Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

So she relies on support from William Barry, the philosophy instructor who records her delivering brief lectures for his undergraduate class on the ethics of emerging technology. She’s the namesake of Maria, a destructive robot character from the 1927 silent film “Metropolis.” I am told I am a robot for good every day.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2018

Earlier this week more than 18,000 attendees from 87 countries gathered in Chicago for ISTE, one of the largest K-12 education technology conferences and trade shows in the world. The company describes it as a “digital, adaptive personalized learning solution.” Look what the wind blew into the Windy City.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2019

Because this is my 13th FETC, I confidently walked into the conference center as a tour guide for an FETC first timer. The new and improved conference registration location is an upgrade from its previous place in the corner of the Expo floor. Not surprising is the continued focus on STEAM, STEM, coding, and robotics.

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

I delivered this talk today at the NMC Summer 2017 conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Thank you very much for inviting me to your conference. I spend a lot of time talking about what I call “the history of the future” of education technology. I’m interested in what we believe technology will do.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2020

Topics ran the gamut from the latest tech tools and personalized learning strategies to funding, supporting, and sustaining district technology initiatives. More than 20,000 attendees from around the world experienced unlimited opportunities to network, learn effective teaching strategies, share resources, and be inspired.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 29, 2023

As artificial intelligence reshapes the education landscape, teachers, parents, and students have an unprecedented opportunity to leverage these advanced tools to enhance and magnify personal learning, drive educational innovation, and support learning experiences and communities. series of mini-conferences and webinars.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

We heard about a few promising ideas at a conference I attended last week on artificial intelligence hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University. It enables children to use artificial intelligence to train and build robots. Druga talked about how kids first assumed the robots were super brainy.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

. – China’s state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda, and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. English AI looks like all the other talking heads sitting at a news desk, but the English-speaking anchor isn’t a person.

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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. The division now has 15 sales and consulting executives who work under Richards, offers nine different learning system bundles , and works with thousands of school districts.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

This is part ten of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Perhaps it’s no surprise that there was so much talk this year about education, technology, and emotional health. How Game-Based Learning Encourages Growth Mindset ” (that’s sponsored content from MangaHigh.com).

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Technology Education Facebook Company 67

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Edtech gatherings that attract more than 1,000 attendees, such as LearnLaunch’s Across Boundaries Conference last week in Boston, are usually echo chambers of hubbub and hoopla about technology’s potential to transform education. Throughout the conference sessions, there were no shortages of ideas on how to address those issues.

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Hack Education

JUNE 21, 2020

I gave this keynote this morning at the ICLS Conference, not in Nashville as originally planned (which is a huge bummer as I really want some hot chicken). It was October 29, 2019 when I sent the conference organizers my title and abstract. Do people still imagine, do people still believe that technology is the silver bullet?

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

I was picking up a lot of technical skills along the way but never thought of it as learning. I'm a technology integrationist and I'm part of an educator group called MidMN , named for our location in central Minnesota. Fast forward to 2018.

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User Generated Education

JULY 2, 2017

Articles, resources on social media, and conference presentations on these topics are proliferating at a rate that most educators are now familiar with maker education. Second, the regular classroom teacher or librarian may be intimidated with these advanced tools and technologies.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 4, 2015

There are a lot of folks on the vendor floor at national conferences who will sell you products that supposedly personalize learning, and much of the buzz around something like Khan Academy is that it personalizes the learning for kids. That’s the model of personalization we want to see schools move toward.

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Edsurge

JULY 4, 2017

On the floor of the ISTE conference, it’s easy to meet educators and administrators from all over the country (and the world at large). I think technology should be humanizing our kids, not dehumanizing them. Blanca Herrera: Here it is: personalized learning. EdSurge: So, what are you sick of?

