techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Edsby’s new evidence of learning features enable teachers to take pictures, record videos, tag them by standards or learning goals, share them with parents and organize them to document growth and streamline reporting on student progress, and more. This release will also now include support for Google Drive.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

” Tutoring is the cornerstone of technological fantasies about “personalized learning.” Investors in tutoring companies this year included Warbug Pincus, Goldman Sachs, Learn Capital, Y Combinator, the Omidyar Network, Sequoia Capital, TAL Education, Tencent, Google, and of course, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As well as teaching a graduate course at Columbia Teacher''s College in Educational Technology and directing the Technology and Innovation at The School, he is an author for Pearson''s Interactive Science Program (a K-8 Science series for 21st century schools). BIO : Jaime Casap is the Global Education Evangelist at Google, Inc.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. ” “ Pearson , WTF? Via the Google blog : “Investing £1 million in training for computing teachers in the U.K.

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Google ’s chairman Eric Schmidt praises Trump. ” Via the BBC : “ Accenture and Microsoft plan digital IDs for millions of refugees.” ” The publishers in question are Cengage , McGraw-Hill , and Pearson. ” The testing firm in question: Pearson. ” Teacher of the Year indeed.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” Microsoft had a media event this week. Here is the Microsoft blog post announcing its new products.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

It ignores what happens in Seattle: the home of Amazon, Microsoft, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Silicon Valley does include Mountain View, where Google is headquartered. Turns out that Pearson, which once funded and acquired a lot of startups, isn’t in particularly good financial shape itself.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Pearson PARCC "Spies" on Students. But the “spying” has continued.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Microsoft must’ve paid the big bucks to have this announced at the opening session: “ISTE and Microsoft collaborate to provide new school planning and professional learning resources.” Fees to join the Flipped Learning Global Initiative are $5000/year. month gives you a “personalized learning plan.”

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

. “Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. ” Google profiles Niji Collins , a winner in the latest Google Code-In contest. .” ” Google profiles Niji Collins , a winner in the latest Google Code-In contest.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

It’s a partnership with Microsoft. There have been several stories recently calling the Google Books project a failure. Via Techcrunch : “As Chromebook sales soar in schools, Apple and Microsoft fight back.” ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “ Betsy DeVos Visits Bay Area Public School for a Lesson in Personalized Learning.” Via The New York Times : “ Google Unveils Job Training Initiative With $1 Billion Pledge.” million in Series B funding from Google Ventures. The Business of Job Training. million total.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

” Via Techcrunch : “ Google expands Howard West to a full-year program to train more black engineers.” Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Google for Education Launches Beta for ‘Create Your Own’ Virtual Reality Experience.” The company sold MinecraftEDU to Microsoft in 2016.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

” Via McClatchy DC : “Forced to watch child porn for their job, Microsoft employees developed PTSD, they say.” Fascinating how affluent parents in the shadow of Google and Apple HQs respond to ed-tech, no?). ” “ Google’s Toontastic storytelling app for kids goes 3D,” says Techcrunch.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Why, for example, would Microsoft famously put out a study in 2015 saying that humans’ attention spans are shorter than goldfish’s? ” Facebook’s CEO believes in personalized learning. Netflix’s CEO believes in personalized learning. AltSchool founder Max Ventilla was a Google exec.

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

” After someone noticed that Microsoft had boasted that it was working with ICE , Nitasha Tiku says that “Microsoft’s Ethical Reckoning Is Here.” ” “ Personalized learning ” now includes working on a goat farm apparently. Microsoft has acquired Flipgrid. million total.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Via Techcrunch : “ Grasshopper , a learn-to-code app from Google ’s Area 120 incubator, goes live.” ” Via Edsurge : “ Google and Udacity Offering 5,000 Scholarships for Nanodegree Programs.” ” From the ASU website : “Panelists discuss future of personalized learning.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” “ Google Is Being Investigated By Missouri Attorney General,” Fortune reports. Oh and look at this: “Google Critic [Peter] Thiel Gave Money to Official Probing Search Giant,” Bloomberg reports. ” Mindset marketing from Pearson : “3 steps to upgrade your GRIT in education.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans ” – so enjoy that Google Certification, educators. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” That’d be Hugo Barra , a former Google exec.

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