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The Uphill Battles Facing Asia’s Education Technology Startups

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In technology, Sony and Nintendo are among the most internationally recognized brands. But when it comes to the education technology industry, few people outside the country can name Japanese companies off the top of their heads. In education, the tutoring center Kumon has franchises across the world. But they will for coding.”

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

Marketplace K-12

Sony Global Education Inc. says it has developed a system to bring “blockchain” technology–meant to serve as a decentralized-yet-secure system for transmitting data–to education, as the concept slowly begins to attract attention in the K-12 space. Goodbye, Middleman?

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How “blockchain” technology could influence education

eSchool News

Sony Global Education sims to build a new, widely applicable educational infrastructure that enables diverse methods of evaluation, open sharing of academic proficiency and progress records. As education paradigms evolve, technological innovation is expected to diversify the ways in which tests are designed and individuals are evaluated.

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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. But by some accounts he faces tough competition at home, competition that was partly blamed for the recent failure of education technology company Instructure to break into corporate learning.

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A World of PBL… 25 Authentic Resources To Connect Students Beyond The Classroom

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, Makerspace, Inquiry, Computational Thinking, and the 4 C’s. At the same time, we must remember to connect to the content standards while facilitating and assessing 21st century skills. Check out my Booking Page.

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This Workforce Partnership Trains Tech Talent. Can It Boost Civic Engagement Too?

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Roughly 200 local employers, including Kaiser Permanente, OSISoft, Sony and Typeform, have also participated. The first is an “externship” where teachers visit a participating company for professional development to learn about its technology and products. Today there are three main components to PilotCity’s programming.

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

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But the underlying blockchain technology is complex, and attracting droves of interest from the likes of IBM and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Building on Blockchain Exchanging tokens isn’t the only way in which educators and researchers are using blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies for education.

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