This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
I am learning about many things I haven’t had time to explore during the busy pandemic season and beginning to share many things on socialmedia and here relating to autonomous vehicles, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Blockchain, Robotics, Drones, AI and so many technologies that will truly transform our world.
Also mention the add-ons you can use such as robotics, Arduino, or 3D printing. . This includes not just Google Apps and Microsoft Office but webtools for digital storytelling, coding, backchannel devices, digital notetaking, programming, Scratch, and others. In this section, also include all of your socialmedia contacts.
Luckily there are edtech experts who are sharing strategies and tools through blog posts, socialmedia, books, courses and podcasts. She is a Google for Education Certified Trainer and Educator Level 2, a Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Master Trainer and Expert, a Minecraft Certified Trainer, a Ha?para Dr. Monica Burns.
Test Adobe Spark, free for educators and a user-friendly tool for creating video, socialmedia graphics and web pages. In Georgia’s Columbia County School District , for example, students in teacher Erica Cox’s class use Google Drawings and other G Suite apps to illustrate and create presentations. . In the Beaverton (Ore.)
Also mention the add-ons you can use such as robotics, Arduino, or 3D printing. . This includes not just Google Apps and Microsoft Office but webtools for digital storytelling, coding, backchannel devices, digital notetaking, programming, Scratch, and others. In this section, also include all of your socialmedia contacts.
From the multinational companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Discovery Education, Asus, Lego, or Intel, to small, single-product companies, they all made Bett the excellent conference it was. I saw robots, drones, VR sets, Augmented Reality apps, interactive screens, and even a real-size yellow school bus filled with computers.
Access to technology like 3D printers, robotics kits or other digital tools can also be communicated, along with the PD resources needed to get educators up and running. Communicating that there is online PD available through emails and socialmedia is an important step in launching a program.
He then went on to work at Apple, Microsoft and Google, where he served as president of Google China. He’s written eight top-selling books in China and has more than 50 million followers on socialmedia. Not in terms of the science-fiction robot overlords. Originally from Taiwan, he came the U.S.
Vicki has spoken in hundreds of locations worldwide, including Harvard’s Berkman Center, Princeton, Microsoft, and Google, as well as conferences both in the US and internationally. Karen is mom to two college-aged sons, wife to an entrepreneur/ woodworker, loves to travel, and coaches robotics in her spare time.
CLASSLINK ONESYNC ( WWW.CLASSLINK.COM/ONESYNC ) ClassLink OneSync is an account provisioning software that automatically imports student information system (SIS) and human resources user lists into Microsoft Active Directory, Google Directory and Office365. The judges recommended the 2-1 for its construction, strength, and approachable price.
Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” Via The New York Times : “ Microsoft to Cut Up to 4,000 Sales and Marketing Jobs.” More via The NYT : “Harassment in the Tech Industry: Voices Grow on SocialMedia.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.
Participants are encouraged to use #library2024 and #Library2035 on their socialmedia posts about the event. She has previously served as Professor and Director of the SJSU School of Information and has worked in the Silicon Valley at HP Labs, Microsoft, and LinkedIn. AI, VR/AR, Robots, etc.)
Vicki has spoken in hundreds of locations worldwide, including Harvard’s Berkman Center, Princeton, Microsoft, and Google, as well as conferences both in the US and internationally. Karen is mom to two college-aged sons, wife to an entrepreneur/ woodworker, loves to travel, and coaches robotics in her spare time.
Participants are encouraged to use #library2024 and #aiandlibraries on their socialmedia posts about the event. Building the highly successful TechConnect program, Dr. McNeil has established partnerships with Apple, Spotify, Google, and Microsoft to name a few. OPENING KEYNOTE PANEL: Ray Pun, Ed.D.,
“ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ socialmedia activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own socialmedia surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.
The idea that a robot can replace teachers is laughable. Read news stories, follow the conversation on socialmedia, and explore some of the many free resources available online. Well, as a mother of two rambunctious kids, I think certainly not. But can it be used as a low-cost, highly scalable tutoring supplement?
Although this quote mentions Microsoft, the same would apply to Google applications and many others. We have already lost so much human connection to our “apps” and socialmedia to the detriment of our children and young people. Robots will move so fast that you need a strobe light to see them.
Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of socialmedia; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.” Pearson is Not a Platform.
Previously, she was a Technology Integrator at Sacred Heart teaching robotics and programming to 5th through 7th grades and supporting the faculty''s technology and integration needs. Karen also taught 7th grade Math at The Dalton School and 7th/8th grade Math at LaBrum Middle School, a public school in Philadelphia.
