MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

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. percent are African-American, according to 2015 data from the American Community Survey. percent of the Valley’s tech professionals are Latino and 2.2

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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.” This is what Google does, for example, when you type something like “how many points LBJ” into the search bar, and you get results about LeBron James.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

Those funds have been crucial in supporting the work of PilotCity, which was officially established in 2015. Shuffling along the stations are adult professionals—among them city officials, including the mayor of San Leandro, and representatives from Google, Sony and Wells Fargo—who offer guidance and poke holes in the projects.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Related: Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code? Another challenge has been finding computer-aided design software suitable for kindergartners. What paper lacks in glamour it makes up for in being “familiar, friendly, accessible and really fast,” said Peggy Healy Stearns, the software designer who created Maker Studio.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 30, 2015

Saturday, January 31st, 2015, is a GREAT day for student teaching and learning! 31 at 9a ET [link] #edchat #edtech Sample Post Join me at the 2015 Student Technology Conference, a student-directed global conversation about technology in education, on Saturday, January 31st from 9am - 9pm ET.

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

AIR works with local communities to address this detriment through an integrated development programs that provide low-cost refurbished computers with relevant open source educational software, support and teacher training directed at schools and community centers especially in less privileged areas where the digital divide is at its greatest.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Not quite enough time for our robot overlords to overtake us, but both distant and soon enough to make us wonder. 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. Outside of the U.S.,

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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

JULY 13, 2017

I got my first taste of "making" in April 2015, when I attended a session on makerspaces at South Dakota's Technology and Innovation in Education conference. I also knew creating such a space could be pricey, especially when you start talking about robots, advanced software and 3D printers. Every school’s makerspace is unique.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The New York Times broke the news this week that New America ousted its Open Markets team after it praised a recent EU fine against Google : “Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant.” ” New America has received more than $21 million from Google. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. .”

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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 26, 2017 The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher | The New York Times → Why is educational technology such a disappointment? public high schools (42.5 percent offered ‘all classes online.’

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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 26, 2017 The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher | The New York Times → Why is educational technology such a disappointment? public high schools (42.5 percent offered ‘all classes online.’

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

The state’s largest district, in Providence, has dramatically increased its spending on web-based instructional programs, from $158,000 in the 2011-12 school year to $928,000 in 2015-16, the latest data available. apps and software, with some classes much more tech-reliant than others. We use Google all the time.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” That’s Joel Rose ’s School of One software. ” The Google Memo. Via Motherboard : “ Google Employee’s Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes ‘Internally Viral’ ” Via Wired : “Internal Messages Show Some Googlers Supported Fired Engineer’s Manifesto.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Via KPCC : “ Ref Rodriguez has given up the role of president of the Los Angeles Unified School Board – but is not resigning his seat on the board altogether – one week after the announcement he’d face felony charges for alleged campaign finance violations during his 2015 run for office.” support, EFF resigns.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

So instead of a zeppelin, we got to ride in one of Google’s self-driving cars, which was of course the project that Thrun had been working on when he gave his famous TED Talk in 2011 – and that, in turn, was where he heard Salman Khan give his famous TED Talk. Google versus Uber. Efficiency.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. Google’s Alphabet Inc.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

” Edsurge on the Google press release : “Google’s Education Suite is Still Free, but New Add-Ons For Administrators Come With a Fee.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Quartz : “One of the world’s biggest firms is spending $450 million to solve a world problem created by robots.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Via Google’s press release : “ Google and Bertelsmann launch mobile digital skills initiatives with Udacity – 10,000 Android scholarships available for EU developers.” ” No mention that Bertelsmann is an investor in Udacity, or that Udacity’s founder is a former Google exec.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017.

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

She and her husband also donated $200,000 to AFC’s charitable arm in 2014 and 2015 through the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation. Via The New York Times : “How Google Took Over the Classroom.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” President Trump gave the commencement speech at Liberty University.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

Perhaps it should go in the “robots” section. This is so important to consider, as Tufekci noted on Twitter, in light of Google’s domination of the K–12 computing market.). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Wired : “ Med Students Are Getting Terrible Training in Robotic Surgery.”

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Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. for Robotics Contest.” ” Google profiles Niji Collins , a winner in the latest Google Code-In contest. Edsurge profiles “ personalized learning ” software used in a virtual school that has some 450 incarcerated students.

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Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. According to Summit’s own reports on those piloting the Basecamp software, “student growth has been positive amongst the cohort schools thus far. average by 1.23 in math and 1.95 in reading, shown below.

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Technology Pearson Education Facebook 73

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

.” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over again we were told “robots are coming for your jobs.” We must prepare preschoolers for an automated future.

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via Education Week : “The Ohio education department could seek repayment of more than $80 million from nine full-time online schools , based on audits of software-login records that led state officials to determine the schools had overstated their student enrollment.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Launches Online School to Teach Software Development.” The school is listed in this 2015 story by Inside Higher Ed on for-profits “where more than half of federal student loan borrowers had not made a single dollar of progress in paying down their loans seven years after they became due.”

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Education Coursera MOOC Report 48

Hack Education

AUGUST 18, 2017

Tune into the Contrafabulists podcast this weekend, when Kin Lane and I will discuss the response (or lack thereof) from the tech industry, including Cloudflare , Spotify , Squarespace , GoDaddy , Google , the EFF , and others. Via Edsurge : “Software Helps Instructors Stop Mangling Hard-to-Pronounce Student Names.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” “ Salesforce will start selling its online learning platform, which has helped its own employees change roles and get promotions,” says MIT Technology Review , going with the wonderful lie in the headline “Making Job-Training Software People Actually Want to Use.” But anyway… Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

“The 2015 PISA Results: What Do They Mean?” million in charges from a Minnesota company over a software system that repeatedly failed during mandatory statewide elementary school testing.” Via The Guardian : “ Facebook , Twitter , Google and Microsoft team up to tackle extremist content.”

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