.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

Asked in a 2015 survey to describe how they felt in school, the words high school students used most frequently were “tired,” “stressed,” and “bored.” In 2017, 17.2 There’s still in our society in many places an expectation that you can leave your emotions at the door and be a robot and it’s simply not true.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

The state’s largest district, in Providence, has dramatically increased its spending on web-based instructional programs, from $158,000 in the 2011-12 school year to $928,000 in 2015-16, the latest data available. Four years ago, only one school out of 39 in Providence used personalized learning; the model has since spread to 25 schools.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Via Class Central : “A Product at Every Price: A Review of MOOC Stats and Trends in 2017.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Quartz : “One of the world’s biggest firms is spending $450 million to solve a world problem created by robots.” ” The firm: KPMG. ” Some “fix.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

A $500 round-trip flight to Anchorage or Fairbanks for teacher training, or a robotics tournament, or a college visit, is a hard sell for districts struggling with the impact of a statewide recession. Phase one was completed in 2017 and cost a reported $250 million. Roughly 14 percent of children statewide live in poverty.

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