EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

Thu, 08/22/2019 - 08:25. The brains of young children are constantly exposed to stimulation due to smartphones, social media, and the internet,” notes BBN Times contributor Naveen Joshi, founder and CEO of software company Allerin. AR/VR in K–12: Schools Use Immersive Technology for Assistive Learning. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

million in two companies: online bootcamp Springboard and Knowledge to Practice, a medical startup. Now, the publisher confirmed that it has spun off its Immersive Learning team, selling its assets to a new company, GIGXR , based in Venice, Calif. All 16 staff formerly on that Pearson team will make the transition to the new company.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2019

Mon, 08/26/2019 - 13:29. Microsoft Kinect Puts Content Control in Users’ Hands. Tambo International Airport, for example, a coffee company installed a machine that analyzes travelers’ facial gestures and dispenses a cup of coffee if it detects someone yawning. . Google’s Soli Uses Gesture Technology to Immerse K–12 Students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

In 2018 we witnessed a clash of titans as government and tech companies collided on privacy issues around collecting, culling and using personal data. Companies will face increased pressure about the data AI-embedded services use. More companies will make AI a strategic initiative in corporate social responsibility.

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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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EdTech Magazine

MAY 21, 2019

Tue, 05/21/2019 - 09:25. Microsoft for Education and Google for Education have already complied with these regulations and are widely used across U.S. How K–12 Schools Can Balance Privacy and Security Protocols. eli.zimmerman_9856. As technology becomes more ubiquitous, schools must balance student access with student privacy laws. .

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2023

Microsoft 's Free AI Course for Educators Microsoft has an amazing artificial intelligence course for educators that will help you and your education team have the knowledge you need to understand the best practices for artificial intelligence in schools. I highly recommend this free AI course from Microsoft. AIforEducators.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 13, 2019

The post Is Microsoft Making a Comeback in Education? Is Microsoft making a comeback in education? I brought Leslie to the show to answer the EdTech community’s biggest question, is Microsoft making a comeback in education? Is Microsoft making a comeback? Is Microsoft making a comeback in education?

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 15, 2019

Wed, 05/15/2019 - 09:59. But Microsoft ’s Project xCloud may be the furthest along. With its deep roots in gaming via Xbox and its recent purchases of Minecraft and cloud-gaming platform PlayFab , Microsoft has the greatest potential to break into the education market before its competitors. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 24, 2021

There are also events from edtech companies like Flipgrid or WeVideo happening this summer with sessions presented by educators. I started my own podcast in September 2019 after thinking about it for a few years and finally decided to give it a go. In July, the Changemaker 2021 conference will be taking place. PLNs and PLCs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

For decades, companies have offered more or less the same deal to Americans in search of office jobs: You pay for your own higher education and skills training, and then we’ll consider employing you. More companies are assuming the costs and risks of preparing people for entry-level technology roles by offering apprenticeships.

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TeacherCast

JUNE 19, 2019

This year, I had the opportunity to work with so many great educational technology companies on the podcast and I'm excited to have the opportunity to walk the vendor floor and meet everyone to say THANK YOU for being a part of the TeacherCast podcasting family. Microsoft Education – Booth 2900. ThinkWrite – Booth 1251.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Coursera went public , while edX was acquired by the public company 2U for $800 million and lost its non-profit status. The company is expected to bring in more than $400 million in revenue in 2021. The IPO gave us an opportunity to learn more about the company. At the time of writing, the company is valued at about $1.6

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Thu, 02/28/2019 - 15:20. Tynker , another application, is an augmented reality platform that lets students build AR projects in the classroom and teachers build coding courses around students’ affinities for video games; take Microsoft Minecraft for Education , for example. . Technology Companies Invest in AR and VR Education Apps.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2019

But this week, library groups urged their members to stop using the service if the company—now owned by LinkedIn, a subsidiary of Microsoft—makes planned changes to Lynda.com that will require library patrons to create a LinkedIn profile to access the service. The following June, Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $26.2

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

A growing number of companies have moved beyond training their own employees or providing tuition assistance programs to send staff members to higher education. million credentials to date, growing at a 61 percent pace from 2019 to 2020. IBM runs a digital badging program , now in its seventh year, that has awarded 3.7

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JUNE 23, 2020

Its early work focused on lobbying on behalf of its members, which also included companies across the banking, financial and trade publishing sectors. SIIA also created an “incubator” program in 2006 to support early-stage education companies, long before the idea became popular in the edtech industry. billion in U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Marissa's passion for education came early in her career when she was producing "edutainment" CD-ROM products for The Learning Company. It grew as she moved to Microsoft, working on various products that touched consumers' lives both in and out of the education sector, including MSN, Encarta and Xbox. If so, what does that look like?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

