The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Just beneath the surface, however, Burlington has become home over the last few years to an invisible economy of people who work remotely for the world’s biggest technology businesses, including Apple, Google, Twitter and IBM, hundreds and even thousands of miles from these companies’ chic and sprawling headquarters. And they let me.”

Company 130

Company Trends Report Survey 130

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Five-year-old Mykell Robinson practices his reading on the Lexia software while a small group of classmates work with a teacher. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report. What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label.

Personalized Learning 99

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 99

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

Google in June announced an. Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud services both offer education programs, and now Google Cloud wants a part in shaping future computer scientists — and probably whatever they come up with using the tool. Google Cloud launched in 2011, but has caught up to competitors to. Google breaking in? .

Microsoft 60

Microsoft Accessibility Google Khan Academy 60

The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

This doesn’t include Google Chrome independent extensions like Quillbot , described in its overview as a “Grammar Checker, Paraphrasing Tool & Summarizer.” Microsoft’s Tay was taken down after only a day on Twitter as other Twitter users taught it to be racist and xenophobic in March of 2016.

Tools 120

Tools Classroom Libraries Assessment 120

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

Google and Apple both made big education technology announcements this week, unveiling new products designed for schools. Murphy for The Hechinger Report. But a Hechinger Report investigation found the price districts pay for ed tech hardware and software can vary widely, with Apple devices in particular. Subscribe today!

Laptops 56

Laptops Tablets Chromebook iPad 56

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. The “cultivation of students’ entrepreneurship and innovation capabilities and practical skills” was a priority in China’s 5-Year Plan for 2016-2020. billion in 2016, according to Goldman Sachs. Authess $2.2

EdTech 94

EdTech Knewton Company Robotics 94

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. Photo: Jessica Huseman for The Hechinger Report. billion was spent on devices by K-12 schools in 2015, and the Software and Information Industry Association estimates that nearly $8.4 classrooms.

iPad 80

iPad Broadband Software Company 80

Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It’s helped me in my writing – and when I started using it, it was the best writing software available. Grammarly is a proofreading software tool that uses artificial intelligence technology to detect grammar, spelling, punctuation, style, sentence structure, and word choice mistakes. I’m a long-time Grammarly user.

Software 59

Software Microsoft Comparison Report 59

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Keep your antivirus software active. Update any software that needs it. If you get Google alerts, set them for weekly (unless you really must know when someone posts on the term ‘Labrador puppies’). If you get reports on Twitter usage or Google Adwords, schedule those weekly. don’t look back.

Adobe 150

Adobe Digital Citizenship Software System 150

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Case in point: Online course provider Coursera reported more than 13 million new registered users since mid-March, a 535 percent increase from the same period last year. Between 2016 and 2019, online tutoring services raised more than $1.2 The positive report sent stock values soaring more than 30 percent.

EdTech 182

EdTech Khan Academy Chegg Coursera 182

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Lambda School allows students to pay nothing upfront, in return for 17 percent of their salary for two years once they get a software-related job that pays more than $50,000. The company currently offers two live, online and interactive 6-month programs in software engineering and machine learning. million in revenues this year and $1.5

Meeting 100

Meeting Technology Company Education 100

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2019

All the world’s a stage when you’re a startup, and life becomes a pitch in front of investors, advisers, reporters, partners and potential acquirers. That’s the question that Google’s Rochelle posed to Chelsea Sprayregen, CEO of Pie for Providers —and not because the startup’s name sounds like food.

Education 90

Education Company EdTech Robotics 90

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?

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

percent of all school-age children in the fall of 2016, the last year for which such data is available. Even schools that manage to give all children access to devices and the internet cannot escape the fact that much of the educational software they’re using is not specific to the needs of ELL students, Sugarman said.

Digital Divide 145

Digital Divide Policies Resources Study 145

myViewBoard

JUNE 20, 2019

The majority of teachers who responded to our survey reported they tend to search for videos online using search engines such as YouTube (83%) and Google (61%). Although it is easy to search for content on any topic conceivable on YouTube and Google these videos come with difficulties over content quality and relevance.

Video 40

Video Khan Academy Education Udemy 40

Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

Among them are concerns over what happens to data in learning management systems like Canvas , to questions over whether campuses should ban facial-recognition software. Listen to this week’s podcast on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music , or wherever you listen to podcasts, or use the player below.

Education 96

Education Data Company Student Data Privacy 96

Edsurge

JULY 22, 2016

Babson Survey , the proportion of academic leaders who report that online learning is critical for long-term institutional growth has grown from 49 percent in 2002 to 71 percent in 2015, and institutions are investing in edtech products to support digital learning. 08 seconds.

Software 60

Software Outcomes Study Blended Learning 60

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Consider the following developments in artificial intelligence: In 2016, the Associated Press began outsourcing its minor-league baseball dispatches to a company called Automated Insights. AP has expanded its use of Automated Insights into other sport dispatches, quarterly business financial reports , and more.* But I was wrong.

