The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 19, 2023

Some Background on AI Chatbots Chat GPT’s Data Set Has a “Before Date” First of all, when we talk about chatbots in particular, remember that their data set is 2021 and earlier. AI Action #2: Real-World Data for a Spreadsheet Lesson Second, I teach a lot with Excel spreadsheets and I'm always looking for real world data.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

Over 500 education technologists from companies and districts gathered last week in Denver for the IMS Learning Impact meeting , hosted by the IMS Global Consortium. This annual event aims to accelerate the development and adoption of data standards that allow technologies used in schools to “talk” to one another.

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TeacherCast

JUNE 19, 2019

This year, I had the opportunity to work with so many great educational technology companies on the podcast and I'm excited to have the opportunity to walk the vendor floor and meet everyone to say THANK YOU for being a part of the TeacherCast podcasting family. Microsoft Education – Booth 2900. I would love to meet you!

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Edsby, a cloud-based learning management system for K-12 school districts that connects teachers, parents and students using modern technologies, will soon be available on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s hyperscale, enterprise-grade cloud platform, as part of a global relationship between the two companies.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2023

The company has named Abhinav Ramani as chief operating officer and Aaron Osmond as chief growth officer. In addition, Osmond has held executive positions at companies such as Pearson Assessments and Certiport, a Pearson VUE business. He has also led education programs at Microsoft and Novell.

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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.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 6, 2023

He has been featured in the book, “American Teacher: Heroes in the Classroom,” recognized as a Microsoft Worldwide Innovative Educator, and certified in biology, physics, math, health, and technology education. Take a step into the future of education with EVERFI right after today's show. Meet Pat Yongpradit from Code.org and Teach.AI

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Meeting this year’s students “where they are” is going to look different than it did for last year’s class. When you’re the company behind those classroom solutions that are either deemed essential or scrapable at the end of the year, it’s imperative to keep a finger on the pulse of those conversations districts are having on an annual basis.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2023

The new 3-chip 3LCD laser projectors elevate entertainment and education spaces and facilitate more equitable and collaborative meeting experiences with easy operation from start to finish. according to most recent quarterly data from PMA, a leading high-tech market research and publishing firm specializing in the display market.

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Neo LMS

MAY 21, 2019

For example, during a parent-teacher meeting, you can set up a session in which to explain which tools you plan to use for the entire school year and what are the benefits for students. Parents should also receive information about the accounts that their children will be using, such as Microsoft 365 to log in to the school system.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Microsoft employees in Redmond, Washington. With a huge shortage of college graduates in data and computer science, tech companies are taking matters into their own hands and providing education directly to prospective tech workers. Photo: Stuart Isett for The Washington Post via Getty Images. The event was new, too.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

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. Heck, you should see what surprises my inbox holds some days: (I did not take the company up on its offer.).

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 26, 2017

This unique approach combines a Student Information System (SIS), Learning Management System (LMS), Assessment Suite, and more into one classroom that shares data and has one login for teachers and students. Come by the PowerSchool booth 2918 to meet me in person. This is a sponsored content episode. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

A call center near the University of Utah where students can make money and get help with their tuition by working for Microsoft and Discover. The companies get reliable employees and prospective hires while universities can promise students help with keeping their loan debt low. Kim Raff for The Hechinger Report. Joseph University.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

And then they designed an app that would meet those problems and help those problems. And then they write up their conclusion with evidence from the data and what they learned from the research. Revolutionizing Classrooms: How Microsoft's AI is Changing Education Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “ sponsored podcast episode.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 14, 2023

AI Content Detector So, now we're about to see concerns with aggregating data. It does make sense that at some point, a company will invent AI that gets to know a student's pattern of writing and will be able to give an indicator of the likelihood that a student wrote something. Coming to Google Docs and Microsoft Word soon.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Nearly a dozen entrepreneurs we talked to said they each received upwards of 20 emails from investment banking groups, inviting them to meetings in private suites. That’s generally how much companies have to generate for most major banks to consider working with them to find a buyer. Here’s a few of the things we noticed on Day 1.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Schools that use Microsoft have access to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) has a web service interface to store and retrieve videos and data. Dropbox is another resource to upload videos, files, and data securely and giving access to students. Google Meet. Microsoft Teams .

