EdTech Magazine

MAY 15, 2019

On the cusp of this burgeoning industry is cloud-based gaming, which TechCrunch calls the “new frontier.” Among the tech behemoths, Amazon and Google are forging inroads in cloud-based gaming. Google is testing Project Stream , and Amazon is reportedly leveraging its massive cloud presence to develop its own service.

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Microsoft Education Smartphone Chromebook 322

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

As a group, we called for a reimagining of community college, including moving toward more alignment with industry and more digital options. An additional growing trend is the alignment of community college credentials and curriculum with non-degree, industry-based credentials.

Digital Badges 211

Digital Badges MOOC Trends Industry 211

Doug Levin

JUNE 19, 2018

All also make misleading statements about the provision of reasonable security for children’s accounts in their privacy policies. In fact, the games that have both online and mobile app versions point to different privacy policies. The web application does not mention the privacy policy linked by the mobile application.

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Mobility Policies Analysis Google 150

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It’s just one example of the growth of digital credential systems that leaders say will help build a better bridge between industry and academia—and may also change some of the ways higher education works. They can also display proof that students completed certificates from corporate providers as well, including Google, IBM and Hubspot. “We

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Industry System Course Groups 160

EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

There are a growing number of ways to help students push their technology interests further by earning industry-recognized certifications or using their digital schools for community service projects. Administrators should learn more about original equipment manufacturers’ certifications and self-maintainer policies.

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Digital Learning Digital Citizenship Mobility Learning 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are a growing number of ways to help students push their technology interests further by earning industry-recognized certifications or using their digital schools for community service projects. Administrators should learn more about original equipment manufacturers’ certifications and self-maintainer policies.

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Digital Learning Digital Citizenship Mobility Learning 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2019

There are a growing number of ways to help students push their technology interests further by earning industry-recognized certifications or using their digital schools for community service projects. Administrators should learn more about original equipment manufacturers’ certifications and self-maintainer policies.

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Digital Learning Digital Citizenship Mobility Learning 150

EdTech Magazine

JUNE 13, 2018

SaaS adoption is growing for a wide range of industries. SaaS information should be held to the same industry-regulated standards as finances or healthcare. Cloud providers such as Microsoft or Google guarantee the security of their platforms. SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks!

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Data How To Industry Microsoft 175

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2024

This change in subsidy reimbursement policy was made permanent in several states, including California, Michigan, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Vermont and Montana. Child Care Staff Years of low wages and no benefits for child care workers has created a drastic staffing shortage in the industry, one that Gale, too, has felt with her team.

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Policies Industry Accessibility Advocacy 141

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

The New York Times reported in 2016 that “technical workers at Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter, according to the companies’ diversity reports, are on average 56 percent white, 37 percent Asian, 3 percent Hispanic and 1 percent black.” Read more about education in New Orleans.

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Industry Company Conference Report 51

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2020

Middle skills” jobs are estimated to comprise 53 percent of the economy , and the ones that have been hard to fill involve the use of digital tools like Jira, Google Analytics, or Power BI. Across the country, career counselors and staffing agencies are working to familiarize people with novel industries where their skills are relevant.

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Industry Social Media Training Survey 182

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2020

If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF. Vernon has shared his experiences numerous times over the years at the campus, district, regional, state levels and beyond garnering acclaim from recognized industry leaders. Whether they do or don’t, to get the most out of listening you can use this Podcast PD Template Hyperdoc.

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STEM Company Twitter Industry 293

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 24, 2024

An extensive set of rules, policies, and guidelines help content creators and distributors implement the DRM and protect their intellectual property rights. Keeping this in mind, KITABOO , a digital textbook platform, offers industry-specific custom-made DRM solutions. How Does DRM Work?

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eBook Libraries Industry Accessibility 52

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

A few days later the district switched to Google Meet, according to Ashley Boyd, whose two children—ages 9 and 12—attend school in Berkeley Unified. The report looks at 15 popular video-conferencing apps, some of which have been adopted for use by companies and schools, including Zoom, Google Hangouts and Microsoft Teams.

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Report Video Schoology Microsoft 156

Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The post Stranger Google: Crazy Tools from the Upside Down (Part 2)! Google never ceases to amaze me! You know I love me some G Suite tools, but there is so much more to Google than you ever imagined! I love to dig into the lesser-known Google tools and figure out how these can be used for learning in the K12 classroom.

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Google Tools Trends Conference 73

Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

We’ve already seen this shift begin broadly with the European GDPR opt-in policy, and we’ve seen how an outraged public creates corporate awareness in explaining how and where customers’ data is being stored and used. Google invested $25 million in AI for Good and Microsoft added an AI for Humanitarian Action to its prior commitment.

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Coursera Education Robotics Industry 153

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Instead of waiting for the federal government to address the student debt crisis or better hold schools accountable for tuition rates, let’s turn to the industry itself to tackle these challenges. For example, college faculty publish papers in journals with conclusions that incorporate policy and practical recommendations.

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Industry Policies Accessibility Report 103

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

That’s thanks to a booming group of companies known as the “ contract cheating industry.” The paper-writing companies get around legal trouble by posting disclaimers and policies that say that students shouldn’t turn in the work as their own.) And what could be done to curb this contract cheating industry?

