Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

Founded in 2015, MEL Science has raised a total of $12 million to date. According to a report from Common Sense Media, an education nonprofit, headset prices have dropped significantly over the years. Google Cardboard now sells for about $15. The Common Sense report found that while one in five U.S.

STEM 146

STEM Company Software Report 146

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2019

AltSchool, a developer of personalized learning software that once operated a chain of “microschools,” is getting a major makeover. Ventilla was formerly a Google executive (after selling his social-search startup to the internet giant) who left in 2013 to learn about the education landscape. In 2017, it started closing schools.

Software 107

Software Company Exercises Personalized Learning 107

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. Why Melbourne?

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Training Broadband Company Education 122

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The second conflict-of-interest related news story (set of stories, really) involves New America and Google/ Eric Schmidt. Google – which maintains close ties to the think tank – was alleged to pressure New America to push out a scholar and his team after they made a series of sharp statements about the behavior of the company.

EdTech 150

EdTech Social Media Facebook Google 150

Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2017

Something you can do to prep your students for college is to have one day where you host a workshop on using Google Docs,” suggested Alejandra Cervantes, a junior at UCLA, in response to a question from an educator about the best way to support high school students heading to college. It’s a point the students at NMC echoed.

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Microsoft Adobe Education Smartphone 167

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Five-year-old Mykell Robinson practices his reading on the Lexia software while a small group of classmates work with a teacher. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report. What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label.

Personalized Learning 101

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 101

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. Photo: Jessica Huseman for The Hechinger Report. billion was spent on software. classrooms.

iPad 83

iPad Broadband Software Company 83

Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

So, in 2015, the “ Palmdale Promise ” was born. With these regular training sessions, every teacher feels more comfortable with the panels’ features and accompanying software. My students use Google classroom on their Chromebook notebook computers, which can then be projected on the ActivPanel.

Digital Learning 118

Digital Learning Digital Divide Classroom Learning 118

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2017

The simple HTML edit—not really a “hack” per se—involves going to a web page (like an online gradebook) in Google Chrome. Education software company PowerSchool, which claims users in more than 13,000 districts across the country, is featured in the video. It is unclear if the app has ever came to be.)

Robotics 80

Robotics Company System Video 80

Hapara

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed into law in 2015, and it encourages the use of OER. . As a result, learning doesn’t need to stop just because students and teachers aren’t reporting to their school building. . The Every Student Succeeds Act encourages OER.

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OER Differentiated Instruction Hapara Resources 157

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

They assume that parents, educators and yes, reporters will give learning technologies the same benefit of the doubt that we afford to movie or online shopping recommendation engines. It took a lawsuit to get Google to stop scanning students’ emails. This is a mistake.

Personalized Learning 91

Personalized Learning Learning Facebook OER 91

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.

Data 60

Data Student Data Privacy Company Industry 60

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2017

That’s what Clever , a San Francisco-based startup, started doing last year when it published its 2015 demographic survey results. But Clever sees its public report as a way to get there. I see companies, like Intel and Google, that are creating programs to seed their pipeline.” The company admitted to its shortcomings. “We

EdTech 99

EdTech Company Industry Data 99

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

percent are African-American, according to 2015 data from the American Community Survey. The Hechinger Report/Joanne Jacobs. Pathways, Exposure, Academic Connection, Knowledge (PEAK) takes students to local companies such as Google and Facebook, as well as to hospitals, law firms and other businesses. Others have worked w.

Robotics 92

Robotics STEM Company Software 92

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?

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 6, 2016

In addition, PeopleAdmin, a talent-management software provider for the education sector, acquired TeacherMatch. ” The investment is a follow-on to Udemy’s $65 million Series D round of financing from June 2015. million from Project A Ventures, Business Insider India reported on June 1. Tynker Takes in $7.1 and Canada.

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Udemy Company Software Google 40

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.

EdTech 79

EdTech Company Software Training 79

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. Enuma $4 million (A) 2015 TAL Education, Softbank Ventures Korea Epic! Demand for these services run fierce; individual tutors report making as much as $8 million a year. film and production studios.

EdTech 94

EdTech Knewton Company Robotics 94

eSchool News

JULY 12, 2015

During ISTE 2015, HP announced new technology solutions for education that are aimed to enhance student and teacher experiences. Material from a press release was used in this report. New technology offerings include convertible laptops, immersive computing.

Technology 40

Technology Laptops Chromebook Tablets 40

Edsurge

JULY 22, 2016

Babson Survey , the proportion of academic leaders who report that online learning is critical for long-term institutional growth has grown from 49 percent in 2002 to 71 percent in 2015, and institutions are investing in edtech products to support digital learning. 08 seconds.

