My Island View

MAY 2, 2023

My life has always been complicated by the fact that my wife, Joyce, has always been involved in the commercial side of education working for some leading industry giants, as well as smaller companies, and now as an industry consultant for emerging and growing companies in the education space.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

RobotLAB will provide more than 150 technology carts to the nation’s public schools, each including humanoid robots, virtual reality headsets, laptops, tablets and lesson plans that will expose students to age-appropriate technology and encourage a mastery of computer science, artificial intelligence, automation, STEM and robotics.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

That left us at EdSurge to ponder, how are edtech companies making sure their products are working best for teachers, the people responsible for weaving them into lessons each day? And what—if anything—can we glean from the number of former educators in the leadership ranks of edtech companies? The short answer is—it depends.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

I haven’t met a parent that wants their child to be socialized by a laptop, or an AI symbiote,” he says. The “problem” that these companies are trying to solve, he writes, “isn’t that our system is failing to develop the right skills; it’s that the system doesn’t provide the right information to employers.”

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Neo LMS

JUNE 18, 2019

Edtech conferences are a great opportunity for everyone activating in the education sector to connect and network with fellow like-minded people and take the pulse of the industry. Besides packing your bags, laptops, agendas and passports, you should do what you’re always expecting your students to do — your pre conference homework: 1.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

With the rise of COVID-19, this shift crossed a crucial threshold and created a demand for the edtech industry to provide solutions that don’t supplement or replace the teacher, but instead, pave the way for a new way to teach and learn. Nearpod works with any classroom technology, from tablets and smartphones to laptops and Chromebooks.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2022

Each grant recipient will receive up to $25,000 worth of Kajeet Education Broadband Solutions, including unlimited student data plans, access to Kajeet Sentinel ® platform and devices like, WiFi hotspots, school bus WiFi, routers and LTE-embedded Chromebooks, laptops, and tablets. Qualifying organizations have until March 11, 2022, to apply.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2020

Much evidence suggests our children’s careers, future industries, and our country’s prosperity will increasingly be shaped by these academic areas. So, having no idea where to begin a curriculum, they turn to so-called experts: companies that sell them products to meet new coding or STEM requirements. Don’t use tablets. Small groups.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

These days, fingerprint scanners and cameras are regular parts of school life—on the ceilings watching students walk, and on their laptops analyzing their facial expressions. And cameras have moved from hallways to classrooms, with technology and security companies actively marketing them to schools.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 15, 2019

So besides packing their bags, laptops, agendas and passports, teachers can do a little extra something: their pre conference homework. The same principle applies to the exhibition area, where thousands of companies, NGOs and other institutions will be competing for your attention. So, how to solve this problem? Heading to Bett 2019?

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. The company works both ends of the plagiarism market. So grain of salt and my apologies and all that.

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

” The 1:1 initiative aimed for districts to issue each student a laptop for use in-school and at home. As Secretary Duncan’s chief of staff wrote at the time, the Common Core was intended to create a national market for book publishers, technology companies , testing corporations, and other vendors.”. Then there was the iPad.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

In its 48-year history, Curriculum Associates has acquired only one company. His company’s flagship digital product, i-Ready , is a K-8 math and literacy tool used by nearly 15 percent of K-8 students across the country. “I The two companies have had on-and-off conversations about partnership opportunities since 2012.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The third piece around tech integration is really finding the partnerships that matter , whether that is with a company like CDW that can really get you what you need when you need it, or whether that is finding another peer that you can trust. You really need folks in the tech industry that you can rely on.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

We strive to provide industry leading service and support that exceeds our customer’s expectations. The small footprint takes up little classroom space while 5” casters provide easy mobility to share between classrooms. Simple cable management allows for easy replacement of power cords and keeps cables secure and accessible.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

As we bid farewell to the teenage years of the 21st century, we posed these questions and others to longtime industry entrepreneurs, analysts and stakeholders about the highs and lows, wins and woes of the past decade. As we took notes on our $2000 laptops, those stats seemed too far off. If so, what new challenges have emerged?