Education 101

Education Robotics Assessment Examples 101

Marketplace K-12

JULY 29, 2016

billion for the first half of 2016. Source: Google Finance. Reuters reported that the company’s shares were the biggest losers on Britain’s Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 for the day. Pearson’s stock drops after half-year results are announced. and the U.K., Former SAP Exec Named to Post.

Pearson 40

Pearson Common Core Company Assessment 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Formed in December 2016 by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MESE) and the. Last week, MAPLE released its first report: a. Among the survey’s findings: Google Classroom is by far the most popular learning management platform, used in more than 80 percent of districts.

Personalized Learning 73

Personalized Learning Learning Moodle Secondary 73

edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

By engaging and partnering with community stakeholders and organizations such as service providers, cable companies, and software companies and seeking grant opportunities, school districts will have access to digital equity resources and possible subsidized funding. Innovative Approaches. Looking Forward.

Strategy 46

Strategy EdTech Professional Learning Accessibility 46

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The courses employers have been helping to create don’t just teach skills students need to work for Microsoft, Amazon or Google, like the highly specialized training classes that are longtime industry standards — Linux System Administration, for example, or Office 365 Fundamentals. Related: How to save the humanities?

Sony 91

Sony Microsoft Industry Company 91

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 21, 2016

You will want to share the following with your classroom teacher partners and your school’s edtech leader: Best of Breed 2016 (categorized favorites). Here is Jane Hart’s slideshow of the selected Top 200 Tools for Learning 2016. Bloomin’ apps: suggestions for iPad, Android, Google and Web 2.0

iPad 40

iPad Android E-rate Facebook 40

MindShift

JUNE 7, 2016

Check out the “dashboards” inside programs like Google Apps for Education, or freestanding gradebook apps like JumpRope, or ClassDojo, focused on behavior. Software also collects information on students all by itself. Companies like Google pledge not to track the content of schoolwork for the purposes of advertising.

Data 28

Data Knewton Report Software 28

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

That’s why he’s launching Rooted School, a high school that plans to train students to enter jobs in fields like 3D printing, software development and programming right after graduation. Rooted was supposed to open in the fall of 2016. Running a high school like the Google campus can be tricky, though.

STEM 40

STEM Industry Company Report 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

In 2016, the average student came out of college with an average of $37, 172 in debt. In Silicon Valley, the non-profit Zero 1: The Art and Technology Network , places artists in large tech companies to work alongside engineers designing products and software for the future. Especially to students who dream of studying the arts.

Survey 40

Survey Study Training Data 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!) ” – 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. Either way. as well as honored to be here.

Trends 40

Trends Report iPhone Software 40

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. Teenagers come to the lab to develop their own projects under the tutelage of Google employees and Code Next’s academic coaches.

Industry 128

Industry STEM Education Survey 128

MindShift

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Among the most surprising findings: People with children spend, on average, 9 hours and 22 minutes per day in front of a screen: texting, tweeting, Googling, checking the weather. The report’s biggest takeaway? ” Copyright 2016 NPR. Screen time isn’t going anywhere. So let’s talk about it.

Groups 28

Groups Technology Study Report 28

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2018

With that in mind, and after exploring other options, in late 2016 Barnett, Kelly and colleagues finally settled on a promising solution. It comes pre-engineered with integrated hardware and software , and includes everything necessary for plug-and-play connectivity. There are other solutions to the data center dilemma, of course.

Data 175

Data Software System Strategy 175

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

The San Francisco-based company is best known for its rostering technology that provisions user accounts for software, and a single sign-on service that makes it easy for students and teachers to log into and use tools purchased by district officials. A report published in January suggests that most software licenses purchased go unused.

EdTech 118

EdTech Libraries Software Company 118

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

EdTech 170

EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 17, 2016

I am now almost booked through the end of July, and the second half of the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. tools Write with Me or Google Forms. These can be collected using Google Forms or Write with Me. Have students create word clouds of a lab report and compare results. Check out my Booking Page.

Classroom 60

Classroom Conference Groups Study 60

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. As defined by the CoSN report, accelerators are megatrends that drive change.

Learning 77

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 77

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online ACHIEVE3000 & ICIVIC ( www.achieve3000.com The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions. The application is free to download from the App Store or Google Play.

Tools 60

Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 60

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

Back in September 2016, I applied Gartner’s Hype Cycle theory to predict the coming year in the coding bootcamp industry. Many products beloved by early adopters (think Google Glasses or the Segway) never cross the chasm to penetrate the mainstream market. era and how a new theory, “Crossing the Chasm,” shows us what lies ahead.

Industry 80

Industry Outcomes Company Software 80

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Working professionals have vastly different needs than those of the traditional student," said Nelson Baker, dean of professional education at Georgia Tech in an American Council of Education report last month, acknowledging that college leaders are uneasy over the inability of conventional higher ed to respond effectively to fierce market forces.

MOOC 96

MOOC Kaplan Coursera Report 96