MindSpark

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What effective communication skills are they developing, which industry standard productivity tools are they using? Education and industry collaboration is incredibly important because educators need to know what they’re preparing their students for, and how to do that. How are they collaborating so that they can succeed in the future?

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 16, 2019

For example, you can find roles such as “Special Education Paraprofessional” to “Director of Web Services” to “HR Intern.” It’s no surprise that this pillar in the textbook and curriculum industry loves on-boarding talent with education backgrounds. And, there are 200+ positions available on any given day. Pearson Online.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

My then-employer was part of the growing education industry in the Philippines. Likewise, this trend took off in China and grew to be worth many billions of dollars, thanks to companies like VIPKid that eventually hired upward of 100,000 foreign educators—mostly Americans—to tutor millions of kids in China.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 16, 2024

As a student, you may prioritize portability and battery life, but as you transition into your career, performance and compatibility with industry-standard software become more critical. It’s also important to consider the longevity and adaptability of your tech choices.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2023

The number of edtech products schools access in a typical month has tripled since four years ago to more than 1,400 tools, according to a recent estimate by Learn Platform, an edtech company that helps schools manage tech. Keeping a Safe Distance The companies that work with schools are aware of this concern.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 28, 2017

If you want to learn how business gets done in China, and what it’s like to work in America for a publicly-traded Chinese company, then this is the right podcast for you. What was the strategy back then considering there were giants in the industry such as English First? Listen to the episode here or subscribe. About 51Talk.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

But instead of a classroom, Wolochow now works on the Silicon Valley campus of a company that’s using technology to make learning more accessible to people throughout the world. More companies in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—or STEM—fields are hiring workers with liberal arts backgrounds, according to a recent report.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

They’re abbreviations for major conferences for companies in the education industry. What sets them apart from purely teacher-focused conferences is that industry players aren’t viewed mainly as vendors who pony up for a sponsorship or exhibit booth. Instead, in nearly every case, they’re primary conference attendees.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 20, 2019

The burden is on us to show them the career connection — that a drone is a tool and that many industries use it,” says Duane Roberson, CSSD11’s director of career and technical education and concurrent enrollment. Drones armed with cameras and special sensors can inspect oil refineries and detect damaged equipment, for example.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2018

For those keeping count, the world is now entering the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Just consider, for example, the push to teach kids to code.) Take the example of self-driving cars, said Keren Wong, director of development of RoboTerra, a robotics education company. See driverless trucks, for example.)

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

Many educational products are never shown to students until they have already been designed,” said Elliott Hedman, a consultant who works with edtech companies, in a talk this month at the SXSW EDU festival. That’s perhaps an extreme example, Hedman admits, but he says that lack of testing really shows when students are given the materials.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Yet the nonprofit is also developing its own software designed to undercut the courseware industry, charging just $10 per student. colleges use at least one.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

That’s the impetus behind Tech Exchange, Google’s latest effort to increase diversity in tech and make its own company look more like its users. This year, 29 Howard students are joined by their counterparts at other HBCUs and HSIs — five students, for example, are coming from Maryland’s Morgan State University — for an entire academic year.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

For example, things like “taking students on field trips vs. hosting classroom parties” or “fire drills derailing your lesson vs. a broken air conditioner.” Mitch served on the Board of the Ed-Tech Industry Network (ETIN) of the SIIA from 2012-2019, was cochair from 2015-2016, and was the chair in 2019.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2019

If you go to the “About Us” page on most websites of education technology companies, you will see many white faces, quite a few female ones and a good scattering of South Asian and East Asian staff. We need to find a way to change our hiring strategies and help our industry represent the real world. Why is that? is changing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Magilke qualified for a government grant to go back to school, she was told, at a place the center suggested: an online company called MedCerts. She asked MedCerts for help finding a clinical training placement, but said she was told the company could not help. She tried going back to the local career center, too.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2023

This virtual version of Ada Lovelace is an example of technology known as generative AI, which is composed of algorithms that can essentially produce new content from raw information. A Booming Sector The edtech industry is eager to build on ideas like that one. He’s not the only person thinking this way.

