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Tech Start-Ups Find a Home on the Prairie - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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  • Pearl Phaovisaid on 23 Nov 12
     
    Emerging technology has had a strong geographical component. With Google Fiber up and running in Kansas City and tech start-ups burgeoning in Des Moines, we may see yet another wellspring of innovation in the Midwest. This could have significant implications on rural education and agtech.
  • Danna Ortiz on 23 Nov 12
     
    There were numerous communities in Colorado that tried to lure Google Fiber; it looks like it's paying off for KC. It would be interesting to see the tech start-up numbers in comparison to other US locales. I would like more details as to why only two regions increased their share of angel investors.
  • Pearl Phaovisaid on 24 Nov 12
     
    My guess is that insufficient momentum or critical mass exists in other regions, Danna. The article mentions the Southwest and Great Plains as two regions with an increase in angel investors. The Southwest probably represents spillover from Silicon Valley, while the Great Plains benefits from large metropolitan areas, good universities, and a concentration of young professional residents. I also think that tech start-ups and VC firm naturally promote the growth of one another.
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The Newest Companies Coming Out Of Incubators: EdTech | Fast Company - 3 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 28 Oct 11
     
    Three long-time Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, veterans from Yahoo, Sun Microsystems, and Google, started funding education start-ups last Spring. Their incubator, Imagine K12, has now "graduated" its first group of startups. If accepted, Imagine K12 give $15k to $20k to startups and empower them with "dazzling network of connections."
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Our View: Online education and universities - Pasadena Star-News - 0 views

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  • JUST as the University of California prepares to announce its first group of fully online courses for its undergraduates, the California State University announced this week that it, too, will begin to expand its computer-based options for its 412,000 students.
  • Maung Nyeu on 02 Nov 11
     
    One of nations best University systems, University of California, is about to start its first group of fully online courses for undergraduates. At the same time, the California State Universities (CSU) starting its computer-based options for its 412,000 students. Currently, there are master's degrees in 63 disciplines entirely online. Some educators are skeptical and raise concern on cheating and of "walmartaization" of CSU education.
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How to start a successful virtual learning program - 2 views

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  • Tommie Anthony Henderson on 13 Dec 11
     
    Virtual learning can help districts address many needs, such as filling a gap between courses a school offers and courses students might want to take but aren't currently offered-and a new report offers insights on starting a virtual learning program from a number of seasoned experts.
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Mobile phone boom in developing world could boost e-learning | Global development | gua... - 1 views

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  • Carine Abi Akar on 01 Oct 12
     
    Along the lines of the discussions we've been having on the isites, mobile learning has major potential in the developing world. "Mobile phones are increasingly ubiquitous in poor countries, which now account for FOUR IN EVERY FIVE connections worldwide". This means that almost everyone owns or has access to a mobile phone. How can we leverage this reality? Well, we can't impose anything that requires a smart phone, since most of these mobile phones cannot access 3G or wifi networks. Perhaps we can start to send podcasts as voice notes? Audio wikis of information sent via sms? In-phone calculators for math homework completion? I think all we need is an educational system that supports this type of learning, and m-learning can possible change the face of education in the developing world. 
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Burlington High School Help Desk | A student run genius bar - 0 views

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  • Irina Uk on 18 Nov 12
     
    This is a website created by Burlington High School students that are taking a class called Help Desk. In the class they run a help desk to help teachers learn and integrate current technology into classrooms. This was administration's response at Burlington to teachers needing support in incorporating web 2.0 tools into curriculum when they started a one to one device system.
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Pitt assists startups with education tech focus - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 0 views

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  • Danna Ortiz on 18 Dec 12
     
    The Univ of Pittsburg is becoming an ed tech incubator.  They're starting with two products:  SWord a cloud-based peer review program and CE Agent a smart phone app that manages nurses' continuing ed credits.
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Badges for Lifelong Learning: An Open Conversation - YouTube - 3 views

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  • Steve Henderson on 09 Feb 13
     
    Badge learning video - I've started the challenge to earn a badge in badge learning over at P2PU. :-)
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JumpStart partners with Dreamworks - 1 views

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  • Cole Shaw on 05 Oct 12
     
    JumpStart will now sell educational games aligned with Dreamworks themes...is this the start of large-scaled commercialization of educational games? Is this one way that ed tech companies can become profitable, via advertising tie-ins?
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Guess who's winning the brains race, with 100% of first graders learning to code? | Ven... - 1 views

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  • Angela Nelson on 05 Sep 12
     
    Program in Estonia designed to have all students age 7 to 16 learn to write code in a drive to turn children from consumers to developers of technology.
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  • Heather French on 05 Sep 12
     
    I just posted an article from Wired onto twitter about this! http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/estonia-reprograms-first-graders-as-web-coders/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=twitterclickthru I wonder how deeply the program goes in coding or if it is more in line with applications like "Move the Turtle".
  • Angela Nelson on 05 Sep 12
     
    I am very curious, as well, and trying to find more information. I think it would necessarily be a program that expands with their comprehension and maturity... starting with very basic "Move the Turtle" applications and then grown with the student, hopefully to real world application, as they go until age 16!
  • Jeffrey Siegel on 06 Sep 12
     
