EdTech Magazine

APRIL 2, 2019

“Today when we talk about education, we only talk about three things: the curriculum, the teacher and the assessments,” Zhao told attendees at the Consortium for School Networking’s 2019 annual conference keynote session, Envisioning the Skills Students Need: 2030. However, students’ learning should not stop when the final bell rings.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2019

Some of the conclusions may not come as a surprise in the Omidyar Network’s report on what works in scaling education technology in different regions worldwide. By many measures, the country’s education technology ecosystem is small. Extending access to education technology beyond schools is also key. Take Chile, for instance.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2023

DENVER– ( BUSINESS WIRE )–MindSpark Learning®, a nonprofit organization committed to elevating educators and being the direct intersection between education and industry, has launched its first Responsible Artificial Intelligence (RAI) course in a series.

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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2022

The global pandemic has quickened the pace of technological development around the world as services that had not been digital before moved online and others that were performed by humans became automated. Bureau of Labor Statistics says the demand for software developers will grow 22 percent through 2030.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The Bureau of Labor and Statistics projects that the market for computer science occupations will grow 13 percent between 2020 and 2030. They said: “Help students understand career possibilities at a place like Amazon and conceptualize their journey to the tech industry.”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

AMERICAN FORK, Utah /PRNewswire/ — YouScience ®, the leading technology provider dedicated to solving the skills gap crisis for students and employers, announced today the launch of YouScience ® Brightpath. million by 2030. Quantifying outcomes through industry-recognized certifications.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. And in this environment, the education industry sees an unprecedented transformation due in part to a new industrial revolution. During the past decade, we have seen only the beginning of changes in the education industry.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2021

Even as the twin blows of a pandemic and a recession have slowed down the construction industry, B & I Contractors in Fort Myers, Florida, isn’t short of work. These include health care, cybersecurity, information technology, construction, manufacturing, transportation, law enforcement and utilities. So are many others.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The marriage between industry, community colleges, and career and technical education is real. This need is urgent due to the demographic, economic and technological changes shaping the workforce. To put things into context, at one point the country’s steel industry employed roughly 650,000 persons.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2019

K-12 teachers and administrators have been listening to policy makers and industry leaders warn of the need for computer science instruction in U.S. estimates there will be 50 million new technology jobs created by 2030 as automation transforms the workforce. schools for years. And the evidence they cite is compelling.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2020

The goal as we see it is something we call “60x30TX,” or 60 percent of Texas adults ages 25-34 will hold a degree by 2030. Our successes in Garland ISD over the last two years demonstrate the immense power of data and technology to create promising pathways for all students.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

trillion by 2030. The technology’s applications span a range of business functions and industries, holding the promise of new efficiencies and automation. Therefore, partaking in opportunities that enable skills in the technology is imperative. In fact, AI’s contribution to the global GDP is expected to soar to $15.7

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 25, 2018

This part of the hospitality industry has changed. One of your kids’ favorite restaurants back home had raptors from the new Jurassic Park 2030 movie taking orders as they jumped up onto tables to interact with guests. In a successful techno-human ecosystem, technology does what it does best while humans do what they do best.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

Jobs in information technology are growing quickly and employers are trying to find ways to get kids excited about careers in the field. As many as 800 million people worldwide could be displaced and need to find new jobs by 2030. He’s also seen just how fast changes are happening in his own industry, information technology.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

This, understandably, presented a grave concern for business and industry, legislators, educators and ultimately students. According to the Center for American Progress, students paid $1.3 The plan called for the implementation of corequisite course opportunities for students who may need developmental education.

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Discovery Education

MAY 14, 2023

From Teacher Appreciation Week to shifting technologies, it’s a busy time in education. The industry is set to grow by an impressive 13.6% from 2023 to 2030. But EdTech is really two topics: education and technology. Check out what’s trending in EdTech news! Here’s some recent news on the Tech in EdTech!

