The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

iKross Tripod with adapters for smartphones, tablets, GoPro, and DSLR Camera – [link]. Those who leave a review between 2/1/2017 and 2/3/2017 will have two entries for each review. Winner’s name will be posted on this blog before February 27, 2017. Kindle 6″ black and white – [link].

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Tools EdTech iPhone Smartphone 278

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It’s rare enough for any entrepreneur to lead a company to a $275 million sale—in cash. But that’s how much Dave Dahl sold his family company , Dave’s Killer Bread, for in 2015. Today, it claims to be the largest organic bread company in America. He learned about it when the company reached out to him last November.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

In September 2017, five finalists were chosen to field test their tools with thousands of children across villages in Tanzania. Kitkit offers a game-based learning program on tablets to help children learn independently. Enuma’s participation helped attract brand recognition for the company, Chung says.

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Tablets Game-Based Learning Company Learning 124

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Just over half (53 percent) of students surveyed had security software on their computers, only 37 percent had smartphone protection and an even lower number, 14 percent, had some security installed on their tablets. . writes Gary Davis, chief consumer security evangelist at McAfee, in a company blog post. Be Cautious on Social Media.

Data 150

Data Social Media Survey Student Data Privacy 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Just over half (53 percent) of students surveyed had security software on their computers, only 37 percent had smartphone protection and an even lower number, 14 percent, had some security installed on their tablets. . writes Gary Davis, chief consumer security evangelist at McAfee, in a company blog post. Be Cautious on Social Media.

Data 150

Data Social Media Survey Student Data Privacy 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Just over half (53 percent) of students surveyed had security software on their computers, only 37 percent had smartphone protection and an even lower number, 14 percent, had some security installed on their tablets. . writes Gary Davis, chief consumer security evangelist at McAfee, in a company blog post. Be Cautious on Social Media.

Data 150

Data Social Media Survey Student Data Privacy 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Just over half (53 percent) of students surveyed had security software on their computers, only 37 percent had smartphone protection and an even lower number, 14 percent, had some security installed on their tablets. . writes Gary Davis, chief consumer security evangelist at McAfee, in a company blog post. Be Cautious on Social Media.

Data 150

Data Social Media Survey Student Data Privacy 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Just over half (53 percent) of students surveyed had security software on their computers, only 37 percent had smartphone protection and an even lower number, 14 percent, had some security installed on their tablets. . writes Gary Davis, chief consumer security evangelist at McAfee, in a company blog post. Be Cautious on Social Media.

Data 150

Data Social Media Survey Student Data Privacy 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Just over half (53 percent) of students surveyed had security software on their computers, only 37 percent had smartphone protection and an even lower number, 14 percent, had some security installed on their tablets. . writes Gary Davis, chief consumer security evangelist at McAfee, in a company blog post. Be Cautious on Social Media.

Data 150

Data Social Media Survey Student Data Privacy 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Just over half (53 percent) of students surveyed had security software on their computers, only 37 percent had smartphone protection and an even lower number, 14 percent, had some security installed on their tablets. . writes Gary Davis, chief consumer security evangelist at McAfee, in a company blog post. Be Cautious on Social Media.

Data 150

Data Social Media Survey Student Data Privacy 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Just over half (53 percent) of students surveyed had security software on their computers, only 37 percent had smartphone protection and an even lower number, 14 percent, had some security installed on their tablets. . writes Gary Davis, chief consumer security evangelist at McAfee, in a company blog post. Be Cautious on Social Media.

Data 150

Data Social Media Survey Student Data Privacy 150

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

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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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2019

based company explained the difficult decision as an effort to return its focus to the education market following a foray into creating consumer toys. Sphero has acquired littleBits , a New York City-based company best known for its electronic kits and instructional resources that introduce kids to building and programming by hand.

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Robotics Company Common Core Academic Standards 123

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2018

That can result in teachers putting tablets in front of kids, letting the technology do the work, and meanwhile calling it “personalized learning” when it’s anything but that. They create learning environments where children crave “tablet time” and engender a superficial motivation grounded in the number of points earned or levels achieved.

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Personalized Learning Learning Tablets Company 145

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

From launching new tablets to virtual-reality curriculum , Microsoft has added plenty to its educational offerings through a series of new product updates and acquisitions over the past few years. DataSense traces its origins to Authentica Solutions, an education data management company founded in 2013.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

The app then sends a notification to the person’s smartphone or tablet. The company plans to launch a pilot program with a school in India to see how the platform would work in the classroom. The company claims to have 225,000 users, most of them in the U.S. The co-founders and six employees in India make up the S’moresUp team.

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Digital Badges Smartphone Company Tablets 95

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I first wrote about this app in December 2017 shortly after launch. They’ll see that first screen Immediately on their phone or tablet. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

For higher education, with smaller potential audiences and student outcomes at stake, companies are debating whether return on investment is there for game-based learning experiences. Triseum is a private company that spun out of Texas A&M University’s Live Lab in late 2014. Norton & Company. Enter Textbook Publishers.

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Video Game-Based Learning Company Survey 139

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Mercier, who’s starting his second year studying business management at City, University of London’s Cass Business School in a couple of weeks, found three of them on a new service called Perlego , a UK-based company which wants to be the Netflix of academic content. In July 2017, it sold 22 percent of its stake in Penguin Random House.

