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Sony, Edmodo, partner on math challenge

eSchool News

Sony’s Global Math Challenge will expand to more than 190 countries. Sony Global Education, Inc. By working with Edmodo, Sony Global Education will make its Global Math Challenge, a worldwide online math competition, accessible to teachers and students in over 190 countries. will partner with Edmodo, Inc.,

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How AI is changing special education

Neo LMS

It replaced Sony’s AIBO robot in the niche, and elite robot sporting event known as The Standard Platform League, it is also being tested by Mitsubishi as a replacement for customer service agents in its banks. In 2015, the robot was also used to develop “autobiographical” programs used to train ISS crews.

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Edtech Bootstrapping 101: A Survival Story

Edsurge

As a former video game designer for Sony Playstation, I’m pretty sure this is going to be easy. February 2015 We bootstrap software development and curriculum production by selling camps and weekend coding sessions at our brick-and-mortar academy. May 2015 I read Mark Cuban’s “ How to Win at the Sport of Business.”

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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

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. It usually manages to fill just two or three of those positions, Soni said. Soni is more blunt.

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This Workforce Partnership Trains Tech Talent. Can It Boost Civic Engagement Too?

Edsurge

Those funds have been crucial in supporting the work of PilotCity, which was officially established in 2015. Roughly 200 local employers, including Kaiser Permanente, OSISoft, Sony and Typeform, have also participated. The company also designed a makerspace for nearby Hayward Unified School District that year.

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

Edsurge

That service shut down in 2015, and according to the Verge , the company said it had not “grown at the pace we had expected.” Sony says it is working towards a 2018 rollout. That’s why LiveEdu and other ICO startups are banking on another selling point for users: the ability to exchange their EDU tokens for other cryptocurrencies.

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Android Apps for the understanding level of Bloom's

Kathy Schrock

This is a re-posting of a blog post of August 5, 2013, which originally appeared on the now-defunct Sony Education Ambassadors site. On July 7, 2015, I provided an overview of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and include a set of Android apps and Web sites that could be used to support teaching and learning at the remembering level.

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