Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

But to reach kids on today’s mobile and digital devices, the creators behind Sesame Street are looking for help—from startups. Sesame Workshop has launched a venture arm—Sesame Ventures—that will invest in companies focused on providing educational, health and social welfare services for children. Imagine K12 Merges With Y Combinator.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 1, 2021

The Tools Of Mobile Learning. Thankfully, there are technology companies offering more niche educational tools to insert some flexibility, spontaneity, and creativity into the blended learning environment. One such company is XP-Pen and their series of tablets. The XP-Pen Star G640 is Chromebook compatible.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

With Mobile Learning and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) becoming more mainstream, "Flipped Classroom" models are happening more and more, leading me to create my list of favorite tools for "flipping a classroom". Also, students can view the lessons at home on their mobile devices and learn at their own pace.

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Gaggle Speaks

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

For an education-focused 3D printing company, check out Printrbot, which wants to bring an affordable 3D printer to every school. There are a lot of companies working on bringing virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) to K12 schools. It offers discounted pricing for educators to meet this goal. Open Educational Resources.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

But the latest cohort at Michelson Runway, an startup accelerator geared towards higher-ed companies, highlights a broader approach to innovation in education. The 10 groups presenting Wednesday were the accelerator’s second cohort, and 14 companies have gone through the program so far.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Khan Academy. Khan Academy provides personalized learning for students at their pace and is an excellent flipped classroom tool for teachers to identify their students’ strengths and needs. Technology today allows teachers to create educational videos using their mobile phones or video cameras. SurveyMonkey.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

However, as more online learning companies raise their Series D funding rounds , and players from Duolingo to Coursera try to figure out sustainable business models, we’ve reached a juncture where we need to think about the issues of equity that come with chasing paying customers. Different industries have contributed to the trend.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Khan Academy tutorial: Learn how to draw with code (Javascript and ProcessingJS). Keep in mind–most of these curriculums are tied in with the tools of the companies that created them!). Khan Academy Curriculum. Drag and drop editor using the Scratch program language to complete many different projects.

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Technology Tidbits

JUNE 11, 2014

Khan Academy - A widely talked about free site w/ lots of resources and tutorials on a wide variety of subjects such as: Math, Science, Economics, and more. Techsmith - Techsmith is a great company for creating your own screencasts and offers lots of tools/apps that are being used throughout education worldwide.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

.” Via Bookriot : “On Wednesday, August 23, the city council of Escondido, California voted, 3 to 2, to move forward with plans to hand their public library over to the private, for-profit company Library Systems and Services.” The test prep company has raised $244 million total. ” Immigration and Education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

After a career working at tech-centric companies including Google and Quora in product roles, Liu Huang joined CZI in 2017 to oversee the product development, notably the Summit Learning platform. Department of Education, left the organization this summer. Recently, CZI disclosed its funding totals and details of multiple, separate grants.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Perhaps we’ve grown too accustomed to paying for purchases with a mobile app, or booking reservations online, or using Google to plan our daily commutes. Some companies share data through secure file transfer protocol — but only if their customers ask. Data interoperability should be invisible. Julian Miller, CEO, Learnmetrics.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. ” Testing, Testing… From the Khan Academy blog : “ Khan Academy is the Official Practice Partner for AP.” ” Via The New York Times : “DeVos Abandons Plan to Allow One Company to Service Federal Student Loans.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Udacity ’s mobile apps now support “ offline learning.” The company said that the Department of Education’s decision to bar it from federal financial aid forced it to do so. Employees claim they were not notified that the company would be closing. ITT has closed its doors. Buyer beware, FFS.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). Khan Academy. Mobile Learning. The Digital Library.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Sometimes they strike a deal.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” “ Khan Academy introduces something big for little learners,” says the Khan Academy blog. The company has raised $20.4 The company, which claims it’s like “LinkedIn for students,” has raised $14.1 The company had raised some $40.5 Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

