Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

Educators who design learning experiences that are personal and accessible , authentic and challenging , collaborative and connected , and inquisitive and reflective create deeper, more meaningful learning experiences for their students. Powerful use of technology contributes to closing the Digital Learning Gap. Halloran School No.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality. From 2015 to 2019, entrepreneurs created 11 times the number of education unicorns compared to 2005 to 2014.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Kids played with Legos, pranced around with stuffed animals and Salesforce mascots, munched on treats, painted using Sphero robots, tinkered with portable gaming devices, made race cars and dueled with robots. 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 $2.7M $5M $6M $6M $7M. Painting with Sphero robots at today's event. . Of the $12.2

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2021

Singapore and Mumbai, India– May 19, 2021 – Emeritus , the global leader in making high-quality education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments around the world, announced today a definitive agreement to acquire iD Tech , the world leader in youth STEM education for $200 million. million jobs in the U.S.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

8 PM ET, March 27, 2015. We think if schools are able to run strong, results-based pilots, it will be more likely that teachers and students have access to education technology tools that can help them reach their goals. So our STEAM Studio teachers are going to pilot a new robotics product in 4th, 5th, and 6th grades.

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 27, 2015

Here's your #EdTechTidBits for the week of April 21, 2015. I found two new apps, a Disney article, a robotics competition to the moon, and a repository of maker projects! The task is to design, create, and program a robot that can rove & navigate on the moon's surface. This list is dedicated to #MakerEd. Create 3D text!

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EdTechnocation.com

MAY 4, 2015

Here are your #EdTechTidBits for the week of April 27, 2015! Tickle is an app for the iPad that allows you to create Scratch like programs to control your robotic toys such as drones, Sphero , and your Philips Hue wireless light bulbs. They have four free courses that you can access through the app to get started.

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EdTechnocation.com

MAY 4, 2015

Here are your #EdTechTidBits for the week of April 27, 2015! Tickle is an app for the iPad that allows you to create Scratch like programs to control your robotic toys such as drones, Sphero , and your Philips Hue wireless light bulbs. They have four free courses that you can access through the app to get started.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 9, 2016

The contest is designed to drive students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by giving public middle school teachers and school administrators the chance to create the STEM lab of their dreams and provide students access to the latest learning tools and technologies that will stimulate as well as teach.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. The project that has caused the biggest splash came from the Innovation Center’s aquatic robotics team. LONGMONT, Colo. —

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Enuma $4 million (A) 2015 TAL Education, Softbank Ventures Korea Epic! million (Seed) 2015 Sinovation Ventures Ready4 $8 million (A) 2016 TAL Education, Yongjin Group, ZhenFund Securly $3 million (Seed) 2013 Sinovation Ventures, ZhenFund Swing Education $7.8 Authess $2.2 million (A) 2016 Sinovation Ventures EnglishCentral $1.3

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

We've had two great days of sessions and keynotes, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken place are accessible on the conference recordings page. Wednesday, November 18th, is day three of the sixth annual Global Education Conference. Thomas Petra ‏ @ RealWorldMath 6h 6 hours ago Day 2 of the Global Educ Conference.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Looking at the value of a college education through this lens is fueled in part by a 2015 Georgetown University study, which found that college graduates tend to earn an average of $1 million more than high school graduates over the course of their working lives. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Experts and educators point to a few strategies — some of which are already being explored by leaders within the state: Increase access to post-secondary education. In fact, 80 percent of Mississippians who sought employment assistance in 2015 had less than a two-year degree. Related: Ten jobs that are safe from robots.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

the company offers an app that lets kids access unlimited books, educational videos, quizzes and audiobooks — and it’s free for educators. The startup has raised about $13 million in funding, closing $8 million in Series B in December 2015. What's the problem with accessing books and reading in general in schools?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Measuring in at slightly more than an inch, this bite-sized programmable robot is one of the world’s smallest — but great things come in small packages. There is something for every type of thinker with this tiny tinker robot. Ozobot Bit. According USA Today, “With…Ozobot Bit, Kids can graduate to “if,then” programming.”.

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Adam Welcome

JUNE 13, 2016

Code has been in our lives for years, and thankfully has now been mainstreamed so everyone can have access and learn. Robots are cool. What better way to take coding to the next level than to code a robot to drive or roll or to program a drone to fly? Coding isn’t some fad that’s here for now and will fade away.

