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The Big 3's War Over EDU: A Comparison of Apple, Google, and Microsoft

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Pages, Keynote, and Numbers are quality pieces of software, but the lack of them on anything other than Mac means adoption will be low. The online portal might work, but it is going to have to be a simple as Google Drive with an easy tie to email for it to work. The pain points are just too high for that.

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EdTech definitions every teacher should know: Part 1

Neo LMS

I have also situated phrases that are often incorrectly interchanged against one another for what I hope is a useful comparison. Examples include automated stock trading software and automated cars. Where possible I will define general tech terms in an educational context. AR, VR, MR — the realities.

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Future technologies now

Learning with 'e's

Google Cardboard was on show, but so were other alternatives. In fact, it was surprising how inexpensive but robust some of the alternatives were in comparison to Cardboard. As they develop and the software becomes more powerful and responsive to our needs and desires, we will see some exciting new pedagogies emerge.

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5 Things Every Family Should Know About Paying For College

MindShift

So you just Google, you know, [insert college here] and net price calculator. To find, search Google for “Common data set” and the college name. It’s more often than not robots that have been programmed by software algorithms. Every school is required to post a net price calculator. Copyright 2021 NPR.

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The Refurbishing of Artificial Intelligence

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

Passing off someone's work has always been cheating, whether you Google an essay and pretend it's your own, or when a machine (or human!) So, in summary: students may not be using AI chatbots as much as we think, and student cheating with AI (and the software that detects it) is a complicated topic at best.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011. The quotation is from 2012.

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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change

Hack Education

Economic historians who are interested in these sorts of comparisons of technologies and their effects typically set the threshold at 50 percent – that is, how long does it take after a technology is commercialized (not simply “invented”) for half the population to adopt it. Digital data is fragile.