Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Those activities often leave data trails, making it possible to quickly measure how well, say, a section of an online textbook is conveying the knowledge a teacher hopes to impart, or whether the material needs to be revisited and revised. That’s referred to as the cognitive aspect. That’s known as the metacognitive realm.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2019

The annual tradition dates back to 2012, and features early-stage companies showing off the latest efforts to solve intractable problems across the education landscape. The company offers a suite of administrative software to help daycare providers execute a variety of tasks, from managing government subsidies to financial bookkeeping.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2018

In a nutshell, Cambridge Analytica, was a corporation that used Facebook data and had permission to look at about a quarter million accounts, but because of the way Facebook sets itself up, whenever you give permission to Facebook, you’re also basically giving permission for Facebook to look at your friends. Vicki: Yeah. Vicki: Yeah.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

based company now touts itself as a provider of adaptive-learning technologies for educational content providers. The team followed up with Learner Mosaic, an app that takes gameplay data from Leo’s Pad to inform a sequence of learning activities that parents can do with their kids to help them further develop those skills.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Few technologists have championed the role of big data, personalized learning and many other education buzzwords as vociferously and for as long as Jose Ferreira. Ferreira, who founded the company in 2008, will remain on the company’s board of directors. So it comes as a surprise that the founder and CEO of.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

00;15;48;04 – 00;16;27;13 Vicki Davis You can even import NWEA or STAR data to give students a more differentiated experience from the first log on. The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. I love that.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Companies have been selling their products – textbooks, workbooks, maps, films, and so on – to schools for well over a century. Many companies – and certainly these two in particular – also have a long history of data collection and data analysis. They have been at this a long, long time.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2022

he says with a laugh, referring to the hit ABC sitcom about spirited teachers who make do with lean resources in a Philadelphia public school. Earlier we talked to educators who feel disillusioned by edtech companies’ seemingly disingenuous engagement tactics or feel invisible in the edtech choices made at their schools.

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techlearning

JULY 31, 2018

. · Multi-language elementary math programs: New content in the series “Pharaohs and the Robot” is now available in English and Arabic in DE Streaming Plus Global. Students meet two young pharaohs in ancient Egypt who learn core math concepts from a time-traveling robot. Inspired by the global media company Discovery Inc.,

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techlearning

JULY 18, 2018

However, many dangerously depend on collecting data on students and letting AI predict issues. With a camera pointed at a map showing the location of Kai's Clan robots, students can work together using Blockly or JavaScript to solve challenges in real time. This is a tool that is less about surveillance and more about dialogue.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

However, many dangerously depend on collecting data on students and letting AI predict issues. With a camera pointed at a map showing the location of Kai's Clan robots, students can work together using Blockly or JavaScript to solve challenges in real time. This is a tool that is less about surveillance and more about dialogue.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

However, many dangerously depend on collecting data on students and letting AI predict issues. With a camera pointed at a map showing the location of Kai's Clan robots, students can work together using Blockly or JavaScript to solve challenges in real time. This is a tool that is less about surveillance and more about dialogue.

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Assessment Robotics Tools Digital Citizenship 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

They settle in at the computers where Caine teaches coding and software, such as Illustrator and Photoshop, or they head to the back room for the 3-D printer, vinyl cutter and robotics kits. Some kids come to log extra time on class projects. Others show up just for the internet. Caine oversees the school’s Chromebooks.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

. — Deepak Cheenath That puts CoCo’s strategies to keep students engaged or motivated to learn at complete odds with what many edtech companies have been trying to do to teach literacy or STEM — mimic online games like Robolox or Minecraft that children spend hours immersed in outside of school. Quizizz is embodying this shift. Dexter says.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It’s a powerful story, but not a prediction made based on data or modeling or quantitative research into the growing (or shrinking) higher education sector. The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. As a folklorist, of course, I did catch the reference to the Oracle of Delphi.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Robots will soon take all human jobs. Are you with or against social media websites collecting users personal data and selling it to advertising companies? The Constitution should/should not include references to religion. Technology is revolutionizing our life. Yes or no and why. Self-driving cars should be banned.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. HERO K12, BV INVESTMENT PARTNERS AND SCHOOLMINT ( herok12.com

