Doug Levin

JUNE 22, 2018

School Surveillance: The Consequences for Equity and Privacy (National Association of State Boards of Education, November 2016). Related press coverage: When the Robot Doesn’t See Dark Skin (New York Times, June 21, 2018). More recently, the Lockport City School District (NY) announced plans to spend $1.4

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition). Tagged on: August 26, 2017 The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher | The New York Times → Why is educational technology such a disappointment? No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition). Tagged on: August 26, 2017 The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher | The New York Times → Why is educational technology such a disappointment? No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

At the end of June, eSpark joined the thousands of district and edtech leaders headed to Denver, CO to meet innovative educators and discuss the current state of technology in schools. Working Towards Equity with Edtech. Over the course of the week, three themes dominated the conversation. Keeping it simple.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2019

Some things were once simpler: Edtech pitches used to concentrate on either the K-12 or higher education market. Here are my reflections from playing edtech judge for a morning. The emergence of these tools in “edtech” reflects the belief that perhaps the most tangible and important benefit of education may be to get a good job.

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eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

At the end of June, eSpark joined the thousands of district and edtech leaders headed to Denver, CO to meet innovative educators and discuss the current state of technology in schools. Working Towards Equity with Edtech. Over the course of the week, three themes dominated the conversation. Keeping in simple.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 17, 2019

Teachers do not need computer science degrees to engage, enhance and extend student coding experiences due to the abundance of easily accessible creative coding and robotics programs. Dash and Dot are programmable robots that target students in grades K-8 with progression apps that are customizable for optimal learning in the classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2018

Cambridge Analytica was able to take that quarter million accounts that it had permission to look at from Facebook and mine fifty million accounts to look at trends and how people thought about politics and then potentially use that to move the 2016 election in different ways. Vicki: Yeah. That’s part of the Validate piece of my P.R.O.V.E.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2016

17 Things for Teachers to Try in 2017 #SUL #edtech Click To Tweet. Last year’s most popular post on Shake Up Learning was, “ 16 Things for Teachers to Try in 2016.” In December of 2016, Matt Miller of DitchThatTextbook.com and I announced our joint venture: The Google Teacher Tribe Podcast ! Program a Robot.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Robotics Engineer. Writing again for Slate in 2016, Fiesler had a positive take on “Game Developer Barbie,” a doll released that year. Another of Vedati’s challenges is perhaps all too familiar for edtech companies: creating personalized learning experiences for each child on the platform. Pastry Chef.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2021

In early 2016, Osmo began our division by forming a sales team, a conference strategy, plus a Classroom Kit for schools, which really took off. Projector App is the 2020 recipient of EdTech Breakthrough Awards’ “eLearning Innovation of the Year.”. It’s come a long way since!”

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 29, 2016

This year, our library is fortunate to have a robotics loan from Birdbrain Technologies. We have 12 Finch robots that we are using throughout the year for coding experiences for our students. Currently, a group of 2nd-5th graders are meeting every Friday for one hour to learn to code these robots and create projects with them.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2017

At the 2016 CES conference, an electronics and consumer tech tradeshow, BrainCo’s Focus 1 device flopped in a live demo, which attempted to use human brainwaves detected by the headband to control a robotic hand. But the company has also faced less enthusiastic reviews. Was it ever actually reading the brainwaves at all?”

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The post The Ultimate Teacher Gift Guide 2016 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. The 2016 Ultimate Teacher Gift Guide has a little something for every educator on your list, and this list includes practical and affordable options as well as more expensive dream items. edtech #k12 #teaching Click To Tweet. Gifts Under $100.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Vicki has received numerous awards, including being named a “Top Global Edruptor” by ICS research for 2021 and 2022, being named a top edtech influencer on Twitter, and winning the BAMMY Award for Top Education Podcast Host. In 2022, Vicki was named STAR teacher for her school, region, and district.

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Adam Welcome

MAY 15, 2016

1 we have a coding class in our 6th grade rotation and all students participate in the #hourofcode #mdusdchat — Kevin Honey (@mrkhoney) May 11, 2016 Coding Unwrapped: Coding is fun, but that doesn’t mean it should be relegated to one hour a year in school. Check out this article New EdTech Resource. Robots are cool.

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Tech Helpful

MARCH 18, 2018

In the spring of 2016 our school was approached by a parent that wanted more STEAM opportunities for his daughters to take place at our school. Until this parent shared not only his vision but created funding opportunities, I just dreamed about integrating coding, robotics, circuitry, etc into our curriculum- the funding just wasn't there.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year. announced the U.S. K-12 market.

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ASIDE

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

For our middle schoolers, who are often nervous about recording their own voices, the choice of a “robot” narrator was a blessing in and of itself. And the superb narrative options allow users either to upload their own voices or to select from two automated personas.

