ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 17, 2019

Over the past few years, there has been a huge influx of education technology resources available to schools – from tablets and robotics, to online platforms and digital whiteboards. Is the hardware & software compatible? Keep your software up-to-date. Is the hardware & software compatible?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

I always think of giving my students that sandbox time so that they can play a little bit with the software. So we use the Paper 53 app on our iPads. It might be typing up your notes in a Google Doc. Now, do you use robots? What about robotics? In my class, we use the Sphero robot quite a bit. Leah: We do.

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techlearning

MAY 7, 2018

If a teacher wants their kids to create, IPad is still the device to go with. Pages, Keynote, and Numbers are quality pieces of software, but the lack of them on anything other than Mac means adoption will be low. Overall, I think IPad can be a great Education device, but there are pain points that come with it.

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My Paperless Classroom

JUNE 15, 2014

I want them to write blogs and play with robots. All of my presentations have me walking participants through the admin side of one Google apps platform or another. Private Blogger, Google Forms for invite) Video, BYOT, GAFE – Using video with a wide variety of devices and Google tools can support learning in a wide variety of ways.

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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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Adam Welcome

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Yes - I use to set up Google Apps domains for Principals when I was still a teacher. Yes - I really love enhancing the curriculum in classes with laptops, tablets, coding and robots. Very recently I was around some teachers and I could hear their chatter about technology, iPads, their iPhones etc.

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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. Illuminate 11.0

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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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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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Learning with 'e's

JULY 8, 2016

Google Cardboard was on show, but so were other alternatives. Robotics featured quite heavily, but the star of the show was undoubtedly the Double 2 virtual presence technology - essentially an iPad mounted on top of a column transported by a Segway, as used by the likes of exiled former intelligence officer Edward Snowden.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 6, 2023

At any time during the year, click to take you to the master list : Program on computers, iPads, laptops–whatever works, whatever age. Click for Robotics 101 lesson plan. CSEdWeek #hourofcode #hoc #edtech #CSforGood Copyright ©2023 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 6, 2022

At any time during the year, click to take you to the master list : Program on computers, iPads, laptops–whatever works, whatever age. BeeBop –based on the Beebop floor robot–free. Cargo-Bot —logic iPad game. Move the Turtle –programming via iPad for middle school. Cargo-Bot —logic iPad game. Code Academy.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

It also supports Google Play educational apps, so students can collaborate, discover, engage and learn, and includes a Wacom EMR stylus that lets students use interactive apps, sketch, take notes, and capture ideas. They also liked its teacher dashboard and software interfaces.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Program on computers, iPads, laptops–whatever works, whatever age. C-STEM Studio –download to teach computers, science, technology, engineering and math with robotics. Google Computer Science for High School –free workshops (with application) for K-12 teachers. BeeBop –based on the Beebop floor robot–free. Code Academy.

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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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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The iPad was going to change everything. 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.” How to resist: demand algorithmic transparency in all software systems used by public entities, including schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 5, 2020

At any time during the year, click to take you to the master list : Program on computers, iPads, laptops–whatever works, whatever age. BeeBop –based on the Beebop floor robot–free. Cargo-Bot —logic iPad game. Move the Turtle –programming via iPad for middle school. Hummingbird Robotics. Looking for a Class Robot?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 30, 2015

Steve Hargadon LearningRevolution.com STUDENT TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (US-Eastern Daylight Time) For session links, full details, and any last-minute updates, be sure to follow the live schedule at: [link] Saturday, January 31 9:00am KEYNOTE: Parth Chug + Ameera Patheria on "Plugged In: A Student Run Digital Literacy Service Club" 10:00am How (..)

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

AIR works with local communities to address this detriment through an integrated development programs that provide low-cost refurbished computers with relevant open source educational software, support and teacher training directed at schools and community centers especially in less privileged areas where the digital divide is at its greatest.

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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. Half of those, the firm said, would be iPads. Apple sold just 50 million iPads. The quotation is from 2012.

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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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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. They went into first grade when Apple was rolling out the first iPad, in 2010. A year later, in their second grade, Google launched the first Chromebooks. 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]. But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer. " says Google Family Link manager Saurabh Sharma.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2015

Even if the sub is knowledgeable in the subject matter, s/he doesn’t have intimate knowledge of what this particular student group knows about software, websites, problem solving, and more, which can be scaffolded for the current lesson. Break class into groups. Students create a drawing using ASCII art that supports class inquiry.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

If every child had a computer or iPad, she could log into a customized cyberclassroom and learn at her own pace. I kept thinking how much the physical setup of the classrooms resembled a Silicon Valley workspace — or is it that Amazon, Google and Facebook have tried to replicate grammar-school life?

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Hack Education

AUGUST 25, 2017

“Over 1k student-issued iPads are unaccounted for” in a school system in West Virginia , The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports. Walmart and Google partner to take on Amazon. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “ Teaching Robots to Learn Teaches the Students Too,” says Campus Technology.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “To Bolster K–3 Literacy, North Carolina Provides 24,000 iPads for Reading Teachers.” Google has updated its pseudo-LMS, Classroom. Google blogs ; tech publications help market the news. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Immigration and Education.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Via CNBC : “ Google , Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree.” ” “ Minecraft: Education Edition is coming to iPad,” says Techcrunch. ” Via the Google blog : “ VR Labs open doors of opportunity for STEM students.”

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

“ Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? ” Via Edsurge : “ Google and Digital Promise Reimagine Teacher Tech Training with New National Program.” ” Via Education Week : “ Google Launches $50 Million Effort on the Future of Work.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

APRIL 27, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “Robotics is bringing Betsy DeVos to Detroit for the first time as education secretary.” ” “ iPads part of trend addressing diversity , inclusion in learning,” Education Dive claims , and my god the b t people write about ed-tech never ceases to amaze me. “Try Google.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. According to Summit’s own reports on those piloting the Basecamp software, “student growth has been positive amongst the cohort schools thus far. average by 1.23 in math and 1.95 in reading, shown below.

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via Education Week : “The Ohio education department could seek repayment of more than $80 million from nine full-time online schools , based on audits of software-login records that led state officials to determine the schools had overstated their student enrollment.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Launches Online School to Teach Software Development.” It’s one of a number of departures from Edsurge recently: Mary Jo Madda is now at Google. “​ Ohio State Will Give Incoming Students iPads. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

” Google announced it was cutting jobs in its Google Fiber division. And Google has put plans to expand Fiber to more cities on hold. And Google is getting into the whiteboard business. ” IBM released a Watson-powered education app for iPad. The CEO has resigned. IBM partners with Pearson.

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