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

According to Hoori Kalamkarian, a researcher at the Community College Research Center who also spoke Thursday, technology-assisted advising could play a role—provided that any data collected doesn’t algorithmically reinforce biases. For instance, which groups of students are getting flagged more, or which students receive more kudos.)

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Then Tuminez, a former Microsoft executive, proposed a third core value: “exceptional accountability.” It’s not a retail company. It’s not a retail company. UVU administrators discount this, and provided data showing that grades are up a modest two-tenths of a point over the last decade. And you can’t. It’s not a bank.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This was another school leader who talked a lot about how their meetings had just been taken over by administrative fervor, and they just said, “We're going to dedicate this much time to teaching and instruction and pedagogy.” She makes sure she does by voice or by talking with people.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

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. Heck, you should see what surprises my inbox holds some days: (I did not take the company up on its offer.).

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Subscribe to the Show This week's sponsor Microsoft 's Free AI Course for Educators Microsoft has an amazing artificial intelligence course for educators that will help you and your education team have the knowledge you need to understand the best practices for artificial intelligence in schools. Today's sponsor is Microsoft Education.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The Common Sense Privacy Program recently released privacy evaluations of the six most popular smart speakers with virtual assistants: Apple Siri , Google Assistant , Amazon Alexa , Facebook Portal , Microsoft Cortana , and Samsung Bixby. None of the privacy policies disclose how they protect student data.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 22, 2020

GroupMe is a mobile group messaging app owned by Microsoft. When using GroupMe, users can keep in touch over Wi-Fi rather than using cellular data. There is the ability to archive conversations and export conversational data, so you can maintain a record of what has been shared or discussed. Tool #1: GroupMe.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. billion in 2010.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2017

Knewton technology is also used enVisionMATH2.0 , a Pearson offering for grades K-8, but neither company offered specific details on the status of this agreement.) “Our The value proposition that Knewton and its competitors have offered to these companies is that by collecting user data, the system can infer what a student knows—or doesn’t.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I was a speaker today at the #AgainstSurveillance teach-in , a fundraiser for Ian Linkletter who is being sued by the online test-proctoring software company Proctorio. Quite literally so in the case of Microsoft, which now offers managers a way to measure and score workers based on how often they email, chat, or collaborate in Sharepoint.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

The first ghost that Ebenezer Scrooge meets in “A Christmas Carol” is the spirit of his business partner, Jacob Marley. The metaverse should probably reference them,” says Patel, who previously held positions at workforce-training companies Thinkful, On Deck and Maven. Scrooge asks the spirit of his old friend why it’s shackled. “I

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

” Unfortunately, what may be next is the same as all the other tech industries: an over reliance on the big 5 (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon) Well, what is Imagine K12, and why do they have to do with education? but what many of them don’t consider is that the company will eventually need revenue to continue to exist.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

They find dozens of free seminars and keynote talks, several hundred exhibitors, and many special events outside of the official program, including seminars run by Microsoft and Google and debates hosted by Smart. I explore VR headsets, such as Microsoft’s Hololens, in an article about robots and artificial intelligence.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2017

Hi Guido & Esteban, My edtech company has started achieving rapid user adoption and we believe we have a compelling story to start fundraising. As we get all of our ducks in a row to start approaching VCs, I’m wondering, is there a specific time where VCs are more actively looking for companies to invest in? Time Sensitive.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Take a deep dive into the virtual career exploration resources available from industry leaders like API, Boeing, Chevron, and Microsoft, as well as content contributors Sanofi and GAF. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., Tech for Tomorrow : Tech for Global Good Virtual Field Trip. 11/17/2020 at 1 p.m.

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