Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I’ll start this list with web-based options, by grade level (click the grade you teach) and then continue with a mash-up: Kindergarten 1st grade 2nd grade 3rd grade 4th grade 5th grade HS Apps BeeBop –based on the Beebop floor robot–free Cargo-Bot —logic iPad game Cato’s Hike (K+) Codea (Perfect for Intermediate+) Daisy the Dinosaur —intro (..)

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Robotics iPad Coursera Digital Citizenship 283

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 6, 2022

App Inventor –build Android apps on a smartphones; from MIT. Google Computer Science for High School –free workshops (with application) for K-12 teachers. Stencyl –build games without coding with downloaded software. Build an App. Apps Geyser. Game Salad. Glide –create an app from a spreadsheet.

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Robotics iPad Coursera Digital Citizenship 303

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 6, 2021

App Inventor –build Android apps on a smartphones; from MIT. Google Computer Science for High School –free workshops (with application) for K-12 teachers. Stencyl –build games without coding with downloaded software. Game Salad. Glide –create an app from a spreadsheet. Jotform App Builder. Coding Curriculum. Code Academy.

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Robotics Sony Coursera iPad 305

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

I missed this news earlier in April, via Class Central : financial aid applications for Coursera take at least 15 days. CNN tries to explain “Why Google , Apple and Microsoft are battling for education.” “Someone Hit the Internet with a Massive Google Doc Phishing Attack ,” Motherboard Vice reports.

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

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JULY 8, 2016

“ ‘Top universities to offer full degrees online in five years’ ” says the BBC, citing a prediction made by Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. Via Fortune : “ Android Co-Founder To Lead Google ’s New Education Project.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

“ Coursera ’s 2018 Revenue Estimated to be $140 million,” Class Central estimates. Via The New York Times : “How Google Protected Andy Rubin , the ‘Father of Android ’ ” “Google could have fired Mr. Rubin and paid him little to nothing on the way out.

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