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

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Software Updates Google is reorganizing its Classroom platform to make it easier to sort materials by topic. McGraw-Hill introduces a new English language arts software for grades 2-7 called Redbird Language Arts & Writing. The new company, owned by SDI Innovations, makes a robotic arm and a corresponding STEM curriculum.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Remember Edmodo? Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is).

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. CENTRALREACH PK-12 ( www.centralreach.com/industry/pk-12-education ) CentralReach launches CentralReach PK-12, a collaborative and data-driven software for special education. In addition, Alma will continue to provide its own set of robust reporting tools to meet many needs and budgets.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The story is actually a plug for Pathstream (not currently in his investment portfolio), which “supports the delivery of career-critical software skill training in VR/AR and digital marketing at colleges and universities.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. How’d He Learn to Fly? " 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. School administration software-maker Connexeo has raised $110 million from Great Hill Partners. million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Edsurge interviews Stanford’s Candace Thille on “Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The Verge : “Elon Musk-backed OpenAI is teaching robots how to learn just like humans do.” What could go wrong?).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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