eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The emergence of new industrial technologies has caused such rapid changes in manufacturing that employers are in constant need of workers who are technically advanced, process savvy, and natural problem solvers. Wacom spread awareness about the importance of using industry-standard equipment in CTE programs.

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EdTech Lenovo Robotics Laptops 128

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer. Tagged on: March 16, 2017 Shenzhen Capital Co-leads $29M Round In Chinese Robotics Firm Makeblock | China Money Network → "Recently, we are focusing on educational technology industry.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The first two, the agricultural and industrial revolutions laid the foundations for the larger, Third Wave - the technology revolution. In one minute there are over 2 million search queries on Google, 6 million Facebook views, over 200 million e-mails sent and 100,000 tweets. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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E-rate Mobility Social Media Laptops 66

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Showing the Algorithms Behind New York City Services | New York Times → Algorithms can decide where kids go to school, how often garbage is picked up, which police precincts get the most officers, where building code inspections should be targeted, and even what metrics are used to rate a teacher. " Maybe, maybe not.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Showing the Algorithms Behind New York City Services | New York Times → Algorithms can decide where kids go to school, how often garbage is picked up, which police precincts get the most officers, where building code inspections should be targeted, and even what metrics are used to rate a teacher. " Maybe, maybe not.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

“There's a big giant access issue, both in terms of what happens when there’s no internet and then also what happens when you don’t have a device that can go on the internet,” says Beth Holland, the digital equity and rural project director at the Consortium for School Networking, an industry group for school tech directors.

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Accessibility Broadband E-rate Smartphone 204

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022. With edtech usage higher than ever, the edtech industry will use this as an opportunity to evolve. Across the board, we saw more laptops in the hands of young people than ever before. billion by 2022.

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 107

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

One of the two students sharing a laptop in the echoing brick atrium of the chemistry building at the University of Michigan is white, a freshman from a rice-growing parish in Louisiana; the other, black, a senior and a native of Detroit. Photo: Diane Weiss for The Hechinger Report. ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Department of Education reports.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

This includes navigating the often politicized issues related to immunizations, the high student absence rate due to quarantines or parents wanting to keep their children home, and the negative impact the pandemic had on student and staff mental health. Across the board, we saw more laptops in the hands of young people than ever before.

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EdTech Learning Data Classroom 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

About 20 students gazed at their laptops, an online poll open on each screen. There’s barely any [industry] now that you can enter that doesn’t utilize the computer,” she said. One by one, they selected the picture of the facial expression that best matched their mood, and with a swift click, sent an answer to the teacher.

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Broadband Report Accessibility Video 83

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The FCC plays a particularly important role in regulating the telecommunications industry, and as such, it has provided oversight for the various technologies long touted as “revolutionizing” education – radio, television , the Internet. What can E-rate tell us about the relationship between politics and ed-tech?

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” The story contains some machinations at the Department of Education in which the White Hous e tried to fire a Jeb Bush-supporting staffer. “ Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? ” asks Chester E. Duolingo has raised $25 million in Series E funding from Drive Capital.

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

“New report calls out NCAA for saying that black athletes graduate at higher rates than other black students, when that’s not true at the top conferences,” says Inside Higher Ed. ” The Wall Street Journal weighs in on laptop bans. 17zuoye has raised $200 million in Series E funding from Toutiao. Memos from HR.

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Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

The e-book subscription service has raised $21.45 ” I’ve updated my calculations on the amount of venture capital funding in the ed-tech industry for the month of May. million total. There’s actually a disclosure on Edsurge’s reporting of the investment that it shares an investor with Epic!).

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