Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Visual mapping (which you can see an example of in our latest interactive report on workforce development ) can reveal duplicate systems as well as time-consuming and inefficient manual processes. Below are a few online tools and software suggestions that can help your organization during this process. Google Draw (free).

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techlearning

JUNE 24, 2018

Chicago, June 24, 2018 – Impero Software, a leading provider of classroom management, network and online safety software to schools today announced the latest version of its award-winning product, Impero Education Pro V7. Founded in 2002, Impero software is now accessed by over 1.5 million devices in over 90 countries.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

K-12 schools can often be at high risk, because they tend to rely on a broad range of apps and software and are big users of web-based learning and testing. K-12 schools can often be at high risk, because they tend to rely on a broad range of apps and software and are big users of web-based learning and testing.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Two news stories this week have turned my attention (again) to the issue of conflict of interest in education, technology, and public policy. The second conflict-of-interest related news story (set of stories, really) involves New America and Google/ Eric Schmidt. More on this below.). Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

The students came up with the project themselves and designed a Google form to track their phone time, including which apps they used most. Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report In Oxnard, educators say they have been left in the dark about how these decisions affect course offerings for their students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

As methods for accessing and stealing data grow slicker and harder-to-spot, not a day goes by without a news report about a data security issue. There have been significant advancements in security software and artificial intelligence, but there will never be a perfect system to protect you. Google "company name + disclosure policy".

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 23, 2022

And then, on top of that, to spare a few precious minutes for administrative work like recording grades and taking attendance, and then entreating a student to carry those reports to the office? Then, it’s a simple matter of forwarding the ‘report’ to the office. See: Copyright Policy. Click To Tweet. Are all the seats full?

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 13, 2018

More professionals and students use Software as a Service (SaaS) on a daily basis. In January 2018, a Forrester report predicted “that the SaaS market will grow to $157 billion in 2020; some providers have more than $1 billion in revenue and are growing strongly.”. SaaS adoption is growing for a wide range of industries.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2020

Officials say relying on technology that people already use, rather than asking them to download a contact-tracing app developed by the likes of Apple and Google, offers a more convenient way to support contact-tracing efforts. The university is using a data analytics service developed by SAS, , an analytics and software company.

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Smartphone Data System Laptops 191

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2020

The statistic, cited in a popular World Economic Forum report , often emerges in any conversation about education, the economy and the workforce. 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.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

This doesn’t include Google Chrome independent extensions like Quillbot , described in its overview as a “Grammar Checker, Paraphrasing Tool & Summarizer.” First, you will have to define AI and explain your AI policy in your class syllabi and in the first weeks of school. These are just the top apps in the Apple App Store.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Too often, parents, educators and, yes, reporters, simply ask “What works?” Mathematica , which evaluates the impact of public policy and programs. Data may also be self-reported by teachers and students on surveys developed by companies including Panorama Education or simply Google Forms.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

A national working group that I was recently a part of—led by non-profit Opportunity America—recently produced a report that aptly characterized the community college as “ the indispensable institution.” This could include new firms, service models and software tools that are more tailored to community colleges’ needs and offerings.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2019

But smart speakers, such as the Amazon Echo Dot and the Google Home, which function almost like virtual assistants, come with a catch. Reports surface regularly of them turning on without being prompted, listening in to conversations and recording users’ personal data. The software is powered by a Raspberry Pi computer.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

Ninety percent of schools have increased the number of substitute teachers on staff or are trying to, according to a July 2022 RAND report, but schools are struggling to find new hires, feeding into an overall perception of shortages. Credit: Terra Fontriest for The Hechinger Report. The stories are scary.

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PlagiarismCheck

MAY 12, 2023

In addition, teachers are not required to manually search for signs of plagiarism in every student’s work, copy pasting to Google, compare texts for similarities, and create reports with links. After all, teachers do not spend their precious hours evaluating unoriginal works that will turn out to be plagiarized.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Naseath arrives at Osmo from Google Cloud, where he served as Cloud Value Advisor Senior Principal, and assisted the office of Google Cloud CFO to define the financial opportunity of cloud digital transformation. In 2013, he was promoted to Director of Global FP&A and Leader for Data Insight & Reporting Center of Excellence.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

She and her colleagues have had to intercede in evictions, deliver supplies and report children in dire circumstances to child protective services since the start of the pandemic. Other districts around the country have reported similarly high numbers of missing students. Credit: Bonnie Arbittier, San Antonio Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Five-year-old Mykell Robinson practices his reading on the Lexia software while a small group of classmates work with a teacher. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report. What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label.

