eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2021

A video of Sam singing his co-written song, “ You Can Be ABCs ,” with his dad went viral on social media last fall. What started as a simple idea to make learning fun for Sam turned into a sensational video and soon to be book that parents and teachers can use with their students who are learning to read.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

Just share that love on social media. You can take that step and share your Valentine either live or with video messaging so that you can learn about each other’s community. He’s the robot there. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show. You can make it as a whole group. Level 1 and Level 2.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

Liv and her mother shared their personal experiences and journey through harnessing the power of social media for empowering students to claim and share their stories. This year, I created an elective, Social Justice through Social Media. It has always been the case that companies that play nicely with others win.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

Leandra Tejedor (25), cofounder of Vidcode , made the list for providing a coding curriculum that reaches students through social media videos (and has even partnered with Snapchat to teach users how to code their own filters).

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techlearning

JULY 31, 2018

Among the new resources added to Discovery Education’s digital services are: · New Content Supporting Social Studies and the Earth Sciences: Two new video series produced by Discovery Education were added to the company’s digital services and are now available to help educators engage students in social studies and science education.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” There’s more on legal battles involving student loan companies in the business of financial aid section below. Via Inside Higher Ed : “Donald De La Haye started making YouTube videos long before he joined the University of Central Florida ’s football team. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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EdTechTeam

MAY 19, 2017

While some studied robotics and social media, others dived into different learning disabilities and schools around the world. As they began to get a handle of book research, we moved into using videos to research with the aid of Video Notes.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

And he also has treated many teens who are so wrapped up in video games that they don’t even get up to use the bathroom. “I came to this issue out of a place of deep skepticism: addicted to video games? Then, there is a group of mostly girls who misuse and overuse social media.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

APRIL 23, 2015

Some have chosen topics like water, oxygen, food, shelter, robot exploration, and clothing. We read some information and then we watched a video about how it worked. After watching the video, the student went back to her design and started drawing her own version of the Foodini. We came across the Foodini.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

APRIL 23, 2015

Some have chosen topics like water, oxygen, food, shelter, robot exploration, and clothing. We read some information and then we watched a video about how it worked. After watching the video, the student went back to her design and started drawing her own version of the Foodini. We came across the Foodini.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

These kids had spent all their free time at the retreat talking about online shooting-based video games,” says Manuj Dhariwal, laughing. We wanted to create a digital experience for kids that allows them to create things together, but isn’t saturated with the usual social-media-like engagement tools.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It may be the biggest question in college edtech during the pandemic: Should tests be allowed to robotically watch students? The tools record video of test-takers via their webcams, and detect what is open on the users’ screens and other details. The issue involves so-called automated proctoring services. Online proctoring is not new.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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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

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Should schools ban/allow access to social media websites ? Should teens be allowed to play violent video games, why or why not? Which do you prefer: to socialize online or hang out with friends in real life? Are social media websites making people asocial? Robots will soon take all human jobs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

But that technology won’t be entirely homegrown: Chinese companies, particularly those building products or services laced with the machine learning algorithms, are increasingly playing a role in the tools that we call “AI.” He’s written eight top-selling books in China and has more than 50 million followers on social media.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 31, 2017

From the multinational companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Discovery Education, Asus, Lego, or Intel, to small, single-product companies, they all made Bett the excellent conference it was. I saw robots, drones, VR sets, Augmented Reality apps, interactive screens, and even a real-size yellow school bus filled with computers.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

STEAM-based learning emphasizes both hands-on and digital experiences with engineering, art, game design, prototyping in makerspaces, authoring, robotics, and much more. I treated my classroom like a business by investing in long-term purchases, I made an investment in my company.”. Innovations in Games-Based Learning video series.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

This graph comes from an article in the online publication Vox that includes a couple of those darling made-to-go-viral videos of young children using “old” technology like rotary phones and portable cassette players – highly clickable, highly sharable stuff. A dominant ideology.) But the claim falls apart under scrutiny.

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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? The thread on this tweet has the details. “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

It also means fewer language programs, robotics labs and other enrichment opportunities that parents increasingly perceive as necessary. Parents used to push strollers through the throngs to grab a handout and snippet of conversation; now, schools play videos and offer up QR codes too. Credit: Sonya Abrams for The Hechinger Report.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This leads to the “innovator’s dilemma,” described recently in The Economist as “the difficult choice an established company faces when it has to choose between holding onto an existing market by doing the same thing a bit better, or capturing new markets by embracing new technologies and adopting new business models.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

An AI tech company can help by giving teachers the power of AI to scan text and turn it into well-designed slides. As Gen Z prefers learning via video platforms like YouTube over reading, it’s clear that textbook publishers need to innovate and evolve in order to help students and teachers. That’s over ten hours a week.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. ” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. ” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly sharing five school districts’ private information with an advisory company while it was negotiating for the districts’ contracts.” ” Via Politico : “ Trump steps up fight to keep Trump University deposition videos secret.” ” (Hmm.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Mostly tutoring companies.). “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Badges , patents, and the world’s ‘least popular’ education company” by Doug Belshaw.

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “After one of its students was seen on video punching a woman at a protest in Berkeley , Calif., Via The Washington Post : “‘I don’t like to be touched’: Video shows 10-year-old autistic boy getting arrested at school.” Lumen Learning has raised $3.75

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Hack Education

AUGUST 25, 2017

” Via The Nation : “ Trump’s Border Security May Search Your Social Media by ‘Tone’ ” Via Education Week : “Setback for DACA Supporters Places Program’s Fate Squarely in Trump’s Hands.” ” The company in question: FedLoan Servicing. ” Go, School Sports Team!

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? ” Just grand that Facebook is running a bunch of media literacy and digital training courses for community colleges. I mean, clearly the company has a strong grasp on the politics of information.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via the AP: “A new federal lawsuit by Pennsylvania ’s attorney general says the nation’s largest student loan company engaged in abusive practices that have cost borrowers billions of dollars.” ” The largest student loan company is Navient. She’s an investor in a company that targets that group.)

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

There’s more MOOC news down in the “labor and management” section below, perhaps prompting another question that Edsurge doesn’t think to ask: “How viable are these companies that are being used to outsource and privatize online higher education?” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Via Education Week : “ FCC Chair Moves to Block E-Rate Funds for Companies Deemed ‘Security Risk’ ” (State and Local) Education Politics. Via Inside Higher Ed : “The State Department is proposing to ask additional questions of visa applicants regarding their social media usage.” million total.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

.” From the press release (which explains why there’d be an article on the company this week): “ YouTube joins forces with Britannica to provide easier access to credible and authoritative information.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The company has raised $20.4 million total.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Via Masslive.com : “ Massachusetts state government announced a new partnership with an online education company on Thursday to help public employees and the state’s public universities take advantage of online classes.” ” The company in question: edX. tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Politico : “A complex legal battle involving dozens of debt collection companies fighting over contracts with the Education Department has essentially suspended the government’s ability to collect defaulted student loans , the Trump administration disclosed in a court filing on Monday night.”

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

” That is, the daycare company Bright Horizons will pay for its employees to get their degrees at four institutions – three of which are for-profits (including Ashford University and Walden University, which have been targets of lawsuits claiming they misled students). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

.” “Frustrated with how colleges have handled their claims of sexual abuse , more students are turning to social media to publicize their cases,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” “ Zynga ’s Headquarters Is Worth More Than The Actual Company.” The company has raised $15.9 Credit Cards).”

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