Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2019

based company explained the difficult decision as an effort to return its focus to the education market following a foray into creating consumer toys. Sphero has acquired littleBits , a New York City-based company best known for its electronic kits and instructional resources that introduce kids to building and programming by hand.

Robotics 126

Robotics Company Common Core Academic Standards 126

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. Rather, our results relate to classes where using computers or tablets for note-taking is optional.

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. Rather, our results relate to classes where using computers or tablets for note-taking is optional.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 16, 2018

Most of the kids are completely familiar with iPads and tablets and phones, so we have some iPads in the classroom with some folders. A lot of teachers actually post them around the room, so the kids are walking around the room with their tablets, scanning the QR Codes and working on them that way. Give us some of those ways.

iPad 314

iPad Technology Chromebook Tablets 314

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer.

Kaplan 159

Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 159

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2019

He held in his hand a tablet and I watched as it recorded my brainwaves. As I repeated “up, up, up” in my mind, I watched the tablet map my thoughts, converting my brainwaves into an algorithm. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, Olivier Oullier, president of EMOTIV, told me when I asked him about his company.

Skyward 137

Skyward Training Tablets Company 137

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

From launching new tablets to virtual-reality curriculum , Microsoft has added plenty to its educational offerings through a series of new product updates and acquisitions over the past few years. DataSense traces its origins to Authentica Solutions, an education data management company founded in 2013.

Microsoft 84

Microsoft lynda.com Data EdTech 84

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Another review , conducted by respected researchers in math education (but funded by a calculator company), came to a similar conclusion. The debate even provoked a response from the president of Texas Instruments, the dominant graphing calculator company in the U.S. We agree with many of the points in favor of the new apps.

Smartphone 132

Smartphone Secondary Tablets Company 132

Neo LMS

JUNE 22, 2017

Milo comes with a range of pre-programmable curricula, developed by clinical pedagogic experts, that is run via a tablet by the teacher. In 2015, the robot was also used to develop “autobiographical” programs used to train ISS crews.

Robotics 228

Robotics Education Sony Outcomes 228

Neo LMS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

billion in education budget cuts made in 2015. The deal saw the books delivered to over 600,000 government distributed teacher tablets across the country, amounting to over 40 million individual e-textbooks! Similar to challenges faced in Africa with regard to mobile applications, the company also offers SMS-based study tools.

E-rate 150

E-rate Blended Learning Case Study Mobility 150

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2016

The latest and perhaps shiniest effort comes from Ondrej Homola, co-founder and CEO of the the app Lifeliqe , which displays 3D models of natural phenomena on tablets, in augmented reality and in virtual reality. These models can be displayed one of three ways: “flat”—moving model on a tablet screen—augmented or virtual.

Tablets 84

Tablets Education Company Technology 84

Educational Technology Guy

MARCH 11, 2015

It can be used by people for personal projects and planning as well as by companies and groups for major projects. Our vision at Samepage is to create an online place where people can easily share ideas, content and context” says Scott Schreiman, chief executive officer of Samepage and Kerio Technologies, the parent company to Samepage. “

Android 100

Android Facebook Microsoft Mobility 100

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 15, 2016

The three major operating systems—Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Mac OS and iOS, and Microsoft’s Windows—are battling for dominance in sales, says Futuresource Consulting , the London-based research company that completed the study released earlier this month. Tablet Sales Growing in U.S., Tablet Market, Researcher Says.

Microsoft 40

Microsoft Chromebook iPad Tablets 40

Marketplace K-12

MAY 20, 2016

And a social learning network for middle and high school students and a math tutoring company received funds from the investment community. Reach Capital is a $53 million venture fund founded in 2015 that backs ed-tech startups. Million: Tablet-based tutoring company Tabtor Math has raised $3.7 Tabtor Math Raises $3.7

Tablets 56

Tablets Company Android iPad 56

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. And “free” doesn’t last.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

New momentum, she adds, is driven largely by the federal Second Chance Pell program that was introduced in 2015 and recently extended through 2020. Several have started their own companies. “We’re in this watershed moment,” says Meagan Wilson, co-author of the report and a senior analyst at Ithaka S+R.

Technology 129

Technology Laptops Education Blackboard 129

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. I already have a Chromecast installed on my television to stream shows, but I don’t like that it doesn’t work without a phone/tablet/computer.

Exercises 40

Exercises System Software Comparison 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Seven of the 134 companies in this batch provide education services—which is a similar percentage from the last cohort. In this latest cohort of edtech companies, only one is aimed at being used in classrooms. The husband-and-wife duo behind the company, Aparna and Deepak Ramanathan, come from different backgrounds. “A

EdTech 84

EdTech Company Software Training 84

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

BRUNSWICK, Maine—Like many school districts, Brunswick School Department in Maine suddenly has a lot more laptops and tablets to manage than it planned for. A June report by New America Foundation and Rutgers University found substantial progress in home broadband access since 2015. Shawn Lambert, Brunswick School Department.