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Adam Welcome

JUNE 13, 2016

1 we have a coding class in our 6th grade rotation and all students participate in the #hourofcode #mdusdchat — Kevin Honey (@mrkhoney) May 11, 2016 Coding Unwrapped: Coding is fun, but that doesn’t mean it should be relegated to one hour a year in school. Check out this article New EdTech Resource. Robots are cool.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 23, 2016

A photo posted by GA Department of Education (@georgiadeptofed) on Jan 18, 2016 at 4:39am PST. I filled out the quick application, and within a few weeks, I was notified that I was selected for the week of January 18-22, 2016. A photo posted by GA Department of Education (@georgiadeptofed) on Jan 18, 2016 at 5:49am PST.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

com ) & ( www.bvlp.com ) & ( www.schoolmint.com ) Hero K12 and BV Investment Partners announced SchoolMint will be joining their EdTech Platform. The company has partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits and provides online monitoring software to schools.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

million recent STEM grads as of 2016; India had 2.6 Engineering students can see and learn the functioning of a machine or robotics. And introducing STEM curriculum in the K-12 years is the right way to go about it, as young minds are impressionable and full of curiosity. Related: Top 7 Innovations in K-12 Education.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Vicki has received numerous awards, including being named a “Top Global Edruptor” by ICS research for 2021 and 2022, being named a top edtech influencer on Twitter, and winning the BAMMY Award for Top Education Podcast Host. In 2022, Vicki was named STAR teacher for her school, region, and district.

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In the 2015-2016 school year, in decision with our fifth grade teachers, the fifth grade became a 1:1 required BYOT iPad grade. 2016-2017 brought another tremendous change to the lower school due to a grant for STEAM experiences. After school this year our STEAM coordinator has offered circuitry and robotics clubs as well.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

What’s next in edtech? At about half the price of Mindstorms Kits , you can build and code interactive, motorized robots, models and creations with distance, color and tilt sensor technologies with this new kit. EdTechTeam produced professional development experiences in 10 languages for over 88,000 educators in 2016.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The company, which makes educational and entertainment robots, has raised $520 million total. ” More via The NYT : “Uber Hid 2016 Breach, Paying Hackers to Delete Stolen Data.” ” Spoiler alert: AI doesn’t care. HopSkipDrive has raised $7.4

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User Generated Education

JULY 2, 2017

They often contain the tools, machinery, and technologies associated with making – 3D printers, laser cutters, vinyl cutters, high tech robotics, vocational tech machinery. As Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame noted in his 2016 Bay Area Maker Faire talk: What is making? There are lots of results that are good that come from making.

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Edsurge

JULY 4, 2017

You can discuss edtech implementation strategies, hear about favorite tools, and get to know those practices that teachers are excited to bring back to their students. From “blended learning” to digital worksheets, below are a collection of comments from ten educators about their biggest edtech pet peeves.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2016

5 Lessons Video Games Can Teach EdTech Developers. Teachers Report Sharp Growth in Game-Based Learning by District Administration (July 2016) – reports that 48% of classroom teachers report using games in classroom instruction in 2015. How an NBA Board Game is Getting Middle Schoolers to Care about Math – October 2016.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A decade ago, I was a high school English teacher blissfully naive to what radical changes were coming thanks to edtech. Consider the following developments in artificial intelligence: In 2016, the Associated Press began outsourcing its minor-league baseball dispatches to a company called Automated Insights. Can a robot be whimsical?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Our founding sponsor International Education Resources Network (IEARN) will continue to support us for the 2016 Global Education Conference. Principal, St. iEARN is also joined by other major supporters, TES , Google for Education , and VIF International Education. See our other sponsors, supporters, and partners on the conference website.

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 15, 2016

Harry Moore School of NJCU in Jersey City, the teachers and EdTech Doctoral Candidates – Stephanie Talalai , Wendy Thompson , and Trish Holzman who planned the Hour of Code week – began with a kickoff assembly. AHM Teaching Assistant Bianca Gonzales assists students in recording a message on their bb8 robot.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2018

But as recently as 2016, a Gallup research poll conducted by Google found that only 40 percent of U.S. SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! Within District 36, Burleson explains, “We have buckets of technology: construction, robotics, circuitry and electronics, and coding.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2017

I suspect the spark for them was Bernie Sanders’ proposal during the 2016 presidential campaign, as that clearly resonated with many voters, especially younger ones, and was soon revised and taken up by Hillary Clinton’s team. Related to this development was the rise of what I think of as Social Justice Edtech.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” ’” Via Edsurge : “School’s Out for the Latest Y Combinator Batch, and Here’s What Its Edtech Graduates Are Up to.” ” Gotta keep hyping that VR thing.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Geek Dad : “Little Robot Friends Teach Kids to Code With Empathy.” ” Predictions from investor Tom Vander Ark : “Not Much New in EdTech in 2017; 3 Things Could Change That in 2018.” ” Empathy?! .”

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