Remove 2017 Remove Classroom Remove Instructional Materials Remove Microsoft
article thumbnail

Seniors Need Support More Than Ever. One Startup Shows They Can Also Provide It.

Edsurge

Case in point: a Japanese octogenarian who in 2017 taught herself how to code in Swift , Apple’s programming language, and published an app in the online store. After leaving the company in 2017, D’Souza says he hung out with friends who had retired and didn’t know what to do next. Their focus is now primarily about survival,” he says.

Company 105
article thumbnail

Curriculum Associates Featured on Inc. Magazine’s 37th Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

techlearning

Microsoft, Dell, Domino’s Pizza, Pandora, Timberland, LinkedIn, Yelp, Zillow, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. For nearly 50 years, our team has been relentlessly focused on making classrooms better places for teachers and students,” said Rob Waldron, CEO of Curriculum Associates.

Company 40
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Dilemma of Entrepreneurial Teachers With Brand Names

Edsurge

She remodeled her classroom based on Starbucks. Education start-ups like Seesaw give her their premium classroom technology as well as swag like T-shirts or freebies for the teachers who attend her workshops. She agrees to use their products in her classroom and give the companies feedback. classrooms.

article thumbnail

Rhode Island’s ambitious computer science goal

eSchool News

Gina Raimondo has announced a comprehensive computer science education initiative in partnership with Microsoft, Code.org , colleges and universities across Rhode Island, and others. The goal is to have the subject taught in every public school by December 2017. public school by Dec. Rhode Island Gov.

article thumbnail

The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

To the entrepreneur who wrote the Techcrunch op-ed in August that ed-tech is “ 2017's big, untapped and safe investor opportunity.” “Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google Are Fighting a War for the Classroom,” Edutechnica wrote in June , with a look at how many colleges have adopted their competing “pseudo-LMSes.”