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Vizor

JUNE 24, 2022

If you Google IT asset lifecycle or ITIL hardware lifecycle, you’ll find plenty of examples of a typical IT asset lifecycle. Some schools we work with have a flat 5-year policy, so once the Chromebook is five years after its purchase date it’s considered end of life. Eventually we come to the devices end of life.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. Photo: Jessica Huseman for The Hechinger Report. billion was spent on devices by K-12 schools in 2015, and the Software and Information Industry Association estimates that nearly $8.4 classrooms.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 3, 2023

Every verbal request to voice assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google are dependent on AI, as are many of the chatbots that pop up when navigating websites. As a result, generative AI can produce a wide variety of new content, including images, videos, music, speech, text, software code and product designs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

One day, a friend forwarded an email about Resilient Coders, a boot camp that trains people of color for web development and software engineering jobs. In the past few years, Apple, Google, IBM and other high-profile companies have stripped the bachelor’s degree requirement from many of their positions.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It’s helped me in my writing – and when I started using it, it was the best writing software available. Grammarly is a proofreading software tool that uses artificial intelligence technology to detect grammar, spelling, punctuation, style, sentence structure, and word choice mistakes. I’m a long-time Grammarly user.

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Software Microsoft Comparison Report 59

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Case in point: Online course provider Coursera reported more than 13 million new registered users since mid-March, a 535 percent increase from the same period last year. The positive report sent stock values soaring more than 30 percent.

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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 Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Absent checks on real and potential biases, errors and omissions, students’ future educational prospects are being shaped by software. For example, many of the nation’s largest school systems use Google’s free suite of education tools, which allows teachers to develop their lessons, create assignments and administer assessments online.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. We primarily used Craigslist for all hires except sales and software development. We screened them using a pre-interview questionnaire built in Google Form.

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Vizor

JANUARY 15, 2020

Google makes it an easy choice with Chromebooks’ durability, long battery life, and low costs. Reasons to invest in a Chromebook Management Software: Easily Distribute Devices and Accessories. How a Chromebook Management Software takes it one step further. Monitor Distribution and Location. Notification. Easy Exchanges.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

Julie Sugarman, senior policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute, has heard of many schools around the country having problems serving ELLs right now — sometimes even within the same district. She’s been using Google Classroom, an online resource meant to help teachers manage students’ coursework, since September 2018.

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The Electric Educator

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Google''s products are wonderful classroom resources. I agree with this policy: there is simply too much garbage on YouTube to allow student access. In my opinion, this is because of the added layer of complexity that the iTunes software adds to the process of finding and downloading videos. billion videos per day.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 1, 2017

This is a guest post by Carol Jackson , the digital content strategist at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and lead producer, with Alison Jones and Karen Kemp, of the school's podcast_ Ways & Means Show. She also produces the podcast Policy 360. We've had terrific successes and made some mistakes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Universities used to handle student information in house, but now they work with so many providers that it’s hard to manage who has access to what, says James Litton, CEO and co-founder of Identity Automation , a software company that provides identity management solutions for a variety of industries.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

AP has expanded its use of Automated Insights into other sport dispatches, quarterly business financial reports , and more.* A quick Google search resulted in no immediate hits of others writing such an essay. For the entire text of this example lesson plan, click here to view as a Google Doc.). But I was wrong.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I’ve had/have the privilege of being a member of the expert panel working on the NMC Horizon Report (the one that’s still in progress, the process of which I plan to write/co-write about soon, inshallah). A good teacher can promote these attitudes despite plagiarism-detection software, but the software itself does not do this.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

I think it's one of the most important and most horrifying trends in ed-tech — one that extends beyond test-proctoring software, even though, since the pandemic and the move online, test-proctoring software has been the focus of a lot of discussions. Larry Page, the co-founder of Google was born in 1973. When you're 16?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Last week, MAPLE released its first report: a. Among the survey’s findings: Google Classroom is by far the most popular learning management platform, used in more than 80 percent of districts. Natick’s Nolin warns districts against rushing headfirst into buying devices and software without understanding what teachers and students need.

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