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2021

nearly one in 10 families (9%) do not have access to a laptop, desktop or tablet at home. This is but the next step on a path of further geographic expansion driven by our desire to deliver thoughtful and equitable internet access and mobility solutions wherever Kajeet can build upon our successes to date.”. In the U.K.,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

We track our health with wearable wristbands, our smartphones are basically pocket-sized laptops capable of doing and finding what we need within seconds, and the majority of our communication channels have turned digital. Students can no longer remember the world before the technology revolution.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

ASU+GSV Summit , now in its eighth year, has assembled yet another potent cocktail of education industry stakeholders from different walks of life. That’s generally how much companies have to generate for most major banks to consider working with them to find a buyer. Take Blackboard , which has bought 15 companies since 2014.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Today’s schools, are now being equipped with outlets from the floors to the walls allowing students to easily plug in and charge laptop computers, phones and other devices wherever they work. This reflects the more collaborative approach to work that began in tech companies but has now spread to other professional industries.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

Their students have internet connections at home, laptops they can work from, teachers who know how to design online lessons and a strong foundation of in-school blended learning experience. Then there are the companies offering free use of their products should crisis hit a school community. For some schools, that’s a small leap.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

and Canada for some time, and even today the company is in second place, with DTL Brightspace, a Canadian firm, close behind. As campuses locked their gates out of fear of infection, most American college students rushed to their laptops to study from home. Branded eventually as Blackboard, it was the market leader in the U.S.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Built into the HuddleCamHD Pro and Pro IP is a monitor clamp that can easily attach to any LCD or laptop display, and each camera can be wall-mounted. Both models also include an industry standard quarter-twenty connection to attach the camera to any tripod or camera mount. Versatility & Mobility.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Venkat Ratnam So Ratnam left his 23-year career as a professional services leader for software companies to create a solution that would help his children and others. The engine integrates Natural Language Processing (NLP) with industry-standard dictionary datasets and search engines in order to pull up a context-sensitive meaning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 16, 2015

For example, I keep my laptop, iPad and iPhone with me all the time. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to edit and post it. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Technology companies offer their products as the solution, and technology advocates promote the narrative of techno-solutionism. If schools are struggling right now, education technology companies — and technology companies in general — are not. Tech companies are dominating the stock market. Let me fix that sentence.

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Kyle Pace

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Following the written program, the electronic device (computer, laptop, smartphone), performs the task and creates the desired web product: a computer game, a phone application, a website or something else. Older kids create game characters and develop plots using Java and other more complex programming languages for the game industry.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

The report highlights a number of steps that states are taking, including creating one-to-one laptop programs, increasing statewide broadband networks and making Wi-Fi hotspots more readily available. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Seven of the 134 companies in this batch provide education services—which is a similar percentage from the last cohort. In this latest cohort of edtech companies, only one is aimed at being used in classrooms. The husband-and-wife duo behind the company, Aparna and Deepak Ramanathan, come from different backgrounds. “A

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2018

Educators ought to build good relationships with vendors, she added, noting that her laptop provider drove down to Louisiana from Austin, Texas to help their team. Houpe has been working with a company called Cisco to secure his district’s network. Scale to the worst. Derek Root speaking at COSN 2018.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In 2017, EdTech industry investments rose to a record-breaking $9.5 Does it make sense for you to purchase robots and drones for your school when you already have interactive displays in your classrooms and laptops for each student? What’s hot in education technology? A better question might be, what’s hot in EdTech this year ?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

At no cost to him or his family, the program even provided him with his own laptop to use for his coursework. McKinnon lived in the dorms and took classes alongside other teenagers interested in science, technology, engineering and math.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt wasn’t alone in that practice.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Gender is just one part of the diversity problem confronting many technology companies today. As diversity reports from companies like Alphabet, Apple and Facebook reveal, the employee headcounts—especially in senior and executive positions—are overwhelmingly male and white. And I want to run a video game company.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Roux Institute opened last year in borrowed space in this tech company building on the Portland, Maine, waterfront to teach computer science and other subjects. Demand for workers in solar is expected to nearly double by 2030, according to an industry census. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Investments in ed tech companies reached historic levels rising to $2 billion in 2014. In that sense, it seems that current procurement practices within our industry are working against us. Ed tech procurement is a very analog process in a very digital world. Next page: How to involve students and develop trust.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

In a survey conducted by Quest Research and the Kaplan test-prep company, they were four times more likely to say they’d hire an English major with a credential in cybersecurity than an English major without one. “We Some check equations on laptops. We don’t want to lose the richness of the liberal arts.

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