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Adam Welcome

MAY 15, 2016

Code has been in our lives for years, and thankfully has now been mainstreamed so everyone can have access and learn. Robots are cool. What better way to take coding to the next level than to code a robot to drive or roll or to program a drone to fly? Coding isn’t some fad that’s here for now and will fade away.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Students will see how TRI is using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics to develop smarter automated vehicles. To assist teachers, an educator guide for the Virtual Field Trip is available for download. The Ann Arbor Public Schools in Ann Arbor, Michigan are one of hundreds of school districts across the U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

Though their talents, projects and backgrounds span wide, we’ve grouped them into several buckets to help you get to know the 2017 cohort: The Nonprofits Nonprofits again made up a hefty portion of the highlighted work being done to make education more accessible to all students. Shanyn Ronis (29), founder of Education Global Access Program.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

. “Amazon has patented a system that would put workers in a cage, on top of a robot,” read the headline in last week’s Seattle Times. “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk,” one employee in books marketing told The New York Times back in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

The launch marked the latest effort by the 5-year-old charter school, to expose students to the skills they’ll need to access high-tech jobs. Other students in their engineering class were constructing a robot for the Dell-sponsored Silicon Valley Tech Challenge and designing a “tiny house” to shelter a homeless person.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Education technology accelerator programs are often studded with robotic kits or educational games. Though the startups presented a wide range of ideas, Runway co-founder Phil Kim said what connected them all is an effort to “tackle access and equity.” The Los Angeles-based company is asking for $365,000 as part of a $1 million raise.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

OCTOBER 27, 2015

I can think about management pieces to make the process more accessible to students. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) October 27, 2015. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) October 27, 2015. We opened the basic version of Snap, and student tinkered with programming these robots with simple block coding.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The sixth annual Global Education Conference , our free four-day online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, runs today Monday, November 16 through Thursday, November 19, 2015 (November 20th in some time zones). We invite all to attend! A full listing of sessions is below. You're going to be blown away.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Clamping the refurbished shelves together, they created an 80-bin storage system that provided teachers and students easy access to the makerspace materials. At end of year three, still finding that coding, robotic and circuitry workshops were a little bit elusive, they started experimenting with augmented and virtual reality and robotics.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

Increase access to advanced courses and ‘well-rounded’ classes. Since 2015, Mississippi has required all 11th-grade students to take the ACT assessment, which measures whether students are ready for college and careers. According to Mississippi’s plan, the state also intends to improve access to arts education and world languages.

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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 9, 2020

The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.

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There is no box

JULY 2, 2015

It is 2015. With something like Double Robotics , organizations could offer virtual tours of existing physical spaces, without having to program unique “online” experiences. In other words, the Liberty Bell could be accessible to any classroom today if we wanted it to be. Technology is changing our world.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Highlights from the 2015 Invent It! Challenge winners include the following solutions by young inventors: • Access to water is a big problem for many across the world. They designed an Earth-friendly portable water filtration system to help people without access to clean water. There are 1.4 There are 1.4

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2018

But because nursing demands interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence, it can’t easily be done by robots, say futurists, medical professionals and technology experts. In his 2015 book “The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future,” Martin Ford suggests that the spread of A.I.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2021

If your understanding of the Compton area in Los Angeles is based on hip hop songs and a 2015 movie about young people growing up there, you’re likely to be surprised by the tech-focused students and schools in the neighborhood now. By Robert Low. Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast. Building the STEAM Pipeline.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2016

San Francisco Unified School District aims to incorporate CS into the core curriculum for all students in grades pre-K-8, in order to increase access for underrepresented student populations, specifically African-American and Latino students and girls. Nine thousand Highline students participated in the December 2015 “Hour of Code.”

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Educator Innovator

AUGUST 13, 2019

Most people wouldn’t think of science as quirky, but if they’d witnessed a posse of orange, papier-maché robotic pumpkins racing down the hall at the Science Museum of Virginia (SMV), in Richmond, Virginia, they might re-think that image. Research has found that access to technology isn’t equal across economic and racial lines.

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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. Building a Common Language Across Academic and Non-Academic Learning Experiences For LAB, redefining student success has been a gradual evolution.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

A 2015 Stanford study that looked at the performance of students in online charter schools found that the majority lost learning equivalent to a standard 180-day school year. A robotics competition might draw iUniversity Prep students to Austin, for example, or a running club might gather for a race in Houston.

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