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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 and 29 Combined Edition). Tagged on: July 23, 2017 ED warns schools of another widespread ransomware attack | Future of Ed Tech e-Newsletter → In light of a recent widespread ransomware attack, the U.S. Strong opinions may be weakly held. I dislike fraudulent courses.

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How Tech Companies Woo Higher Ed (and What They Seek in Return)

Edsurge

But Christmas came early for some higher-ed institutions in the form of freebies and discounts from big technology companies. Apple also reached out with iPad Pros and other hardware at a discounted rate. But these efforts are part of a longer-term strategy for these companies to train future workers in their technology.

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Looking Back on Three Years of the ConnectED Initiative: Did It Deliver?

Edsurge

As EdSurge reported, to be part of the initiative, companies “had to commit to providing goods or services worth at least $100 million.” But as Betsy Corcoran outlined in her July 2014 article , some companies had yet to deliver on their promise of clearly outlining how educators could apply for those products and services.

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Global K-12 Market for Personal PCs to Contract in 2016, Experts Project

Marketplace K-12

(Similar forces are said to contribute to a tightening in the global, self-paced e-learning market.). market from 6 percent of the total shipments of non-desktop PC devices in 2015 to 18 percent in 2017. educational devices sold run on the company’s operating system, up from 51 percent during the third quarter last year.

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Supply and demand: Getting low-income kids into better jobs by getting them into better schools

The Hechinger Report

CAST Tech, which opened in fall 2017 with 175 freshmen, is the first of three career-themed public high schools currently planned for San Antonio. The schools are the brainchild of Charles Butt, a big donor to local education causes and chairman of H-E-B, the region’s largest grocery store chain. All of this is by design.

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The Rise of eSports in Education: Breaking New Ground

The CoolCatTeacher

From 2017-2020, she held an Instructional Coaching Fellowship with Google for Education. And we have 14 states that have teacher-run nonprofits that run the e-sports organizations for their state. So teachers together and the students that we serve are literally the largest e-sports organization in the country.

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Get Started with Digital Citizenship in Your District

edWeb.net

Then, they figured out what they needed to satisfy for required federal E-rate guidelines. For the 2017-2018 school year, Theresa trained all the teachers on the basics of digital citizenship. Life Schools started small in the first year. First, they identified their desired goals.