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What One Startup Founder Learned in Her Quest to Change How Profs Communicate With Students

Edsurge

The system is now in place at around 2,000 colleges, and her company has raised more than $15 million. She credits her time at Stanford for giving her the confidence to see herself as a potential founder—and the practical skills to start a company. “I She called her startup Piazza. One of those issues was student privacy.

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Look Who’s Talking—Code.org Founder and CEO Hadi Partovi on the Hype and Hope of AI in edtech

eSchool News

And if you think about, for example, the smartphone, when the first iPhone came out, that iPhone looks prehistoric compared the version we got 10 years later. People don’t remember that the first iPhone. The App Store came after the iPhone. And I remember writing articles back then about, you know, the the.

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My thoughts on the iPad2 after using it for a while

Educational Technology Guy

I''ve used many an iPhone and iPad in the past and been underwhelmed. I also used a PDA and smart phone long before the iPhone came out, so it wasn''t as big a thing to me. I also used a PDA and smart phone long before the iPhone came out, so it wasn''t as big a thing to me. That recently changed, sort of.

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ClassDojo - free classroom behavior system - announces iOS apps.

Educational Technology Guy

The free app allows teachers to register for an account on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, set up and view all of their classes, and assign personalized avatars to each of their students. ClassDojo is free for teachers, and the company is dedicated to keeping it that way. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy.

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Friday 5 — 10.21.2016

Perry Hewitt

The Harvard Business Review launched a Slack bot to deliver insights from more than 200 best-practice articles, neatly chunked into do's and don'ts (an editorial feat I don't envy.) The bot will send you daily articles, and serves up related case and article links.

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I Like Computers?

Adam Welcome

Very recently I was around some teachers and I could hear their chatter about technology, iPads, their iPhones etc. Just yesterday I was reading an article from Inc magazine about coding skills and how they are so desperately needed for so many different reasons - read the article here but see some highlights below!

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Classroom prizes and grants available!

Educational Technology Guy

My students since then have created iPhone cases, key chains, tie clips and more. The online survey is facilitated by Project Tomorrow and supported by many of our nation’s most innovative companies, foundations and nonprofit organizations including Blackboard, Inc., Karl Ochsner, Pope John XXIII Catholic School in Arizona.

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