Digital Divide 143

Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Chromebook 143

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

Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The total volume of PC sales in that market fell by 12 percent in the first half of 2016, compared to the same period in 2015, despite solid numbers in the U.S. percent in all of 2015 and only 0.2 market from 6 percent of the total shipments of non-desktop PC devices in 2015 to 18 percent in 2017. million shipments from 5.7

E-rate 40

E-rate Chromebook Microsoft Tablets 40

TeacherCast

JULY 3, 2015

This year at ISTE 2015, I had the pleasure of reuniting with Tim Rigway from Califone. Why is Califone an important company to get to know in your school district? TPT Tablet: [link]. For the last 4 years, Tim has brought some AMAZING products to the TeacherCast theater and this year was certainly no exception. Why Califone?

Tablets 68

Tablets Conference Facebook Company 68

Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 22, 2016

Fisher spoke at an event his company hosted at BETT, the world’s largest ed-tech conference, to explain some of the worldwide developments that fuel these changes. Looking Back at 2015. by the third quarter of 2015. by the third quarter of 2015. Interactive flat panel displays are also widely in use.

Trends 40

Trends Company Data Chromebook 40

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

billion drop in worldwide revenue from 2015 to 2021. The report defines self-paced courseware as being accessed on a desktop or laptop and spanning the K-12, higher education, corporate training, and privately marketed software (such as that produced by language-learning company Rosetta Stone) sectors.

Report 70

Report E-rate OER LMS 70

eSchool News

JULY 12, 2015

During ISTE 2015, HP announced new technology solutions for education that are aimed to enhance student and teacher experiences. The Spectre Pro x360 G1 is targeted to teachers and is an ultra-thin PC with the versatility of multiple modes (notebook, stand, tent, tablet) and features a battery life of up to 12.5

Technology 40

Technology Laptops Chromebook Tablets 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

A giant computer screen looms over the table, and a touch-screen tablet is built into the table’s surface. A boy named Damon taps the picture of the smaller tower on the right side of the tablet screen. Some tech companies are also trying to mix hands-on play with digital learning. The left tower fell first.

Tablets 74

Tablets Learning Elementary Software 74

Marketplace K-12

JULY 15, 2016

Preliminary results from Gartner , a Connecticut-based technology research and advisory company, estimated a 1.4 increase over the first quarter of 2015, with shipments thus far this year reaching just over 2 million units. Global Shipments of Tablets See First-Ever Decline, Report Finds. percent increase in U.S. The post U.S.

Lenovo 40

Lenovo Chromebook Tablets Company 40

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Privacy and surveillance Late 2015 saw an ISIS- and tv news fueled panic about terrorism, which turned to technology. Tablets, various descendants of netbooks, and other handhelds proliferate, although we may have reached, and recoiled from, peak tablet. Mobile drove messaging apps to new heights in 2015.

Trends 40

Trends Technology eBook Social Media 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

And many of the public, government-run schools – where 70 percent of all children study – have no computers or tablets. Mindspark ’s program explains basic concepts to students that then allow them to proceed at their own pace on tablets and computers. India has also had long had a problem with keeping girls in school.

Blended Learning 40

Blended Learning Learning Tablets Training 40

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Wacom is the global leader in the pen display and tablet market for creative users. Sylvia was doing product development for Fortune 500 companies when she came up with the idea for StickTogether. She was attending MakerFaireNY in 2015 and needed to come up with a project. They provide a lot of support and consulting.

Robotics 83

Robotics Education Learning Meeting 83

eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2015

Company also gives educators first public demos of the touch-enabled MimioProjector 280T. Mimio will also be conducting its first public demonstration of the MimioProjector 280T touch projector at ISTE 2015. MimioProjector 280T.

Common Core 40

Common Core Chromebook Collaborative Learning Tablets 40

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

K-12 education, a number that’s been rising since 2013 and has been above 50 percent every year since 2015. percent in 2017, and has been just north of 20 percent every year since 2015. So Apple may wind up owning teen allegiance to wearable digital accessories, even as it loses hands-on loyalty in traditional laptops and tablets.

Analysis 157

Analysis Trends Chromebook EdTech 157

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

Young people huddle over tablets, fiber optic cables run along the ceilings and a cybersecurity lab occupies the basement. She chose the high school because she believed it could give her access to the type of company she wants to work for in the future. Gifts to CAST schools since 2015 have totaled $10 million, including a $3.6

E-rate 98

E-rate Microsoft Industry STEM 98

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 Okay, okay.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2016

BenchPrep, a digital learning platform company, will work with ACT to leverage technology to bring personalized, web- and mobile-based ACT test prep to all ACT test takers. million students in the US high school Class of 2015 took the ACT test—approximately 59 percent of all high school graduates in the United States. More than 1.9

Assessment 40

Assessment Mobility Tablets Industry 40

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Rothfuss said that bill failed because there were concerns about companies needing to request employees’ accounts to avoid corporate espionage and the theft of intellectual property. “But when you grab someone’s tablet and go through (it), it’s like going through the kid’s house.”

Social Media 40

Social Media Tablets Report Facebook 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. 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. Related: Laptops, Chromebooks or tablets?

Personalized Learning 97

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 97