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Sony Vows to Bring “Blockchain” Tech to Education. Will It Take Hold in K-12?

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Sony Global Education Inc. Sony Global Education , a company affiliated with the Japanese electronics corporation, defines blockchain as a decentralized network technology in which the same data are recorded and maintained on multiple nodes–computers connected to a network–that are geographically isolated.

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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

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Each chapter concludes with an assessment to prove employee understanding. Customers include PepsiCo, Bangkok Airways and Sony. The game explains why certain tools—door badge readers, for example—are government mandated and illustrates cybersecurity best practices to employ at work. Founded in 1999 and based in Deerfield Beach, Fla.,

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

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EDU tokens are so far only listed on EtherDelta, an exchange platform with a history of reported hacks—one as recent as Wednesday. Sony says it is working towards a 2018 rollout. Matryx offers a marketplace and bounty system for researchers to buy, sell and mix digital assessment and research.

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It includes a variety of assessments, multiple-choice and claim-evidence-reasoning assessments, along with extensive support for teachers such as embedded professional development and instructional resources to support a differentiated learning experience for each student. to streamline workflows for assessment and data analysis.

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Five Ethical Considerations For Using Virtual Reality with Children and Adolescents

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All the major players, including Microsoft, Sony, Samsung, Google and an HTC and Valve partnership are jostling for the consumer headset market. Neal also reports a great deal of success with Tilt Brush , a powerful 3-D art creation tool. Privacy and Data Gathering. Data and education have a tentative relationship.

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

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One of the longstanding complaints about accrediting agencies is that, as The Wall Street Journal reported this fall , “College Accreditors Largely Staffed by Employees of Schools They Oversee.” According to a report released in June by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce , “Of the 11.6

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Hack Education Weekly News

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. “Learning styles” in the White House: President Trump doesn’t read his daily intelligence briefings, gets oral briefings on “select” issues instead, because reading isn’t “his style of learning,” the @washingtonpost reports [link] — Kasie Hunt (@kasie) February 9, 2018. Research, “Research,” and Reports.