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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. ” he asks.

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With a degree no longer enough, job candidates are told to prove their skills in tests

The Hechinger Report

As the number of candidates balloons while health risks make it hard for hiring managers to meet with them in person, a trend toward “pre-hiring assessments” — already under way before Covid-19 — is getting a huge new push. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. Steve Yadzinski, Jobs for the Future. There’s no trickery.

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Surveys Find Districts Are Using More Edtech Tools — and Teachers Are Bearing the Costs

Edsurge

A new survey on corporate skills training forecasts that a lot more companies will try doing it using virtual reality environments in the next two years. Further behind were gamification, micro-learning, in-person learning and artificial intelligence (none of these were defined in the report). All in this Edtech Reports Recap.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

CAROLINA BIOLOGICAL SUPPLY COMPANY BUILDING BLOCKS OF SCIENCE 3D ( www.carolina.com/help/pressreleases/2018/building-blocks-of-science-3d ) Carolina Biological Supply Company launched the new Building Blocks of Science 3D hands-on unit kits for students in grades K to 5. K-12 market.

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Reactions to a College Alternative: Debating the Merits of MissionU

Edsurge

He runs the Future Trends Forum video chat. They want to start contributing to either a company or broader society, and they don't feel that they need that four to six years of coming of age. So, we start with employer partners— companies like Spotify, Lyft, Warby Parker, Uber, Casper and a whole bunch of others.