EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Coding skills are in high demand and will soon become a necessary skill for nearly all industries. We also melded the missions of coding in education with AR for this exploratory study to see if we could get favorable results in timing tests and user experiences,” said Nathan Dass , a researcher and software engineer at Google AI. “We

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

With itopia Labs, educators can provide anytime, anywhere, any device access to software applications that students commonly use for Career Technical Education (CTE) and various certification programs. Software labs can be set up in minutes without expensive computers or IT support at a predictable cost that fits any district budget.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Gerstein: I taught machine learning activities to the students with ISTE standards using Google's Teachable Machine as the tool. The teachable machine software looked at their hands using the camera and recognized rock, paper and scissors. They developed a pollination device using robotics to pollinate flowers.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And in this environment, the education industry sees an unprecedented transformation due in part to a new industrial revolution. Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality.

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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 5, 2019

Quick Take: Covering the 6 key elements in creating the right foundation for modern education with the arrival of the 4 th industrial revolution and the changing educational environment. VR technology like Google Tour Creator will allow students to create and take virtual tours anywhere around the world in an immersive 360-degree environment.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2018

The goal is to merge engineering and design research happening at the city’s universities with resources and opportunities from the media and technology industry—to develop new prototypes, explore applied R&D projects, launch new companies and encourage the latest thinking.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

On December 15, the University of New Hampshire (UNH) will host the finals of the state’s Cyber Robotics Coding Competition (CRCC), being held by the New Hampshire Department of Education (NH DOE) and the Intelitek STEM and CTE Education Foundation ( ISCEF ). Gallery ).

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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). Robots won’t replace you , the press repeatedly said. Unsaid: robots will just de-professionalize , outsource , or privatize the work. And on and on and on. Don’t worry, teachers.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Between the barbeque and baristas, the dive bars and dueling pianos, thousands of educators, along with entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and policymakers across the education industry, will descend on Austin, Texas, during the first week of March for SXSW EDU. Ostensibly these tools are for the greater good—keeping kids safe.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

Other students in their engineering class were constructing a robot for the Dell-sponsored Silicon Valley Tech Challenge and designing a “tiny house” to shelter a homeless person. By contrast, 57 percent are foreign born, with many coming from India and China, a local industry group estimates. Internships are super, super important.”.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2018

CONTROL+ALT+DELETE: In the biggest blockbuster deal that the industry has seen since Prussia was on the map, ControlSchool merged with AltSchool and DeleteSchool. We will use some arcane technology called “blockchain” and distributed ledgers to validate that education software works. Just don’t ask how this works. Next up: the EduWand.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

Even the biggest names in the education technology industry, awash in private capital, are seeking public support during the pandemic. Sphero started as a consumer robotics toy company and later refocused its business on the education market. ISTE, the parent organization of EdSurge, was also approved for a PPP loan.)

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

education industry has not become so dependent (yet). In the past couple of years the company has hired hundreds of software engineers, from the likes of Chinese internet giants Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, to make that happen. Sinovation Ventures , a venture firm founded in 2009 by Google’s former chief in China. Last month.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. Thomas Cavanagh, vice provost for digital learning at the University of Central Florida You're talking about enhancing human conversations with software robots. EdSurge: So what’s the mission of your podcast?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Just beneath the surface, however, Burlington has become home over the last few years to an invisible economy of people who work remotely for the world’s biggest technology businesses, including Apple, Google, Twitter and IBM, hundreds and even thousands of miles from these companies’ chic and sprawling headquarters.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

The tall ceilings, roof-top windows, exposed steel beams and air ducts hints at its industrial past. The program is an opportunity to “pair industry with education to provide real experiences and knowledge that students can use in their future,” says Jason Ebner, a career and technical educator at Antioch High School.

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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.” But Watson is not remotely close to the “artificial intelligence” that the company, and the industry more broadly, likes to tout. (A

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 3, 2014

She showed several images of recent movies such as Ellysium, I, Robot and Avatar to emphasise her point. These technologies are now common place in the Western Industrial World, and we don''t think twice about them. Technology of the future is already here - we just haven''t seen it released on the general public yet. Unported License.

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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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MindShift

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

So you just Google, you know, [insert college here] and net price calculator. People are often surprised by this, right, because we’re not used to thinking of higher education as the highly competitive industry that it is. To find, search Google for “Common data set” and the college name. Copyright 2021 NPR.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

Other students in their engineering class were constructing a robot for the Dell-sponsored Silicon Valley Tech Challenge and designing a “tiny house” to shelter a homeless person. By contrast, 57 percent are foreign born, with many coming from India and China, a local industry group estimates. Joanne Jacobs for The Hechinger Report).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Long a staple of industry, fab labs have recently been popping up in affluent high schools and middle schools. Related: Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code? Another challenge has been finding computer-aided design software suitable for kindergartners. That worked; Jack beamed.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 29, 2016

You can also import the entire calendar (Google) into your own calendar, or add selected sessions to your personal calendar to be sure that you don't miss them. Embracing 3D printing, coding, design software and even drones, Coco hopes to encourage her peers to make technology, not just consume it.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online ACHIEVE3000 & ICIVIC ( www.achieve3000.com The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions. The application is free to download from the App Store or Google Play.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011. The quotation is from 2012.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2023

It's borrowed from software development, but now lots of different companies across industry use it, and it's more task-focused and deliverable-focused than it is focused on individuals doing their roles. So how is Agile different from that? Agile doesn't actually have roles. Can you tell us what you observed?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

This week, a software engineer at Google was fired for writing a widely-derided internal memo , critiquing the company’s diversity efforts for ignoring the “fact” that women are just biologically different from men. Last year, an all-girls team from Michigan called the Pink Eagles won our global robotics competition.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

And even if partially true, we are not required to respond the way those in power or in the technology industry would like. And as they do so, we hand over a certain level of control – to the technologies themselves, sure, but just as importantly to the industries and the ideologies behind them. Digital data is fragile.

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techlearning

JULY 12, 2018

This PD focused on educational technology hardware and software, including hands-on instruction on using the Workbench Education platform to manage classes and create standards-aligned PBL content. About Workbench Workbench Education is an online platform to create, discover, and share standards-aligned projects and curriculum.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Not quite enough time for our robot overlords to overtake us, but both distant and soon enough to make us wonder. A year later, in their second grade, Google launched the first Chromebooks. It’s hard to make a case that there is still a separate edtech industry. First is the evolving nature of education technology.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Tagged on: March 18, 2017 G Suite for Education Now Open for Personal Google Accounts, Outside Domains | Campus Technology → Raises privacy questions. " says Google Family Link manager Saurabh Sharma.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The New York Times broke the news this week that New America ousted its Open Markets team after it praised a recent EU fine against Google : “Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant.” ” New America has received more than $21 million from Google. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. .”

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Tagged on: August 27, 2017 Companies are using AI to screen candidates now with HireVue | Ladders → Using voice and face recognition software, HireVue lets employers compare a candidate’s word choice, tone, and facial movements with the body language and vocabularies of their best hires.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Tagged on: August 27, 2017 Companies are using AI to screen candidates now with HireVue | Ladders → Using voice and face recognition software, HireVue lets employers compare a candidate’s word choice, tone, and facial movements with the body language and vocabularies of their best hires.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 15, 2016

I’m not talking about Google’s spectacular triumph at having an AI win at Go (seriously, check it out , if you haven’t already). First, here’s an account of an Israeli-American robot designed to teach children. In Boston, home of the Atlas robot. Notice the lack of robot-fear among children.

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