Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Over the last two years, Google has taken its popular applications and outfitted it for the classroom. While many schools and districts continue to use existing learning management systems, such as Blackboard, Canvas , Moodle and Schoology , Google’s Classroom platform is increasingly catching teachers’ eyes.

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EdTech4Beginners

JUNE 12, 2017

Consider Google’s Expeditions. Introduced in 2015, Google Expeditions is a low-cost tool that includes a camera capable of capturing a 360-degree virtual reality image. Farid Gasim is Founder of Edarabia.com and has extensive experience in serving the Middle East education industry. 4D Anatomy.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

More industry certification programs and apprenticeships in all fields should also give students a leg up on either a career or higher education, he says. “We The district has mobile ­computer labs in all schools and provides Samsung Chromebooks and Lenovo ThinkPads loaded with Google Apps for Education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Google, which officially debuted Classroom in 2014, is arguably as widespread in schools as Google’s usage is in the workplace. Google Classroom-2014. Quizizz-2015. Even as industry has built fresh tools for students, we too frequently left educators on their own, scrambling to keep up. Class Dojo-2011.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2019

As technology companies from Google to Salesforce plant roots in Australia, government and business leaders down under are trying to figure out ways to train students and workers to keep up with a changing workforce. company thinks it can help prepare the country’s future programmers.

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The Electric Educator

DECEMBER 2, 2015

On December 1 2015, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced that it was filing a formal complaint against Google with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The EFF claims that such data collection practices violate the Student Privacy Pledge of which Google is a signatory. The "cost" of use, is your data.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). This knowledge helps in preparing students for a future where AI will be a significant part of many industries and professions. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. The importance of adaptability for teachers is well documented in the research literature (e.g.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2017

Like the tech industry to which it belongs, education technology companies also struggle with a lack of diversity. Kimberly Bryant, founder of the Oakland-based nonprofit Black Girls Code , says the edtech industry bears a unique responsibility because of its intersection in education, youth opportunity and business. “I

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

In 2015, someone asked me what I thought about innovation in higher ed in an email, so I responded with a couple of hundred words, which I added to in creating this short blog post. Compare that same MOOC to a self-determined learner Googling topics or searching reddit for information, and suddenly it’s not so bad.

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MindShift

AUGUST 18, 2015

A love for someday maybe thinking about pursuing a career with this burgeoning industry.” On a recent tour of Google, she says, many of the girls were taken aback. Outside of management, software developers and hardware engineers are often among the highest-paid jobs in the industry. Copyright 2015 NPR.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 20, 2015

The Golden Treasures of Google - Part 4 The Golden Treasures of Google! Today''s post is focused on some very special initiatives that Google offers for K-12 students. The Google Science Fair is an online competition for ages 13-18. The Fabulous Things You Don''t Know About! Part 4: Student Initiatives Yep!

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Perry Hewitt

MARCH 13, 2015

Google Maps is an app many use daily — after all, not everyone can live in a CityMapper zone — but have barely scratched the surface in terms of functionality. Google is entering the wireless industry — and its entrance might change the fundamental business of the access market.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2017

Michael Hernandez ( @cinehead ), Cinema and Journalism Teacher, Apple Distinguished Educator, 2015 PBS Digital Innovator. Chrissy Romano ( @TheConnectedEdu ), 3rd Grade Teacher, Google for Education Certified Trainer Chrissy and her Star Wars loving students. private comments feature in Google Classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Simple Virtual Reality in the Classroom with Google Streetview and Google Cardboard ” or. She has a real interest in fashion, would love to be in the fashion industry. Under her guidance, Albemarle County Public Schools was selected in 2015 for membership in the League of Innovative Schools., She’s in there.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Then in 2015, the company took a gamble: It raised $12 million for its first round of outside investment. The following year it hired Matt Glotzbach , a former YouTube and Google executive, as its chief executive. Today the company has nearly 60 full-time staff, almost quadruple the number from early 2015.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

But new challenges have evolved with the industry, too, such as the concern that some publishers and companies are merely claiming to be open for marketing purposes—a practice sometimes referred to as “openwashing.” The Horizon Report, at its worst, is future telling or a ouija board and at best, it’s a mirror of the industry,” says Thomas.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

