eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Microsoft will invest $75 million over the next three years in initiatives to increase access to computer science education for youth. Microsoft’s Satya Nadella made the announcement during his keynote speech at Dreamforce, Salesforce’s annual gathering in San Francisco for its customers and partners.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Consider this statistic: As many as 8 million students were chronically absent from school during the 2015–2016 school year, up from 7.2 Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams, which already update students’ guardians about classroom and grade performance, can be adapted to share attendance records.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Consider this statistic: As many as 8 million students were chronically absent from school during the 2015–2016 school year, up from 7.2 Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams, which already update students’ guardians about classroom and grade performance, can be adapted to share attendance records.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Consider this statistic: As many as 8 million students were chronically absent from school during the 2015–2016 school year, up from 7.2 Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams, which already update students’ guardians about classroom and grade performance, can be adapted to share attendance records.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Consider this statistic: As many as 8 million students were chronically absent from school during the 2015–2016 school year, up from 7.2 Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams, which already update students’ guardians about classroom and grade performance, can be adapted to share attendance records.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Consider this statistic: As many as 8 million students were chronically absent from school during the 2015–2016 school year, up from 7.2 Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams, which already update students’ guardians about classroom and grade performance, can be adapted to share attendance records.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Consider this statistic: As many as 8 million students were chronically absent from school during the 2015–2016 school year, up from 7.2 Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams, which already update students’ guardians about classroom and grade performance, can be adapted to share attendance records.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Consider this statistic: As many as 8 million students were chronically absent from school during the 2015–2016 school year, up from 7.2 Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams, which already update students’ guardians about classroom and grade performance, can be adapted to share attendance records.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. The four focus areas include career credentialing, digital and adaptive learning platforms, STEM and computer science instructional tools and data analytic services for schools. The Fulton, Md.-based

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 10, 2015

In the first edition, the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) will speak with Rane Johnson-Stempson , principal research director at Microsoft. Johnson-Stempson just completed a study on how girls perceive the effort necessary to get them into or to stay in STEM studies and/or careers. EDT/10:00 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Only half of students who take college algebra score C or higher in the course, a 2015 report by the Mathematical Association of America noted. Math courses are “the most significant barrier to degree completion in both STEM and non-STEM fields,” the authors concluded. Algebra I is the air you breathe to be in STEM.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

Modeled in part on California’s High Tech High charter network, business-backed programs in Georgia and South Carolina and STEM programs in Massachusetts, the school are part of a growing push to more closely match the skills students gather in high school with workforce needs. million donation from H-E-B in 2016.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2021

The campaign comes as the rapid acceleration of digitization compels all industries to embrace innovation, increasing the importance of coding skills and overall investment in STEM. About.Tech Domains Launched in 2015,TECH is a leading new domain extension for the tech industry.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 17, 2016

Microsoft is particularly popular with educators, who say it builds problem-solving and critical thinking skills. In 2014, Microsoft purchased Minecraft from Mojang, the Stockholm, Sweden-based company that developed the game for a reported $2.5 MinecraftEdu Acquired by Microsoft. This allows us to focus on a larger scale.”.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2015

And in the past few weeks, Microsoft also expanded its own program, which now is operating in nearly 60 Washington schools. In Microsoft’s Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program, tech workers volunteer to help teach computer science in high schools across the nation. ©2015 The Seattle Times.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 29, 2015

Be on the lookout for future posts entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning and also 40 great education sites to discover in 2015. STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Whether that stemmed from issues at home, conflicts with their peers, or difficulty adjusting to middle school, many of their students needed a safe space to access social-emotional support and to learn new coping skills. in the 2015-16 school year, one year after the current Bear Cave location opened, yet spiking as high as 17.5%

