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AUGUST 16, 2016

Leading education conference SXSWedu 2017 doesn't start until March 6 -- but long before then, the con's Panel Picker will help decide which sessions will be presented there. Proposed Sessions What Can We Learn from 3,000 EdTech Reviews? For the past four years, Common Sense Education has been rating and reviewing edtech.

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Edsurge

JULY 4, 2017

You can discuss edtech implementation strategies, hear about favorite tools, and get to know those practices that teachers are excited to bring back to their students. From “blended learning” to digital worksheets, below are a collection of comments from ten educators about their biggest edtech pet peeves.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Doug Levin (@douglevin) March 17, 2017. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition).

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

What’s next in edtech? We purged through the winners and compiled a list of educational tools and gadgets for you to look for in 2017. At about half the price of Mindstorms Kits , you can build and code interactive, motorized robots, models and creations with distance, color and tilt sensor technologies with this new kit.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

million as of 2017; the U.S. Related: 8 Trends in Education Technology That Will Have A Major Impact | 2019. Engineering students can see and learn the functioning of a machine or robotics. Related: Top 7 Innovations in K-12 Education. According to the World Economic Forum, China had at least 4.7 pulls in at third at 568,000.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Richard Labbe Johnston County Public Schools Nominated by: Savvas Learning Company While recent statistics from NAEP (The Nation’s Report Card) show significant declines in math scores across the country, Johnston County Public Schools in North Carolina has defied that trend.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Not quite enough time for our robot overlords to overtake us, but both distant and soon enough to make us wonder. Those interactions look a lot different than just evaluating consumer or edtech trends in isolation. It’s hard to make a case that there is still a separate edtech industry.

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

I delivered this talk today at the NMC Summer 2017 conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sidenote: Someone from the Clayton Christensen Institute recently invoked the history of household appliances in an op-ed for Edsurge , asking “Is Your Edtech Product a Refrigerator or Washing Machine?” We will be raised by robots.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year. announced the U.S. K-12 market.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2017

If we look back on 2017 in educational technology, some of the biggest surprises were political and cultural. In 2017 the Trump administration did not embrace free tuition, to put it mildly, but localities did in various forms, from New York state to Providence, Rhode Island. Has gaming worn out its welcome in schools and colleges?

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

” Sante Fe University of Art and Design will close at the end of the 2017–2018 school year. " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. “Is Your Edtech Product a Refrigerator or Washing Machine?” ” LOL, okay.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The company, which makes educational and entertainment robots, has raised $520 million total. ” Via EdTech Strategies’ Doug Levin : “The COPPA Rule, FERPA , and the Security of Student Data.” ” Spoiler alert: AI doesn’t care. HopSkipDrive has raised $7.4

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

This isn’t simply a matter of “ robots are coming for your jobs.” Again, this all made for a flurry of headlines, even though there were few specifics about where that money would go or how schools or students would benefit – “Scant Details, Fuzzy Math,” as EdTech Strategies’ Doug Levin put it.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Me: pic.twitter.com/gmb3Oigcv0 — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) October 5, 2017. pic.twitter.com/yehgZ82br6 — Shahien Nasiripour (@nasiripour) October 5, 2017. ” Via EdScoop : “ USC launches edtech research center focused on underrepresented youth.” 2 Post at Ed. Shares closed at $13.46

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

link] pic.twitter.com/XT9iGmcrJs — Jack Clark (@jackclarkSF) September 13, 2017. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via TeacherCast : “Why Teachers Will Never Be Replaced By Robots.” ” Via YourStory : “Despite drop in funding , edtech still presents a huge opportunity.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

” “Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe,” according to an investor in Edsurge. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Edsurge : “Why a Robot-Filled Education Future May Not Be as Scary as You Think.” Among those cringeworthy ideas: the LMS. Where’s the outrage?”

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. I wrote about social-emotional learning (algorithms) as a “trend to watch.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” From the HR Department.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

I don’t recall if I talked about Elsevier when I wrote about platforms as part of my 2017 review. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Geek Dad : “Little Robot Friends Teach Kids to Code With Empathy.” That’s certainly it’s aspiration. ” Empathy?!

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Via The Student Loan Report : “Halfway Through 2017, Here Are the Best & Worst Student Loan Servicers.” I’m also curious how this news – again, I’m not sure two closures are really a “trend” – will affect student loan startups. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

“Why I Turned My Back on Betsy DeVos During Graduation” by Bethune-Cookman Class of 2017’s Tyler Durrant. “​ Intel Hits Pause on Edtech Accelerator,” says Edsurge. Via Campus Technology : “6 VR Trends to Watch in Education.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. She said no.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Good for you. But that’s not my job. And honestly, it’s probably not your job either.).

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. Speaking of predictions about the future of online education, EdTech Strategies’ Doug Levin pens part 2 of his look at Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn ’s prediction that “ by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

pic.twitter.com/gOvmSOjcSf — Shelly (@ShellySometimes) February 14, 2017. “What Betsy DeVos means for edtech ,” according to venture capitalist Ryan Craig. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “In an age of robots , schools are teaching our children to be redundant,” says George Monbiot.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

EdTech Strategies’ Doug Levin launched a new project in 2017 – “ The K–12 Cyber Incident Map ” – that visualizes the breaches, ransomware attacks, DDOS attacks, phishing attacks, and so on that have been reported at US public schools. .“ Students know that.

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Boston Bridge would be available for 2017 high school graduates who live in the city.” 1, 2017, on the online 2018–19 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” The New York Times (op-ed page) on the “ 2017 College Access Index.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

.” let PM = "signed"; if (PM "signed") { let CODING = "4 All"; } pic.twitter.com/QRKQPgbxjW — Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) September 26, 2017. ” Via EdScoop : “Two edtech champions to join White House offices as fellows.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “What Federal Education Budget Cuts Mean for Edtech.” pic.twitter.com/I0OCK8VeBa — TECHNOprah (@juanyfbaby) April 1, 2017. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” “ Robots Are Changing The World,” says edX , which hopes to sell you on some classes on robots. .”

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

Where Is the Office of EdTech ?” ” (Guess what’s going to be one of the " top ed-tech trends" this year ?). ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The Guardian : “‘This is awful’: robot can keep children occupied for hours without supervision.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

In fiscal 2017, the office was funded to employ 569 staff members, according to the department’s budget request from earlier this year.” link] — Chris Lehmann (@lehmannchris) November 16, 2017. ” If you repeat these stories enough, it’s almost as if you can convince people to make it a trend.

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

“ Nancy Zimpher to Resign as SUNY Chancellor in 2017.” ” Also via The New York Times : “A Mission to Bring STEM Skills, and Robots, to Children in West Africa.” Via Edsurge : “Three Rookie Mistakes That Edtech Entrepreneurs Make.” ” “ Ed-Tech Funding Data , May 2016.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” Via Politico : “ Stanley Buchesky , formerly a managing partner at the venture capital firm The EdTech Fund , will work [at the Department of Education] on budget and finance issues.” ” Among The EdTech Fund’s investments : Teachboost and Citelighter. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

niVz3ongY0 — (((Sherman Dorn))) (@shermandorn) February 10, 2017. — Jonathan Rees (@jhrees) February 10, 2017. It’s 2017 and we’re still getting these sorts of headlines about Salman Khan : “These 3 Ideas Will Completely Change How Education Works.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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