Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And while many educators believe that word problems in math class are tougher for students to grasp than ones with mathematical notation, research shows that the opposite is true. A substantial part of the nation’s resources are being devoted to higher education,” Simon said. But at a university? “We

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Chris Jensen, Senior Health Advisor with Diagnosing Education, LLC , presented a MEGA session on Immediate Action Items for Staff Exhaustion and Career Burnout. Chris’s background as an ER doctor and a teacher has prompted him to look at commonalities in these issues in education and medicine.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2021

The companies will bring expert instruction in STEM fields to individuals worldwide,with a shared goal of bridging the STEM opportunity gap. Moreover, as a female founded family company, with strong DEI initiatives and a mission-driven culture, the iD Tech team is inspiring and we’re excited to be working together.”. About Emeritus.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Are you a K-12 educator or administrator? 8 PM ET, March 27, 2015. Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2015

Dollar-for-dollar match brings robots to classrooms teaching computational thinking. In the coming years, computer science education will be critical for social mobility of underprivileged communities. Dash & Dot are robots with personality and capability. Dash & Dot are robots with personality and capability.

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 26, 2015

I had the opportunity to attend the Future of Educational Technology Conference (FETC) in Orlando Florida this past week. Here are my top take-aways from the 2015 conference: 1. The 2015 Keynotes included the COO of Makerbot, designers of one of the top 3D printers in schools today.

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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. Last year the company added Oakland to the list with a $2.5 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 $2.7M $5M $6M $6M $7M.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 1, 2019

In 2015, it was found that just two-thirds of those who had high school diplomas were employed. Also, since companies tend to recruit more aggressively and widely for highly skilled jobs, college graduates are also more likely to relocate for a job. The Robots Are Taking Your Job. This is down from 73 percent in 2008.

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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. education industry has not become so dependent (yet). ST Unitas , South Korea’s largest education business, acquired Princeton Review , the iconic U.S. based education startups raised capital from Asia.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The last week in January is action-packed, with four education events in London for people across the whole spectrum of education—from those who run the ministries to those who supply the tools, from those who teach to those who want to reform the system. 20-23): the people who run education politically; Bett (Jan.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2017

The magazine’s “30 Under 30” list, which highlights young leaders in fields such as technology, music and healthcare, added education to the list in 2013 and since then has grown from nearly 90 nominations in 2014 to more than 450 last year. The Students Unique this year are the honorees working on education from the inside: students.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

(National) Education Politics. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Silence From the Secretary , Despite Major Rules Changes.” State and Local) Education Politics. Immigration and Education. Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Bezos then went on to cite a phrase that is so often misquoted and misattributed in those shiny, happy motivational PowerPoint slides – you know the ones – that people like to post to social media: “Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” ” W.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2019

I stood facing the drone, about to face-off with a little robot. The drone was part of a demonstration of the powerful technology that the neuroinfomatics company EMOTIV offered at a conference on the power of technology and education. There is increasing interest in the role of meditation and mindfulness training in education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Robotics Engineer. The partnership ties into where the almost five-year-old company sees itself in the future. This is not the first time the two companies have partnered. They initially came together in 2015 when they created coding activities around Mattel’s Hot Wheels and Monster High brands. Pastry Chef.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2017

March is Women’s History Month, and what better time to recognize women who are making and shaping education history than right now? At NewSchools Venture Fund , we invest in teams of educators and entrepreneurs whose bold ideas are reimagining learning. 2015 Broad Fellow. 2015 Pahara Aspen-Fellow. I play big.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

The day after the launch, for example, Espino and classmate Jaime Sanchez were learning Python programming through Udacity, an online education platform that offers “nanodegrees.” percent are African-American, according to 2015 data from the American Community Survey. percent of the Valley’s tech professionals are Latino and 2.2

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2017

It’s not exactly a move from Mr. Robot , but some students have figured out a way to change how their grades appear on online to someone looking at a website presented to them, for a moment at least. Education software company PowerSchool, which claims users in more than 13,000 districts across the country, is featured in the video.

