Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

After making a few rounds in the behemoth expo hall, we’ve rounded up the ones that made our ears perk up and what edtechies should look out for: Big news from the blue chips OGLING GOOGLE UPDATES: With over 70 million G Suite for Education users, Google’s education tools dominate U.S. classrooms. MICROSOFT CLASSROOM IS NO MORE.

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techlearning

JUNE 24, 2018

Chicago, June 24, 2018 – Impero Software, a leading provider of classroom management, network and online safety software to schools today announced the latest version of its award-winning product, Impero Education Pro V7. It partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Here are EdSurge’s top stories of 2017 in chronological order—a healthy dose of optimism and skepticism, words of encouragement and caution for the year ahead. From Google and Microsoft’s LMS-like collaboration system to Apple’s device manager, here’s a handy guide to all things Classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 5, 2017

Use blogs, wikis, discussion forums, Google Spreadsheets, and Google Hangouts to collaborate and share. Class starts July 10, 2017 and ends July 30, 2017. Weekends, discuss issues, concerns, and projects in a virtual group via Google Hangouts or Twitter Chats. If you need extra help, we’ll arrange that also.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Here's the start to an interesting story: a Google program manager, a Twitter engineer, and a Pinterest employee walk into a bar. In today’s day and age, Google, Twitter and Pinterest are three of the largest employers in the United States and internationally. What are they there to discuss? But in reality, it’s not a bar.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Venngage is an easy to use infographic maker and graphic design software with drag and drop. Check out this Google Draw template for creating infographics by John Calvert. Genial.ly is a web tool for creating infographics and interactive visuals. Canva is a web tool and iPad app with infographic templates and lesson plans.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 1, 2017

These include 20 webtools from the following comprehensive list: Each participant prepares one webtool every week that they will then teach to classmates in a group Google Hangout. Each weekly Google Hangout will include five presentations of webtools by class members. Accounts for Google and various web-based tools (if any).

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2018

million in 2017, based on revenue of approximately $1 million. Edmodo brings a vibrant social community to the company, which is amassing education assets that already include both hardware and software. Now the most powerful players are technology companies that offer devices and software.

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Gaggle Speaks

MAY 30, 2017

Some new Google Vault features likely caught the eye of K-12 technology directors and email administrators. The biggest announcement that certainly got our attention was that Vault is now able to retain data in Google Drive. Of course, you could set the retention policy to indefinite in Google Vault, but there are still some concerns.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 30, 2018

Each student has a brand-new laptop and has easily mastered Google Classroom and the other educational apps you carefully chose for them. Do the same for apps and software. Make Parents Comfortable with Tech for a Successful 1:1 Program. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 07/30/2018 - 11:28. The implementation was a total success.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

” Get a 45-day free trial of SmartLab Game-Based Learning Software. Hear NASSP 2017 Digital Principal of the Year David Geurin talk about helping teachers find their blind spots from episode 4. She and her students love Google Apps for Education and can’t imagine life without them. Stream by clicking here.

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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.

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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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2020

“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. Burning Glass estimates that there were over 9 million roles posted in 2017 that fit this category, and the number continues to grow.

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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). It’s always about them. Goodwin, T. TechCrunch.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 6, 2020

Different software programs will make “portfolios” easy to share, yet do we truly embrace the power that a digital portfolio can bring into our schools? Does the portfolio help in this endeavor when every student we work with now will be googled for jobs, university, or a myriad of other things.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

million companies across the world, GitHub is considered the standard when it comes to software development platforms. GitHub is where many companies, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, host their open-source projects. In a nutshell, GitHub is a collaborative development tool popular among programmers and software companies.

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 22, 2018

You may remember that the Google Arts and Culture App was selected as an AASL Best App for 2017. ” feature uses facial recognition to connect your own selected selfie to a Google Arts and Culture doppelganger, a look-alike from among its millions of collected portraits. Google assures there is no reason for concern.

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Fractus Learning

JUNE 11, 2021

Some APIs for web maps include Google Maps API, OpenLayers, ArcGIS, and Mapbox. If you were looking for help in choosing the best mind mapping software for your kids or classroom, head on over to other article. Import data from Excel, Google docs, or CSV to create and publish interactive maps. Google Maps API tool features.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Today’s guest, Enrique Cachafeiro talks about the hardware, software options, and future of virtual reality. Date: Thursday, December 7, 2017. We were trying out Google Expedition with a full classroom kit. Vicki: Help me understand the differences between web VR experiences and like, Google Expedition. Re-create that.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

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. Money turns out to be key for building tech platforms, both in terms of software development and building out partnerships, courses and marketing. (To

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JULY 18, 2021

It required downloading a software from Virbela , then joining a virtual campus ran by Douglas Stewart. Enjoying it, especially for its vision of VR school. In the middle of the pandemic, most vendors had to resort to webinars and other teleconferencing options to share or discuss their wares.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

When I first released CheckMark back in October of 2017 , I did so with the hopes that it would be beneficial in helping teachers give students feedback on their writing more quickly and efficiently than they had previously experienced. We’ve added Google Drive sync. New Google Chrome extension streamlines digital grading for teachers.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Apple , Equifax , Google , Intel , Uber and even the federal government have been in the news, it has remained an open question as to whether K-12 schools themselves are really at risk. As we come to the close of 2017, it is increasingly evident that K-12 cybersecurity threats are neither hypothetical, nor imagined.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

Growing Beyond K-12 Davis said K12 chose Galvanize out of the crowded bootcamp space because of Galvanize’s mix of online and in-person learning and its 8,000-plus graduates who have gone on to work at more than 2,000 companies, including major technology stalwarts including Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.

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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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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.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Microsoft has long had a beef with Google—even if the company won’t always admit it today—dating back to the “Scroogled” advertisement campaign that critiqued the search giant’s Chromebooks and privacy policies. According to Futuresource Consulting, a market research firm, in the third quarter of 2017, Google’s Chromebooks captured 59.8

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

According to the 2017 PWC Global CEO survey , human capital was among CEO’s top-three business priorities—alongside developing digital and technology capabilities. The extension of federal funds to non-institutional providers such as coding bootcamps already has a recent if still under-the-radar example in the 2017 “Forever GI Bill.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

S’moresUp’s founders also hope to integrate with digital assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Rajendran, 43, and Xavier, 41, met at PayPal and founded S’moresUp in 2017. The company plans to launch a pilot program with a school in India to see how the platform would work in the classroom.

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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. What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2017

Sydney Chaffee ( @SydneyChaffee ), 9th Grade Humanities Teacher, 2017 National Teacher of the Year Sydney gives students 1-on-1 support. Chrissy Romano ( @TheConnectedEdu ), 3rd Grade Teacher, Google for Education Certified Trainer Chrissy and her Star Wars loving students. private comments feature in Google Classroom.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2018

Multiple former Reasoning Mind employees however confirmed to EdSurge that the nonprofit underwent several rounds of layoffs throughout 2017, which affected several dozen staff. Technology companies including Google, Oracle and Cisco also gave support through providing hardware and database services. from Russia. 31 that year).

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

OCTOBER 4, 2022

I gradually learned instead to write down discrete snippets of thought into my notes software , whenever they happened to occur; then, before a writing session, review those notes and pull them together into a narrative. I don't think that Word is better than Google Docs for writing; but the change of scenery got me unstuck.

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