Although no doubt, Microsoft, now the owner of Minecraft, would like us all to repeat that particular storyline.) Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. That this is how a venture capitalist would characterize the future of education is, nonetheless, quite notable.
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.
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. .
“ Apple and Microsoft Now Offer $100 Styluses. ” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” Via Edsurge : “Transcription and Accessibility – New Partnerships from Microsoft and Amazon.”
Anil Dash and Gina Trapani announced they’re closing down their socialmedia analytics product ThinkUp. That is, major socialmedia platforms like Facebook and Twitter increasingly made it difficult for ThinkUp to work with their APIs. Who owns your data – whether it’s socialmedia or school-related?
” Via The Nation : “ Trump’s Border Security May Search Your SocialMedia by ‘Tone’ ” Via Education Week : “Setback for DACA Supporters Places Program’s Fate Squarely in Trump’s Hands.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Venture Capital and the Business of Ed-Tech.
.” 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.
” 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.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” asks Edsurge.
No surprise, it’s the certificate offered by LinkedIn-owner Microsoft. Microsoft first launched these in 1992 , but let’s all pretend like the learn-to-code alt-certification thing is brand new. ” “Students, Directory Information , and SocialMedia – Part 2” by Bill Fitzgerald.
” For those keeping track of how great socialmedia is for the future of education and knowledge and civics and such: “Last Year, SocialMedia Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries ,” says the MIT Technology Review. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Edsurge : “Help!
tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using socialmedia. ” Via The Tennessean : “ Belmont University ousted a student Tuesday after he made a socialmedia post using the N-word to describe black NFL football players, who he said needed a ‘bullet in their head.’” Heckuva job.
was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on socialmedia.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on socialmedia or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.
Related, from the SocialMedia Collective : “Spike in Online Gig Work : Flash in the Pan or Future of Employment?” Via abc.net.au : “ Queensland children as young as four will learn coding and robotics as a compulsory part of their education from next year.” ”). . Lee Partners.
.” IHE blogger Joshua Kim offers “25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Via NPR : “How Schools Across The Country Are Working To Detect Threats Made On SocialMedia.” What’s Going On?”
” After someone noticed that Microsoft had boasted that it was working with ICE , Nitasha Tiku says that “Microsoft’s Ethical Reckoning Is Here.” “ Microsoft backpedals on VR promise,” says Techcrunch. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Microsoft has acquired Flipgrid.
” Via The Verge : “ Microsoft secures $480 million HoloLens contract from US Army.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” The latest research from Pew : “ Teens’ SocialMedia Habits and Experiences.” State and Local) Education Politics. The NYT obit : “ Harold O.
” It’s 2017 and many critics agree that socialmedia is full of trolls and harassers, that it helps subvert democracies here and abroad, but hey: “To Teach Digital Citizenship Effectively, Educators Say It’s Time to Unblock SocialMedia ,” says Edsurge. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.
” 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. Maybe socialmedia is broken, Cathy O’Neil suggests. But anyway… Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.
Meanwhile on Campus… The New York Times on “How the Parkland Students Got So Good at SocialMedia ” – a really important corrective, I’d argue, to that “digital native” silliness. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. When has that ever stopped anyone? PHEW, RIGHT? Student Groups.”
“ Microsoft Hopes to Revive Its Education Tablet Efforts With the New $399 Surface Go,” says Edsurge. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” The Pew Research Center on “ Activism in the SocialMedia Age.” Content warning: contains hype about “ mindsets.”
” 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.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Yik Yak had raised $73.5
Via The Guardian : “ Student Loans Company ‘spied on vulnerable students’ socialmedia’ ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “Teaching Tech-Based Farming: Microsoft Backs Program for Ag Group’s 650,000 Students.” More via AJC.
Buzzfeed has more on the FTC complaint filed over the My Friend Cayla doll and the I-Que robot: these toys “collect personal information from children and send it to a software company that contracts with military and intelligence agencies.” ” “So-So SocialMedia Privacy?
Of course, teachers have utilized socialmedia sites for years to launch various side-hustles — speaking gigs and “ brand ambassadorships ”, for example — as well as to facilitate their main hustle — you know, teaching. The incident, she added, had also made her aware that “Pearson is monitoring all socialmedia during PARCC testing.”
” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Microsoft has acquired GitHub. Here’s the NYT headline : “Microsoft Buys GitHub for $7.5 More on the latest Pew study on teens and socialmedia – I noted it in last week’s round-up – in Education Week and by Bryan Alexander.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 34,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content