eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Educational software, interactive whiteboards, and learning management systems facilitate seamless lesson planning and content delivery. Virtual simulations and augmented reality applications–often in K-12 tech innovation news reports–provide immersive experiences, making complex concepts more accessible.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

For instance, one paper mentioned “tarry fore in the conflict,” and another included the puzzling phrase “sinister buttocks,” according to a report in Times Higher Education. That’s according to Valerie Schreiner, a chief product officer at Turnitin, a company that sells plagiarism-detection software. “In

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 9, 2016

And as a teacher, it’s even more critical because it’s not just you who suffers if you can’t find student projects or report card comments. There are many options, but a new one I just met is Windows-based Cloud Backup Robot (when they responded to my donation request). The top reasons: it takes too long.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Software The Vector Robot mobile application launches with a welcome screen. To connect the Vector device to the Vector Robot app, the user must turn on Bluetooth. The Vector Robot app provides a simple status screen with helpful recommendations of voice commands to use. Privacy evaluation.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Software The Vector Robot mobile application launches with a welcome screen. To connect the Vector device to the Vector Robot app, the user must turn on Bluetooth. The Vector Robot app provides a simple status screen with helpful recommendations of voice commands to use. Privacy evaluation.

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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 5, 2019

Importance should be given to how to translate report cards and test scores into a student ability to contribute to society. 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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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

For example, we use in my 8th-grade science class Book Creator for students to develop everything from science lab reports to personal studies that they do — like individual investigations — and even just topic research. I always think of giving my students that sandbox time so that they can play a little bit with the software.

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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. Can a robot be whimsical? For the entire text of this example lesson plan, click here to view as a Google Doc.).

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

They trained volunteers to access Lexia’s reports and use the data to adjust direct instruction. KOOV is an educational robotics and coding kit for ages eight and up, made up of blocks, sensors, actuators, and a companion app. Google Classroom —Digital learning management system using Google apps ? TECH USED ?

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Educational Technology Guy

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Here are some tips and links to web apps: Remember - we shouldn’t teach software (ie Word, Excel) we should teach skills, like writing, using spreadsheets and graphs, etc. Here are some tips and links to web apps: Remember - we shouldn’t teach software (ie Word, Excel) we should teach skills, like writing, using spreadsheets and graphs, etc.

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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. The Hechinger Report/Joanne Jacobs. A staffing agency employee, she recruits contract workers for Google. The Hechinger Report/Joanne Jacobs.

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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. On the other hand, robots will still administer students multiple choice tests.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2017

It’s not exactly a move from Mr. Robot , but some students have figured out a way to change how their grades appear on online to someone looking at a website presented to them, for a moment at least. The simple HTML edit—not really a “hack” per se—involves going to a web page (like an online gradebook) in Google Chrome.

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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. And they let me.”

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Cycles of Learning

OCTOBER 23, 2016

After reading Show Your Work by Austin Kleon I moved from student Google Doc lab reports in chemistry class to blog posts. Keeping the above in mind, this is my first year teaching a robotics class in the curriculum and I wanted to institute the same blogging strategy. For the past few years student blogging has been a success.

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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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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

I shared the stage that day in Iceland with a person who gave their talk on how, in the future, robots will love us -- how they will take care of us in our old age; how they will teach our classes; how they will raise our children. Why should we trust what you tell us about the future?" Why do you? Humans being bent towards the machine.

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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. Please, if you like our reporting, donate Splurgecoin to feed your friendly EdSurgents! Tragedy struck this week, however, when one robot toppled overboard. Just don’t ask how this works.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2019

All the world’s a stage when you’re a startup, and life becomes a pitch in front of investors, advisers, reporters, partners and potential acquirers. That’s the question that Google’s Rochelle posed to Chelsea Sprayregen, CEO of Pie for Providers —and not because the startup’s name sounds like food.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Software & Online 3DBEAR AR INNOVATOR PROGRAM ( 3dbear.io/product/ This program adds full home access for students, custom curriculum alignment, performance reporting, professional development, and more. The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Robots won’t replace you , the press repeatedly said. Unsaid: robots will just de-professionalize , outsource , or privatize the work. Or, as the AI makers like to say, robots will make us all work harder (and no doubt, with no unions, cheaper). Don’t worry, teachers.

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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. Its portable design enables it to be used comfortably by younger children and in more environments.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. Demand for these services run fierce; individual tutors report making as much as $8 million a year. Sinovation Ventures , a venture firm founded in 2009 by Google’s former chief in China. edtech startups.

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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

JUNE 7, 2018

This story on STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. 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.

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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. The blockbuster science fiction movie Minority Report featured gestural computing, targeted advertising through biometric data scanning and augmented reality technologies. Unported License.

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techlearning

JULY 18, 2018

This year alone 613 booths crowded the floor, from mega-booths like Google and Microsoft to tiny, easy-to-miss tables. This early literacy tool created by NWEA allows for whole-class, online assessment of oral reading fluency and other key skills thanks to speech recognition and audio recording software. offers a novel approach.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Related: Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code? Another challenge has been finding computer-aided design software suitable for kindergartners. What paper lacks in glamour it makes up for in being “familiar, friendly, accessible and really fast,” said Peggy Healy Stearns, the software designer who created Maker Studio.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

So you just Google, you know, [insert college here] and net price calculator. To find, search Google for “Common data set” and the college name. News and World Report and other ranking organizations. It’s more often than not robots that have been programmed by software algorithms.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

This year alone 613 booths crowded the floor, from mega-booths like Google and Microsoft to tiny, easy-to-miss tables. This early literacy tool created by NWEA allows for whole-class, online assessment of oral reading fluency and other key skills thanks to speech recognition and audio recording software. offers a novel approach.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

This year alone 613 booths crowded the floor, from mega-booths like Google and Microsoft to tiny, easy-to-miss tables. This early literacy tool created by NWEA allows for whole-class, online assessment of oral reading fluency and other key skills thanks to speech recognition and audio recording software. offers a novel approach.

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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. So here is the consensus from the past twelve years of the Horizon Report for higher education. The quotation is from 2012. How do you do that?

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

I know there have been lots of murmurs about what it means that someone who’s been quite critical of the Horizon Report project would be invited to speak, let alone to get to offer the closing remarks. That is the purpose of the Horizon Report, of course: it’s a story about the future. But that’s not new.

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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.

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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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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

JULY 17, 2023

Educator Jen Manly, left, and EdSurge reporter Nadia Tamez-Robledo address the audience during a discussion about the challenges students face while doing group work. If you’re EdSurge reporter Nadia Tamez-Robledo, who’s currently in grad school, you’ve recently experienced all three of these scenarios.

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