Doug Levin

APRIL 27, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition). Tagged on: May 1, 2017 Google's Chromebook End of Life Policy stops support after 5 years | PCWorld → Planned obsolescence: Google's End of Life Policy sets a schedule for retiring older Chromebooks, but the details are murky. face up to. |

EdTech 150

EdTech Chromebook Policies Student Data Privacy 150

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2020

Case in point: a Japanese octogenarian who in 2017 taught herself how to code in Swift , Apple’s programming language, and published an app in the online store. After leaving the company in 2017, D’Souza says he hung out with friends who had retired and didn’t know what to do next.

Company 117

Company Instructional Materials Microsoft Exercises 117

techlearning

AUGUST 15, 2018

Microsoft, Dell, Domino’s Pizza, Pandora, Timberland, LinkedIn, Yelp, Zillow, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. billion in 2017, accounting for 664,095 jobs over the past three years. The minimum revenue required for 2014 is $100,000; the minimum for 2017 is $2 million.

Company 40

Company Industry Instructional Materials Blended Learning 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Only 21 states have any kind of dedicated state funding for technology, and this can range from just digital instructional materials (e.g. Companies like Apple, Microsoft and Google regularly supply schools with discounted technology that districts could not otherwise afford themselves. But these options, too, come with a catch.

Technology 175

Technology E-rate Laptops Digital Divide 175

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2016

Gina Raimondo has announced a comprehensive computer science education initiative in partnership with Microsoft, Code.org , colleges and universities across Rhode Island, and others. The goal is to have the subject taught in every public school by December 2017. public school by Dec. Rhode Island Gov.

Microsoft 40

Microsoft Instructional Materials STEM Training 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

From Jesse Stuart in rural Kentucky in the 1920s and 1930s, to fifth-grade New York City teacher, Gloria Channon , who started an open classroom in the 1960s in a heavily bureaucratized system, to Kayla Delzer in 2017, these teachers took initiatives and risks as they tried out new ways of organizing their classroom and teaching in different ways.

Social Media 74

Social Media Facebook Instructional Materials Report 74

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

To the entrepreneur who wrote the Techcrunch op-ed in August that ed-tech is “ 2017's big, untapped and safe investor opportunity.” “Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google Are Fighting a War for the Classroom,” Edutechnica wrote in June , with a look at how many colleges have adopted their competing “pseudo-LMSes.”

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40