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. —

STEM 100

STEM Report Robotics Company 100

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

They demonstrated how the RIASEC assessment and Beable’s life-ready literacy system boost student involvement in academic subjects and get high levels of engagement as students connect real-world learning to the classroom. Sylvia was doing product development for Fortune 500 companies when she came up with the idea for StickTogether.

Robotics 79

Robotics Education Learning Meeting 79

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. And, as W.

Software 111

Software Company Robotics Social Media 111

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.

Khan Academy 77

Khan Academy Company Adobe Data 77

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

NASA astronauts would test the device, which analyzes the effects of weightlessness on cooling and heating systems, and send data back to the students. 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.

Robotics 90

Robotics STEM Company Software 90

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.

Training 113

Training Sony Company Industry 113

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

One of the national winners from the 2015-2016 program was a group of middle school students from Colorado. Designed and built a robotic car seat to alert adults when children are left in hot cars. Created a low-cost wildlife detection system to alert drivers of animals crossing the road and mitigate accidents. Project Overview.

Secondary 91

Secondary Robotics Company Examples 91

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.

Classroom 60

Classroom Company Robotics Libraries 60

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.

Adaptive Learning 68

Adaptive Learning Knewton Pearson Company 68

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. Did it succeed?

Conference 73

Conference Education EdTech Company 73

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 Korean skincare system has turned my skin from acne-prone desert to hydrated and glowing in a little under a year.

Exercises 40

Exercises System Software Comparison 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2017

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. These companies were eager for qualified young candidates to fill positions. By the the second hour of the trip, he had connected with a programmer at the company.

Company 105

Company Industry Data Elementary 105

Tech Helpful

MARCH 7, 2018

I think it is fair to say that many school systems are looking deeply at the scope and sequence of computer science for our students. Some school systems have adopted a curriculum called "Project Lead the Way" that embeds coding skills into the science curriculum. How do we tap into this? Adjunct faculty? CCS is blessed by Cathy Smith.

STEM 51

STEM Robotics System Knowledge Base 51

Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” Via The Washington Post : “SEC settles fraud charges against defunct for-profit college company ITT.” Because honestly, where else would you put news about that private school company but in the surveillance section.

MOOC 57

MOOC Education Robotics Company 57

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Companies have been selling their products – textbooks, workbooks, maps, films, and so on – to schools for well over a century. Many companies – and certainly these two in particular – also have a long history of data collection and data analysis. They have been at this a long, long time. ”).

Knewton 60

Knewton Education Company Learning 60

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Education Department is asking schools and districts to take measures to protect data and reinforce IT systems, and if any schools were victimized, to contact the agency’s Privacy Technical Assistance Center for help. " Tagged on: July 18, 2017 Let Robots Teach American Schoolkids | Bloomberg → This is not a work of satire.

EdTech 150

EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

NEW ORLEANS — A few years ago, with little fanfare or announcement, the New Orleans education system began a massive experiment that’s reshaping how kids learn across the city. What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label.

Personalized Learning 100

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 100

The Principal of Change

JULY 17, 2017

We live in an era where robotics and artificial intelligence will replace many of our current jobs. Global connectivity will continue to allow companies to outsource labor to other countries. They become systems thinkers: Being a maker requires people to navigate systems. But it goes beyond navigation.

Maker Movement 84

Maker Movement Course System Robotics 84

MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

NASA astronauts would test the device, which analyzes the effects of weightlessness on cooling and heating systems, and send data back to the students. 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.

STEM 38

STEM Robotics Company Software 38

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The GlassLab Teacher Network gives participating educators the opportunity to provide direct feedback to the company and share lesson plans with their peers. “We Social studies teacher Matthew Farber said he uses SimCityEDU as a systems learning tool. SimCityEDU. Screenshot/ GlassLab Games. More › By Natalie Orenstein.

Game-Based Learning 41

Game-Based Learning Robotics Social Media Exercises 41

eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Last month, the first 31 students in Bergen County entered the program, known as MechaForce, which is loosely based on a German vocational training system in which employers and educators work closely to shape the workforce. You are using robots, geometry, algebra, science.”. ©2015 The Record (Hackensack, N.J.).

Training 40

Training Industry Company Robotics 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Some tech companies are also trying to mix hands-on play with digital learning. A company called Sphero, for example, has successfully marketed a ball to teach coding, geometry and genetics. Nesra Yannier, postdoctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University who has invented a new “teaching machine” for young children.

Tablets 73

Tablets Learning Elementary Software 73

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 13, 2015

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Edcamps 28

Edcamps Conference Libraries Facebook 28

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. IDC estimates that the total number of shipments in 2015 was actually around 207 million units. The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. Apple sold just 50 million iPads.

Trends 40

Trends Report iPhone Software 40

MindShift

JANUARY 10, 2017

Some tech companies are also trying to mix hands-on play with digital learning. A company called Sphero, for example, has successfully marketed a ball to teach coding, geometry and genetics. Toymail has invented a two-way communications device that can be used to transmit lessons. Most technology is so isolating,” she said. “I

Tablets 28

Tablets Learning Elementary Software 28

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

It also means fewer language programs, robotics labs and other enrichment opportunities that parents increasingly perceive as necessary. A randomized lottery for each school sorts out the rest, which leads to the entire system being referred to locally as “the lottery.” After that, living near a school often confers priority.

E-rate 117

E-rate Elementary Education Report 117

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

African-Americans and Latino/Hispanics make up a tiny fraction of the overwhelmingly white, male-dominated workforce of major technology companies. based technology companies is African-American or Latino/Hispanic, and only one is a woman—Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM. and 2 times more likely to attend school with a robotics club.

Industry 60

Industry STEM Software Course 60

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? The thread on this tweet has the details. “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

EdTech 170

EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Sept 2015). Teachers Report Sharp Growth in Game-Based Learning by District Administration (July 2016) – reports that 48% of classroom teachers report using games in classroom instruction in 2015. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to edit and post it.

Game-Based Learning 120

Game-Based Learning Gamification Learning Twitter 120

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

In January 2015, Duggan enrolled in New Hampshire’s self-paced Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS), joining about 200 full-time middle and high school students and about 10,000 part-timers from brick-and-mortar schools statewide who take VLACS courses a la carte. Her parents agreed. That’s the norm right now. Virtual Gets Real.

Education 0

Education Course Laptops Blended Learning 0

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. Tagged on: August 27, 2017 DeVos Invested in Company Under Investigation for Misleading Claims | Education Week → When U.S. public high schools (42.5 percent offered ‘a majority of all classes online;’ and, 3.6

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. Tagged on: August 27, 2017 DeVos Invested in Company Under Investigation for Misleading Claims | Education Week → When U.S. public high schools (42.5 percent offered ‘a majority of all classes online;’ and, 3.6

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

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.). So far this year, there have been 95 investments in ed-tech companies, totaling $1.8

Coursera 57

Coursera Knewton Company Udemy 57

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

.” Via Bookriot : “On Wednesday, August 23, the city council of Escondido, California voted, 3 to 2, to move forward with plans to hand their public library over to the private, for-profit company Library Systems and Services.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. .” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 97

Education Khan Academy Company Libraries 97

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.” ” Mmmhmmm.

Education 48

Education Knewton Kaplan Robotics 48