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

It also means fewer language programs, robotics labs and other enrichment opportunities that parents increasingly perceive as necessary. A randomized lottery for each school sorts out the rest, which leads to the entire system being referred to locally as “the lottery.” After that, living near a school often confers priority.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Instead, each team member spent a few minutes sketching out how one part — a marble run, say, or a Lego Robotics kicking foot — would operate within the machine. They started incubating coding, robotics and other computational project classes in after-school programs and summer clubs. No single child designed a complete machine.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Earlier this year, Microsoft made headlines when it debuted Tay, a new chatbot modeled to speak like a teenage girl, which rather dramatically turned into “ a Hitler-loving sex robot within 24 hours ” of its release, as The Telegraph put it. of households had computers, a figure that had grown to 42.1% Commercially viable.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

AI can help both teachers and students overcome even the nastiest case of writer’s block by analyzing enormous amounts of data and making personalized recommendations. An AI tech company can help by giving teachers the power of AI to scan text and turn it into well-designed slides. That’s over ten hours a week.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

But as it turned out, the zeppelin company had gone out of business – I imagine that many people, like myself, could only think about Christopher Walken and Grace Jones’ characters and opted not to go. With enough data and some machine learning, you can identify – statistically – the most common obstacles.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. Computer Science For All.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

.” Sandler is also the founder of the ed-tech company Nibletz. ” I’m putting this story here as it discusses VCs’ willingness to continue to invest in Mike Cagney , the former head of the student loan company SoFi. politician roils USC , which referred case to federal prosecutors.” Sticks With Him.”

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Hack Education

MAY 11, 2018

The Office of Students and Young Consumers had actively and aggressively policed the student loan industry and monitored credit card companies and other financial institutions that serve – or target – college students and other young people.” Some of the stories are in the “robots” section below.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education

MAY 24, 2017

This talk was given today at CENTRO's symposium "Data, Paper, Scissors Tech-Based Learning Experiences for Higher Education" in Mexico City. That period was also one of enormous growth in new digital technology companies. Netflix moved from DVDs to a streaming service to a media company in its own right.

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

senators released a bill Monday that would overturn the ban on a federal student-level data system that would allow for the tracking of employment and graduation rates. Here are the education technology companies that have raised money from ISPs. More than $14 million was spent on this race. A bipartisan companion bill in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens. That spending, in turn, produces more than 2,600 patents and 400 companies a year, according to the National Science Board. billion allocated annually by the federal government for research.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

As Stephen Downes comments , “I find it interesting that they refer throughout to ‘ openly licensed educational materials ’ rather than ‘open educational resources’ – I wonder what the reasoning was behind that.” “ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. ” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Anyway, looks like we’re back to referring to SoFi as a “student loan provider” and not some other new-fangled fin-tech darling. SoFi is the ed-tech company that has raised the most venture capital. And more on who’s buying student loan companies in the “business of ed-tech” section below.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

times more likely to be referred to law enforcement than white students. Charter schools, according to a study based on this OCR data, have an even higher rate of suspending Black students and students with disabilities. This comes as the majority of students in the US public school system are now students of color.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ ISTE Unveils Plans to Match Ed-Tech Companies With Educators for Feedback on Apps.” ” “Make it rain” here is a reference to an analytics app. .” ” “Make it rain” here is a reference to an analytics app. million total. million from ADV.

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

Lots of reporting on various court filings in the Trump University case, particularly those about the company’s “ playbooks ” detailing how former employees sold its course packages, targeting vulnerable populations. ’” More via The Wall Street Journal. ” Via The Atlantic : “The Art of the Swindle.”

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