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Pearson Case Study Company Tablets 104

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

She emailed the company to learn that it was not. “It A company spokesperson wrote via email that “after a thorough review of TenMarks, we’ve made the difficult decision to no longer offer this service after June 30, 2019.” But the company gave no indication that it would close shop. education strategy. school districts.

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Tools Company Instructional Materials Tablets 80

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Three million frogs are harvested each year for classroom dissections in the United States, according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which partnered with the manufacturing company SynDaver to develop the synthetic frog. As the frog is reusable for most dissections, the cost could be recuperated over time. Now it is expanding.

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Survey STEM Company Report 103

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

When she became the district’s first educational technology director in 2017, Briana Allen looked for a better solution. She tried several options before jumping on a free trial of the wireless video streaming and screen mirroring technology by Vivi, an education-focused company founded in Australia.

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Tools How To Classroom OER 120

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 16, 2020

The digital diffusion of education enabled the development of the collaborative economy, which refers to an economic system in which companies and several independent creators and producers aggregate and create value jointly in freely interconnected networks. “Co-creation, Education Technology / June 2, 2017.

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Technology eBook Education Learning 96

Reading By Example

JUNE 21, 2017

They carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated bibles, each other. Rowling gives us some of the best writing of our times. What I’m Reading. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien . From the Goodreads summary: .

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Assessment Tablets Company Resources 28

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

is a for-profit company that sells data analysis to public schools. One of its products monitors which websites students visit and which apps they’re clicking on their tablets. Apps are increasingly common in U.S. BrightBytes Inc. Higher test scores could be caused by things other than the online software like great teaching.

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Software Data Education Company 91

techlearning

JULY 25, 2018

The company provides student and teacher devices, a wide range of classroom technology and accessories, deployment services and warranty programs. CDI has been awarded Top Performer Status from Microsoft in 2011, 2014 and 2017 for deploying the highest number of recertified PCs and Notebooks with a genuine Microsoft License.

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Microsoft Industry Chromebook Tablets 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2017

“Education is the foundation for our society to prosper, and the internet is an incredibly powerful tool for learning,” Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure said in the company’s announcement Tuesday. Devices available through the project are smartphones, tablets, laptops and hotspots.

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Digital Divide Smartphone Laptops Tablets 40

EdTech4Beginners

MAY 29, 2017

a survey from Pearson Foundation suggested that 6 out 10 college and high school students agree that the use of tablets helped them study efficiently. There’s a barrier, but 2017 is coming up, so maybe, it’s time for a change. He is now working as a Junior Manager for a marketing company. Make that connection. Author Bio.

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iPad Pearson Study Tablets 154

Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The prognosticators at Futuresource, meanwhile, are bullish on 2-in-1 devices, or devices with detachable or convertible keyboards that can be used either as a traditional laptop, or as a tablet. market from 6 percent of the total shipments of non-desktop PC devices in 2015 to 18 percent in 2017. Chromebooks Thriving in U.S.

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E-rate Chromebook Microsoft Tablets 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

A generation ago, the biggest employers in eastern Kentucky were coal companies, which received significant incentives, including tax breaks, from local and state governments to operate in the region. When the companies left, thousands of people found themselves unemployed, with no other job prospects in the area.

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Kaplan E-rate Report Tablets 105

Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The program announced that last year, participants like tutoring app company GotIt! raised more than $9 million in a recent Series A round , and handheld wireless sensor company PocketLab is now teaming up with Google to bring the pocket-sized lab equipment to the Google Science Journal. prices on a by-school or company basis.

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EdTech Meeting Education Company 60

EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In 2017, EdTech industry investments rose to a record-breaking $9.5 It could be argued that both ridesharing app companies are popular not only because of the technology that drives them, but because they were launched at the right time. By Steve Halliwell and Cheryl Miller. What’s hot in education technology?

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Trends Symantec EdTech Robotics 100

Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Google is working with a number of partners, including: WNET, PBS, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the American Museum of Natural History, the Planetary Society, David Attenborough with production company Alchemy VR and many of the Google Cultural Institute museum partners to create custom educational content that spans the universe.”.

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Google Resources Android EdTech 62

myViewBoard

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

For over 25 years, Adobe has been one of the largest and most diversified software companies in the world. The beginning of the end started in 2017, Adobe fixed a date to retire one of the most used software in internet history. The impact of Flash on education and the classroom. No bugs being fixed.

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Adobe Software Education EdTech 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 Okay, okay.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 10, 2018

When having a smartphone or tablet in hand becomes second nature for kids of all ages, strong digital citizenship skills are necessary for good decision making. For the 2016–2017 school year, Jamie received an Excellence in Teaching award and was one of three finalists for Teacher of the Year in Oakland Unified School District.

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Digital Citizenship Symantec Company Smartphone 40

techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

Retail Price: Contact company for pricing. Quality and Effectiveness: This research-based K–8 math curriculum was redesigned with a fresh interface in 2017. If the district allows it, all students and teachers can have unlimited 24/7 access to Wowzers on their computers and tablets. wowzers.com ?

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