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All the Upgrades and Updates From Apple, Google and More at ISTE 2018

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SMART Technologies adds new collaboration features to its Learning Suite Online software, as well as a new remote device management system that works with third-party devices (iOS, Chrome, Windows, etc) and its own hardware. The new company, owned by SDI Innovations, makes a robotic arm and a corresponding STEM curriculum.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. HERO K12, BV INVESTMENT PARTNERS AND SCHOOLMINT ( herok12.com

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” ( Richard Carranza is the new head of the NYC school system.). “ Is The LMS A Distraction In EdTech Futurology? ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via the IBM press release : “How Watson Education , Scholastic and Edmodo are using AI to close the learning gap.” " But hey.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The big “business of ed-tech” news of the week: Edmodo has been acquired by Chinese game-maker NetDragon.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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senators released a bill Monday that would overturn the ban on a federal student-level data system that would allow for the tracking of employment and graduation rates. “​ Intel Hits Pause on Edtech Accelerator,” says Edsurge. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. More than $14 million was spent on this race.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.

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The Weaponization of Education Data

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77 million users accounts stolen from Edmodo. A ransomware attack at a school system in Maine. There were other high profile incidents as well: the refusal, for example, to give visas to the all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan. A file configuration error at Schoolzilla that exposed the data of some 1.3 million students.

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