EdTech Magazine

JULY 12, 2019

Make sure they understand best practices for downloading software, sharing information and generally keeping data safe. As of July 2, there have been 491 cybersecurity incidents in K–12 schools since January 2016, according to The K–12 Cybersecurity Resource Center. In the end, data privacy should be a collective effort.

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Data EdTech Strategy Assessment 387

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

New whiteboarding software offers instant sharing to any student device, classroom management, and advanced interactivity building without an internet connection. At InfoComm 2016, EXO U Inc. , a software development company, launched Ormiboard Pro , a visual creation and collaboration tool.

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techlearning

JUNE 24, 2018

Chicago, June 24, 2018 – Impero Software, a leading provider of classroom management, network and online safety software to schools today announced the latest version of its award-winning product, Impero Education Pro V7. It partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2016

Dell Classroom, a new software solution available for Dell Chromebooks, helping foster student and teacher engagement. Dell announced the debut of three new, interactive display products, purpose-built for active learning, classrooms and conference rooms at ISTE 2016. ” Dell 70-inch Interactive Conference Room Monitor (C7017T).

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Here's the start to an interesting story: a Google program manager, a Twitter engineer, and a Pinterest employee walk into a bar. In today’s day and age, Google, Twitter and Pinterest are three of the largest employers in the United States and internationally. What are they there to discuss? But in reality, it’s not a bar.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2016

Serving more than 5,500 students and 10 schools, Waltham Public Schools unveiled an improved approach to mobile communications recently by launching a district-wide responsive website from Rediker Software. The Waltham Public School District is also dedicated to providing information and forms in multiple languages for their diverse families.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2016

Use blogs, wikis, discussion forums, Google Spreadsheets, and Google Hangouts to collaborate and share. Class starts July 11, 2016 and ends July 31, 2016. Weekends, discuss issues, concerns, and projects in a virtual group via Google Hangouts or Twitter Chats. If you need extra help, we’ll arrange that also.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2016

At the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Lenovo announced the development of the first consumer mobile device with Project Tango in collaboration with Google. Specialized hardware and software combine to let the device react to every movement of the user, when they step forward, backward, or lean side to side.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 29, 2023

The format can be opened on all major eBook software including readers, third-party software and browsers. This includes the Google Play Books app (available for iOS and Android devices), Apple’s iBooks app (available for Mac and iOS devices), Adobe Digital Editions, Calibre, and many other reading applications.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Amazon’s latest misstep is the abrupt, and still unexplained, shuttering of TenMarks, a math and writing software startup it purchased in 2013 and announced in 2018 it would close in the following year, leading to a lot of frustrated, Twittering teachers. Amazon’s booth at ISTE 2016, announcing the launch of Amazon Inspire.

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Technology Education EdTech eBook 131

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

When the company last raised money in 2016, Phillippov had a staff of 12. Google Cardboard now sells for about $15. MEL was not an easy sell at first for TMT Investments, which supports mostly software companies, says partner Igor Shoifot. and Eisenhower High School in Lawton, Okla. A year ago, the U.S. Shoifot was convinced.

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STEM Company Software Report 152

The Principal of Change

MAY 6, 2020

Different software programs will make “portfolios” easy to share, yet do we truly embrace the power that a digital portfolio can bring into our schools? Does the portfolio help in this endeavor when every student we work with now will be googled for jobs, university, or a myriad of other things.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

Software developers working in applications had a median salary of $105,150, whereas the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that the median salary for kindergarten and elementary school teachers was $55,490 per year in 2016. One of his former teaching colleagues went to a coding bootcamp and is now a software developer.

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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? .

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2019

As technology companies from Google to Salesforce plant roots in Australia, government and business leaders down under are trying to figure out ways to train students and workers to keep up with a changing workforce. company thinks it can help prepare the country’s future programmers. Trilogy’s worldly ambitious extend beyond Australia.

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Training Broadband Company Education 130

TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 31, 2015

Google Announces New Features In Google Classroom. At TeachThought, while we love Apple’s products, app ecology, and general aesthetic, we tend towards recommending Google for most classrooms. 7 Changes To Google Classroom. Now you can do it on Google Classroom as well by moving any post to the top.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

Currently underway at the Oregon college are efforts to build interactive degree maps—which are expected to officially launch in December—that will act somewhat like a Google Maps to help students visualize and chart out their four-year plan. The grants helped us scale more quickly and advance the work we were already doing,” says Harris.