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2024

As these supplemental COVID-19 dollars are coming to a close, many states are exploring new funding strategies, as well as innovative approaches and opportunities to continue to support the ECE field and enable the industry to grow. At the same time, digital wallets are growing in popularity.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2022

It turns out he thinks edtech can look to other industries for inspiration. I’d like to see something emerge where both the customer and the company/service/platform/community have the same, positive long-term incentives to see [employees] succeed in their career. Matthew Tower: Here are two big problems I think about a lot.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

However, the Semiconductor Industry Association predicts a worker deficit of about 67,000 workers by the end of the decade. To keep up with the ballooning number of STEM positions, it is imperative for companies within the broader tech industry to bridge the STEM education gap and foster access for the workforce of the future.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 2, 2023

I would love to see Apple and Google join as well so there can be meaningful conversations between all of the industry leaders. It sounds like parents and teachers need to step up and put protections in place for those we care about because we cannot wait for the government and tech companies to do the right thing for us.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 12, 2024

Master takes pride that she, as a young, minority, female educator, was able to found and grow two EdTech companies that now reach more than 40,000 students in 30 states and five countries. This example highlights the creativity and engagement app-building can inspire in students. You know, I don't have a lot of companies on here.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2022

For example, one student team designed a feature that would facilitate creation of more high-quality posts in the platform. While working, students receive industry exposure and mentorship from senior product managers and other stakeholders from the company. We teach students how to think," my professors often say.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2023

The number of edtech products schools access in a typical month has tripled since four years ago to more than 1,400 tools, according to a recent estimate by Learn Platform, an edtech company that helps schools manage tech. Keeping a Safe Distance The companies that work with schools are aware of this concern.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

To help educators make the most of new teaching strategies and tools, MiEN Company has published “ A Guide to Creating Dynamic Active Learning Spaces.”. It shares the example of MySchool@Kent in Grand Rapids, Michigan, how it adapted one of its classrooms and the resulting change in student learning. About MiEN Company.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Let’s examine four key trends that are expected to shape the education industry this coming year: 1. In China, for example, the government is committed to building new maker spaces in schools–to the tune of more than 5,000 new maker spaces opening in schools in 2017, alone. Maker spaces will gain popularity in K-12 schools in the U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

When she was in the classroom, Jenny Herrera remembers feeling resentful whenever the school principal would email teachers telling them they needed to stay after school to give feedback to edtech companies. So from a company side, pilots can work, but I think it needs to happen much earlier.” What they got in return?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Over the years, I have taken what teachers have requested and sent a ton of feedback to companies. But I was curious: What do the companies do with that feedback? All of the companies I spoke with noted that feedback from schools is extremely critical for the development and success of their tools. Most of the time.)

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The work of our district was recently recognized by the Council on Competitiveness , a collaborative of representatives from industry, government, business, and education that meets about economic competitiveness. Simulations will save companies millions of dollars and allow for more precision.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. My former company, Big Universe ( now acquired ) was a fully-virtual operation. We were small, but often credited for operating like a nimble, large company.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

EverFi is a rare breed of education technology company that can boast a wide reach. Last summer, the company held its retreat at a Native American reservation in Montana, where a team had been introducing its financial education offerings. Bank of America, for example, is a major sponsor of EverFi’s financial literacy program.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

A growing number of companies have moved beyond training their own employees or providing tuition assistance programs to send staff members to higher education. It’s not hard to find prominent examples: • Google recently announced an expansion of the company’s popular Google Career Certificates portfolio.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

that offers skills training and job networking opportunities in cybersecurity and other in-demand industries. At elite universities, that figure was much higher — almost 90 percent at the University of Pennsylvania, for example, according to the school’s career services office.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

They are essential to the survival of companies, and they are neither glamorous nor easy to execute. Company reps think they are providing a useful onramp. In other words, what sellers in the educational industry often fail to realize is that selling is teaching—especially when selling to educators.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2022

Edmodo is permanently shuttering , the company announced late Monday. It’s no longer viable “for us to maintain the level of service you deserve and that we can take pride in ourselves,” the company wrote in an online explanation of its closure. This means that the companies end up with large amounts of sensitive data.

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Perry Hewitt

APRIL 26, 2020

But it’s easy to believe when we experience interactions with enterprise companies that are mired in literal paperwork and cumbersome processes that clearly require a digital rethink. COVID will be a catalyst for the companies who have been holding back fully integrating digital initiatives into core operations.

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Tom Murray

DECEMBER 15, 2018

Advances in technology are disrupting almost every industry, and in almost every country. Take a moment to consider the digital disruption that has already occurred in the following industries (Goodwin, 2015). The largest taxi company owns no (human driven) taxis (Uber) The largest accommodations provider owns no real estate.

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