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Report: The Credentials People Get Are Not Always the Ones Companies Want

Edsurge

based think tank Foundation for Excellence in Education, and Boston-based analytics software company Burning Glass Technologies. Employers seek job candidates who know Microsoft and Adobe products, but don’t necessarily demand candidates be certified in those programs, according to the report. Adobe Certified Associate.

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Motion Capture and More: How Apple Is Revolutionizing Augmented Reality

Edsurge

The new ARKit 3 options have inspired these companies to consider ways to bring the previously impossible learning experiences into your classroom through easy to use apps. iPhone XS Max. Many companies are determining the benefits and limitations of ARKit 3, and this is especially important in the education market.

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Look Who’s Talking—Code.org Founder and CEO Hadi Partovi on the Hype and Hope of AI in edtech

eSchool News

Upon graduating from Harvard with a Masters degree in computer science, Hadi pursued a career in technology starting at Microsoft where he rose into the executive ranks. And if you think about, for example, the smartphone, when the first iPhone came out, that iPhone looks prehistoric compared the version we got 10 years later.

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Friday 5 — 11.4.2016

Perry Hewitt

Harvard Business School profs figured out why you dropped your iPhone 6 in the toilet the week the iPhone 7 was announced. Microsoft Teams launches to go head-to-head with Slack in messaging and collaboration, clearly hoping to build network effects through all those Office 365 users.

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New Markets Venture Partner’s Latest Edtech Fund Closes at $68 Million

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When New Markets Venture Partners first began fundraising for its second education technology investment fund, Barack Obama was in office, Brexit for up for debate and iPhones still had headphone jacks. We don’t focus on San Francisco and New York companies, but on cities that are off the beaten track,” he says.

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10 Years and 200 Episodes … What Have I Learned as an Instructional Coach?

TeacherCast

I had been podcasting for about a year already supporting the Apple community as one more podcaster talking weekly about their iPhones and favorite apps. The other day, I was having a planning meeting with a company about a future project. As the legend goes … It was the middle of the night on July 11, 2011.

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iPad Pro vs. Microsoft Surface Pro 4: First Impressions on the Tablets That May Replace Your Laptop

Reading By Example

First stops: The Microsoft and Apple stores. My interest in this technology stems from the promise both companies make: This is the tablet that will replace your laptop. Finding Microsoft Word on the Surface Pro proved to be more challenging, although not too difficult. Preference: iPad Pro. Processing. Preference: iPad Pro.

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