eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As esports continues to grow as a hobby, professional pursuit, and industry, creating an atmosphere of inclusion is vital at all levels and for all ages. Shaper , the human-involved robotics company focused on making precision woodworking easy and accessible, showcased Shaper Origin , the easy-to-use handheld CNC router for educators.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Todd Brekhus’ industry experience dates as far back as the early 2000s at PLATO, and later at myON. Many students have tablets connected to services that provide a huge selection of reading materials with cloud software to guide them to titles targeted to interests and skill levels. Stay tuned for other reflections in the coming weeks.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In 2017, EdTech industry investments rose to a record-breaking $9.5 For example, say robots and drones will be the hot-ticket item of the year (according to a recent study – they will be ). The cornerstone of the effort was to put a tablet computer equipped with a digital curriculum in the hands of every student.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2018

CONTROL+ALT+DELETE: In the biggest blockbuster deal that the industry has seen since Prussia was on the map, ControlSchool merged with AltSchool and DeleteSchool. 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.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

But now with mobile phones, tablets, and laptops being a part of school education, it is much easier to deliver STEM courses on these devices, making the courses more interactive, accessible and engaging. Engineering students can see and learn the functioning of a machine or robotics. Bridges the Talent Gap.

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Veative

JUNE 9, 2019

However, this new-ish device is fraught with a painful and potentially expensive learning curve, and an industry pointing teachers in one direction. The teacher of today has been bombarded with a slew of “new tech” in the past two decades, ranging from PC’s in the classroom to tablets, robotics, coding programs and so on.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

We are fortunate to live in area with a large technical industry, and we capitalized on that by reaching out and collaborating with them. Some of our schools needed additional devices like tablets or laptops, and we were able to provide a few for each school.

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Fractus Learning

JULY 13, 2016

Empowered by the web, crowd-funding and an understanding that the world can be your oyster – if you’ve got the digital tools to crack it open – we read about the young guns dubbed “disruptive innovators”: sometimes whole industries are shaken by their leaner, sleeker business models and unorthodox approaches. Literacy goes digital.

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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. These technologies are now common place in the Western Industrial World, and we don''t think twice about them. Technology of the future is already here - we just haven''t seen it released on the general public yet.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

FTW Robotics displayed its drone technology in booth #518 that is currently in 1K schools throughout the United States. For The Win Robotics focuses on fostering critical thinking and lifelong curiosity through the power of experiential STEM and computer science education through drone technology.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

The red beam precisely followed a squiggly building design that Jack had just finger-drawn on a tablet computer. Long a staple of industry, fab labs have recently been popping up in affluent high schools and middle schools. Related: Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

.” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Subscribe to their blog.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

launch of Be a Maker, an all-new mobile application that teaches children how to code by allowing them to program their Jibo robot. Children ages 7-12 can use the Be a Maker app to create customized programs for their Jibo robot to perform, including speech and expressions. JIBO BE A MAKER APP ( www.jibo.com ) Jibo, Inc.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So, she may have her students type in Google Docs with their tablets instead of writing by hand, to offer them the instant feedback of the platform’s interactive built-in spelling and grammar checker. The AI LAB is designed to allow students to work in different stations such as: Humanoid Robotics, Industry 4.0,

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

And even if partially true, we are not required to respond the way those in power or in the technology industry would like. And as they do so, we hand over a certain level of control – to the technologies themselves, sure, but just as importantly to the industries and the ideologies behind them.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011. I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs. So it is predicted.

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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. It’s hard to make a case that there is still a separate edtech industry. So Apple may wind up owning teen allegiance to wearable digital accessories, even as it loses hands-on loyalty in traditional laptops and tablets.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

." Tagged on: March 17, 2017 770 Apple iPad Air Coming To Cullman County Elementary Schools | Cullman Today → At $340,000, kindergarten, first & second-grade students get 'ultra-modern' tablets. That's a lot of computers. I remain skeptical that leasing low-cost Chromebooks represents a good deal for schools.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 4, 2015

The mobile phone was the first major step in that direction, followed by PDAs, mp3 players, ereaders, then tablets. Laptops keep mutating into new forms, extra-light, Chromebook, tablet hybrid, and so on. Not to mention robots, which we can’t carry, but are portable on their own terms. ” That was true for a while.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

The Acer Chromebook Spin 11 features 10-hour battery life, front and rear webcam for tablet mode, and two USB 3.1-Type The ActivPanel is an interactive panel that is available in sizes ranging from 65 to 86 inches and provides a tablet-like digital experience for teachers and students. Type C ports.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Instead, each team member spent a few minutes sketching out how one part — a marble run, say, or a Lego Robotics kicking foot — would operate within the machine. They started incubating coding, robotics and other computational project classes in after-school programs and summer clubs. No single child designed a complete machine.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Alex Seage built a career leading technology and innovation in the cruise industry, which also provided him with a deep understanding of the technology needed to improve the experience for cruise guests. The staff now uses the interactive display to create and present lesson plans and share content with students utilizing their own tablets.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Tagged on: August 26, 2017 The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher | The New York Times → Why is educational technology such a disappointment? Tagged on: August 22, 2017 Children’s Learning With Tablet Technology is Often Too Passive | UT News → Joan Hughes writes: "Can tablets teach children basic math and reading skills?

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Tagged on: August 26, 2017 The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher | The New York Times → Why is educational technology such a disappointment? Tagged on: August 22, 2017 Children’s Learning With Tablet Technology is Often Too Passive | UT News → Joan Hughes writes: "Can tablets teach children basic math and reading skills?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The integration of interactive whiteboards, tablets, and educational software in classrooms has made learning more dynamic and engaging. Introducing robotics and coding into the curriculum helps students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything. The students learn how to use industry-approved software programs and are often granted paid internships at local design firms and research labs, and Greeley’s planning and development departments. But computers are expensive.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Hack Education

JUNE 29, 2018

Via The New York Times : “The Snake Oil of the Second-Act Industry.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Robots or Job Training : Manufacturers Grapple With How to Improve Their Economic Fortunes.” Via Techcrunch : “ Amazon adds a 10-inch tablet to its line of kids products.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

” There’s more on Department of Education efforts to help the for-profit higher ed industry in the for-profit higher ed section below. Via ELearning Inside : “An Emirati City Is Giving Tablets to Every K–2 Learner As Part of its Lughati Initiative.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Via Standard Digital : “School abandons computer lessons as tablets remains unpowered.” ” That’s the Nalekat Primary School in Kenya which has government issued tablets but no power to charge them. .” Atlantic Union College will close its doors this year. Accreditations and Certifications and Competencies.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Student could read about the actual history of MIT, if they want to think about the ethical implications of their work, and its ties to the military industrial complex. ” Edsurge on “An Education ‘Intrapreneur’ on the Difficulties Innovating in a Conservative Industry.” ” Please stop. .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Indeed, the World Bank issued a report in January arguing that digital technologies – not just robots in factories – stand to widen inequalities as well, “and even hasten the hollowing out of middle-class employment.” None of this has played out equitably, as the benefits have accrued in management and not by labor.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

” The New York Times looks at “A Legal Industry Built on Private School Sex Abuse.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via Getting Smart : “Using Robots to Teach Elementary Students About Human Nature.” If the court’s answer is no, unions would probably lose a substantial source of revenue.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Via Edsurge : “ Apple iPad Sales to Schools Jump 32%, Selling 1M Tablets in Fiscal Q3 2017.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via School Transportation News : “How Predictive Analytics Can Help the School Bus Industry.” Upgrades and Downgrades. Personalized learning is anything you want it to be.

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