That fact, plus Gaggle’s high success in saving student lives (927 in the 2019–20 school year), has resulted in 95% of districts renewing subscriptions to Gaggle’s student safety solution, up from the previous year. In addition, 286 districts across 42 states have implemented services with Gaggle since March.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2020

Lifelong learning” is an ideal often celebrated in education circles, and a new company is setting out to prove that the pursuit of new skills and knowledge doesn’t stop at age 55, 62 or whenever Social Security retirement benefits kick in in the future. Yet he would argue that the early traction his company has seen suggests otherwise.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

It’s almost as if the company doesn’t realize that educators’ memories, just as students’ educational careers, are long. A year later, the company also lost its education general manager, who had come to Amazon with the TenMarks acquisition. It is, at least figuratively, everywhere. Having AFE associated with edtech is not a bad thing.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

And one of the best ways to improve the odds of landing a particular job is to ask an employee at the company to recommend you as a top candidate. This week, a software engineer in Atlanta is willing to pay $40 for a referral at IBM, Microsoft, or Warner Media. Now, you can pay strangers on the internet to refer you for jobs.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

In education, the shuttering of campuses and classrooms has been a windfall for purely digital companies—some of which are attracting plenty of private capital. Substitute teacher services company Swing Education is creating private homeschools. Even before then, the company had already taken a big hit. “We

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

After months of work, Chu developed a Microsoft Excel–based decision-support tool that gives the school system a new, holistic picture of the bus fleet’s scheduling. For their work, Chu, Keskinocak and DPS were named finalists for the 2019 Daniel H. It’s designed to present alternatives.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

After months of work, Chu developed a Microsoft Excel–based decision-support tool that gives the school system a new, holistic picture of the bus fleet’s scheduling. For their work, Chu, Keskinocak and DPS were named finalists for the 2019 Daniel H. It’s designed to present alternatives.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

After months of work, Chu developed a Microsoft Excel–based decision-support tool that gives the school system a new, holistic picture of the bus fleet’s scheduling. For their work, Chu, Keskinocak and DPS were named finalists for the 2019 Daniel H. It’s designed to present alternatives.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

After months of work, Chu developed a Microsoft Excel–based decision-support tool that gives the school system a new, holistic picture of the bus fleet’s scheduling. For their work, Chu, Keskinocak and DPS were named finalists for the 2019 Daniel H. It’s designed to present alternatives.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

After months of work, Chu developed a Microsoft Excel–based decision-support tool that gives the school system a new, holistic picture of the bus fleet’s scheduling. For their work, Chu, Keskinocak and DPS were named finalists for the 2019 Daniel H. It’s designed to present alternatives.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2020

We interviewed a number of leaders and decision-makers in the space, including heads of learning and development, workforce strategists, and executives and corporate development teams of public and private education companies. Employees are also demanding a greater variety of resources, and companies are responding.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2019

He spent about three months of 2019 learning to design programs. The San Francisco-based company has plans to reach more learners now that it’s raised an $11 million post-Series A financing round. Earlier this year, the company launched three programs in India, where Tambay and co-founder Parul Gupta grew up.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2023

Rachelle is an ISTE Certified Educator and a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert. She received the ISTE Making IT Happen Award in 2019 and has received several Presidential gold and silver awards for her volunteer service to education. She is currently pursuing a second doctorate, focused on Educational Technology.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Washington state’s free-college program, enacted by law in 2019, is considered one of the nation’s most generous. The average cost of tuition and fees at a four-year, nonprofit, private institution was $36,900 in 2019-2020 for a full-time student. Jay Inslee signed into law in 2019. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2023

Discover how leaders at places like Boeing, Keysight Technologies, IF/THEN Initiative, Nevada Gold Mines, American Petroleum Institute, Sanofi, Microsoft, and more use STEM every day to create innovative solutions to the world’s challenges. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Texthelp ®, a leading education technology company focused on helping learners of all ages and abilities improve their reading, writing, and math skills, today announced the launch of WriQ ®, a cloud-based writing assessment and achievement tool. This will help students persist with writing and improve.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

I had the chance to strap on one of the headsets during Facebook’s Connect 5 conference in San Jose where the company unveiled them. The convergence of these technologies with AI will accelerate the pace of development—and, the company hopes, adoption.

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