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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 33 Edition)

Doug Levin

The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning , which offers my sense of what those interested in K-12 educational technology can and should take away from this annual polling about schools. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 33 Edition). Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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

Doug Levin

Summer and transitioning to a new day-to-day computer (Linux laptop). 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.

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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

Securly

” The 1:1 initiative aimed for districts to issue each student a laptop for use in-school and at home. As Secretary Duncan’s chief of staff wrote at the time, the Common Core was intended to create a national market for book publishers, technology companies , testing corporations, and other vendors.”. Then there was the iPad.

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Laptops And Phones In The Classroom: Yea, Nay Or A Third Way?

MindShift

In an open letter, along with another activist shareholder, they called on the company to study digital distraction among youth and to make it easier to limit young people’s use. What you’re really talking about when you talk about laptop bans, says Jesse Stommel, is student freedom. ” Distraction has an upside.

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What One Startup Founder Learned in Her Quest to Change How Profs Communicate With Students

Edsurge

The system is now in place at around 2,000 colleges, and her company has raised more than $15 million. She credits her time at Stanford for giving her the confidence to see herself as a potential founder—and the practical skills to start a company. “I She called her startup Piazza. One of those issues was student privacy.

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Bankers, Buyers and Warriors: Reporter’s Notebook From the 2017 ASU+GSV Summit

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Almost all of the PreK to 12 programming clustered in the Little America hotel, while the post-secondary, workforce training and company suites clustered in the more opulent Grand America across the street. That’s generally how much companies have to generate for most major banks to consider working with them to find a buyer.

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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

Edsurge

Its early work focused on lobbying on behalf of its members, which also included companies across the banking, financial and trade publishing sectors. SIIA also created an “incubator” program in 2006 to support early-stage education companies, long before the idea became popular in the edtech industry. billion in U.S.

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