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Perry Hewitt

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The Atlantic explores the role of moral integrity in software design. Google's flight-searching tool is my go-to for delays and gates -- I've had airlines notify me of a flight delay an hour into a wait on the tarmac. If you just shelled out the cash for a new iPhone 7, you'll want to avoid this rave review of Google Pixel. (NYC

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2016

By the end of 2016, schools are predicted to have more Chromebooks than iPads distributed across their student population. Make sure only valid extensions are allowed on the Chromebooks by using Google admin tools, to ensure that only extensions from the Google Chrome Store are installed.

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 11, 2016

If your students or teachers don’t know how to use Google spreadsheets, word processing, or presentation software, that’s okay. Synergyse which previously went for $10 per student is now offered for free to students and educators courtesy of Google. Next up another tool courtesy of Google. May 18, 2016, 2260

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 4, 2016

If your students or teachers don’t know how to use spreadsheets, word processing, or presentation software, that’s okay. They can use Synergyse which is now free, courtesy of Google. May 22, 2016, 5128 Free Google Apps Training for All with @Synergyse May 15, 2016, 3946 Make Presentations Interactive with Google Slides.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Naseath arrives at Osmo from Google Cloud, where he served as Cloud Value Advisor Senior Principal, and assisted the office of Google Cloud CFO to define the financial opportunity of cloud digital transformation.

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Company Strategy Analysis Report 64

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

The device-agnostic, Google Classroom-integrated, collaborative tool allows teachers and students to build lessons, activities, and interactive games. At ISTE 2016, EXO U Inc., a software development company, will launch Ormiboard, a front-of-class visual creation and collaboration tool.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 11, 2018

The rise of AI-powered intelligent tutoring systems According to Technavio, the global artificial intelligence market in the education sector 2016-2020 will grow at a CAGR of more than 39% by 2020. Just imagine what goes into making such a software and what AI is capable of doing. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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Classroom Adaptive Learning Industry Software 127

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.

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Tools Classroom Libraries Assessment 120

EdTechTeacher

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Not long ago, it would have been quite rare to find screencasts being used in most classrooms, largely due to the complex or expensive software that was required to create them. Avra Robinson is the Director of Online Learning and Instruction for Edtech Teacher, and an authorized Google Education Trainer.

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Camtasia Software Learning Google 79

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

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. million (A) 2016 Sinovation Ventures EnglishCentral $1.3 million (N/A) 2016 Kirihara Shoten K.K. 380 million tally in 2014.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

After a lull in 2016, venture activity for U.S.-based By contrast, in 2016, investors put $1 billion into 138 deals. We’ve seen the most interest in SaaS (software-as-a-service) models where the product is complementary to an existing platform.”. Are investors still eager to put their money in education startups?

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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. What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report.

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2018

Technology companies including Google, Oracle and Cisco also gave support through providing hardware and database services. According to the nonprofit’s most recently available 990 form , the organization took a net loss of $4 million in fiscal year 2016 (ending on Aug. 31 that year). million in the previous fiscal year to $3.2

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Kaplan Common Core Education Company 67

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.

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Adobe Digital Citizenship Software System 150

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Chin went on to do just that, using his software development skills to create an application that would connect hungry students with classmates who had extra meal swipes. Jon Chin discussing Share Meals, 2016. He uses his experience as a reference point to teach software engineers to be more “socially minded.” Source: TEDxMU.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

But many of them are opening up 3D maps and taking virtual tours on their phones and laptops, thanks to location-based and virtual reality software. CampusBird is a product of Concept3D, a location-based software and 3D services company based in Boulder, CO. CampusBird’s designers build 3D maps using Google Maps and OpenStreetMap.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Google Apps for Education arrived on the scene 10 years ago with a vision to help teachers and students share and learn together in innovative ways. Now, Google is announcing a new name for Google Apps for Education that better reflects the collaborative power of these tools and reinforces its mission: G Suite for Education.

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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

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

Google and Apple both made big education technology announcements this week, unveiling new products designed for schools. 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! Photo: Meghan E. public schools.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Here’s what Google autocomplete shows when you type “computational.” (You former President Barack Obama called on all K-12 students to be equipped with CT skills as part of an “ Computer Science for All ” initiative in 2016. You can try it for yourself!) Here in the U.S., Build a computational model of a physical phenomenon.

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