Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2019

AltSchool, a developer of personalized learning software that once operated a chain of “microschools,” is getting a major makeover. Assuming the leadership roles will be Ben Kornell and Devin Vodicka, both of whom joined AltSchool in 2017 as part of a spree of executive hires. In 2017, it started closing schools.

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Software Company Exercises Personalized Learning 105

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2019

As technology companies from Google to Salesforce plant roots in Australia, government and business leaders down under are trying to figure out ways to train students and workers to keep up with a changing workforce. company thinks it can help prepare the country’s future programmers. Trilogy’s worldly ambitious extend beyond Australia.

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Training Broadband Company Education 120

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2020

The statistic, cited in a popular World Economic Forum report , often emerges in any conversation about education, the economy and the workforce. Middle skills” jobs are estimated to comprise 53 percent of the economy , and the ones that have been hard to fill involve the use of digital tools like Jira, Google Analytics, or Power BI.

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Industry Social Media Training Survey 182

Tom Murray

DECEMBER 15, 2018

Kickstarter, Zopa, SocietyOne) The largest software vendors don’t write the apps. Apple, Google) Our current “Fourth Industrial Revolution” has wrecked havoc on the way we’ve always done things. Retrieved from [link] McKinsey & Company (2017). Yet, how we teach, and what we focus on, is vital to consider.

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Industry Facebook Company Social Media 270

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

First announced in 2014, the challenge invited organizations to submit open-source software that showed potential to help children in developing countries improve basic reading, writing and math skills. In September 2017, five finalists were chosen to field test their tools with thousands of children across villages in Tanzania.

Tablets 124

Tablets Game-Based Learning Company Learning 124

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

The Google campus in Mountain View, California. Businesses like Google, IBM, and Accenture have also made high-profile moves to boost skills-based hiring and remove bachelor’s degree requirements. The Burning Glass “degree reset” report, which Fuller co-wrote, found that between 2017 and 2019, the number of positions requiring a B.A.

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Training Google Report Coursera 127

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

Those academies have served more than 13,000 students nationwide, representing 11 percent of enrollment across all of K12’s businesses, according to a report from investment bank Barrington Research. Its traditional software business saw a 16.2 For the last three months of 2019, K12 reported $257.6 million in cash.

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Company Software Report Training 87

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

He cited statistics from a job postings report the Austin Chamber of Commerce put out in March 2017 about employer demands in the Austin metropolitan area. One of his former teaching colleagues went to a coding bootcamp and is now a software developer. He gave the audience a few examples of people who’ve made the transition.

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Classroom Software EdTech Facebook 119

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Naseath arrives at Osmo from Google Cloud, where he served as Cloud Value Advisor Senior Principal, and assisted the office of Google Cloud CFO to define the financial opportunity of cloud digital transformation. In 2013, he was promoted to Director of Global FP&A and Leader for Data Insight & Reporting Center of Excellence.

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Company Strategy Analysis Report 62

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

Course Report published year-end data from edX and Coursera. While there’s competition in internet search , for instance, Google has 92 percent of the market, while the nearest competitor, Microsoft’s Bing, has a mere 2 percent. It offers fewer courses than Coursera—in 2020, edX listed 3,090 courses and Coursera about 4,600.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Five-year-old Mykell Robinson practices his reading on the Lexia software while a small group of classmates work with a teacher. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report. What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label.

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 99

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In the fall of 2017, he moved to Boston and enrolled in a community college, planning to transfer to a four-year program. One day, a friend forwarded an email about Resilient Coders, a boot camp that trains people of color for web development and software engineering jobs. A growing number of businesses are listening.

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Company Survey Report Training 112

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

I want them to join Google classroom. and I want them to turn their photograph in as an assignment in Google Classroom. I’m experimenting with a small metal device that lets me elevate my computer so that I’m already standing and less likely to get engrossed in grading in Google Classroom or answering email.

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Classroom Course Report Maker Movement 378

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

S’moresUp’s founders also hope to integrate with digital assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Future features on the product roadmap include digital badges and reports on children’s behavior measured by the app. Rajendran, 43, and Xavier, 41, met at PayPal and founded S’moresUp in 2017.

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Digital Badges Smartphone Company Tablets 95

myViewBoard

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

For over 25 years, Adobe has been one of the largest and most diversified software companies in the world. Many of their technologies are in our school computers, software programs, and internet applications we use every day. Countless software and computer applications used Flash. No need to download a plug-in.

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Adobe Software Education EdTech 46

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. Photo: Jessica Huseman for The Hechinger Report. billion was spent on devices by K-12 schools in 2015, and the Software and Information Industry Association estimates that nearly $8.4 classrooms.

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iPad Broadband Software Company 80

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. They’re supposedly “engines of innovation.”

