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Pearson’s Former Product Chief Reflects on the 4 Megatrends Shaping Global Education

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I started working with classroom technology in 1989 at The Dalton School in New York City. Your knowledge of COBOL or Fortran (or maybe even Ruby) won’t do you much good if you’re looking for a software engineering job today (though in fairness some have found ways to capitalize on the scarcity created by obsolescence ).Not

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Reba Saldanha/AP There are deep shortages of workers in information technology fields, according to the labor market analytics firm Lightcast, which says that there were more than 4 million job postings over the last year in the United States for software developers, database administrators and computer user support specialists.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. Internet ubiquity in the classroom led teachers to adopt email and experiment with other technologies.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

Like, how would you argue against “collaborative learning” as occurring – now or some day – in classrooms? “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011. But that doesn’t jibe with “software is eating the world,” does it?

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NetSupport’s keyword monitoring now supports multiple languages

eSchool News

In an effort to help districts cope with an ever-growing student population speaking languages other than English, NetSupport is adding multiple languages to its keyword monitoring software, which lets schools keep an eye on student communications by automatically flagging certain phrases or words. In 2014, a record of 63.5 million U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via KMOV , news from Montville High in Montville, Connecticut : “ Substitute teacher arrested for starting ‘ fight club ’ in classroom.” ” The Chronicle of Higher Education lists “Pros and Cons of Virtual Reality in the Classroom.” The reading software-maker has raised $3.2

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Two debt collectors said in separate statements this week that they will not assess collection fees on defaulted student loan borrowers who quickly enter repayment, despite new guidance from the Department of Education.” ” “ VR makes a big classroom impact,” Education Dive claims.