“ Khan Academy launches free Official LSAT Prep ,” says the Khan Academy blog. Denny Sanford, whose company – checks notes – sells social emotional learning curriculum to schools. The company has raised $15.7 ” “So Long, SAT Essay. Labor and Management. million total.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

work with Best Buy, Kaplan and Khan Academy. Of course we’d be thrilled to see innovative ideas and even companies emerge from this, but the goal for the grants program is to help students and faculty discover our cloud and do incredible things,” Bout says. Google Cloud launched in 2011, but has caught up to competitors to.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

Via Education Week : “The founder and former CEO of an online public school that educates thousands of Pennsylvania students pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal tax fraud, acknowledging he siphoned more than $8 million from The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School through for-profit and nonprofit companies he controlled.”

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

Here are the education technology companies that have raised money from ISPs. ” “ Zynga and USC enter social and mobile game design partnership,” says Education Dive. I’d totally forgotten that Zynga was still a thing, but apparently the company has enough money to subsidize gaming courses.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Each month, I calculate all the venture capital investment that’s gone into education technology, noting who’s invested, the type of company, and so on. Khan Academy. Mobile Learning. (I also gather articles that I read about the same topics for a newsletter that I send out each Saturday.) The Digital Library.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

More on professional development company Bloomboard’s pivot to micro-credentialing in the HR section below. ” Via the Khan Academy blog : “Teachers using Google Classroom can now quickly and easily import their class roster to Khan Academy.” Go, School Sports Team! ” Wheee.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Nowadays, mobile technologies are shaping up to be just as ground-breaking. Khan Academy – Khan academy is a free resource for learning a variety of subject material online including math, grammar, computing and many other subjects. In the 1990s, the popularization of the internet was similarly revolutionary.

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Adam Welcome

JUNE 13, 2016

Most of the kids at my school won’t be programmers or work for a tech company.” From the cars we drive, our mobile phones, refrigerators and even tractors - they all run with code and the number of jobs in our marketplace for people who can write that code is staggering! Do you think it’s here to stay?

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Adam Welcome

MAY 15, 2016

Most of the kids at my school won’t be programmers or work for a tech company.” From the cars we drive, our mobile phones, refrigerators and even tractors - they all run with code and the number of jobs in our marketplace for people who can write that code is staggering! Do you think it’s here to stay?

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Not really ed-tech-related, except for all those companies saying they’re “Uber for education.” The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ’s CTO, Brian Pinkerton , is leaving the company. ” Via The New York Times : “At Walmart Academy , Training Better Managers. .” The company has $8.3

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. Tom Willerer, Coursera’s chief product officer, left the company to become a venture capitalist.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It’s always fascinating to look at ed-tech companies’ job postings – this one is from Khan Academy. Via Edsurge : “ Salesforce Announces Mobile App for Advising at Dreamforce.” .” “If free college required a dramatically higher adjunct percentage, should we do it?”

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

Speaking of pseudoscientific products, Education Week reports that “ DeVos -Supported ‘Brain-Performance’ Company Loses Appeal Over Misleading Advertising.” Via The MIT Technology Review : “ School lockdowns are so prevalent that companies are making apps to help teachers manage them.” million total.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Greiff has previously been a partner at the 1776 venture fund and he was also a co-founder of the test prep company Grockit. Jeff Fernandez, the co-founder of the online learning company Grovo , has resigned. His other two co-founders are gone from the company too, says Axios’ Dan Primack. ” (Wow. .”

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MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

20 years ago we never would have imagined that the position as a Social Media Manager would be an actual job, and just about every company or organization would need to have someone manage their social media accounts. Our students now in elementary school have never had a time in their lives where mobile technology wasn't present.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Is your library mobile friendly? Smart Studying Strategies From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: Bringing Khan Academy (Lite) Around the World Computer Science: The Future of Education Conversations Education Revolution Google+ Community Take Your Classroom Experiments into Outer Space. How does your library manage digital collections?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The cost of starting a company has gone down because there are online tools you can use for free. So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Khan Academy. I can see that happening with school. So much of that stuff is just up for grabs.” Adaptive learning apps. Smarter Every Day on YouTube. Learning simulations.

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