Software 60

Software Outcomes Study Blended Learning 60

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

But colleges and universities are turning out only about 28,000 computer-science graduates with bachelor’s and master’s degrees per year, based on the most recent figures from 2015, according to the consulting firm Deloitte. The Manpower Group reports that 40 percent of employers are having trouble finding workers with the skills they need.

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Sony Microsoft Industry Company 94

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2017

What we really see in these boot camps is a lot of career changers,” says Liz Eggleston, co-founder of Course Report, which researches and runs reviews of coding boot camps. A report in Bloomberg in December even suggests a boot camp diploma could be seen as disqualifying. D isclosure: Graham Holdings Co.,

Kaplan 89

Kaplan Company Groups Report 89

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

Even schools that manage to give all children access to devices and the internet cannot escape the fact that much of the educational software they’re using is not specific to the needs of ELL students, Sugarman said. as refugees in 2015, is desperate for his youngest son to retain his English skills. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

Digital Divide 145

Digital Divide Policies Resources Study 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

That was also the primary question in January 2015, when Jan Morrison, president and CEO of TIES ( Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM ), invited BADM staff along with other early childhood experts, software developers and representatives from MIT’s Fab Foundation to meet in Washington, D.C. That worked; Jack beamed.

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STEM Adobe Software Mobility 72

MindShift

AUGUST 18, 2015

” One nonprofit group, Black Girls CODE , isn’t waiting around for more diversity reports. Richardson is entrepreneur and senior software engineer at Westfield Labs. On a recent tour of Google, she says, many of the girls were taken aback. Reports show black or African-American women make up just 0.5

Industry 28

Industry Software Company Report 28

MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

This story on STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. percent are African-American, according to 2015 data from the American Community Survey. Joanne Jacobs for The Hechinger Report). Read more about higher education.

STEM 38

STEM Robotics Company Software 38

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. Running a high school like the Google campus can be tricky, though. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Read more about New Orleans.

STEM 40

STEM Industry Company Report 40

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.

Trends 40

Trends Report iPhone Software 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Would 20 hours of one student logged into Google Classroom, or 20 students logged in for one hour, suffice? Textbooks have given way to Google Classroom and the Blackboard Learn management system, and lessons are assigned, submitted and assessed online. Photo: Andrew Franco. That’s a pretty amazing piece of self-directed learning.

Broadband 93

Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 93

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

I expect it will continue to grow very quickly in 2014 and to spread from its current focus in IT and software development education to other areas. Expect them to be reported on enthusiastically in 2015 conferences. In the meantime new, more agile, organisations are busy creating extremely good online learning experiences.

MOOC 89

MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 89

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

I expect it will continue to grow very quickly in 2014 and to spread from its current focus in IT and software development education to other areas. Expect them to be reported on enthusiastically in 2015 conferences. In the meantime new, more agile, organisations are busy creating extremely good online learning experiences.

MOOC 32

MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 32

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Perhaps we’ve grown too accustomed to paying for purchases with a mobile app, or booking reservations online, or using Google to plan our daily commutes. Schools and districts needed a way to standardize data about their students’ backgrounds and achievement levels to meet state and federal reporting requirements. Reports to Insights.

Report 67

Report Khan Academy Data LMS 67

Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

By 2015, the 72-year-old librarian knew she needed to make her scholarship data searchable online. She was worried about reports that men received disproportionately more financial aid than women. When Young ran for president of the American Library Association for 2014 and 2015, she asked Schlachter to serve as her campaign treasurer.

Libraries 179

Libraries Company Data Accessibility 179

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

Their message was simple: Think creatively about hardware, much like people think about software. Google, a newly public business, reported a mere $6 million in revenue at the end of 2005. Dougherty had spent most of his professional career publishing books about software and the internet. Mash up ideas.

Maker Movement 144

Maker Movement Company Software Trends 144

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

A year later, in their second grade, Google launched the first Chromebooks. K-12 education, a number that’s been rising since 2013 and has been above 50 percent every year since 2015. Reported percentages for quarters in 2018 appear to be similar. percent in 2017, and has been just north of 20 percent every year since 2015.

Analysis 154

Analysis Trends Chromebook EdTech 154

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Since the project began in 2015, the privacy team has evaluated nearly 300 education apps. In the case of ClassDojo, a relatively harmless example, data goes back to the company and to Google Crashlytics. In the case of Quizlet, data is sent to Facebook and Google ad services, according to AppCensus.

Tools 125

Tools Policies Data Android 125

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170