ProfHacker

DECEMBER 12, 2016

2016 has been a difficult year, and in the spirit of moving forward you’ll notice lots of suggestions centered around giving not only to those close to us but to larger causes and projects that need support. But some lesser-known companies make nice speakers that sound good and are quite affordable. Bose, Beats) as well as a speaker.

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Tablets iPad Mobility Company 40

The Game Agency

JANUARY 9, 2019

A: The Game Agency is a software development company focused on building game-based solutions that make K-College and corporate training more effective. Our games are available in >20,000 schools and used by hundreds of companies including Amazon, Comcast, IBM, Kellogg, PayPal, Philips, Siemens, and Wells Fargo.

Training 40

Training Outcomes Mobility Company 40

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

The report defines self-paced courseware as being accessed on a desktop or laptop and spanning the K-12, higher education, corporate training, and privately marketed software (such as that produced by language-learning company Rosetta Stone) sectors. billion in 2016. Educators Weigh iPad’s Dominance of the Tablet Market.

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Report E-rate OER LMS 68

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

When Apple released its first iPad seven years ago, the company thought one area it would revolutionize was education. So when Hiram College announced last month that it would provide every student and professor an iPad starting this fall, it made us wonder what the state of Apple’s sector-creating tablet on campuses is these days. (It

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

What's more, as students increasingly use devices such as smartphones, laptops, and tablets in the classroom, schools have had to adapt to find the best way to integrate that technology into the curriculum. After reading about the results of learning studios on other campuses, JCCC partnered with classroom furniture company.

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Data E-rate Course Tablets 60

Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 22, 2016

Fisher spoke at an event his company hosted at BETT, the world’s largest ed-tech conference, to explain some of the worldwide developments that fuel these changes. In 2015, 30 million personal computers and tablets were sold to K-12 globally, representing about 14 percent growth over the year before, Fisher said.

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Trends Company Data Chromebook 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Today, students are even able to access assignments on their mobile devices. LINDSAY, Calif. —

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Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 129

techlearning

MAY 22, 2018

These vetted programs are given to students for free and are accessible anywhere they can get online using their tablets or computers.”. The mobile program has engaging reading practice opportunities, such as read alouds, guided reading, interactive writing, writing workshops, and reading workshops.

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Accessibility Education eBook Game-Based Learning 40

Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Classrooms are embracing interactive whiteboards and mobile devices with enthusiasm. Although Interactive whiteboards, mobile learning, open content and learning management systems are proliferating within classrooms, when it comes to assessment processes, there is a fragmentation between how student data gets transferred seamlessly.

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Learning Analytics Gamification Assessment Industry 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This is the last public talk I’ll deliver in 2016, and I confess I am relieved (I am exhausted!) In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. Either way. Inevitable.

Trends 40

Trends Report iPhone Software 40

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

His 2010 book was called What Technology Wants , as though technology is a living being with desires and drives; the title of his 2016 book, The Inevitable. Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983. Our Internet service providers today are likely telephone and TV companies.

Technology 40

Technology Learning Data Libraries 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Last month, two Apple shareholders wrote a letter to the company voicing concerns that technology might be hurting children. She thinks tech companies like Google and Apple can encourage children not to be online until they’re 12 or 13 and able to “better understand what’s happening online.” When All Else Fails.

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Android Smartphone Tablets iPhone 96

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year. announced the U.S.

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Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 57

eSchool News

JULY 6, 2016

The company’s ISTE presence demonstrated how display technology can be crucial in the classroom. Panasonic , provider of professional display solutions for education, demonstrated its BF1 display technology at ISTE 2016. The BF1 will be linked to 3 different devices (C2, tablet and phone) via Ormi-Exo-U.

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Panasonic Mobility Tablets Company 42

edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

It’s also looking at the potential changes, said Dr. Gabe Soumakian, CEO and Founder, Sup Du Jour Consulting Group, like what happens when a software or hardware company goes out of business. Department of Education Secretary in October 2016. In the fall of 2016 Ann co-authored and published Life Lessons in Leadership.

EdTech 52

EdTech Digital Badges Software Outcomes 52

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Tagged on: August 27, 2017 DeVos Invested in Company Under Investigation for Misleading Claims | Education Week → When U.S. Tagged on: August 22, 2017 Children’s Learning With Tablet Technology is Often Too Passive | UT News → Joan Hughes writes: "Can tablets teach children basic math and reading skills?

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Tagged on: August 27, 2017 DeVos Invested in Company Under Investigation for Misleading Claims | Education Week → When U.S. Tagged on: August 22, 2017 Children’s Learning With Tablet Technology is Often Too Passive | UT News → Joan Hughes writes: "Can tablets teach children basic math and reading skills?

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 25, 2015

What can we expect from the digital world in 2016? So, following up from Tuesday’s education and contexts post , here are some tech trends to watch in 2016. Mobile ecosystems We continue our migration into the mobile world, with ever-growing use of smartphones and changes in web design.

Trends 40

Trends Technology eBook Social Media 40

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

This new approach is fueled by trends that have impacted academic publishing over the past decade, including: The Rental Market: Companies like Wiley report textbook rental as the major cause for their recent 27% revenue decline in their Q3 (compared to 2016). in the fall of 2016. in the fall of 2016.

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OER How To Industry Assessment 108

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

on February 23, 2016, an incendiary email landed on a nonprofit listserv, blasting a federal program that many of the listserv’s members rely on to bring high-speed internet to low-income and rural Americans. In their defense, Mobile Beacon and Mobile Citizen point out that they do more than most to support digital inclusion.

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Broadband Mobility Digital Divide Learning 86

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything. But many students live in threadbare mobile homes and modest, low-slung dwellings on the edge of town. In wealthy school districts around the country, parents and teachers talk often about keeping computer use to a minimum.

Laptops 40

Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

the Virginia company at the heart of the operation.” Here’s the EdWeek headline: “ Company Exec. for Ed-Tech Company Testifies in Ala. ” Gee, good thing no one else in ed-tech is in the business of selling these sorts of connections between companies and politicians and schools! ” Ugh.

Education 48

Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

a student who was born with cerebral palsy and whose mobility is impaired, was the catalyst for the first oral argument of the day, in Fry v. Testing, Testing… Via EdSource : “Testing company fined in California for second year.” ” The testing company in question: ETS. Napoleon Community Schools.”

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Education MOOC E-rate Company 40

Hack Education

JULY 22, 2016

on Wednesday announced new guidelines that aim to provide more transparent information for borrowers and more accountability for the companies that manage repayment of federal student loans ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Excluding the debt financing (it raised $275 million that way in January), the company has raised $78.61

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