Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Then the penny dropped: When Huang realized how hard it was to find the insights she needed, she stopped interviewing and decided to do something about it by starting a company called Fairygodboss. In September, Google picked Fairygodboss to be one of a dozen companies to take part in its first accelerator program for women founders.

Data 134

Data Company Industry Handbook 134

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Demand has grown for individuals with the knowledge and skills to meet their needs. Machine learning is a branch of AI that uses big data to create algorithms. Companies may use systems like Slack or Google Cloud. Data Scientist Businesses collect data every day. The job is a highly technical one.

Robotics 272

Robotics Industry Data Digital Citizenship 272

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Once a video is open in the editor, other videos can easily be added from Google Drive or uploaded to add into the video, so I can literally screencast from my Chromebook, PC, and Mac and pull them together into a quick video all using my web browser on each device! Add Interactive Questions to the Final Video. What a fantastic tool! ??Disclosure

Chromebook 430

Chromebook Blended Learning BYOD Assessment 430

EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2019

As noted by MIT Technology Review , the rapid development and uptake of AI solutions has created an environment where companies may “obfuscate and oversell” AI abilities even as organizations race to implement new solutions and keep up with the competition. It is crucial to define key needs AI tools can meet and shortcomings it can address.

Education 401

Education EdTech Data Outcomes 401

Neo LMS

JULY 29, 2021

A recent report shared by Google and KPMG reveals that the education tech industry would cater to about 9.6 Most importantly, they must embrace current and new products to meet the changing needs of users. However, edtech companies must do much more than relying on the technological aspect of education technology. Conclusion.

EdTech 389

EdTech Education Industry Digital Divide 389

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

Readlee is an amazing literacy tool that enables teachers to go from collecting reading data a couple times a year to getting data each week (or day!) 00;10;34;03 – 00;10;56;22 Vicki Davis Our administrators said, “Hey, we're going to take lunch for the year and allow you teachers to meet two times a week. It sounds small.

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Data Meeting Elementary Company 343

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 10, 2022

Did you know you can use a live translator app in PTA meetings, parent teacher conferences, and presentations — that actually works? Readlee is an amazing literacy tool that enables teachers to go from collecting reading data a couple times a year to getting data each week (or day!) in just 5-10 minutes. Bios as Submitted.

Accessibility 385

Accessibility Tools Microsoft Data 385

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

But what does it mean for a company to personalize its support for the teachers who use its product? School leader, Jordan Silvestri and Kiddom representative, Melissa Giroux, describe what it takes for an edtech company to deliver the kind of personalized experience to its customers that teachers give to their students.

Company 108

Company EdTech Common Core Assessment 108

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 16, 2023

Click for a free teacher account Free Science Investigations for Middle School Students ResearchQuest is a free set of investigations designed for middle schoolers that allow them to examine artifacts, analyze data, and create their own conclusions. Digital options for Google Classrooms and other LMS are available, too.

Study 306

Study LMS Resources Assessment 306

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

The toxic and ominous polarization of our politics has arrived in our school board meetings, and educators are getting pummeled by accusations that they are brainwashing children into believing “woke” ideologies. Public education in America is under attack on multiple fronts. School budgets are getting squeezed as Covid stimulus winds down.

Coursera 95

Coursera Education Data Google 95

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. Google Masters for Kids of All Ages. What can K-2 students be expected to do in Google Tools?

Google 175

Google Digital Badges Tools E-rate 175

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. featured 124 companies from 18 countries—marking the largest class in the accelerator’s history. The company will not take more than $30,000 over the two years.) The company says it has 50 hiring partners and plans to grow the list.

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Meeting Technology Company Education 100

Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

Education 218

Education Company E-rate Industry 218

edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

While it is believed that the barrier to district leaders and classroom teachers using more data is that they don’t have time to look at it, 33% of districts and teachers say the real challenge is that information is in too many places for them to access. Data Analytics. Data Privacy.

Data 45

Data Student Data Privacy EdTech Software 45

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

From collecting data to parent communications to taking care of yourself, Melissa has something for every classroom (as well as a pretty cool pep talk!). This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard.

Google 290

Google Twitter Data Tools 290

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

But neither of these great thinkers could anticipate how the debate would play out in the Age of Google. Not long after the search engine company was founded in 1998, psychologists began to wonder how the ability to have so much information instantly available was changing our brains. When we need it, we will look it up.”

Study 88

Study Google Assessment Accessibility 88

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The second conflict-of-interest related news story (set of stories, really) involves New America and Google/ Eric Schmidt. Google – which maintains close ties to the think tank – was alleged to pressure New America to push out a scholar and his team after they made a series of sharp statements about the behavior of the company.

EdTech 244

EdTech Social Media Facebook Google 244

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

November 16, 2021— ManagedMethods , the leading Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 cybersecurity, student safety, and compliance platform for education, today announced new research that found gaps in the cybersecurity strategies of district administrators when protecting their cloud collaboration and storage applications. BOULDER, Colo.—November

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Report Microsoft Survey Google 104

eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions help companies coordinate the work of various departments by integrating all the necessary information within one shared database. With ERP, all the vital data is collected in one place and structured for maximum ease of access. Similarly important is the flow of information.

