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Sony Vows to Bring “Blockchain” Tech to Education. Will It Take Hold in K-12?

Marketplace K-12

Sony Global Education Inc. Sony Global Education , a company affiliated with the Japanese electronics corporation, defines blockchain as a decentralized network technology in which the same data are recorded and maintained on multiple nodes–computers connected to a network–that are geographically isolated.

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How AI is changing special education

Neo LMS

These are simple changes that could make a difference in managing and enabling a better learning environment for ASD students. The idea is that since ASD children are more comfortable around computers, and by extension robots, they are learning key social skills in a manner that feels safe and predictable for them.

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The InFocus IN3916 projector

A Principal's Reflections

Topics in Chemistry and Integrated Science were studied using online interactive websites on a regular whiteboard. Using the InFocus wireless LiteBoard wand is similar to using the wand control on the Sony Video Wii console. IN3916 InFocus New Milford High School Vikki Smith'

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The Uphill Battles Facing Asia’s Education Technology Startups

Edsurge

In technology, Sony and Nintendo are among the most internationally recognized brands. At the Edvation x Summit in Tokyo this week, entrepreneurs gathered to show off products that range from coding kits to language-learning applications. Tokyo-based adaptive study tool Cerego has operations in San Francisco.

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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

And companies including Accenture, Boeing and Microsoft have created the Internet of Learning Consortium to speed up the production of job-ready workers by using the internet to teach them what they need to know. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It usually manages to fill just two or three of those positions, Soni said.

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10 Things To Know about the Future of Blockchain in Education

Doug Levin

I recently availed myself of the chance to join and learn from many of the leading innovators and thinkers in the emerging blockchain industry at the Chamber of Digital Commerce’s DC Blockchain Summit 2016 , which billed itself (accurately, I think) as “a dialogue at the intersection of industry, regulation, and innovation.”

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

Seck instead learned to code in a one-year programming course run by a nonprofit, where he stuck around for an extra year to master more advanced skills. Many of his friends took the same shortcut to good jobs at companies including Sony and Lockheed Martin. A student at the Synchrony Skills Academy learns to use a 3D printer.