Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

A review of the data by EdSurge for notable education technology software and service providers found more than 60 for-profit and nonprofit organizations that were approved for a loan between $150,000 to $5 million. Sphero started as a consumer robotics toy company and later refocused its business on the education market.

EdTech 93

EdTech Khan Academy Company Industry 93

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?

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

First, the role that corporations and philanthropists play in shaping education policy is not new. 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.” Let’s be clear, Google Search is very much a “black box.”

Knewton 60

Knewton Education Company Learning 60

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 17, 2024

Passing off someone's work has always been cheating, whether you Google an essay and pretend it's your own, or when a machine (or human!) So, in summary: students may not be using AI chatbots as much as we think, and student cheating with AI (and the software that detects it) is a complicated topic at best.

LMS 86

LMS Robotics Tools UDL 86

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Students are always brimming with questions about the financial-aid process, DeVos acknowledged in her remarks , and they’ll soon be able to pose their inquiries to Aidan, the department's new robotic assistant. Citizenship and Immigration and Services. It also has plenty of college-based cousins.

Meeting 91

Meeting Education Robotics Conference 91

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

EdTech 170

EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Yet, from my vantage point in the education policy arena (in leadership roles, for instance, at the National Association of State Boards of Education and the State Educational Technology Directors Association), the book and prediction drove widespread advocacy for changes in policy and practice. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Yet, from my vantage point in the education policy arena (in leadership roles, for instance, at the National Association of State Boards of Education and the State Educational Technology Directors Association), the book and prediction drove widespread advocacy for changes in policy and practice. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Intermediary funders and education-policy groups that depend on their grant dollars — including iNACOL, Excel in Ed, the Learning Accelerator, Big Picture Learning and Jobs for the Future — have, in turn, made personalized learning a priority. apps and software, with some classes much more tech-reliant than others.

Personalized Learning 97

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 97

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. .”

Education 97

Education Khan Academy Company Libraries 97

Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Lawyers and Title IX practitioners have identified potential conflicts between the Trump administration ’s new proposed regulations on the gender discrimination law and state policy.” Via Techcrunch : “ Holberton brings its full-stack software engineering school to Colombia.”

MOOC 78

MOOC Education Elsevier Report 78

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” The Fordham Institute’s Michael Petrelli has declared “ The End of Educational Policy.” Via Techcrunch : “ Google partners with MotherCoders to bring tech training to moms in New York City.” ” Any piece of education software or curriculum that puts “fun” in its name is not. .

Education 53

Education Coursera Facebook MOOC 53

Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Even if these publications fade away , the breathless stories about the possibilities of brainwave-reading mindfulness headbands and " mind-reading robot tutors in the sky " continue to be told. Carnegie Mellon announced it would open source its digital learning software. Google got into the anti-plagiarism business.

Technology 67

Technology Pearson Education MOOC 67

Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

“Education recoded: policy mobilities in the international ‘ learning to code ’ agenda” by Ben Williamson, Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt, Catarina Player-Koro, and Neil Selwyn. ” From the Google blog : “ Google Science Fair 2018 : Resources for educators to get ideas flowing.”

Education 46

Education MOOC Social Media Report 46

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. ” Via Mic : “ Pretoria Girls High School students are protesting racist hair policy , code of conduct.” Via WaPo : “Study: Robot baby dolls don’t curb teen pregnancies.

Education 52

Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 52

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” That’s Joel Rose ’s School of One software. ” Chalkbeat on vouchers in Indiana : “Choice for most: In nation’s largest voucher program, $16 million went to schools with anti-LGBT policies.” ” The Google Memo. Via The LA Times : “Former L.A. “Privileged Whites.”

Education 45

Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The non-speakers: James Damore, the fired Google engineer, and Lucian Wintrich, a journalist with Gateway Pundit. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “ Imagine how great universities could be without all those human teachers ,” says Quartz , lauding the fantasy that robots will replace teachers.

Education 48

Education Knewton Kaplan Robotics 48

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

’s Mumps Outbreak Tells Us About Our Vaccine Policies.” More on for-profit higher ed policies in the for-profit higher ed section below. Google has launched a curriculum called “ Be Internet Awesome ” to encourage digital safety and citizenship. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Education in the Courts.