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MindShift

JULY 13, 2021

Only half of students who take college algebra score C or higher in the course, a 2015 report by the Mathematical Association of America noted. Math courses are “the most significant barrier to degree completion in both STEM and non-STEM fields,” the authors concluded. Zyonne Reid, a 15-year-old at J.P.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I have some great posts coming your way involving PBL, STEM, tech integration.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We encourage proposals that also address visions or examples of Virtual Reality impacting adult education, STEM learning, the acquisition of marketable skills, workforce development, and unique learning environments. We encourage proposals that showcase effective uses of Virtual Reality in libraries, schools, and museums.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Around early 2015, stories also began to emerge of less-than-savory coding schools popping up around the country. For employers: If you asked me four years ago whether Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon would hire from coding bootcamps, I would have been only cautiously optimistic.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He is also a 2015 Barr Foundation Fellow, in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to greater Boston. In March 2015, the Aspen Institute appointed Hildreth a Communication and Society Program Fellow.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

He is also a 2015 Barr Foundation Fellow, in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to greater Boston. In March 2015, the Aspen Institute appointed Hildreth a Communication and Society Program Fellow.

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Wired Campus

DECEMBER 2, 2015

S**t Academics Say (@AcademicsSay) June 26, 2015. If Evernote and Dropbox aren’t for you, there are alternatives: Microsoft OneNote is an Evernote competitor that runs across platforms (not just on Windows devices) including tablets and phones. Or as one wise person on Twitter put it: I’m very busy.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

K-12 education, a number that’s been rising since 2013 and has been above 50 percent every year since 2015. This Chrome OS share, of course, has made Microsoft angry. percent in 2017, and has been just north of 20 percent every year since 2015. Reported percentages for quarters in 2018 appear to be similar. And determined.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

In 2015, fewer than 10 girls of any race took the AP Computer Science exam in ten states, and not a single African-American student took the exam in nine states, including Mississippi, where 50 percent of high school graduates are African-American. These women are not dropping out of the workforce; they are switching to non-STEM careers.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 7, 2022

In parallel with California public libraries, Westergard launched in Nevada the first State-wide learning program in American public libraries delivering augmented reality and virtual reality STEM content and equipment, resulting in immersive learning experiences for thousands of learners.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 23, 2022

In parallel with California public libraries, Westergard launched in Nevada the first State-wide learning program in American public libraries delivering augmented reality and virtual reality STEM content and equipment, resulting in immersive learning experiences for thousands of learners.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 15, 2022

In parallel with California public libraries, Westergard launched in Nevada the first State-wide learning program in American public libraries delivering augmented reality and virtual reality STEM content and equipment, resulting in immersive learning experiences for thousands of learners.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Diagrams of simple machines — a pulley, an inclined plane, a lever — appeared on the massive whiteboard of a school STEAM lab (STEM subjects plus Art) in South Fayette, a fast-growing suburb of Pittsburgh. SOUTH FAYETTE, PA. Some districts feel that the only way to raise test scores is to focus on the test,” Loughead said.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” Microsoft acquired Minecraft in 2015 – which probably speaks volumes right there about its progressive potential – and in January of this year, Microsoft bought TeacherGaming, the maker of a Minecraft version aimed at classroom usage. “Everyone should learn to code.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Not just the loss of Seymour Papert and Prince and David Bowie and Phife Dawg and Harper Lee and Gwen Ifill and Alan Rickman and Gene Wilder and Ursula Franklin and Scott Erik Kaufman and Jerome Bruner and Elie Wiesel and Alvin Toffler and Leonard Cohen (and many more), but the grief and the pain that stems from these and so many other losses.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Via Edsurge : “ Smithsonian Forms ‘Strategic Alliance’ With Carnegie Learning to Build New STEM Products.” ” 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.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Some of this is a matter of confusing upgrades for breakthroughs – Google updating Docs more regularly than Microsoft updates Office or Apple releasing a new iPhone every year might not be the best rationale for insisting we are experiencing rapid technological change. 1, February 2015. Works Cited : Christopher Phillips.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A state-court jury in Connecticut on Thursday sided with a fraternity whose house was closed by Wesleyan University in the fall of 2015 after the fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, resisted complying with a university mandate to admit women.”

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