I have had a front-row seat to the birth and rise of a disruptive educational offering that has drawn the attention of students, educators, government and industry. Gartner's Hype Cycle describes the five phases of maturity of an industry and is a model for how to think about new technology adoption. The Gartner Hype Cycle.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Technology companies—in all industries—make users anxious when they describe their work with the vagueness of a magician. Let’s, for instance, take how companies like Google and Facebook “personalize” a user’s web browsing experience through search results, ads and content—and then apply that to instructional experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The intervention is a direct response to the fact that the shortage of data and computer scientists “isn’t being handled” by universities and colleges, said Charles Eaton, executive vice president for social innovation at the Computing Technology Industry Association, or CompTIA. Some academics take a dim view of this development.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Both are then processed and refined; magically turned into rivers of gold by the digital alchemists of our era, Facebook and Google. Most of us don’t question the idea that the extractive industries in Australia owe a debt to the nation’s citizens for access to the wealth buried within the land. Reclaiming the data commons.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Students for Fair Admissions, which is suing the university for allegedly discriminating against Asian American applicants, will have access to “academic, extracurricular, demographic and other information” from all undergrads who applied to Harvard between the fall 2009 and spring 2015, omitting names and Social Security numbers.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The educational games industry is a challenging, niche market where independent developers don’t last long. As one of the first educational apps that incorporated the iPad’s accelerometer into the game mechanics, the game notched industry awards and features in outlets such as TIME, WIRED and USA Today. K-12 schools last year.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

education industry has not become so dependent (yet). 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 Last month.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2018

But what the team may lack in age, it makes up for with a staff whose resumes are padded with stints at some of the most sought-after companies including Yelp, Facebook, Salesforce, GitHub and, of course, Google. At the end of 2015, he left to work on a mobile app for a popular board game-maker.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

And to get a sense of what’s trendy in the education scene, data from SXSWedu’s Panelpicker, a process where anyone can submit topics for the conference program, offers a bird’s-eye glimpse of the issues and practices that administrators, teachers, researchers and industry leaders want to talk about.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2018

After a series of bootcamp closures last year, including Dev Bootcamp and the Iron Yard, some insist that the coding bootcamp industry is in a downturn phase. In a press release, the company did claim that students have landed jobs at companies including Google, Salesforce and Bank of America. And they’re growing.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — CAST Tech, San Antonio’s newest public high school, looks like an outpost of Google. They rely on industry “partners” — 10 so far at CAST Tech — to guarantee students internships and mentorships and to help keep the curriculum current. Gifts to CAST schools since 2015 have totaled $10 million, including a $3.6

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

Google is distracting, ethics are a mess.". Google is distracting, ethics are a mess, and the industry has to come to grips with the fact that this is all a mess,” November says. “We dropped over $10,000 last year on a math product, but I’m not sure if it’s really helped our students learn.”. Sound familiar?

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edWeb.net

JUNE 14, 2019

A panel of innovative educators in different leadership roles in the school community will present ideas and PD plans for using the free professional learning platform, edWeb.net, Google and other free tools to provide a PD buffet of learning that inspires and motivates teachers and impacts learning. Panelists: Dr. L.

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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). Our social media page is HERE with links to Facebook , Google+ , Twitter , and more.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2017

Numbers say the company’s strategy is working: Since January 2017, Guild has helped more than 500 front-of-the-line employees go back to school, and claims to have coached more than 7,000 students since its inception in 2015. To an outsider, that scope of support that a Guild advisor provides may seem narrow.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2015

This marks a major expansion of Microsoft’s YouthSpark program, the company’s effort to get young people hooked on computer science and build a larger, more diverse talent pool for the technology industry. Those who study computer science frequently take more lucrative industry jobs. ” ©2015 USA Today.

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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. The edtech industry made big strides during this era. For more details, see my 2015 piece ). Lynda.com’s $1.5

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2018

A Google search for “college scholarships” turns up results for many websites that also aggregate scholarship and financial aid opportunities. The charter high-school network has been using RaiseMe since 2015, and there are 180 students currently using the tool at Decker’s campus.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, and PBS LearningMedia, a media-on-demand service designed for K-12 classrooms, announced the opening of applications for the inaugural year of The Emperor Science Award program. Entries to apply for the program will be accepted through November 1.

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Kyle Pace

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This article is a guest post cross-posted at Edsurge for their “Fifty States Project: Stories from the 2015-2015 Edtech Classroom” The flood of edtech tools that teachers are presented with has been staggering over the last several years, and continues to be this way. Creativity: Google Draw , Canva , Pixlr Express.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. You may not know it, but education is a very “green” industry. Lesson learned #4: Don’t pursue every industry standard. The list goes on and on.

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