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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MindShift

AUGUST 18, 2015

Richardson is entrepreneur and senior software engineer at Westfield Labs. 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. Copyright 2015 NPR. “A love for tinkering. Twitter has. LA Johnson/NPR).

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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

MAY 10, 2017

Michael Hernandez ( @cinehead ), Cinema and Journalism Teacher, Apple Distinguished Educator, 2015 PBS Digital Innovator. Using the audio meter on the camera and waveform in our editing software, the students knew exactly where to make edits, and at times were more precise with their sound editing than my more “able-bodied” students.

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EdTech Classroom Industry Google 135

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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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

AUGUST 16, 2018

And the group will continue to use the software developed by NMC to coordinate the research, which was among the assets purchased by Educause. The 2015 report , on the other hand, predicted that wearable technologies, including Google Glass, would find a place in higher-ed research settings.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Aparna is a doctor, and Deepak previously worked at Google. Cofounder James Lin likens it to an “SAT for software engineers.” Lin points out that while medicine, law and finance professions require certifications, software engineering doesn’t—but it should. The startup focuses on educators in pre-K to 5th-grade classrooms.

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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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Kaplan Industry Outcomes Company 60

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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. billion was spent on software. Photo: Jessica Huseman for The Hechinger Report. classrooms.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

percent are African-American, according to 2015 data from the American Community Survey. By contrast, 57 percent are foreign born, with many coming from India and China, a local industry group estimates. A staffing agency employee, she recruits contract workers for Google. Internships are super, super important.”.

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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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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 164

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.

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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.

EdTech 40

EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

The tall ceilings, roof-top windows, exposed steel beams and air ducts hints at its industrial past. Those funds have been crucial in supporting the work of PilotCity, which was officially established in 2015. . — A red staircase next to a Home Depot in an ordinary strip mall leads to an equally nondescript door.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

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.” But Watson is not remotely close to the “artificial intelligence” that the company, and the industry more broadly, likes to tout. (A

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Knewton Education Company Learning 60

Reading By Example

DECEMBER 7, 2016

A learning management system, or “LMS” is defined as “a digital learning system” that “manages all of the aspects of the learning process” (Amit K, 2015). Google Classroom , Schoology and Edmodo fall into this category. eLearning Industry. Facebook Helps Develop Software That Puts Students in Charge of Their Lesson Plans.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 7, 2016

A learning management system, or “LMS” is defined as “a digital learning system” that “manages all of the aspects of the learning process” (Amit K, 2015). Google Classroom , Schoology and Edmodo fall into this category. eLearning Industry. Facebook Helps Develop Software That Puts Students in Charge of Their Lesson Plans.

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System LMS Schoology Edmodo 28

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Long a staple of industry, fab labs have recently been popping up in affluent high schools and middle schools. Another challenge has been finding computer-aided design software suitable for kindergartners. We need to ask, what’s the added value?”. The kids tested their cars on ramps and measured the distances rolled.

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STEM Adobe Software Mobility 73

Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 24, 2015

SXSWedu offers unique opportunities for attendee engagement before, during, and after the conference that are unlike any other conference in the industry! You can start by taking a look at some past sessions posted on Google+ and YouTube. Even though the event is more than 6 months away, plenty of social buzz is already happening.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

That’s why he’s launching Rooted School, a high school that plans to train students to enter jobs in fields like 3D printing, software development and programming right after graduation. Together these initiatives look to diversify an industry dominated by white and Asian men.

STEM 40

STEM Industry Company Report 40

MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

percent are African-American, according to 2015 data from the American Community Survey. By contrast, 57 percent are foreign born, with many coming from India and China, a local industry group estimates. A staffing agency employee, she recruits contract workers for Google. Internships are super, super important.”.

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STEM Robotics Company Software 38

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. The quotation is from 2012.

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Trends Report iPhone Software 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

There is some thought that a certain percentage of instruction must be digital to qualify as “blended learning,” but there is no clear industry standard. Google Apps for Education. A collection of software bundled by Google that is available on a subscription model for schools and classroom. Google Classroom.

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Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

By 2015, the 72-year-old librarian knew she needed to make her scholarship data searchable online. Schlachter came to the publishing industry through her research as an academic. When Young ran for president of the American Library Association for 2014 and 2015, she asked Schlachter to serve as her campaign treasurer.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

When establishing each rating, Common Sense’s privacy team considers federal and state privacy regulations as well as industry best practices. Since the project began in 2015, the privacy team has evaluated nearly 300 education apps. In the case of Quizlet, data is sent to Facebook and Google ad services, according to AppCensus.

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Tools Policies Data Android 131

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Tagged on: March 18, 2017 G Suite for Education Now Open for Personal Google Accounts, Outside Domains | Campus Technology → Raises privacy questions. " says Google Family Link manager Saurabh Sharma.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

A year later, in their second grade, Google launched the first Chromebooks. It’s hard to make a case that there is still a separate edtech industry. K-12 education, a number that’s been rising since 2013 and has been above 50 percent every year since 2015. First is the evolving nature of education technology. Outside of the U.S.,

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

the national movement to redefine what it means for students to be college, career and life ready while serving as the 2015-2016 president of AASA, The School Superintendents Association. She started her career as a software engineer at NASA supporting Space Shuttle and Station Operations. Frankie Jackson.

Learning 78

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 78

Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 25, 2017

Software allows interactivity and perhaps other functions, depending on the package. Additionally, the display can easily connect with FLUX HPC and offers many common software packages for researchers, designers, and programmers. That software I mentioned isn’t a trivial matter. Here’s one paper on the details.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Here’s a chronological roundup of stories that made the biggest bang on the edtech industry (and to a similar extent, our web traffic) in 2016. AltSchool has raised more than $100 million on the back of “microschools,” its name for small, private schools where software is infused in the learning experience. Let history be the guide.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 25, 2015

The sequence is, roughly, hardware to software, more or less: Automation and AI The number of projects and initiatives continues to grow. Privacy and surveillance Late 2015 saw an ISIS- and tv news fueled panic about terrorism, which turned to technology. Mobile is where Google and Apple continue their bitter struggle.

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Trends Technology eBook Social Media 40

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales. public high schools (42.5

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. Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales. public high schools (42.5

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