Education 120

Education Microsoft Trends System 120

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

AI Tools for Teachers: Meet Curipod, AI Lesson Plan Builder 00;06;00;13 – 00;06;09;25 Vicki Davis And so, Amanda, can you give us some examples of some AI powered educational tools and programs and how they've been effective in helping students learn? What About the Lack of Data Transparency with the Data Sets Used by AI?

Classroom 425

Classroom Tools Data Twitter 425

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2019

Those are among the social issues addressed by 20 non-profit and educational institutions that are getting grants from the Google AI Impact Challenge , announced today at the company’s annual I/O developer conference. Currently, human editors manually grade sentences to create a data set that is used to train the AI system.

Meeting 114

Meeting EdTech Exercises Conference 114

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 8, 2019

If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF. Coaching schools to best meet the needs of all students is Sherry’s passion. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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Strategy Company Twitter Elementary 215

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

For iPad and Google Play Tablet Devices of All Kinds From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Challenges of Finding the Right iPad or Google Play App. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

Classroom 341

Classroom Tablets iPad Game-Based Learning 341

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

A few days later the district switched to Google Meet, according to Ashley Boyd, whose two children—ages 9 and 12—attend school in Berkeley Unified. The report looks at 15 popular video-conferencing apps, some of which have been adopted for use by companies and schools, including Zoom, Google Hangouts and Microsoft Teams.

Report 156

Report Video Schoology Microsoft 156

Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Ashley told the student to try Google Chrome, and the student was able to resolve the issue and hop into the session. Founded by a father-son duo, the company launched this year with the goal to create “tier zero” for students and tech support before the school year starts, co-founder Ben Sample (the son in the duo), tells EdSurge.

Company 101

Company LMS Blackboard Classroom 101

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Lessons will include how to select AI projects, as well as how to work with and manage AI teams within companies. He left the company in 2014.) Instead it will be offered by Deeplearning.ai , an online learning company founded by none other than Ng himself. Several of the courses Deeplearning.ai

Coursera 116

Coursera Course MOOC Company 116

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

With an uncertain fall and a deep economic downturn, many believe two-year colleges may be the best answer to meeting the higher education needs of both traditional and non-traditional students and workers looking to learn new skills. Department of Education data. But are community colleges ready for this digital transformation?

Digital Badges 211

Digital Badges MOOC Trends Industry 211

Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The program announced that last year, participants like tutoring app company GotIt! raised more than $9 million in a recent Series A round , and handheld wireless sensor company PocketLab is now teaming up with Google to bring the pocket-sized lab equipment to the Google Science Journal.

EdTech 60

EdTech Meeting Education Company 60

eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2024

LOS ANGELES (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GoGuardian, the leading company delivering proven solutions to create effective, engaging, and safer learning environments, today unveiled a unified ecosystem for its curriculum and instruction products under a new name: Pear Deck Learning.

Tools 52

Tools Learning Assessment Differentiated Instruction 52

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JUNE 30, 2016

to share ideas, meet new people and see old friends. As a small company it’s hard to be heard over the noise (and the smell of popcorn). This year we didn’t exhibit at ISTE, but I attended the event to hold meetings and scope out the landscape. This year, more than 16,000 teachers and administrators gathered in Denver, Colo.

Edmodo 150

Edmodo Pearson Company Conference 150

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The second conflict-of-interest related news story (set of stories, really) involves New America and Google/ Eric Schmidt. Google – which maintains close ties to the think tank – was alleged to pressure New America to push out a scholar and his team after they made a series of sharp statements about the behavior of the company.

EdTech 150

EdTech Social Media Facebook Google 150

eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2021

Burlington, VT (June 8, 2021) – InSpace , a collaborative video conferencing platform that replicates personal interaction between students and teachers in virtual classrooms, today announcedthat the company has closed on $6 million in two rounds of seed funding. The company is headquartered in Burlington, Vermont, with engineers in the U.S.

Video 98

Video Education E-rate Company 98

Fractus Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Announcements and to-do lists are sent, files are shared, and companies and associations sell their products and services. Inboxes fill quickly, and in a Google world, Google Drive’s Shared with Me can become an endless list of files. In the past, I have used Gmail and Google Drive for sharing.

Meeting 40

Meeting Google Classroom Chromebook 40

Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

Whether students type keywords into a Google search box or enter a URL (uniform resource locator) into the search engine address bar, your web filter should block unwanted content from reaching learners. . You need to update these categories often, though some web filters come with databases that the company updates periodically.

Digital Citizenship 243

Digital Citizenship How To Internet Safety Hapara 243

eSpark

AUGUST 26, 2016

By 2020, Google Apps for Education is predicted to have over 110 million users, due in part to the ease with which districts can use Google’s free suite of tools to encourage classroom collaboration. Google Docs. “ I use Google Docs to develop collaborative meeting agendas with a team of administrators. “I

Google 52

Google Education Data Policies 52

Wired Campus

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Some of the biggest MOOC producers, including Daphne Koller’s Coursera, may have figured out how to get employers to accept free online courses as credentials: Get big-name companies to help design them. “The combination of having academia and companies work together I think is very good,” he said.

MOOC 28

MOOC Coursera Meeting Google 28

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

To date, educators have enjoyed most of Google’s G Suite for Education applications—which include Site, Mail and Classroom—for free. Those tools will continue to be available gratis, but Google is seeking to generate more revenue from its education offerings. Google is releasing G Suite Enterprise for Education.

Software 112

Software Education Google Chromebook 112