Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

.” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms.

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 27, 2015

I found two new apps, a Disney article, a robotics competition to the moon, and a repository of maker projects! Makerbot Printshop for the iPad The Makerbot company, sellers of the Makerbot 3D printers , released a free iPad app called Makerbot Printshop. Here's your #EdTechTidBits for the week of April 21, 2015.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

ADVANCED & MEASURED PROGRESS ( www.advanc-ed.org ) & ( www.measuredprogress.org ) Measured Progress and AdvancED will join forces to form a unique and far-reaching nonprofit educational company focused on data-driven tools for school improvement. has joined the ENA family of companies.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 18, 2018

Several companies, including Vernier and Pasco to name just a couple, have modified their probes to be compatible with Chromebooks as well. The interface connects to a computer, Chromebook, iPad/iPhone and Android devices. What a game changer! USB and Wireless Digital Probes for Data Acquisition. What does the future hold?

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The stories that I write about the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” are the antithesis of most articles you’ll see about education technology that invoke “top” and “trends.” Half of those, the firm said, would be iPads. Apple sold just 50 million iPads.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Author Alexandria Neason writes an article about what is happening at Quest to Learn. Appolicious – This site pretty much evaluations iPhone/iPad games but has lots of them in the index. ipadgames – Games for the iPad. Quest to Learn Academy uses a school-wide game based learning approach. Competitions.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The combined companies now extend from enrollment to graduation in districts that include traditional public, charter, and independent schools across the country. The company has partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits and provides online monitoring software to schools.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This leads to the “innovator’s dilemma,” described recently in The Economist as “the difficult choice an established company faces when it has to choose between holding onto an existing market by doing the same thing a bit better, or capturing new markets by embracing new technologies and adopting new business models.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Also via Wired : “Companies Are Cashing in on Reality TV for Tots.” ” Via The New York Times : “Apple Unveils New iPad to Catch Google in the Classroom.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 25, 2017

“Over 1k student-issued iPads are unaccounted for” in a school system in West Virginia , The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports. ” The company in question: FedLoan Servicing. ” It’s fascinating to see long-time tech training companies like CompTIA rebrand themselves as “bootcamps.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Education Week : “ FCC Chair Moves to Block E-Rate Funds for Companies Deemed ‘Security Risk’ ” (State and Local) Education Politics. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. 3DBear has raised $1.5

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Here’s a sponsored article , paid for by the Gates Foundation and published by Edsurge promoting the school and its technology.). ” (This reminds me that I need to write something about the history of Montessori and why all sorts of companies have appropriated the brand.). Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “To Bolster K–3 Literacy, North Carolina Provides 24,000 iPads for Reading Teachers.” Via The Atlantic : “ School-Security Companies Are Thriving in the Era of Mass Shootings.”

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E-rate Education Robotics Elsevier 44

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. The foundation has already raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for classroom iPads, digital audiobooks, and high-tech wiring.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. The two were visiting a rural school in Idaho that has a 1-to–1 iPad program. Sometimes it’s fun to look back at old stories that the tech press dutifully pumped out about this company. It could only observe.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” ” “ Minecraft: Education Edition is coming to iPad,” says Techcrunch.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Via Politico : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has increased her financial stake in a ‘neurofeedback’ company that says its technology treats attention deficit disorder and the symptoms of autism. “ Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

APRIL 27, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Chalkbeat : “Robotics is bringing Betsy DeVos to Detroit for the first time as education secretary.” Ah yes, a giant technology company deciding what “good manners” sounds like. National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “Feds Drop Investigation Into Los Angeles District Over $1 Billion iPad Purchase.” More on professional development company Bloomboard’s pivot to micro-credentialing in the HR section below. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Go, School Sports Team! Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook, like many digital technology companies, promises that in exchange for collecting your personal data – your name, your age, your gender, your photos, metadata on your photos, your location, your preferences, your browsing and clicking habits, your friends’ names – it will deliver “personalization.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Although the shooting is a local story, I am putting many of the articles here in the national section because, over a week later, it is still very much in the national headlines. National) Education Politics. “Open.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 31, 2017

The company took another step toward that goal Wednesday, announcing new degree offerings from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and France’s HEC Paris.” ” Fast Company profiles David Blake, the co-founder of the alt-credentialing startup Degreed. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. million total.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

EDITED TO ADD: Apparently, The Guardian article is not quite right. ” They’re suing the company. ” Via The Mercury News : “In Apple’s backyard, iPads ignite furor in schools.” ” Parents in the affluent school district are pushing back on the mandate that middle schoolers use iPads.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” And I am not even linking to the National Review article promoting this racist crap. ” Via Apple Insider : “Jamf’s ‘innovation pod’ aims to offer iPad-based education to students in Haiti.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via KPCC : “ LAUSD may try again to give an iPad or computer to every student.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The company has raised $15.7 National) Education Politics. million total.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

So, no doubt, were several articles by and about Emory University professor Mark Bauerlein and his defense of Trump and DeVos. ” Via Education Week : “ FCC Revokes Decision Allowing Companies to Provide Low-Income Families With Subsidized Broadband.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” More via WaPo.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The company said that it would keep the Vine website online, but you should probably download anything you’ve got there. But despite all these cuts, big companies rolled out New Products this week that were perhaps Very Exciting if you’re into New Products. ” IBM released a Watson-powered education app for iPad.

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