Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Software The Vector Robot mobile application launches with a welcome screen. To connect the Vector device to the Vector Robot app, the user must turn on Bluetooth. The Vector Robot app provides a simple status screen with helpful recommendations of voice commands to use. Privacy evaluation.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Software The Vector Robot mobile application launches with a welcome screen. To connect the Vector device to the Vector Robot app, the user must turn on Bluetooth. The Vector Robot app provides a simple status screen with helpful recommendations of voice commands to use. Privacy evaluation.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Education and cutting-edge technologies are core to the many programs at NYC Media Lab , where we lead university-corporate partnerships, communications and events. They focused on customer discovery and market validation for concepts leveraging virtual, augmented and mixed reality, voice technology, robotics, and other future interfaces.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

I have never been able to make it to this event -- it's always coincided with the end-of-the-year series I've traditionally written for Hack Education. I did speak, a few years ago, at the OEB Midsummit event in Iceland. I can't say I've ever seen other keynote speakers at ed-tech events get heckled. So they jeered. Why do you?

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techlearning

MAY 7, 2018

Apple had an event focused on education on March 27, and if anything it clarified Apple's place in the EDU market. Pages, Keynote, and Numbers are quality pieces of software, but the lack of them on anything other than Mac means adoption will be low. The pain points are just too high for that.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

There are endless examples, from games to robots to programming. Just Google “QR Reader” It’s old technology so most choices will work fine. If your primary digital device is a desktop, use a downloaded software tool like the free Code Two. and are challenged to use the tools available to solve it.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

I never thought that what I was doing would be considered “techy” or that this passion project could be setting me up for a future career as a computer scientist, software engineer, learning designer, research associate or UX designer—all jobs that I learned about much later in life by reading Careers with Code magazine.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Robotics Engineer. Mattel and Tynker will be supporting Hour of Code again for this year’s event, the spokesperson for Tynker says.) Tynker works with big tech companies too—Apple designed two of the free courses on its platform, and Google Classroom integrates with Tynker. Pastry Chef.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2018

We will use some arcane technology called “blockchain” and distributed ledgers to validate that education software works. Students are virtually beamed onboard a cruise via a robot, which has a screen and camera to give students at home a sense that they are roaming around the ship. Just don’t ask how this works. Next up: the EduWand.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

From those, event organizers and the public decided on the roughly 400 sessions that made the agenda. From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. states and Washington, D.C. Tuesday, March 5, 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 5, 4 p.m.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Software & Online 3DBEAR AR INNOVATOR PROGRAM ( 3dbear.io/product/ The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions. The Marketplace also includes free curriculum content from its partners, including Google Classroom, Newsela, and more.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Robots won’t replace you , the press repeatedly said. Unsaid: robots will just de-professionalize , outsource , or privatize the work. Or, as the AI makers like to say, robots will make us all work harder (and no doubt, with no unions, cheaper). Don’t worry, teachers.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 8, 2016

HTC Vive in action - Photo by Steve Wheeler At the JISC Connect More event held in Cheltenham recently, a number of futuristic technologies were on display for delegates to experience. Google Cardboard was on show, but so were other alternatives. Personally, I can't wait. Unported License.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

A review of the data by EdSurge for notable education technology software and service providers found more than 60 for-profit and nonprofit organizations that were approved for a loan between $150,000 to $5 million. Sphero started as a consumer robotics toy company and later refocused its business on the education market.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

You certainly don’t want technology to beget more technology, which happens often,” said Benjamin Schrom, a Google product manager who created the virtual-reality gear Expeditions and shared the stage with Vander Ark. One district, Murray said, paid over $100,000 for a software program that only four teachers used. “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2019

Those hats were represented in the panel of judges at this week’s SXSW EDU Launch Competition , which included Bridget Burns, executive director of the University Innovation Alliance; Vince Chan, co-founder at Creta Ventures; Jonathan Rochelle, product management director at Google for Education; and your correspondent.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 18, 2018

Once focused, the students capture the image and insert it into Google Slides and label the image on the slide. Many of the USB microscopes available now are “plug and play,” which means that they do not require any software to be installed on your device in order to use the camera. Imagine the possibilities!

