Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

I'm getting Blue-Bot robots this year, so we can do coding in first grade! Since we started differentiating with eSpark, our 2015-2016 annual NWEA state assessment gains were terrific. The differentiation tool—and the data it provided—was a big part of that success. We didn't have that data. Watch: How does eSpark work?

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Strategy Robotics Laptops iPad 118

Learning With Lucie

DECEMBER 15, 2015

And for a closer look, check out the collection of pictures you all submitted directly to Vermont’s Hour of Code site in our 2015 Gallery. Some schools participated in making the Robot Rodeo Announcement as an opportunity to continue coding beyond and hour of code. It was a fabulous week. They were AWESOME!

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Robotics Elementary Video Training 40

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.

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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. So after hunting around and doing comparison reviews I purchased the 2015 Roku 2 , which is standalone, plugs into Ethernet connections and is service agnostic, which I really appreciate. It tracks sleeps, activity, and counts laps.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing. Such activities may one day find their way to the tests ETS produces.

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Personalized Learning Comparison Learning Assessment 80

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.

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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 Wonder Workshop , which develops robot toys that teach kids how to code.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The team followed up with Learner Mosaic, an app that takes gameplay data from Leo’s Pad to inform a sequence of learning activities that parents can do with their kids to help them further develop those skills. That data comes from content partners, and Kidaptive is eyeing publishers in Asia. We’re entirely invisible,” he adds. “If

Adaptive Learning 66

Adaptive Learning Knewton Pearson Company 66

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

READ THE SERIES Meanwhile, the number of jobs in math occupations — which “use arithmetic and apply advanced techniques to make calculations, analyze data, and solve problems” — will have increased by 29 percent in the 10 years ending in 2031, or by more than 30,000 per year, Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show. percent bump in the U.S.

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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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Education technology accelerator programs are often studded with robotic kits or educational games. MeasureOne, a San Francisco startup and data analytics firm thinks so. But the latest cohort at Michelson Runway, an startup accelerator geared towards higher-ed companies, highlights a broader approach to innovation in education.

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Khan Academy Company Adobe Data 74

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. We’re constantly understanding the data and trying to figure out models and how to give programmable experiences to kids, learning experiences that are unique for every child.”.

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Company Robotics Course EdTech 69

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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Robotics Report Course Company 81

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Most of my students lack a personal computer at home or a phone with a consistent data plan—and when 40% of the district’s students are living in poverty, supporting students to envision an attainable career trajectory they can be passionate about requires a unique approach. Reframing that point of view feels risky, like a zero sum game.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Personalized learning has a lack of really clear data points, really clear success stories,” said Hilah Barbot, science and technology director for the national charter school network KIPP, who worked for several years as a teacher and administrator at KIPP New Orleans, overseeing their technology initiatives.

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 97

Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Assessing the Travel Ban : What New Data on Overseas Recruitment Does – and Doesn’t – Tell Us.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Immigration and Education.

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MOOC Education Robotics Company 57

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2019

I stood facing the drone, about to face-off with a little robot. They may or may not become data scientists but they will surely in their adult life have to interface with machines by using their minds. My mind-control-drone-moving experience was nothing like this. Time to figure out who is boss.

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Skyward Training Tablets Company 130

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Data collected as part of the Brookings study shows that more jobs are at risk in the state’s northeast and east central counties like Clay, Lowndes and Lee, where more than 49 percent of tasks could be automated. In fact, 80 percent of Mississippians who sought employment assistance in 2015 had less than a two-year degree.

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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 redesigned the entire curriculum from the ground up based on the data I had collected from diagnostic tests and ongoing classroom formal and informal assessments.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

There’s also a data center that provides off-site storage and backup. The management of such projects includes coordinating data collection from all states, supervising consultants and staff, ensuring member input and supervising the publishing process.

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Broadband Accessibility Instructional Materials Education 59

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

So North Star methodically set about reinventing its approach to STEM, with the experiment yielding positive results— from 2013 through 2015, 33 percent of its alumni majored in STEM disciplines in college. North Star added AP Biology in 2011, AP Calculus BC in 2013, AP Computer Science in 2014, AP Chemistry in 2015, and AP Physics last year.

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STEM Study Robotics Course 80

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Created in 2015, the Futures Zone was initially run by a third-party partner that curated a series of debates and panel discussions that attracted educators and students to policymakers, incubators and investors. There was also an “edtech surgery” where startups could seek advice from experienced educators.

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Conference Education EdTech Company 71

Fractus Learning

JUNE 13, 2016

By acknowledging that teachers can have bad days (shock–they aren’t robots!), With 10 years of research and development under their belt, they’ve created a simple and effective set of activities with enough data around why they work to sway the skeptical holdouts. Empathy–it’s not just for futuristic sci-fi robots!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Students sit at desks wearing electronic headbands that report EEG data back to a teacher’s dashboard, and that information purports to measure students’ attention levels. The video’s narrator explains: “School administrators can use big data analysis to determine when students are better able to concentrate.”

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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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LMS Classroom Assessment Robotics 98

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.

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STEM Robotics Company Software 38

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Many companies – and certainly these two in particular – also have a long history of data collection and data analysis. My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.”

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Knewton Education Company Learning 60

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

In 2015, for example, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that a robot that expressed enthusiasm for learning and actively speculated about a story’s outcome during a reading activity with a child could inspire that youngster’s desire for knowledge. Another option is for teachers to model curious behavior.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

And in an educational landscape where games-based learning is gaining traction, the data GlassLab provides to educators makes the games stand out. In Argubot Academy EDU , players arm robots with all the elements of a persuasive argument and see how well they fare in “battle.”. More › By Natalie Orenstein.

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Game-Based Learning Robotics Social Media Exercises 41

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. Platforms are “an extractive apparatus for data.”

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

.” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. How accurate is her data? (I’d You can find more data about “the business of ed-tech” – from 2017 and from previous years – on funding.hackeducation.com.

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Related: Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code? Within a year, the Fab Lab facilitators hope to have collected and analyzed enough data via surveys, observations and interviews to guide Fab Lab improvements and start sharing lessons learned. We need to ask, what’s the added value?”.

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STEM Adobe Software Mobility 71

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Yannier was deeply affected by a robotics competition in her native Turkey, where she coached underprivileged students to build and program a wheelchair. In 2015 she began testing her shaking table contraption to see how well young kids, ages 6 through 8, could learn basic physics principles from it. I didn’t want that.”.

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Tablets Learning Elementary Software 72

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While regular public high schools report graduation rates and scores on standardized tests, the same data isn’t widely available for recovery schools, because many are so small they fall below the threshold for reporting. Data on just how effective recovery high schools are in helping students stay sober is complicated. Photo: John D.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

We''ve set up a new student entrepreneurship portal at StudentEnrepreneurship.com that provides quick access to the free HPLIFE interactive classes for students to learn business skills, and gives you a chance to sign up for information about the free online conference on student entrepreneurship we plan to hold in 2015.

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Maker Movement Libraries Conference Common Core 46

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Part 3: Forty Educational Websites For Your Summer 2015 Toolkit ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ). Let students tell a story with uploaded spreadsheet data. Technology, 3-D Printing, Robotics, Reuseables, Everyday things, more….

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