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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! Makerbot Printshop for the iPad The Makerbot company, sellers of the Makerbot 3D printers , released a free iPad app called Makerbot Printshop.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Education technology accelerator programs are often studded with robotic kits or educational games. But the latest cohort at Michelson Runway, an startup accelerator geared towards higher-ed companies, highlights a broader approach to innovation in education. The company is asking for $10 million by October 2018.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

A couple decades later, tractors were assembled here for Caterpillar, the construction machinery company. They have been working with local governments and tech companies to design solutions to problems such as homelessness, water conservation and clean energy. It was subsequently used as a storage warehouse.

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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. and the company reports people read about 12 million books per month right now.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

These are my prepared remarks, delivered on a panel titled “Outsourcing the Classroom to Ed Tech & Machine-learning: Why Parents & Teachers Should Resist” at the Network for Public Education conference in Indianapolis. First, the role that corporations and philanthropists play in shaping education policy is not new.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” The company has raised some $77.5 Are any education technologies, for that matter?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

based company now touts itself as a provider of adaptive-learning technologies for educational content providers. The company has refocused its business and research around what it calls its “Adaptive Learning Platform.” But as those partners pulled out , the company has since pivoted to competing with them.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2018

But a few years of college education can yield big dividends. Benjamin Pring, co-founder of the Center for the Future of Work at technology company Cognizant. But because nursing demands interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence, it can’t easily be done by robots, say futurists, medical professionals and technology experts.

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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. public schools can refer their educator colleagues to complete a contest submission and they will be entered for a chance to win a Samsung Galaxy Note8 or Samsung 65” TV. Colorado Students Engineer a Prosthetic for a Veteran.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2017

At the time, I was the homeless education program manager for Paducah Independent Schools District in Paducah, Kentucky. Coincidentally, as part of another role I had with the district to develop relationships with the business community, I was organizing a field trip to a tech company. She filled me in on the particulars.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Toyota and Discovery Education Hosts Virtual Field Trip on Cars of the Future: Artificial Intelligence and Automated Vehicles Immersive Educational Experience to Explore STEM Concepts set for Oct. Students will see how TRI is using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics to develop smarter automated vehicles.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Team put up a fight, but my favorite album of 2015 comes instead from Public Service Broadcasting. I am also much more satisfied with their customer service than I was with the other company. The Race for Space is a concept album about the US-USSR competition to get the most people and objects into space.

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Adam Welcome

JUNE 13, 2016

Most of the kids at my school won’t be programmers or work for a tech company.” Cool Coding Apps and Websites for Kids from Common Sense Media HyperDocs: Coding lessons and activities created by educators. Robots are cool. The various apps make it possible for students from pre-k+ to begin programming a robot.

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Adam Welcome

MAY 15, 2016

Most of the kids at my school won’t be programmers or work for a tech company.” Cool Coding Apps and Websites for Kids from Common Sense Media HyperDocs: Coding lessons and activities created by educators. Robots are cool. The various apps make it possible for students from pre-k+ to begin programming a robot.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

Now with the help of Facebook and the Ravenswood Education Foundation, he’s come close to reaching that goal. By the end of this week, five out of seven of the district’s public schools will have spaces filled with 3D printers, Legos, laptops, robots and more for hands-on learning. at www.mercurynews.com.

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Tech Helpful

MARCH 7, 2018

In the state of Tennessee, Computer Science falls under the category of CTE (Career and Technical Training)- this was what was known as vocational education a few years back. According to code.org, " Tennessee had only 625 computer science graduates in 2015; only 18% were female. CCS is blessed by Cathy Smith.

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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. Brawley received his doctorate in educational leadership at the University of Southern California.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Been quoted in an article on ransomware in K-12 education. I have a bit more to say about some of these topics, so stay tuned… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye these past two weeks – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. I think the latter."

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