Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. Manufacturing Trends.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

Meanwhile, the public was amazed at technological advances like Boston Dynamic’s Atlas robot doing parkour , while simultaneously being outraged at the thought of our data no longer being ours and Alexa listening in on all our conversations. I see four AI use and ethics trends set to disrupt classrooms and conference rooms.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Margaret Price, a principal design strategist with Microsoft, mentioned a PowerPoint plug-in that provides subtitles in students’ native languages – useful for a teacher leading a class filled with young people from many different places. It enables children to use artificial intelligence to train and build robots. Subscribe today!

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Back at ALA Midwinter, I was honored to present on LITA’s Top Tech Trends panel , with fellow panelists Kate Tkacik, Suzanne Wulf, Becky Yoose, James Neal and Cynthia Dudenhoffer. Each of us was initially assigned two trends to explore and discuss. I thought I’d break my own two ish trends and resources into two posts.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

If I took a class on robotics, I could put the actual robot [coursework] on the chain, not the grade. Into the Metaverse Blockchain fans see potential for another emerging tech trend to shape education: the metaverse. Instead, what if we focused on the output and performance you’re able to gain?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Perhaps one of the few areas of overlap was that three of the four conferences featured the similar talk by Andreas Schleicher, OECD’s education lead, who shared snippets from his team’s latest “Trends Shaping Education” report. Beyond that though, each show catered more or less to its own niche audience. Back at Bett, U.S.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” Predictions about the future of test prep from Campus Technology : “Top 3 Trends Affecting U.S. Via The New York Times : “ Microsoft to Cut Up to 4,000 Sales and Marketing Jobs.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Related : Computer science classes have an equity issue–some NYC educators are trying to change that How robotic gamification helped my elementary students love STEM

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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. These reports then start a dialogue between the student and a school counselor, allowing counselors to help students while also tracking incident trends school- and district-wide. bullying) using photo, video, or text.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : “This tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad.” ” “ Robot abuse ”?! Via Bryan Alexander : “ Robots , buyouts, and spinoffs: four short stories for the future of education and technology.” million total.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” And accordingly, platforms are the underlying trend that ties together popular narratives about technology and the economy in general.

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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. These reports then start a dialogue between the student and a school counselor, allowing counselors to help students while also tracking incident trends school- and district-wide. bullying) using photo, video, or text.

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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. These reports then start a dialogue between the student and a school counselor, allowing counselors to help students while also tracking incident trends school- and district-wide. bullying) using photo, video, or text.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

If your school or district has already contracted with one of the big three -- Microsoft's MakeCode , Apple's Swift Playgrounds , or Google's CS First -- then of course you'll start there. Over the last two to three years, teaching coding has evolved to include broader topics and developing trends in technology.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. KIPP Morial, a school in New Orleans East, exemplifies how the personalized learning trend rolled out in charters across the Crescent City. DeVonté Trask, 11.

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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. Those interactions look a lot different than just evaluating consumer or edtech trends in isolation. What edtech and consumer trends will be significant for when a teen leaves high school? And determined.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Coalition members include Microsoft, Amazon, Computer Science Teachers Association, College Board, and Excellence in Education Foundation, and other local tech and education organizations. launch of Be a Maker, an all-new mobile application that teaches children how to code by allowing them to program their Jibo robot. K-12 market.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2018

With the Trump administration prioritizing $200 million a year toward STEM and computer science education and tech giants including Microsoft , Google, Amazon and Facebook ponying up another $300 million , there may be opportunities for schools new to the idea of STEM to get started. . schools offer programming or coding classes. .

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

I certainly contributed to that with a post that I put out about a year ago called, Frickin’ Packets , which is all about this sort of trend that we have of teachers just making these massive packets of worksheets and just handing them out to students, and that’s sort of the way they deliver instruction.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Strayer is “bucking the trend,” says Inside Higher Ed. ” Via Techcrunch : “Comparing Apple , Google and Microsoft ’s education plays.” ” From the press release : “ Microsoft Education and Open Up Resources announce partnership to deliver top rated math curriculum.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

.” Via the Hechinger Report : “Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code?” Not education-related per se, but as I’m closely monitoring both the student loan and the blockchain hoopla as ed-tech trends – that is, all the investments investments and all the PR – I’ll drop this here.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The company, which makes educational and entertainment robots, has raised $520 million total.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

This isn’t simply a matter of “ robots are coming for your jobs.” The next day after the administration’s announcement, several tech giants – Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Salesforce, and other – said they would help fund the White House’s commitment to CS, to the tune of $300 million more.

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

” IHE blogger Joshua Kim offers “25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera.” ” (“Reinventing the transcript” seems to be one of the things folks are hoping to make “ trend ” this year.). ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. What’s Going On?”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 25, 2017

” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “ Teaching Robots to Learn Teaches the Students Too,” says Campus Technology. “ The ”gift" goes to the Gates Foundation – 64 million Microsoft shares. ” Via EDUCAUSE : “Trend Watch 2017: Which IT Trends Is Higher Education Responding To?”

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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.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Via Class Central : “A Product at Every Price: A Review of MOOC Stats and Trends in 2017.” ” Edsurge also has an article on Microsoft ’s press release : “Microsoft’s Many EDU Updates – and a Window of Opportunity to Win K–12 Market Share.” ” The firm: KPMG.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. Microsoft had a media event this week. Via The New York Times : “Microsoft Looks to Regain Lost Ground in the Classroom.” Here is the Microsoft blog post announcing its new products.

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

” Via the BBC : “ Accenture and Microsoft plan digital IDs for millions of refugees.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Edsurge : “Why a Robot-Filled Education Future May Not Be as Scary as You Think.” ” Via Axios : “Trump plans to scrap rule allowing foreign founders into U.S.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “Teaching Tech-Based Farming: Microsoft Backs Program for Ag Group’s 650,000 Students.” ” Oooh, I am sensing a trend here. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Swant, executive vice president for administration and finance. The company: RIB Software SE.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Via The Backchannel : “ Microsoft Weaponizes Minecraft in the War Over Classrooms.” ” “ 2016 E-Rate Trends.” ” “What Business-School Application Trends Say About the Economy” – at least according to The Wall Street Journal.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

I’m also curious how this news – again, I’m not sure two closures are really a “trend” – will affect student loan startups. Via Techcrunch : “ Microsoft’s Imagine Cup crowns its 15th winner, the X.GLU smart glucose meter for kids.” Microsoft plans to axe Microsoft Paint.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

“ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.” Microsoft must’ve paid the big bucks to have this announced at the opening session: “ISTE and Microsoft collaborate to provide new school planning and professional learning resources.” ” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

APRIL 27, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “Robotics is bringing Betsy DeVos to Detroit for the first time as education secretary.” For your “yes, Microsoft is still horrible files,” this from The Washington Post : “ E-waste recycler Eric Lundgren loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve 15-month prison term.”

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. for Robotics Contest.” Sensing a trend here? Via The New York Times : “To Close Digital Divide, Microsoft to Harness Unused Television Channels.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Education in the Courts. Contests and Awards.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Chatbot Instructors.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Princeton University and Microsoft have joined together to file a lawsuit against President Trump’s rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. One of those “trends” is surely “character development” (a.k.a. Immigration and Education. ” No.

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