Education 46

Education Coursera MOOC Udemy 46

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Senate to serve as Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical and Adult Education and Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development , respectively.” Fines Google $5.1 which makes these sorts of policy moves chuckle-worthy (to me, at least). Via The New York Times : “ E.U.

Education 46

Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. Google’s Alphabet Inc.

Technology 85

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Bush administration, as senior policy adviser.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Civil Rights Groups Sue DeVos Over Title IX Policies.” ” Edsurge on the Google press release : “Google’s Education Suite is Still Free, but New Add-Ons For Administrators Come With a Fee.”

Education 46

Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Via The New York Times : “Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built.” Doesn’t seem like any journalists caught this, tho: A couple of things about that group of former FB and Google employees who have founded the Center for Humane Tech: 1. .” ” $3000 for three headsets.

Lenovo 51

Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 51

Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Office led by President Trump’s son-in-law holds a series of meetings on higher education policy, signaling high-level attention from the administration.” Google has updated its pseudo-LMS, Classroom. Google blogs ; tech publications help market the news. ” asks Larry Cuban.

E-rate 44

E-rate Education Robotics Elsevier 44

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Indeed, Edutechnica, which also tracks LMS data, responds with their own numbers and says that Blackboard still has about two hundred more installations than Canvas and about a million more students using the software. ” Via Edsurge : “ Britannica CEO Talks Google, Wikipedia and What Lil Pump Can Teach Us About Credibility.”

Education 43

Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

” Via The Wall Street Journal : “More Schools Are Buying ‘ Active-Shooter ’ Insurance Policies.” The company: RIB Software SE. ” Via The Wall Street Journal : “Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘ No Experience Necessary ’ ” Contests and Awards. More via AJC.

Education 43

Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

There are more stories about some of DeVos’s other policies in the for-profit higher ed section below. ” “Free College” The Chronicle of Higher Education asks “5 Key Questions About NYU ’s Tuition-Free Policy for Medical School.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

Education 46

Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “ DeVos criticizes Bush-Obama policies , saying it’s time to overhaul conventional schooling.” A new project from the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel : “Reimagining College Access: Performance Assessments From K–12 Through Higher Education.” Monstrous, really.

Education 44

Education Elsevier MOOC Knewton 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). 3D Printing.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” The New York Times continues its coverage of the awfulness of tech companies’ employee policies : “Abuses Hide in the Silence of Nondisparagement Agreements.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

” Via The 74 : “ Trump Towers Over Education: How His Candidacy Is Already Affecting Federal Policy.” “ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.” Other updates: an Expeditions app, quizzes in Google Forms, a partnership with TES , a physical coding project.

MOOC 48

MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Finds Unlikely Culprit in School Shootings: Obama Discipline Policies.” ” Via The Wall Street Journal : “ Visas Issued to Foreign Students Fall, Partly Due to Trump Immigration Policy.” Perhaps it should go in the “robots” section. million total.

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

DeVos is the former chair of the American Federation for Children, which advocates for school choice policies, such as tax credit scholarships and vouchers. Via The New York Times : “How Google Took Over the Classroom.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Go, School Sports Team! Upgrades and Downgrades.

Edmodo 45

Edmodo Education Knewton Pearson 45

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Orders Review of Education Policies to Strengthen Local Control.” ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom.

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

” Via Texas Monthly : “Meet the Women Whose Persistence Made Texas A&M Change Its Sexual Assault Policies.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Google Workers Reject Silicon Valley Individualism in Walkout.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” (I missed this news last week.)

Education 54

Education Robotics Pearson Company 54

Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Campus Rape Policie s Get a New Look as the Accused Get DeVos’s Ear.” ” Via The New York Times : “ DeVos Says She Will Revisit Obama-Era Sexual Assault Policies.” ” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. for Robotics Contest.”

Education 45

Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2017

” Curious if students are allowed to use any tech products made by Oracle’s arch-nemesis, Google. Via Motherboard : “To Solve the Diversity Drought in Software Engineering , Look to Community Colleges.” “ Should Children Form Emotional Bonds With Robots? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 48

Education Robotics Company Report 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

” Via Buzzfeed : “Lawsuits Say Harvard’s Anti-Sexism Policy Discriminates Against Women.” ” “Most Schools Don’t Have Clear Restroom Policies , and That’s a Public-Health Problem,” says Pacific Standard. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

Education 54

Education MOOC Report Data 54