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Company Industry System Policies 125

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

Architecturally, this plays out in new schools resembling whatever is culturally perceived as representing modernity (the factory in the early 20th century, the Google headquarters today). It has also impacted the role that teachers play in the mind of educational policy makers and reformers—for good and ill.

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Policies Trends Common Core Training 110

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

Users who follow Meta’s monetization policies can offer paid live events, allowing them to offer things like cooking classes or fundraisers. Meta’s learning offering could be most trouble for other tech behemoths like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams, according to some speculations.

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Facebook Course EdTech Video 120

Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Given that many children were acquiring iPads for personal use, some schools adopted a Bring Your Own Device ( BYOD) Policy. Monitoring now includes take home policies and cyberbullying & self-harm detection. This is a bonanza for the tech industry and other vendors. Districts even integrated the two models to cut costs.

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EdTech Common Core Chromebook iPad 176

PlagiarismCheck

JUNE 14, 2023

The impact of AI in education and beyond: verifying Human vs. ChatGPT authors Universities and businesses are now actively working on policies for using artificial intelligence. But is it always successful and virtuous? Special software – AI detectors – allows us to determine whether a person or AI wrote the text.

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How To Industry Software Policies 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. are hard at work on standards frameworks.

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MOOC Coursera Trends Survey 199

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This week the Brookings Institution released a policy brief titled “ A Whole New World: Education Meets the Metaverse. ” So there's a disconnect right now between how kids really learn and what they need to learn and what's going on in the tech industry. And we’ve finally got to get in front of it, not behind it.

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Company Education Study Accessibility 153

Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 22, 2020

All you need is a device and software, like Google Hangouts Meet, Zoom, Join.me, GoToMeeting, or other tools that facilitate studying. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. Study in real-time eLearning exceeds borders, covers distances between people, and fills their knowledge gaps at the same time.

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Software Classroom Coursera EdTech 195

Neo LMS

AUGUST 22, 2017

Going Google… or Microsoft… or Apple. Google, Microsoft and Apple are really just the big players of the industry, but you’ll find many more options if you look beyond them. But they offer a basic journey from thinking about going 1:1 to actually doing it. Take your time and do your research. It will be worth your while.

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BYOD Software Microsoft Data 161

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

For the edtech industry, the pandemic poses a paradox. Many of the investors are new to the industry, Brothers notes. There’s a lot of private capital around the world that has a new appreciation for this industry.” Downloads for education apps like Google Classroom, Seesaw and Classdojo shot up when remote learning started.

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EdTech Khan Academy Chegg Coursera 182

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2018

It’s been quite a year for education news, not that you’d know that by listening to much of the ed-tech industry (press). And yet the education/technology industry (press) still maintained that blockchain would surely revolutionize the transcript and help insure that no one lies about who they are or what they know.

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Technology Industry Education Robotics 110

eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Providing added safety measures and control of K12 distance and hybrid learning instructional models, Silicon Valley based-Deledao ( www.deledao.com ), has announced a powerful new feature to its industry-recognized AI filtering capabilities. Identifies pornographic and inappropriate pictures to blur them in real time.

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Meeting Social Media Chromebook Tablets 83

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2018

It’s a common practice across industries, but some education sites are failing to comply with terms of service agreements that require disclosing how website activity is reported back to advertising companies like Google, Facebook or Twitter, the study claims. Almost every state education agency in the U.S.

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Report Education Data Company 68

Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The school surveillance industry is booming. Make a copy of the "Thinking Critically About School Surveillance" Google Doc handout. Pressing play on the YouTube video will set third-party cookies controlled by Google if you are logged in to Chrome. See Google's cookie information for details. Should They?

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Digital Citizenship Software Video Social Media 94

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

He was recognized with the Tech Champion Award at the 2022 Digital Industry Dynamite Awards and featured in the EdTech50. So Google Bard , which is like kind of the their version of ChatGPT is going to come naturally with citation. Dan is a respected authority in educational technology and artificial intelligence. It's nothing new.

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Classroom Tools Data Twitter 425

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: “People think it’s about boxes and wires and that’s just the beginning,” said Beth Holland, digital equity and rural project director at the Consortium for School Networking, an industry association for tech directors across the country. PearDeck, Google and GoGuardian are among them.

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Broadband Flipped Classroom Online Learning Smartphone 145

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Georgene Huang was two months pregnant, unemployed and looking for a work environment that promoted women and offered decent maternity leave policies. In September, Google picked Fairygodboss to be one of a dozen companies to take part in its first accelerator program for women founders. Searching for answers online didn’t help.

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Data Company Industry Handbook 134

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2021

This decision is in light of the recent educational policy revisions in China. The exact reach of these companies—this industry—is not clear, but their collective footprint is massive, global and estimated to be worth billions of dollars. All classes starting on Aug 5th will be cancelled from the system.” “It

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Industry Education Company Facebook 218

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

One is to set clearly what your guiding principles are, principles like high quality, maximum equity, flexibility, community, and being super prescriptive about the broad policy decisions that need to be made. that the micro-credential market is mature enough and developed enough, or really driven by state or even federal policy.

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Education Policies Course Trends 134

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

Covid “was such a boon to our industry,” said Anant Agarwal , founder and CEO of the online course platform EdX, which has more than 160 university partners and more than 2,000 free courses. She’s a big fan of having colleges work together on joint solutions, along with state and federal policy makers, to improve lagging graduation rates.

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Education Coursera Trends Online Learning 120