Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

The Colorado-based company was formed in 2016 from the merger of two existing organizations: Digital Directions International (est. 2000) which sells HELP Math, and Boulder Language Technologies (est. Zulama - Game design curriculum developed by faculty from Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Promethean, a global provider of educational technology solutions, introduced its new ActivPanel interactive display at ISTE 2016 in Denver. With its externally accessible Android processor, the new Promethean ActivPanel can be easily upgraded over time to keep pace with frequent advances in computing technology.”.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

But with corporations unable to hire and hold on to enough workers to fill jobs in IT, cyber security and software development, a shift may be underway. More companies are assuming the costs and risks of preparing people for entry-level technology roles by offering apprenticeships. Members include Walmart, Sony and T-Mobile.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

Schultz has taken a career in building special needs software and games for people who are blind or have low vision into ObjectiveEd, a new endeavor at a time when investor interest in educational tools and investor interest in assistive technology are apparently on the rise. million across 38 deals in 2012 to $276.5

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2016

Waltham Public Schools chooses Rediker Software’s RediSite for their 10 schools and district office to meet the increasing mobile needs of parents, students and staff. New, easy-to-navigate school and district calendars, linked to Rediker’s PlusPortals, will also be available to the district community in Fall 2016.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

What was once the premier, must-go conference in the education technology industry is now going away. Last week, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced that its education technology group will no longer operate as its own division beginning July 1. As part of the change, the Washington, D.C.-based

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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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eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

At the end of June, eSpark joined the thousands of district and edtech leaders headed to Denver, CO to meet innovative educators and discuss the current state of technology in schools. Throughout ISTE 2016, we had a chance to share a booth with JAMF Software, a company that’s reimagined mobile device management for educators.

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ProfHacker

MAY 19, 2016

The purpose of this day “is to get people talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) The target audience of GAAD is the design, development, usability, and related communities who build, shape, fund and influence technology and its use. accessibility and users with different disabilities.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The fear was, and is, that technology might cause achievement gaps between rich and poor students to grow if it’s easier for rich kids to use educational software, practice computer coding or learn about the world online. A new 2017 survey of technology use at home shows the gap in computer access is rapidly closing.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Of this group, five teams are building education technology tools with support from mentors from Imagine K12, the local edtech accelerator that Y Combinator absorbed last February. The company currently offers two live, online and interactive 6-month programs in software engineering and machine learning.

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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 audience has grown up with technology. 5 Ways to Open an ePub File ePub files can be opened and viewed using free software on almost every platform. ePub files allow for both reflowable and fixed layouts.

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eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

At the end of June, eSpark joined the thousands of district and edtech leaders headed to Denver, CO to meet innovative educators and discuss the current state of technology in schools. Throughout ISTE 2016, we had a chance to share a booth with JAMF Software, a company that’s reimagined mobile device management for educators.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

When the company last raised money in 2016, Phillippov had a staff of 12. parents live with a VR-enabled device, 60 percent say they’re somewhat concerned about negative health effects from the technology on their children. and Eisenhower High School in Lawton, Okla. A year ago, the U.S. and he’d gained traction with schools.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2017

based operator of a nationwide franchise of tutoring centers, has acquired education technology startup, Citelighter. She returned to Sylvan in July 2016 as its Vice President of Education. Yet Sylvan is no stranger to digital technology. Sylvan Learning, the Hunt Valley, Md.-based We took a test drive of the tool last year.)

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 11, 2015

Advances in web-based technologies now offer teachers the ability to answer these questions in a more holistic manner. It is specifically optimized for these mobile devices. There is no software to download and registration is not necessary. How do I know if they are actually learning? You do not need extra devices.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

I was a guest speaker in the MA in Elearning class at Cork Institute of Technology this morning. It's also an deeply uncomfortable time to be an American with any sort of subject matter expertise — it has been since well before the 2016 election, but particularly since then. Here's a bit of what I said. And that's surveillance.

