eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

At the end of June, eSpark joined the thousands of district and edtech leaders headed to Denver, CO to meet innovative educators and discuss the current state of technology in schools. Throughout ISTE 2016, we had a chance to share a booth with JAMF Software, a company that’s reimagined mobile device management for educators.

EdTech 40

EdTech Digital Divide Education Future Ready 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Shawn Caine, who teaches technology at Panguitch High School in Garfield County, Utah, lets students who don’t have adequate home internet service get online in her classroom before and after school. Tom Rolfes, education IT manager for the Nebraska Information Technology Commission. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Broadband Chromebook Accessibility Mobility 82

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Department of Education’s recent edtech plans] discussed active vs. passive consumption of technology. What’s fascinating, when you look at it, is students of marginalized subgroups–when we give them technology to use, we give them technology that is passive consumption. Technology is here to stay; it’s not going anywhere.

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Chromebook Robotics Elementary Accessibility 128

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Savvas is proud to call out Johnston County Public Schools as an outstanding example of K-12 success using enVision — a true “K-12 Hero” using its innovative education technology. Jump to: Johnston County Public Schools , Carol Cleveland , Colene Hardy , Joey Norris , Jhone M.

Education 132

Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary 132

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? The thread on this tweet has the details. “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

EdTech 170

EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

User Generated Education

JULY 7, 2016

Makers tap into an American admiration for self-reliance and combine that with open-source learning, contemporary design and powerful personal technology like 3-D printers. Affordable Maker Technologies. Yet innovation remains tightly coupled with Science, Technology, Engineering and Math – the STEM subjects. STEM to STEAM ).

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Maker Movement Education STEM Software 150

User Generated Education

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Makers tap into an American admiration for self-reliance and combine that with open-source learning, contemporary design and powerful personal technology like 3-D printers. Affordable Maker Technologies. Yet innovation remains tightly coupled with Science, Technology, Engineering and Math – the STEM subjects. STEM to STEAM ).

Maker Movement 120

Maker Movement STEM Education Software 120

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Kids from black and Latino communities — who are often already on the wrong side of the digital divide — will face greater inequalities if we go too far toward digitizing education without considering how to check the inherent biases of the (mostly white) developers who create AI systems.

Digital Divide 94

Digital Divide System Assessment Robotics 94

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

million into schoolwide technology upgrades. One in five Greeley residents lives below the poverty level, and the school district is trying to upgrade its technology to give students an economic boost. We literally dumpster-dive for technology.”. The measure failed. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

Laptops 40

Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

No disclosure in this or its Class Central article that it shares investors with these MOOC companies.). ” Via Campus Technology : “ Southern New Hampshire U to launch Competency-Based Master’s in Online Ed.” ” Via Campus Technology : “ Unizin Partners with edX , Cengage.” ” (No.

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MOOC Education Company Coursera 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Rather Harvard has outsourced instruction to the for-profit company Trilogy Education. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Short-term-jobs-for-students company Student Pop has raised $3.4 ”). . million total.

Education 54

Education MOOC Report Data 54

Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. Also via Edsurge : “How Boundaries Between Colleges and Companies Will Continue to Blur.” “Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. for Robotics Contest.”

Education 45

Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” Bridget Foster has been named the head of the SIIA’s ed-tech association, the Education Technology Industry Network. No mention that these are backed by big companies and venture capitalists.

Education 45

Education Company MOOC Khan Academy 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I also want to consider that, with or without a President Trump , education technology also might make things worse, might also contribute to these ongoing inequalities – and not simply because many in ed-tech seem quite eager to work with the new administration. ” It has reshaped work.

Technology 40

Technology Education Pearson Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

*Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Doesn’t look like the company has anyone to take his place yet. Instead, the company handed him a $90 million exit package, paid in installments of about $2 million a month for four years, said two people with knowledge of the terms.”

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Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60