EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 3, 2015

However, this past year my school received a robot grant that provided ten robots for us from the company Sphero. Sphero emphasizes the power of play in education and has a variety of lessons that are aligned to the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards on their website.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The benchmarks are similar to those used in the more than 40 states that, along with the District of Columbia, adopted the national Common Core standards a decade ago. Data analyzed by McKinsey & Company late last year concluded that children have lost at least one and a half months of reading.

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Slate and Tablets

MAY 5, 2014

This frequently happens every time a new set of standardized exams are rolled out *cough* Common Core *cough*, but this is different. Nobody’s wallets are influenced by common core standards, and teachers’ wallets are already restricted. This is likely to get worse before it gets better.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

The Common Core State Standards require students to think critically and be effective consumers and producers of information and media. This ISTE webinar will focus on ways teachers can create active, student-centered, digital age classrooms that help students meet the Common Core and ISTE Standards. Classroom 2.0

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

These starter projects are aligned with Common Core standards and are already built for you. This digital citizenship project is aligned with several Common Core State Standards. Project Pals is perfect for any student capable of using an electronic tablet, Chromebook, or device to create and share.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

The books can be read on any device, including smart phones and tablets—and they are helping to immerse young children in the English language before they come to school. That’s where Weil’s company comes in. Almost every family now has at least one smart device,” Nemko said. “We

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MindShift

AUGUST 22, 2019

This figure hasn’t changed for decades — not with more testing, not with the Common Core. Backpacks full of school supplies and tablets are offered as incentives for completing the whole program. About 1 in 3 fourth-graders in the U.S. aside tag=’reading’ label=’More on Reading’].

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

In addition, they are accessible to students using laptops or tablets in 1:1 or shared device environments. Before launching Legends of Learning, company founder Dr. Vadim Polikov worked with Vanderbilt University’s.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The program, called UPSTART, was developed by a nonprofit company and advertises itself as a kindergarten-readiness program. Now, a small but growing number of nonprofits and for-profit companies are saying they can deliver at least some of these experiences — and benefits — via the internet, and thousands of parents are signing up.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

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. Via The New York Times : “Tech Companies Expect Free High-Speed Internet for Poorer Americans to Pay Off Later.” Education Politics.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all. .”

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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. And “free” doesn’t last. Sometimes they strike a deal.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

the Virginia company at the heart of the operation.” Here’s the EdWeek headline: “ Company Exec. for Ed-Tech Company Testifies in Ala. ” Gee, good thing no one else in ed-tech is in the business of selling these sorts of connections between companies and politicians and schools! ” Ugh.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

” Money and data – they’re intertwined for technology companies – are monopolized in a handful of corporate giants. ” Despite all the Common Core-aligned revisions and all the headlines to the contrary, “ The New SAT Won’t Close the Achievement Gap.” ” (Shocking, I know.)

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I wrote “an explainer” of sorts on Thiel and his politics, and I listed the education companies that he’s invested in. To be honest, think Thiel and his ed-tech politics have more in common with the rest of Silicon Valley than those that feign outrage at his support of Trump. women of groping and sexual assault.

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