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

At about half the price of Mindstorms Kits , you can build and code interactive, motorized robots, models and creations with distance, color and tilt sensor technologies with this new kit. Thin and lightweight, built in pen, millions of apps on the Google Play Store, 360 degree rotating screen, this 2.38 dJhNt7 > Google Play: goo.gl/szHMnb

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 11, 2016

Engage students with Sim City Software, model building, and a new curriculum designed to integrate disciplines. Google Science Fair – The Google Science Fair challenges students aged 13-18 to carry out a scientific investigation on a real-world problem or issue that interests them.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.” This is what Google does, for example, when you type something like “how many points LBJ” into the search bar, and you get results about LeBron James.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

Just as the former auto plant has been reinvented, today’s event offers a glimpse into Derick Lee’s vision for how cities will evolve, and who will lead that transformation. Using drones and Picterra, an AI object detection software, she wants to locate trash hotspots in beaches, parks and other public spaces.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 29, 2016

The second annual Student Technology Conference, a free one-day online event bringing together students, educators and innovators from around the world, is tomorrow, Saturday, January 30, 2016 from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm US-EST. We invite all to attend! We also always need volunteer moderators--more info HERE.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 30, 2015

Please forward this post to friends and colleagues and then encourage them to join us for this live event. Share our FB event w/your classroom + school network [link] Join #StuTech2015 on Jan. The current complete schedule is below.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Mahatma Gandhi The Learning Revolution Project holds online and physical learning events, and highlights professional development opportunities from a network of 200 partners in the learning professions. The great majority of these events are free to attend. Thank you, in advance, for your contribution to this great event!

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

But now “software is eating the world,” as venture capitalist Marc Andreessen wants to us all to believe. The robot, or rather a seemingly living automaton in “The Sandman,” veers towards “das unheimlich.” Maybe they’ll change how we think about robots. We will be raised by robots.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 21, 2017

KidPix (software download or app). Photoshop (software download or online subscription). TuxPaint (free software download). Google Earth. Google Earth uses Earth Science to expand storytelling (with Lit Trips ) and to support math (with tools like the ruler). Graffiti Creator (free). Sketchpad (free).

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. Teenagers come to the lab to develop their own projects under the tutelage of Google employees and Code Next’s academic coaches.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Software & Online ACCELERATE LEARNING STEMSCOPES SCIENCE ( www.stemscopes.com ) Accelerate Learning announced a new platform using the best of CNN’s digital content to create a new science education product. EDTHENA ( www.edthena.com ) Edthena has developed a one-click video recording and uploading solution for Google Chrome.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Billion Federal Block Grant Makes Ed-Tech Training Higher Priority Than Software, Devices.” From the Google blog : “ Chromebook tablets for versatile learning.” Speaking of Google , Wired reports that “Children’s YouTube is still churning out blood, suicide and cannibalism.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Trump's Ed Dept civil rights chief listed her videos attacking Hillary & campaign event w/ Bill accusers as "top 5 qualifications" on resume pic.twitter.com/U4YHXMWkN3 — Michael Stratford (@mstratford) August 31, 2017. ” New America has received more than $21 million from Google.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” This story from The 74 is from Monday, and I am not sure if the numbers have changed since then: “1 Killed, 1 Injured in Shooting During SC College Homecoming Event; At Least 47 Killed and 88 Injured by Guns at Schools So Far This Year.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Testing. million total.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The non-speakers: James Damore, the fired Google engineer, and Lucian Wintrich, a journalist with Gateway Pundit. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “ Imagine how great universities could be without all those human teachers ,” says Quartz , lauding the fantasy that robots will replace teachers.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

The event was organized by Sebastian Thrun, who at the beginning of the year had announced that he was resigning his full time professor position at Stanford in order to launch Udacity, his online education startup. Google versus Uber. Google versus Didi (a Chinese self-driving car company). Efficiency.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Edwards , who as the editor of Education Week since 1989 and president of its parent organization since 1997 led the transformation of a specialty newspaper into a force in web news, education research and events, and, most recently, video journalism, will step down at the end of July.” The company has raised $41 million total. (I

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

White supremacist Richard Spencer will speak at the University of Florida , which says it will spend $500,000 on security for the event. ” The new software is supposed to get students ready for “the Salesforce economy,” whatever the hell that means. Google had a big media to-do this week.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Via The New York Times : “Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built.” Doesn’t seem like any journalists caught this, tho: A couple of things about that group of former FB and Google employees who have founded the Center for Humane Tech: 1. .” ” $3000 for three headsets.

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