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. million (Seed) 2017 EduLab Brightwheel $10 million (A) 2017 GGV Capital ClassWallet $1.5 Demand for these services run fierce; individual tutors report making as much as $8 million a year.

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EdTech Knewton Company Robotics 94

Doug Levin

JULY 31, 2017

I’m looking forward to stepping away from the office and spending time with family and friends one last time before the 2017-18 school year gets underway in earnest. Here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why.

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EdTech Company Data Blended Learning 150

edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

By engaging and partnering with community stakeholders and organizations such as service providers, cable companies, and software companies and seeking grant opportunities, school districts will have access to digital equity resources and possible subsidized funding. Innovative Approaches. Looking Forward. Sarah Thomas, Ph.D. Howard, Ph.D.

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Strategy EdTech Professional Learning Accessibility 47

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report. According to a 2017 federal survey of teachers , more than half — millions of teachers — were using materials from Teachers Pay Teachers every week.) Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank. Fordham Foundation.

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Study Common Core Company Differentiated Instruction 101

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2017

Bryant, a black engineer and recent nominee for the San Francisco Chronicle’s 2017 Visionary of the Year award, is not alone this observation. But Clever sees its public report as a way to get there. I see companies, like Intel and Google, that are creating programs to seed their pipeline.”

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EdTech Company Industry Data 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

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. It’s free for students, but the software isn’t free for all—teachers must pay $7 a year and Pro users pay $29 annually.

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EdTech Meeting Education Company 60

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Doug Levin (@douglevin) March 17, 2017. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition). The thread on this tweet has the details. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 21, 2016

You can use the CTR Flex rubric to evaluate apps and other software with your local colleagues or use a variety of possible criteria to customize your own instrument. The database is free to browse, but full reviews and reports, along with back issues, are limited to paid CTR subscribers. Alice Keeler is a Google Certified Teacher.

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iPad Android E-rate Facebook 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

That’s why he’s launching Rooted School, a high school that plans to train students to enter jobs in fields like 3D printing, software development and programming right after graduation. The launch date was pushed back to August 2017 as he sought more private funding to supplement the public school funding stream all charters receive.

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STEM Industry Company Report 40

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2018

It comes pre-engineered with integrated hardware and software , and includes everything necessary for plug-and-play connectivity. One recent forecast by Research and Markets predicts the market for modular data centers, led by key vendors such as IBM , Eaton and HPE , will grow from $13 billion in 2017 to more than $46 billion by 2022.

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Data Software System Strategy 175

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

software and electronic textbooks, as is the case in New Mexico ) to physical devices (e.g. Companies like Apple, Microsoft and Google regularly supply schools with discounted technology that districts could not otherwise afford themselves. State Funding States vary drastically in the funds they make available for K-12 technology.

Technology 169

Technology E-rate Laptops Digital Divide 169

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

A year later, in their second grade, Google launched the first Chromebooks. In 2017—the last full year for which it publicly released numbers— Futuresource Consulting estimated that Chromebooks had 58.3 Reported percentages for quarters in 2018 appear to be similar. By the end of 2017, iOS was below 15 percent.

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Analysis Trends Chromebook EdTech 154

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

In 2014 — the last year for which data is available from the National Center for Education Statistics — 75 percent of public schools reported using security cameras to monitor their buildings. And a 2017 survey revealed that 70 percent of teachers felt cameras in the classroom might help prevent theft, vandalism and cheating.

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System Video Elementary Guidelines 267

The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2019

Megan Conn/The Hechinger Report. Unlike textbooks or video, virtual reality fully immerses users in a dynamic virtual world – and the headset device can be as simple as a mobile phone inserted into an inexpensive Google Cardboard viewer. Megan Conn/The Hechinger Report. Megan Conn/The Hechinger Report.

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Conference Report Trends Survey 101

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online ACHIEVE3000 & ICIVIC ( www.achieve3000.com The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions. The application is free to download from the App Store or Google Play.

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Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 60

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. As defined by the CoSN report, accelerators are megatrends that drive change.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 79

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

The Linux operating system is one of the most incredible success stories of the open source software movement. As of 2017, the Linux operating system: ran 82 percent of the world’s smartphones, had 99 percent of the supercomputer market share, ran 90 percent of the public cloud workload, and. Let’s keep chasing this. patches/hour (p.

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OER Course Company Smartphone 73

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. They are, after all, typically investing someone else’s money. Networks matter.

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

That’s what we saw towards the end of 2017, as many of the first-wave bootcamps that started between 2011 and 2013 have been acquired or are in the process. Many products beloved by early adopters (think Google Glasses or the Segway) never cross the chasm to penetrate the mainstream market.

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Industry Outcomes Company Software 80

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye – 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 12 Edition). Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Are computers teachers? Strong opinions may be weakly held. Worth the long read.

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