Educational Technology Guy

MAY 9, 2016

The amount of support received from students, teachers and the communities by our 2015-2016 winners was overwhelming, and we look forward to rallying more communities during the 2016-2017 school year.” Please see the press release below, and check out the Fab School Labs page , for more information on the contest.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

- Craig Perrier, High School Social Studies Specialist, Fairfax County Public Schools & History Adjunct, Northeastern University How to Embrace the Wonder of Global Learning Without Completely Messing with Your World - Jenna Broadbent, Community Director Kidnected World 7:00 PM Divided Memories: Comparing History Textbooks in China, Japan, South (..)

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Adam Welcome

JUNE 13, 2016

From the cars we drive, our mobile phones, refrigerators and even tractors - they all run with code and the number of jobs in our marketplace for people who can write that code is staggering! Robots are cool. What better way to take coding to the next level than to code a robot to drive or roll or to program a drone to fly?

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Adam Welcome

MAY 15, 2016

From the cars we drive, our mobile phones, refrigerators and even tractors - they all run with code and the number of jobs in our marketplace for people who can write that code is staggering! Robots are cool. What better way to take coding to the next level than to code a robot to drive or roll or to program a drone to fly?

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Education technology accelerator programs are often studded with robotic kits or educational games. The Baltimore-based startup offers a web and mobile learning platform focusing specifically on lessons that train clinicians and healthcare students in anything from anatomy to neurology or psychiatry.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

As girls who built robots, LED bracelets and tote bags, mobile apps, and websites said, “This is so much cooler than we thought.” ChickTech April 2018 Robotics Workshop held by CJ Reynolds, Grades 9–12. “Girls are excited when they see tech isn’t just about sitting behind a desk,” Schwass says. the human heart and the atom).

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

The Bartlesville High School and Madison Middle School labs were completed in late 2015 and the Central Middle School lab is scheduled to be completed in August 2016. IT Labs, two each, contain 30 student computers and an instructor computer at a mobile station, and electronic marker board. Madison and Central Middle Schools. —

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2016

Nine thousand Highline students participated in the December 2015 “Hour of Code.” a mobile makerspace project that aims to inspire creativity and build problem-solving skills for its students. Vancouver Public Schools offers the Girls Lead The Way Summer Robotics Camp where middle school aged girls learn to program mini robots.

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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). We invite all to attend! A full listing of sessions is below. You're going to be blown away.

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

I was excited about having options for instruction and learning more about mobile learning. Supporting instruction while learning about how mobile devices are best used in the classroom happened very quickly for me and I was constantly adapting and adopting new ideas. The hardest thing I’ve had to figure out is keyboarding.

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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. Among them are mobile homeless shelters, smart homes for pets, vape alarms for school bathrooms and fare evasion detectors for BART, the local rail service. Altogether sixteen projects are on display.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 13, 2015

April 13th - April 27th, 2015 Two Week Calendar | Learning Revolution Events | Learning Revolution Blog | Partner Spotlight To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at LearningRevolution.com. Please share this newsletter with your friends and colleagues! Two Week Calendar Monday, April 13th at 8pm TL Virtual Cafe - #TLChat LIVE!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

We''ve set up a new student entrepreneurship portal at StudentEnrepreneurship.com that provides quick access to the free HPLIFE interactive classes for students to learn business skills, and gives you a chance to sign up for information about the free online conference on student entrepreneurship we plan to hold in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Related: Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code? And the Children’s Museum of Cleveland will put fab lab capabilities into a mobile technology lab that will hit city streets this fall. In one room, kids dig through bins of egg cartons, foil and other recycled materials to make “renewable energy machines.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Thursday, October 23rd at 3pm ISTE Webinar: Developing Your Mobile Learning Landscape , This webinar will introduce a powerful new professional learning experience for teachers, tech coaches, and administrators who are interested in bringing their school up to digital age standards. More information. See you online!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2014

We''re about to announce three additional conferences for 2015: Maker Education, Reinventing Higher Ed, and Digital Citizenship. Is your library mobile friendly? The call for proposals is open until September 1st , so please share this opportunity with your colleagues. See you there! How does your library manage digital collections?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 2, 2017

He is the recipient of SPJ’s 2015 Distinguished Teaching in Journalism Award. His most recent work includes Augmented Reality, Wearables/Google Glass and Virtual Reality — he and his students produce VR experiences under their brand: JOVRNALISM. Their work can be seen in The New York Times, NPR and in their own iOS/Android app.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. There are, after all, only so many times you can put “mobile” on your list of “what’s on the horizon” before folks begin to suspect your insights might not be that… insightful. million this year).

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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. This means they know a K-12 where the promise of mobile 1:1 school computing is becoming a reality. percent of new mobile computing device shipments in U.S. Outside of the U.S., But in the U.S., it was only 21.6

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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. IDC estimates that the total number of shipments in 2015 was actually around 207 million units. But Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983. And the Internet?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

In 2015, fewer than 10 girls of any race took the AP Computer Science exam in ten states, and not a single African-American student took the exam in nine states, including Mississippi, where 50 percent of high school graduates are African-American. and 2 times more likely to attend school with a robotics club. In 2013, among B.A.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Instead, each team member spent a few minutes sketching out how one part — a marble run, say, or a Lego Robotics kicking foot — would operate within the machine. They started incubating coding, robotics and other computational project classes in after-school programs and summer clubs. No single child designed a complete machine.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us.

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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. What Do Portuguese Students Play on Mobile Devices: Inputs for the Development of Educational Games. Carvalho, A. Donahoo, D.

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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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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

.” “ Skidos offers an SDK to turn mobile games into ‘learning apps’,” says Techcrunch , really underscoring how Silicon Valley believes anything can be easily turned into “ed-tech.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The New York Times : “ The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

The Wall Street Journal predicts “The End of Typing: The Next Billion Mobile Users Will Rely on Video and Voice.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. million in revenue in 2015, and its executive compensation was $2.8 Phil Hill on an “LMS Revival: D2L picking up new customers and showing they can listen.”

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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.” ” Also via Techcrunch : “ Primo Toys rolls out Cubetto, a wooden robot that teaches kids to code.”

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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. ” “ Zynga and USC enter social and mobile game design partnership,” says Education Dive. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Just like humans do.

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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. 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. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

“Engagement” app Check I’m Here has raised $1 million in Series A funding from Jeffrey Vinik, Ronald Schlosser, and 500 Mobile Collective. billion, up from $178 billion in 2015, according to recent reports by tech market research firm Gartner.” Terms of the deal were not disclosed. percent in 2016 to total $208.6

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

” Apparently the FAFSA will soon be available on mobile devices. Testing, Testing… From the OECD : “ PISA 2015 Results.” ” According to Edsurge , Knewton is now a courseware company and not a “robot tutor in the sky.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Go, School Sports Team!

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

TULSA, Oklahoma — On a fall morning in 2018, veteran technology teacher Abraham Kamara was working with his robotics team at Memorial Junior High School when Tulsa school superintendent Deborah Gist entered the classroom with a TV news crew. Abraham Kamara at Memorial Junior High School. Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. 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.” If the bill passes, low-income Americans would no longer be able to use $9.25

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

Via The New York Times : “Dreams Stall as CUNY , New York City’s Engine of Mobility, Sputters.” ” Also via The New York Times : “A Mission to Bring STEM Skills, and Robots, to Children in West Africa.” Via Techcrunch : “Nearly 1 in 4 people abandon mobile apps after only one use.”

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