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Fewer Deals, More Money: U.S. Edtech Funding Rebounds With $1.2 Billion in 2017

Edsurge

There’s a realization with a number of high-profile implosions or corrections, whether it’s AltSchool or Knewton , that have cooled a lot of folk’s appetite,” says Pianko. Also on investor’s radars this year: high-profile flops from hyped companies that had raised more than $100 million in venture funding.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.). Microsoft : “Microsoft launches Intune for Education to counter Google’s Chromebooks in schools,” Techcrunch reported in January. ” “ How Google Chromebooks conquered schools.”

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The Long Life of a Data Trail

Graphite Blog

Examples of services like this include many EdTech products out there, including Edmodo, Remind, ClassDojo, Schoology, most digital text offerings from traditional publishers like Pearson and McGraw Hill, learning programs like Agilix Buzz, and app ecosystems like Amplify tablets, iPads, and Chromebooks.

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

The school used the money for a bulk order of Google Chromebooks, allowing every classroom to have a laptop for each student. Related: Laptops, Chromebooks or tablets? Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015.

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Updates and Upgrades Google announced a change to the way it will sell its new Chromebooks. Then, during years 2 and 3 of the contract, schools will pay $5 per month per Chromebook for support. of Text-Messaging at School A Big Step for Gesture-Based Learning? The new costs: $449 for the WiFi version and $519 for the 3G version.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. Neither Knewton nor the Clinton campaign have confirmed the veracity of this leaked speech. Education Politics. Or something.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Here’s Edsurge’s “exclusive” on the news that Android apps will soon be able on Chromebooks. “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” It’s not really an “exclusive” when you re-write a Google blog post , but oh well.