The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Doug: Kids walk in there.They hand them a Mac laptop. You know, we’re not giving the kids the tools in school along with opportunities to collaborate, that they need on the job, that the companies are asking for. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show. Vicki: Give us some examples. Vicki: (agrees).

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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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techlearning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

3of October of 2018) – The Chilean Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) has launched a new partnership with Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional learning for Primary and Secondary classrooms, supporting Me Conecto para Aprender (I Connect to Learn), an initiative of Chilean President Sebastián Piñera.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 Okay, okay.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2020

Google buys Logitech and a whole host of media companies and university lectures. AHS students each have their own laptop and routinely engage in tele-learning with 10 sister schools all around the world. Google buys Ford, Apple, and AMD, allowing it to make breakthroughs in solar energy, battery technology, and quantum computing.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

She chose the high school because she believed it could give her access to the type of company she wants to work for in the future. On a recent Tuesday, Madisyn was one of 30 CAST Tech students on a field trip to a Microsoft store, where they got to test drive some of the company’s newest products. At CAST Tech, even P.E.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. At the more extreme end of the spectrum, some high school students enroll in virtual schools for all or some classes, which may be run by states, nonprofits, universities, or private companies. Quality can vary greatly. Why Mississippi?

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Through our cloud-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS), educators can source and control the delivery of quality and validated educational content from their own tablet, laptop or desktop. When a teacher selects an application from their tablet, laptop or desktop it is presented on the presentation display (IWB, TV or projector).

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Learning Analytics Gamification Assessment Industry 40

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I made what was probably the clearest statement of my vision for the future of learning materials in my Shuttleworth Fellowship application several years ago: My long-term goal is to create a world where OER are used pervasively throughout primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools. Sounding familiar yet?). Point 1 + Point 2 = ?

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. At the more extreme end of the spectrum, some high school students enroll in virtual schools for all or some classes, which may be run by states, nonprofits, universities, or private companies. Quality can vary greatly. Why Mississippi?

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Online Learning Learning Course Report 31

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

We also are 1:1 with our devices–our students do take their HP or Lenovo laptops home. So, unless, the way I see it, you have to get other outside [funding and support] sources such as tech companies and other companies, grants, donations, but outside of that, the funding is not there. That’s what this is designed to do.

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Chromebook Robotics Elementary Accessibility 124

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? But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Stefanie Fernandez usually spends her work week in the finance office of Independent Stave, a company that manufactures oak barrels for bourbon and other spirits, headquartered in Lebanon, Missouri. Stefanie Fernandez works for a company that has encouraged its employees to substitute teach in local schools.

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Policies Elementary Training Report 135

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

When their mom died of Covid pneumonia, they joined more than 140,000 children in the nation who lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid between April 2020 and June 2021. Tré is a customer-service representative at AeroCare, a medical-equipment company. Then there’s an outstanding balance from the health insurance company.

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Laptops iPhone Groups Report 119

edWeb.net

MARCH 22, 2023

60% of students between 10 and 17 reported discomfort using laptops without the appropriate hardware tools. 28% of secondary school educators said their students experience neck, back, or wrist pain and fatigue while using EdTech.

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Technology EdTech Schoology Learning 76

The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 31, 2021

Circumstances are really kind of secondary. I am not an employee of any company — I do not get any vacation time, sick days, or holiday leave. I try to shut the laptop in the afternoon and not look at or think about any of it again until morning. And now that I am back to work, I continue to prioritize those things.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

“If it’s plopping down some obsolete or irrelevant curriculum on a laptop and letting every kid go at their own pace, It’s hard to get excited about that,” he says. Some have privacy concerns about students’ personal data reportedly being shared with Microsoft, Amazon and other companies.

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Learning Software 34

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

At the end of next school year, thousands of high school students will sit down at individual workstations, laptops in hand, for an end-of-course exam. PLTW students therefore might be expected to score better on soft skill tests and thus look more attractive to their post-secondary prospects. “We where it’s unusually popular. “In

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Assessment STEM Academic Standards Course 81

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Computech is the district’s only “bring your own device” school, and all students have access to a laptop or similar device every day with which they can log in to the portal at any time. That’s most of the secondary students in the district (traditionally the top users of the student portal). But it’s not quite the same.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

The Ontario Curriculum (by the Ontario Ministry of Education): Maybe the best example of how to weave media literacy fundamentally into primary and secondary school curricula. (Note: The template is linked near the bottom of the article.) Look in the Language and English sections, among others.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 25, 2017 Puzzling out TSA's laptop travel ban | CNN → Says Bruce Schneier: "In the end, national security measures based on secret information require us to trust the government. The new laptop ban highlights this mistrust."

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 25, 2017 Puzzling out TSA's laptop travel ban | CNN → Says Bruce Schneier: "In the end, national security measures based on secret information require us to trust the government. The new laptop ban highlights this mistrust."

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

As such, from the characters portrayed in online programs to reading excerpts included in curricular products, it is important for all education companies to provide, and educators to seek out, more culturally relevant, modifiable, and accessible resources to effectively meet the varying learning needs of all students.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 70

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

Metz set the journal down on her glass coffee table and opened the Dell laptop she’d received as a perk from the community health job she worked during the week. She knew, as she looked at the laptop screen, how improbable people might think earning a degree would be for her now. She’d dropped out of high school her junior year.

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Education iPhone Report Microsoft 112

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. is the Chairman and CEO of Socratic Arts, a company that delivers Story-Centered Curricula to businesses and schools.

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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. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. And “free” doesn’t last. WTF is Unizin ?!

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The legislation also ordered telecom companies to provide their services to all public schools and libraries at discounted rates – from 20% to 90% off depending on the services provided and number of students receiving free and reduced school lunches. ” That is, CIPA requires Web filtering. (I

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