EdTechTeam

AUGUST 8, 2018

These little ball robots have opened up so many possibilities. And the beauty is you can use this little robot in any lesson, in any subject, and with any age. For me, it all started in 2015 when I asked for a Sphero to use with my after-school Environmental Club. Students then coded the robot through their challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. The project that has caused the biggest splash came from the Innovation Center’s aquatic robotics team. LONGMONT, Colo. —

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Designed for kids ages 5-13, this unique gaming accessory works with an iPad to offer interactive learning experiences through five games — Tangram , Words , Numbers , Newton , and Masterpiece. There is something for every type of thinker with this tiny tinker robot. Ozobot Bit. Dash and Dot. Gizmos and Gadgets Kit.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Some of them had never seen an iPad or a laptop and probably wouldn't have without the program here." 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. I could have cried. I could have cried.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Tagged on: July 20, 2017 Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? " Tagged on: July 18, 2017 Let Robots Teach American Schoolkids | Bloomberg → This is not a work of satire. Tagged on: July 18, 2017 Schools’ information up for sale on darknet? wi.us, among other sources." Unified gets a $3.26-million

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

By the end of this week, five out of seven of the district’s public schools will have spaces filled with 3D printers, Legos, laptops, robots and more for hands-on learning. The spaces in the district focus on robotics, coding and creating. ©2015 the San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.). at www.mercurynews.com.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

OCTOBER 27, 2015

For example, students might get to make a figure out of pipe cleaners, clay, or Playdoh as the craft and then use that figure to create a stop motion video with the iPad. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) October 27, 2015. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) October 27, 2015. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) October 27, 2015.

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There is no box

JULY 2, 2015

It is 2015. Requiring only an iPad or laptop with a video camera, decent bandwidth and a teacher willing to give it a go, the technical barrier to entry for this is effectively zero. Now, to get a PO for Double Robotics and Google Cardboard through the purchasing process… No more pictures of the Liberty Bell in a book.

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

I came in one day and was told that during second semester almost a whole quarter’s worth of instruction would now happen with me rolling an iPad cart of 30 iPads from class to class when the lab was being used for testing throughout the year. I was excited about having options for instruction and learning more about mobile learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2016

Nine thousand Highline students participated in the December 2015 “Hour of Code.” Vancouver Public Schools offers the Girls Lead The Way Summer Robotics Camp where middle school aged girls learn to program mini robots. In Henry County Public Schools , librarians integrate CS during mandatory media time.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

APRIL 3, 2015

— Flipgrid (@flipgrid) April 2, 2015. Students connected Spheros to iPads through bluetooth, setup a wireless network with the Justin & Greg from Flipgrid, and made a playable piano with Playdoh and MaKey MaKey. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) April 2, 2015. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) April 2, 2015.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The iPad was going to change everything. 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.” Educational television was going to change everything. Virtual reality was going to change everything. And on and on and on.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

I’ve been called the “Willy Wonka of school librarians” because I transformed our traditional library into what I call an IDEA (Innovation, Design, Engineering, and Art) Lab complete with flexible furniture, robotics, engineering tools, iPads, laptops, and sewing machines. Related content: How to transform a library into a makerspace.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. Half of those, the firm said, would be iPads. IDC estimates that the total number of shipments in 2015 was actually around 207 million units. Apple sold just 50 million iPads.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

“Fake news,” “robots coming for our jobs,” “the new economy,” “surveillance capitalism,” “personalization,” “the cult of innovation,” and so on – these are all narratives intertwined in the power of major technology companies, platforms, data, and algorithms.

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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/ ). iPad app (free or $1.99 Technology, 3-D Printing, Robotics, Reuseables, Everyday things, more…. Exploratorium. Make Beliefs Comix.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Monday, October 27th at 4pm Webinar: Biggest 1:1 iPad Rollout Ever: Challenges and Opportunities , In our community’s next webinar, hear about LAUSD’s Common Core Technology Project: the largest one-to-one mobile device rollout in the country. Five More Halloween Titles - Not So Scary This Time. See you online!

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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. They went into first grade when Apple was rolling out the first iPad, in 2010. Being connected, as is required to get iPads and Chromebooks up and running, is assumed. But in the U.S., it was only 21.6

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

" Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Technology switch leaves some upset | Columbia Daily Tribune → Battle High School students and teachers have had iPads since the school opened in 2013. But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

In 2014, I wrote about strategies for edtech success in the new school year , and in 2015, I wrote about edtech teaching trends for the new school year. I’ve seen the students in my own school get pretty excited about the robots they’ve built and programmed with code. A promising new iPad app is TES Teach. It is good!

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Sept 2015). Teachers Report Sharp Growth in Game-Based Learning by District Administration (July 2016) – reports that 48% of classroom teachers report using games in classroom instruction in 2015. Appolicious – This site pretty much evaluations iPhone/iPad games but has lots of them in the index. doi: [link].

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

If every child had a computer or iPad, she could log into a customized cyberclassroom and learn at her own pace. 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.

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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. Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. 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. Online Grade Portals.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Via The New York Times : “ Apple Offers Free App to Teach Children Coding (iPads Sold Separately).” billion, up from $178 billion in 2015, according to recent reports by tech market research firm Gartner.” On the horizon: makerspaces, online learning, robotics, VR, artificial intelligence, and wearables.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Despite the press coverage – the funding announcement was made on Oprah – things didn’t really go as planned , as journalist Dale Russakoff has recounted in her 2015 book The Prize. IBM released a Watson-powered iPad app. Since then, IBM has moved to commercialize Watson, particularly in healthcare and education.

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” New Nanodegrees from Udacity : Digital Marketing and Robotics. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Robots hate the Common Core. ” Via Techcrunch : “ Disney Research has robots matching verbal styles with kids.” ” Via PC Magazine : “Researchers Show Off ‘Mind-Reading’ Robot.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

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.” “​ Ohio State Will Give Incoming Students iPads. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Via Edsurge : “ Apple iPad Sales to Schools Jump 32%, Selling 1M Tablets in Fiscal Q3 2017.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Universities With the Highest Research-and-Development Spending Financed by Business, FY 2015.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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