Kyle Pace

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Google Drive is fantastic for many reasons. The “out of the box” uses for Google Drive are what makes it great – Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Drawings. WeVideo – To go along with the above two is WeVideo, a really nice video editing platform.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Their attention is also captured by an intense entertainment milieu of movies, TV, video games, comics, and the internet (with more students in the grip of internet addiction , even to mostly text-based sites such as Reddit). But Millennials are also savvier, in some ways, than those who preceded them. Or must they take a leave of absence?

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Dropout Digital Badges Coursera MOOC 80

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I’ll start this list with web-based options, by grade level (click the grade you teach) and then continue with a mash-up: Kindergarten 1st grade 2nd grade 3rd grade 4th grade 5th grade HS Apps BeeBop –based on the Beebop floor robot–free Cargo-Bot —logic iPad game Cato’s Hike (K+) Codea (Perfect for Intermediate+) Daisy the Dinosaur —intro (..)

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Robotics iPad Coursera Digital Citizenship 285

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. The web was increasing its use of graphics, but had barely adopted video. Observing the internet revolution, Marc Andreessen famously wrote “ software is eating the world.”

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 160

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Google Computer Science for High School –free workshops (with application) for K-12 teachers. I like programming video. Stencyl –build games without coding with downloaded software. Glide –create an app from a spreadsheet. Jotform App Builder. Metaverse –create apps using Metaverse’s AR platform.

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Robotics iPad Coursera Digital Citizenship 303

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Google Computer Science for High School –free workshops (with application) for K-12 teachers. I like programming video. Stencyl –build games without coding with downloaded software. Coding Curriculum. C-STEM Studio –download to teach computers, science, technology, engineering and math with robotics. Code Academy. PluralSight.

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Robotics Sony Coursera iPad 306

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. More on Coursera and certification in the certification section below.). “The San Francisco-based software company will continue a four-year partnership with San Francisco Unified School District.

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Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 52

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” Coursera highlights its mentors – its volunteer mentors – on its blog. Google had a big press event this week too, unveiling shiny stuff to a cheering crowd of stenographers. VR headsets (well, it’s really just a mask that holds your Google phone up to your face). Raise $146.1 A Wi-Fi system.

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” Via Politico : “ Trump steps up fight to keep Trump University deposition videos secret.” Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.”

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

” IHE blogger Joshua Kim offers “25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera.” ” From the Google blog : “ Google Science Fair 2018 : Resources for educators to get ideas flowing.” ” Also from the Google blog : “More tools for homeschoolers.”

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Education MOOC Social Media Report 46

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” That’s Joel Rose ’s School of One software. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” ” The Google Memo. Via The LA Times : “Former L.A. ” More via Wired.

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Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

The assumption—especially in the marketing messages from major providers like Coursera and edX—is that the winners of traditional higher education will also end up the winners in the world of online courses. In fact, three of the 10 most popular courses on Coursera aren’t produced by a college or university at all, but by a company.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

That seems to be Coursera ’s business model. Via Edsurge : “As LinkedIn ’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges.” Inside Higher Ed on “ Video Games as a College Sport.” The New York Times profiles the teacherless coding bootcamp Holberton.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

But.truth is, the US government isn't the early adopter here; Amazon, Google and Facebook are really the front-line developers of the surveillance state." " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics.

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EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

I missed this news earlier in April, via Class Central : financial aid applications for Coursera take at least 15 days. ” Via Business Insider : “ Surveillance videos show police officer allegedly abusing high school students.” CNN tries to explain “Why Google , Apple and Microsoft are battling for education.”

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

” That for-profit is Laureate Education , the largest chain of for-profit schools in the world and an investor in Coursera. Via The Washington Post : “ Facebook-backed school software shows promise – and raises privacy concerns.” Via the EFF : “ Google Changes Its Tune When it Comes to Tracking Students.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. And “free” doesn’t last. billion by 2025.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 8, 2016

“ ‘Top universities to offer full degrees online in five years’ ” says the BBC, citing a prediction made by Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. Via Fortune : “ Android Co-Founder To Lead Google ’s New Education Project.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Like, 99%.

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Education Report Company Coursera 49

Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports. An update on Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng’s employment status in the HR section below. ” Ng is, of course, the co-founder of the MOOC startup Coursera.

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Penn State Student’s Dying Hours Play Out in Courtroom Video.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Coursera has a new CEO: Jeff Maggioncalda. ” From the HR Department. Don’t.

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill analyzes a recent interview with Coursera ’s CEO and argues the MOOC provider is “betting on OPM market and shift to low-cost masters degrees.” “ YouTube deletes cheating videos after BBC investigation,” the BBC boasts. Google has acquired lesson-provider Workbench.

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Education MOOC Report Data 54

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013. million for English-language instruction videos. The video learning company has previously raised $1.57 Video game company Triseum has raised $1.43 ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). million total.

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Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via Education Week : “The Ohio education department could seek repayment of more than $80 million from nine full-time online schools , based on audits of software-login records that led state officials to determine the schools had overstated their student enrollment.” That’s UC Berkeley. David Kernohan responds.

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Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” For those keeping track of how ed-tech is intertwined in all this, here’s a list of Yuri Milner ’s education investments : 17zuoye, Remind, Coursera, Clever, Codecademy, ClassDojo, and General Assembly. Via The New York Times : “On YouTube Kids , Startling Videos Slip Past Filters.” ” 90.

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Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

” Via NPR : “ Texas High Schools To Require Police Interaction Education Video.” “ Coursera ’s 2018 Revenue Estimated to be $140 million,” Class Central estimates. Remember: the biases of engineers and managers get baked into the software you use. Enjoy your Google for Education products !

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Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60

Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

” That’s a school district in Wisconsin , and the learning software in question is the Summit Learning Platform , created by the Summit charter school chain and built by Facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. “ Can an AR and VR Pilot Program From Google Prepare Kids for Future Careers? ” (So yeah. .”

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Education Microsoft MOOC Coursera 44

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

” Via Education Week : “ Iowa schools to stop using $14M testing software after audit.” ” Via The Times-Picayune : “ New Orleans principal loses job after wearing Nazi-associated rings in video.” Via MinnPost : “Almost 50 years ago, Oregon Trail revolutionized educational software.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

million in charges from a Minnesota company over a software system that repeatedly failed during mandatory statewide elementary school testing.” ” “ Coursera Monthly Subscriptions Channel Lynda and Pluralsight ,” says EduKwest’s Kirsten Winkler. college testing scam , to be deported.”

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