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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. Trilogy’s worldly ambitious extend beyond Australia.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The advances in technology that are going to drive where the world goes in the next 50 years are going to come from other countries, because they have the intellectual capital and we don’t,” said Jim Stigler, a psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies the process of teaching and learning subjects including math.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The company works with education, government and industry partners to design and deliver simulated training in middle-skill jobs—those requiring more education than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree. We’re really excited to help scale this technology further,” said Bittner, founding partner at Firework. “As

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google. And the European Union, numerous individual countries, and various NGOs – as well as industry groups and educational leaders in the U.S. – are hard at work on standards frameworks.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

EdTechX claims to be the first SPAC focused on the education technology industry. The plan resembles a rollup strategy, similar to what private equity firms have pursued in the edtech industry. SPACs are a bull market phenomenon,” observes Trace Urdan, a managing director at Tyton Partners, an investment and advisory firm.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

PORTLAND, Maine — The ergonomic chairs, glass-walled conference rooms, ubiquitous technology and smell of new carpets and fresh paint scream well-funded startup. Some are focusing on high-demand disciplines such as technology, health and alternative energy. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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Evelyn Learning

JUNE 8, 2023

When a new idea or technology becomes available and shows promising usage, powerful governments run to grasp the technology and take advantage of being early adopters. The more resources and technological advancement a country has, the more influential and rich it becomes. And why not? World economics works that way.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

I started working with classroom technology in 1989 at The Dalton School in New York City. You might be interested to find that teaching, health and hospitality services, and food preparation top the list of critical professions in 2030—along with the more obvious ones like software engineering, data science, and cyber security.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2018

The rise of automation also creates a critical need to re-skill workers, with as many as 375 million employees globally needing to transition to new roles by 2030. The deal should not come as a shock for education industry watchers, after General Assembly’s CEO Jake Schwartz teased earlier this year that it was exploring sale options.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Combine this idea with the velocity of technological change we are experiencing. We can’t extrapolate from where we are today to meet the challenges of the workforce of 2030 or 2040. People don’t know how to translate their skills from one industry to another. That is a long time to live—and work.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2019

It's a place where researchers are delving into topics around race, the global environment and how to prepare changing societies for new technology and the workforce. We have the technology to move this water. Eighteenth century technology in the 21st century world. The advent of machines and machine technology itself is old.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Saeed Shareef badly wanted to get out of the restaurant industry. Shareef’s mother saw a TV commercial for a program that offered 12 weeks of training for technology careers, tuition-free. The free training focuses on preparing people for work in fields including accounting, welding, nursing and information technology.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 7, 2020

If trends continue unabated, by 2030 we may be looking at nearly 50 percent of school-aged children walking away from traditional public education in this country. It’s a cultural wave and that wave has already happened in other industries with its own drivers. This year, 27 percent of school-aged children have opted out.

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techlearning

AUGUST 31, 2018

Here’s mine: Parents, Our students are growing up in the 4th Industrial Revolution. Studies and experts say anywhere between 30% and 60% of jobs that are around today won’t be around by 2030. Jobs in fields like transportation, logistics, and administration are the most at risk of going extinct by 2030. Don’t worry, though.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2022

It’s part of an accelerating movement of noncredit, short-term training programs, not just in technology, but in many fields for which students are impatient for jobs and employers for workers who want to leapfrog their way to careers — and do it without necessarily spending the years and money it takes to earn a university degree.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Among those who enroll and remain in college, students from lower-income families are four times more likely than those from higher-income backgrounds to say that they are struggling to learn remotely in this pandemic year, a survey by the education technology company Instructure found. Seventy percent said they were falling behind.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

A most disruptive year to schools and society proved lucrative for the education industry, particularly for those raising private capital. education technology startups raised over $2.2 edtech industry. Many education entrepreneurs have long mused about how new technologies would usher in a “disruption” of the education market.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Plumbing is just one of many good-paying skilled trades that remain in high demand but which have largely been glossed over by the education technology industry, says Doug Donovan, co-founder and CEO of Interplay Learning. There is Nana Technologies, which is creating an online academy specifically for appliance repair.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.).

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2019

K-12 teachers and administrators have been listening to policy makers and industry leaders warn of the need for computer science instruction, such as a coding or robotics program, in U.S. estimates there will be 50 million new technology jobs created by 2030 as automation transforms the workforce. schools for years.

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