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Edtech CEOs Seek to Change the ‘Adversarial Narrative’ With Public School Teachers

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There are not too many education conferences that flip the script and let CEOs grill investors with questions. However, BMO Capital Markets’ 17th Annual Back to School Conference is the kind of event your boss’s boss attends. The majority of the purchases were for learning management systems. That is a fundamental mistake. .

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

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The products below were selected by an anonymous panel of educator judges, who scoured the exhibit hall floor during the conference in Chicago. Other features include complete integration with Chromecast and AirPlay devices, interactive whiteboard capabilities, dynamic screen layout, and a conference controller.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

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COLLABORATE Space provides persistent space to store messages, documents, whiteboards, recordings, meeting minutes, or anything else exchanged on a specific topic or project during a call or meeting at anytime, and is accessible from any device, whether it be a mobile, desktop, or room appliance. announced the U.S.

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

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At that moment, a top-down approach to create a “Campus of the Future” was devised by adopting smart signage within lecture halls, hallways, athletic facilities, and executive conference rooms to transform the entire campus. ” Nominee: Dr. Nick Migliorino , Norman Public Schools Nominated by: Rave Mobile Safety.

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Education Technology and the New Behaviorism

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” While new “neurotechnologies” are primarily being developed to help those with disabilities regain speech, sight, and mobility , there is still plenty of talk about “ linking human brains to computers ” as consumer-oriented “ enhancements ” that everyone will want to pursue.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. Edsurge told its version of events for the past decade’s worth of ed-tech, and I told mine. Peter Thiel.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Contests and Conferences. Bush Defends Legacy of No Child Left Behind at Education Business Conference.” Edmentum has raised $25 million in debt financing from New Mountain Finance Corporation and Tennenbaum Capital Partners. Here are some of the dispatches from the ASU+GSV Summit. “ Do you need a blockchain?