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techlearning

JUNE 11, 2018

One of my biggest takeaways from the FETC conference in January was seeing the Root robot live. Basically, Root is everything I was looking for in a coding robot, and I could not wait to try it out. What you want to know is my first impressions of the robot, right? Well, let's say its good, REALLY GOOD.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2019

Chief Mascot Ronald confided with EdSurge that it is considering integrating that technology with school information systems to tweak Happy Meals based on how well children do in school. Coming soon: Naughty Meals DAZED AND CONFUSED: No idea what personalized learning is? A secret, patented technology reduces eye strain.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

What followed was an amazing example of student motivation, creativity, resourcefulness and personalized learning at its best. Personalized learning can muddy the waters as students (and their teachers) navigate through uncharted territory. As I began considering the challenges, I realized there were quite a few of them.

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Personalized Learning Robotics Course Elementary 88

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Many charter networks here, including Crescent City Schools, Firstline, ReNEW, and KIPP, have embraced an educational philosophy known as “personalized learning.”. Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

AI is only as good as the information and values of the programmers who design it, and their biases can ultimately lead both to flaws in the technology and to amplified biases in the real world. This was the topic at the conference “Where Does Artificial Intelligence Fit in the Classroom?”

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Childress urged conference goers to “resist saying that we shouldn’t try things that aren’t proven,” even as she added that innovators should “resist saying that the systems are too broken.” For us, it’s really about enabling learning.” Can we build common ground without tough conversations? Many transferred for sure, but many didn’t.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 13, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update May 13th Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners in the learning professions. Read more at [link]. Join the session here.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Few technologists have championed the role of big data, personalized learning and many other education buzzwords as vociferously and for as long as Jose Ferreira. Ferreira’s decision marks the end of a nearly nine-year run at Knewton, where he strived to build technology to pinpoint what students know, don’t know and should learn next.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms. But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Please mark your calendars for November 18 - 22 for the fourth annual Global Education Conference ( [link] ). The Global Education Conference is a collaborative, inclusive, world-wide community initiative involving students, educators, and organizations at all levels. but we''re raring to go now, and we hope you are, too!

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Conference Education Pearson Technology 59

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Campus Technology : “The University of North Dakota has teamed up with for-profit training company Woz U to provide short-term technology education programs.” Contests and Conferences. Or something.

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Education Robotics Pearson Company 54

techlearning

JULY 12, 2018

– Lexia Learning today announced that its online literacy program Lexia PowerUp Literacy (PowerUp) received Tech & Learning’s 2018 ISTE Best of Show award. The awards were presented at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) annual conference in Chicago. For more information, visit.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition). No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2017

I fear that as teachers we quickly assume the next great technological innovation will be the silver bullet that makes teaching easy and effective, capturing the attention of all the students in our rooms and making our job easier. I utilize and try to maximize technology in my teaching everyday. I coach a VEX robotics team.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions. The deal pairs ENA’s comprehensive infrastructure technology and support services with CatchOn’s unique software as a service tool that delivers essential data about ed tech usage in U.S.

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Tools Robotics Software Microsoft 50

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A key conversation focuses on weighing its benefits versus risks, and many education institutions have been quick to implement bans on the technology altogether for fears of plagiarism in written works. As technology continues to evolve, the education industry has immense opportunities to harness these new applications.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Alex Seage built a career leading technology and innovation in the cruise industry, which also provided him with a deep understanding of the technology needed to improve the experience for cruise guests. Nominee: Alex Seage, Christopher Columbus High School Nominated by: Samsung Electronics America.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2018

Every two weeks I would conference with each student individually to learn about how their research was progressing. Lenny, an Intel semi-finalist who launched rockets in a park and built a robot in his bedroom, is a technical staff member at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory where he provides analysis to the U.S.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

The products below were selected by an anonymous panel of educator judges, who scoured the exhibit hall floor during the conference in Chicago. The judges rated their impressions on a sliding scale, evaluating areas such as quality and effectiveness, ease of use and creative use of technology.

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edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

How do you approach purchasing education technology tools? They not only look at how the product would fit with their learning standards and curriculum, but the product must also work within their LMS. Dr. Daryl Diamond is the director of innovative learning in Broward County Public Schools. About the Presenters. and Mark C.

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Chalkbeat : “ Betsy DeVos ’s first Detroit visit featured Girl Scouts, robots, and talk of beluga whales.” Facebook had its big developer conference this week, and honestly I couldn’t bear to pay attention.

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