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2019

This project was part of our student-led mobile innovation program and after three months of planning, we were finally ready to set up shop. In 2016, we opened a state-of-the-art, 2,800 square foot innovation space to support our STEAM and innovation program. Logistics for these mobile events can be complex.

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MindShift

JULY 17, 2017

His Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab develops Scratch , one of the most popular coding programs for kids, which is based on the seminal work of Seymour Papert, who died in 2016. He worries about coding software that emphasizes the syntax of the code rather than the creativity of the project.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

From bigwig financiers to bankers, along with heads of private and publicly-traded education technology companies, the gathering attracted around 900 attendees last week to share the opportunities and challenges in the industry this year. The previous year, 2015, set a record for education technology investments with over $3.1

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

It’s terribly confusing, but perhaps no coincidence, that three of the world’s most prominent consumer technology companies—Apple, Google, Microsoft—each boast a “Classroom” tool aimed at K-12 educators and students. Updates and Upgrades: Apple Classroom officially hit the app store in March 2016. Streamlines feedback on student work.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The rate at which technological advancements are taking place is beyond measure. DRM software saves the day. By using DRM software, authors can also oversee the permissions of their content for security reasons. . So, choose a digital rights management software for your eBooks that checks all the boxes on your requirements list.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2016

San Mateo, CA-based marketing software company Marketo announced today a growth of 44 education customers who have signed on, renewed or expanded their agreements from January to July 2016. And increasingly, colleges are shifting to digital marketing strategies, social media outreach and mobile platforms.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2016

Project Tango technology gives a mobile device the ability to navigate the physical world similar to how we do as humans. At the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Lenovo announced the development of the first consumer mobile device with Project Tango in collaboration with Google.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Between 2018 and 2020, Naseath was Chief Financial Officer and Transformation Leader at PCH International, which provides supply chain distribution and software as a service (SaaS) platforms to leading global brands.

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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. Suppliers don’t pay for bad news.”. billion in 2021 from $2.7

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2019

Several technology companies are trying to shake up recruiting , aiming to help employers hungry for new sources of labor find workers who have the right skills but lack the right connections or university brands. This week, the company announced plans to make its services available for free to all U.S.

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Perry Hewitt

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The Atlantic explores the role of moral integrity in software design. Per Techcrunch, "this is about stealing a little bit of the traffic currently flowing to Google, Yelp, Fandango, local news, and mobile food ordering apps." Related: the origin of the dumpster fire meme that's burned up the web in 2016.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

At ISTE 2016, EXO U Inc., a software development company, will launch Ormiboard, a front-of-class visual creation and collaboration tool. Ormiboard gives teachers and students the freedom to build lessons, activities, and interactive games for use in any classroom that has displays and/or mobile devices.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2019

The Age of Experience is an economic term and describes our present age as being beyond merely a focus on information and technology. Federal compliance requirements, new testing, new standards, a changing population of students, economic pressure and an urgency to integrate technology make for one wild ride for any leader.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

When there’s a need for information or new skills, employees today are increasingly turning to instantly accessible sources such as search engines and online course libraries available on their mobile devices. employers spent nearly $71 billion on training in 2016—a figure that was flat compared to 2015. Similarly, LinkedIn’s $1.5

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 29, 2023

Discover How An Ebook Conversion, Publishing & Distribution Platform Can Help You Kitaboo is a cloud-based content platform to create-publish & securely distribute interactive mobile-ready ebooks.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

We’re very interested in having the mobile technology used outside the classroom where so much learning takes place,” says Hiram president Lori Varlotta. Apple was the only solution that had hardware, software and technical support,” he says. Trainin’s research looks at the impact of mobile devices on learning.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

With the availability of eBook creation software, it has become very easy to create an interactive textbook. Here’s our list of the 8 best eBook creation software. These software tools also allow you to publish the content. Education Technology / September 8, 2015. Education Technology / October 21, 2015.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 17, 2019

Several technologies that we regularly use today have their origins in the early days of space flight. Over 30 per cent of today's smartphones contain this technology. Since 2016, almost 70 per cent of North American farmland is cultivated by self-driving tractors which rely on the RTG technology that was developed by NASA.

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