    Who initiated this ProgreTiiger program? The Estonian government? Local IT companies? Concerned parents who disparately wanted their children to learn to code? Estonia is very wired country and it's economy has found a niche in IT services, so much so that it's even been dubbed "eStonia" (http://e-estonia.com/). This program seems to be an example of market forces guiding educational policy since there are clear incentives for it's population to be technologically literate to ensure it's competitiveness and dominance in the tech sector (see: The Many Reasons Estonia Is a Tech Start-Up Nation (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303734204577464343888754210.html) A little blurb on how "plug-in" Estonia actually is: "The geeks have triumphed in this country of 1.3 million. Some 40 percent read a newspaper online daily, more than 90 percent of bank transactions are done over the Internet, and the government has embraced online voting. The country is saturated in free Wi-Fi, cell phones can be used to pay for parking or buy lunch, and Skype is taking over the international phone business from its headquarters on the outskirts of Tallinn. In other words, Estonia - or eStonia, as some citizens prefer - is like a window into the future. Someday, the rest of the world will be as wired as this tiny Baltic nation." (http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_estonia) p.s. I hate sensational titles like "Guess Who's Winning the Brain's Race" Learning coding doesn't automatically make your brain bigger or necessarily increase your intelligence. Sure, it's a very useful skill, but I wonder what classes will be cut out to make time in the school day for coding. Coding vs recess: Tough call.
  • Irina Uk on 06 Sep 12
     
    Hmmm.... I read about Estonia being very plugged in as well. I wonder if there is research on whether the kids are actually learning better as a result. I think that you have a point Jeffrey. It depends what the cost is. If kids are missing some critical lesson because they are coding at such a young age, there may be a trade-off. On the other hand, maybe the skills they are obtaining from coding are more critical. I wonder...
  • Angela Nelson on 06 Sep 12
     
    Ideally, the tech skills would be used to enhance and deepen some of the other curriculum areas. But, yes, 7 years old may be young.
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SkyView - Explore the Universe for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (4th gen... - 0 views

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  • Adrian Melia on 09 Sep 12
     
    I just started using this on my iPad - it shows you where all the stars and planets are as well as the ISS - basically a planetarium on your mobile device that you can use to find things in the sky in the day or night
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EduRobots: On the Distant Horizon | The New Media Consortium - 2 views

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  • Cole Shaw on 09 Sep 12
     
    How soon will robots become yet another part of the educational technology arsenal? Seems like people have talked about using robots forever (Roomba!), but they are starting to come over the horizon (drones, Mars probes, autonomous cars). Perhaps soon into the classroom?
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Lean Start-Ups Reach Beyond Silicon Valley's Turf - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 06 Dec 11
     
    "applying computer vision to agriculture" - pure innovation
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Kindergarten kids: A pencil, eraser and an iPad | ZDNet - 1 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 27 Dec 11
     
    Some schools start introducing technologies early, iPad is being used. Teachers believe that as long as the use of devices controlled properly, it will be beneficial for children's learning.
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Hewlett Packard's Corporate Global Vision | Fast Company - 0 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 19 Jan 12
     
    Hewlett Packard, Inc. started a global initiative to make the best use of technology to advance STEM.
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Teacher Training Should Start Before iPad Deployment -- THE Journal - 3 views

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  • Bridget Binstock on 10 Nov 11
     
    Many of you have read my "rants" about buying iPads before the teacher's even know what to do with them. This article speaks to the need for Professional Development before full scale implementation.
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Parents of Sippican and Old Rochester Regional Schools - 0 views

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  • Chris McEnroe on 10 Nov 11
     
    This is a Facebook page started by parents at our local Elementary school about school.
  • Chris McEnroe on 10 Nov 11
     
    Much of the conversation seems reasonable enough but it will be interesting to see how adults can model public conversation. I'm not comfortable with having adult conversation displayed for kids within the school environment. I think that this is the equivalent of parents fighting in front of their children. Kids don't process it in a healthy manner and adults who do it I think do so for their own convenience and at the peril of kids. I think if adult in this community can be disciplined in their comments and stick strictly to logistical information with the understanding that kids are watching (FB will never replace parent oversight), it may be a useful tool. I also think the only way teachers can influence this page is by jumping on and using it to communicate because it seems to me that is the real "ask" in establishing the page.
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Cable cos. to offer $9.95 broadband for poor homes - WSJ.com - 0 views

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  • Bharat Battu on 09 Nov 11
     
    Cable companies, as part of a new FCC initiative, will be offering broadband internet to homes with children who are elgible for free school lunches.  The initiative is called "Connect-to-Compete". While having broadband at the home isn't the same as always on, mobile internet available wirelessly for students wherever they are on any device they happen to have on them, this is a good start to lessen digital exclusion for these groups
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ePals Enables SchoolSafe Access to Third-Party Applications Starting with Microsoft Off... - 0 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 13 Nov 11
     
    LearningSpace, a new tool from ePals that is also COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) and FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) compliant, provides K-12 appropriate selective access to the applications within a protected, customizable social learning environment. Schools and districts can customize the rules and policies that determine which groups, classes and projects have access to third-party applications.
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