techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Software & Online ACCELERATE LEARNING STEMSCOPES SCIENCE ( www.stemscopes.com ) Accelerate Learning announced a new platform using the best of CNN’s digital content to create a new science education product. EDTHENA ( www.edthena.com ) Edthena has developed a one-click video recording and uploading solution for Google Chrome.

Epson 52

Epson Blackboard Pearson STEM 52

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Of course cyber security is necessary in education. He is a former teacher but spent 20 years away from the classroom working as a technology attorney and software executive. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

PowerMyLearning 40

PowerMyLearning Data BYOD Training 40

edWeb.net

JULY 31, 2019

Software and services hosted in the cloud: First and foremost, by using cloud-based programs, schools don’t need to worry about having the staff and skills to maintain the programs. She started her career as a software engineer at NASA supporting Space Shuttle and Station Operations. About the Presenters.

BYOD 42

BYOD Data Software Training 42

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 23, 2023

But Large Language Models (LLMs), and particularly the recent demo of ChatGPT, seem to have put the fear of God into everyone from middle school English teachers to the CEO of Google. Imagine you’re an instructional designer who’s been paired with a faculty member to create a course in microeconomics.

OER 192

OER LMS Resources Course 192

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

high school students have the opportunity not just to take an online class for credit but a significant proportion of their course load online. percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. public high schools (42.5 percent offered ‘all classes online.’

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

high school students have the opportunity not just to take an online class for credit but a significant proportion of their course load online. percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. public high schools (42.5 percent offered ‘all classes online.’

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. Google had a big press event this week too, unveiling shiny stuff to a cheering crowd of stenographers. VR headsets (well, it’s really just a mask that holds your Google phone up to your face). A Wi-Fi system.

Education 63

Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. I kept thinking how much the physical setup of the classrooms resembled a Silicon Valley workspace — or is it that Amazon, Google and Facebook have tried to replicate grammar-school life?

Personalized Learning 96

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 96

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Via The Hechinger Report : “ Virtual charter schools need ‘bold action’ for change, says national charter school advocacy group.” Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.”

Education 49

Education Coursera Microsoft Company 49

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

How : Google Slides, PPT, Buncee , Thinglink , Genially , Canva School librarians can create choice boards aligned with different ability levels, and students can choose according to how they feel comfortable. Handbooks can summarize library services, events calendars, and important updates. Holzweiss asked. Evolve your programming.

Libraries 98

Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 98

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.” And one for-profit story is in the Betteridge’s Law of Headlines section because of course. Via Edsurge : “New Cybersecurity Course Teaches Teens the ABCs of (Ethical) Hacking.” The Business of Job Training.

Lenovo 51

Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 51

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” The scheme involved Ed4Mil , “an online correspondence course provider,” and a former dean of Caldwell University. ” Via Edsurge : “ Britannica CEO Talks Google, Wikipedia and What Lil Pump Can Teach Us About Credibility.” Venture) Philanthropy and the Business of Education Reform. million total.

Education 43

Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

It’s a look back at what’s happened over the course of each year, not simply – to counter that totally overused phrase from hockey player Wayne Gretsky’s dad – to “skate to where the puck is going,” but to examine where it has been. It also includes Cupertino, where Apple is headquartered.

Trends 64

Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.)

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Trump’s budget, of course, cuts $9.2 It’s building this little web that turns the user into a mostly passive consumer of mostly western corporate content,” says Ellery Biddle, Global Voices’ advocacy director. ” Via Education Week : “ Google Launches $50 Million Effort on the Future of Work.”

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Even without providing you the final tally of funding for 2016, I can point to other signals about what’s happened to ed-tech startups over the course of the last twelve months – their sustainability, their viability. (Or These are just the ones that were reported by the press, of course.). Why, schools of course.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Appeals court ruling continues decade-long legal battle between Georgia State University and three publishers over what constitutes ” fair use “ of course materials.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Economic Boom Isn’t Helping Some Student-Loan Debtors , Advocacy Group Says.”

Education 53

Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

Humphrey testified that he hired Hubbard on a $7,500-per-month consulting contract to connect him to legislative leaders in other states, as Edgenuity tried to sell digital courses.” Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”) public schools.”

Education 48

Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Of course, DeVos has supported groups that back the Common Core in the past, including Jeb Bush ’s Foundation for Excellence in Education. But Trump – of course – will be able to deduct the settlement on his taxes. Google has acquired Quiklabs , a tech training company. She serves on its board.)

Education 40

Education Pearson Common Core Report 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Robots are much more ideal as workers, because of course they cannot unionize. ” “The right skills,” of course, are the skills that employers expect potential employees to possess, largely eschewing training themselves and instead offloading the risk and responsibility of training onto individuals.

Robotics 59

Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Trump’s favorite techie is, of course, Peter Thiel. Via The Outline : “ Google ’s featured snippets are worse than fake news.” “New study raises concerns about impact of automated social media advocacy on education coverage,” says Alexander Russo. Remember the Thiel Fellows ?

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The reporting often isolates education technology from other developments in the computer technology sector and tends to isolate education technology from education politics and policies more broadly (unless, of course, those policies dovetail with the political interests of ed-tech and ed-reform, which they often do).

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

” Via the Education Law Center : “Several New Jersey civil rights and parent advocacy organizations have filed a legal challenge to new high school graduation regulations recently adopted by the State Board of Education. ” Google announced it was cutting jobs in its Google Fiber division. The CEO has resigned.

Education 40

Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40