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| Oct 4, 2021 | Do You Need to Go to College to Work in Crypto? | Against all authority
“I told my parents, I’m willing to die on this hill. I don’t want to go on with this because it’s just about ticking boxes. My dad happened to agree.
“We went to the school, I think it was on my 16th birthday, and I wi... |
| Jun 15, 2021 | The Long and Surprising History of ‘Teaching Machines’ | Long before the advent of personal computers, inventors and researchers created what they called “teaching machines” in hopes of revolutionizing education. Some of these creations date back to the 1920s, and were made from wood and brass.
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| Apr 12, 2020 | Do you even 10-key, bro? Our homage to the classic keyboard standard | Enlarge
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| May 18, 2019 | Гений и филантроп: проекты сооснователя Coursera | О том, в каких проектах участвовал Эндрю Ын и чем он занимается сейчас.
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Ещё в 2008 году MIT Review включил Эндрю Ына в список перспективных изобретателей младше 35 лет. Тогда он раб... |
| Jan 31, 2018 | After a rocky 2017, what does the future hold for coding schools? | Almost 23,000 Americans graduated from code schools last year, a more than 900 percent increase since 2012, according to Course Report, a company that studies trends and attendance at nearly 100 code schools across the U.S.
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| Dec 22, 2017 | Beyond Design Thinking: Why Education Entrepreneurs Need to Think in Systems | For the last few years, design thinking has been in vogue. I’ve worked for three years as a member of the team designing and running +Acumen courses. In 2013, we launched an “Introduction to Human-Centered Design course” with IDEO.org which... |
| Dec 22, 2017 | Beyond Design Thinking: Why Education Entrepreneurs Need to Think in Systems | For the last few years, design thinking has been in vogue. I’ve worked for three years as a member of the team designing and running +Acumen courses. In 2013, we launched an “Introduction to Human-Centered Design course” with IDEO.org which... |
| Oct 25, 2017 | Holberton gets backing from more industry executives as it looks to scale its software engineering school | Coding schools and bootcamps were booming a few years ago. But many of them only offered entry-level education, and quite a few of them are now shutting down. From the beginning, Holberton always aimed to stay above this fray by branding it... |
| Sep 22, 2017 | Forget what you’ve been told about edtech | Patrick Brothers Contributor
Patrick Brothers is the CEO of Navitas Ventures, the education venturing arm of Navitas. His mission is to scale ideas and help build successful teams that unleash human potential and transform the way the world... |
| Mar 27, 2017 | The Use of Robots in Early Education in Singapore | The use of artificial intelligence to aid student’s learning dates back to 1980s. It was the time when major technology companies like Lego, Leaf, and Androbot introduced the robots to simplify the study and related activities.
Since then, ... |
| Dec 28, 2016 | Unbundling Higher-Ed Tech: “The Place We Will Go” in 2017 | “Oh, The Places You'll Go” is one of the most popular books by Dr. Seuss. Where do you hope education technology will go in 2017? What aspects of curriculum or community might get us there? (Dartmouth College)
Dr. Seuss’s final published wo... |
| Nov 8, 2016 | How Predicting the Future Creates the Future | The two-way wrist radio, a classic from the 1930s Dick Tracy comic strip, is essentially a version of a smartwatch. The flying car, a symbol of futuristic invention, is being work-shopped by none other than Uber. Star Trek's “Padd,” the com... |
| Sep 27, 2016 | Key takeaways from the Betaworks botcamp | Betaworks, a White Star Capital partner, recently hosted its Botcamp day. Betaworks CEO John Borthwick, my fellow Kellogg alumnus Matt Hartman, and the rest of the team put on an excellent day with great speakers and demos by eight promisin... |
| Sep 27, 2016 | Key takeaways from the Betaworks botcamp | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Betaworks, a White Star Capital partner, recently hosted its Botcamp day. Betaworks CEO John Borthwick, my fellow Kellogg alumnus Matt ... |
| Jun 27, 2016 | Amazon grows its education footprint with Amazon Inspire, a free platform for learning materials | Back in March, we reported how Amazon was poised to up its stakes in the educational publishing market with the launch of a free platform called Inspire for teachers and others to post and share education resources online. Today, the compan... |
| Apr 28, 2016 | Get Rid of Grade Levels: A Personalized Learning Recipe for Public School Districts | Public schools play a huge role in developing learners to be successful when they leave school. So why are charters and private schools considered the best places for “personalized learning”?
The problem with the current public education mo... |
| Mar 25, 2016 | How Personal APIs Let Students Design Their University | I sat at a table with faculty, technologists, CIOs, startup founders and students, all gathered under one roof to tackle the question: How might we use application program interfaces (APIs) to empower students and faculty members to have vo... |
| Mar 11, 2016 | Amazon eyes up education, plans a free platform for learning materials | Back in 2013, Amazon acquired (and continued to operate) online math instruction company TenMarks to gain a foothold in the online education space. Now it looks like Amazon is taking those learnings to the next level. The e-commerce giant p... |
| Jul 31, 2015 | Doing Good Tech Versus Doing Good With Tech | Bryan Johnson Contributor
Bryan Johnson is the founder and chief executive officer of the neuroprosthesis developer Kernel and the founder of OS Fund and Braintree.
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| Jun 26, 2015 | Questions—and Answers—About EdSurge's 'Concierge' Service | Earlier this week, EdSurge published a description of a prototype service that we’re trying out called Concierge. It’s been—and still is—an in-house experiment for us. We describe the service here. We wanted to share those details because w... |
| Mar 5, 2015 | Seattle nonprofit Enlearn tackles thorny task: Personalize school with technology | Student using Enlearn tablet in pilot (photo: Enlearn)
One of the knottiest problems in applying technology to education is the holy grail of “personalization:” How to adjust and adapt instructional materials automatically, so that every ch... |
| May 13, 2014 | Ten Tips for Triumphing at Startup Weekend | Good for you for taking the entrepreneurial plunge! Startup WeekendEDU promises to be an exhilarating, mind-expanding, and yes, exhausting experience. Expect to learn about lean startups, about project management, and about working with te... |
| Apr 7, 2014 | Teachers Not (Necessarily) Included | Is an education technology startup without a teacher like a day without sunshine? Or a fish without a bicycle?
Depending on the distance of the time horizon and the drive to transform, it could either Vitamin D or Omega-3.
There is no doubt... |
| Mar 3, 2014 | Ten 'Feisty' Tips on Connecting To Educators | Warning: feisty blog post below.
I get it. Everyone has an agenda. Some people need to sell products. I personally happen to promote the ideas and work of people and products that I believe in. I don’t support crap-- and I’m not particularl... |
| May 21, 2013 | Much Ado About MOOCs | The debates are just beginning to boil. Last week, Georgia Tech plunged into the ether by announcing it will award a Master's degree in Computer Science to students who go through its program with Udacity.
Faculty around the U.S. are raisin... |
| Apr 30, 2013 | NYC Parents Raise Questions About InBloom | The education data portal, inBloom, raised hackles this week among a group of New York City parents and educators who worry about the nonprofit’s plans to compile student information into a wide-ranging education data portal--and they’re or... |
| Apr 19, 2013 | RW10: Catching Up With Some Of ReadWrite’s Most Influential Writers | ReadWrite celebrates its 10th anniversary on Saturday, April 20, 2013. For the occasion, we’re running a series of articles looking back—and looking forward.
It’s hard to believe that ReadWrite went live an entire decade ago. Since founder ... |
| Mar 19, 2013 | EdTech: venture funding climbs to $1.1B in 2012 [REPORT] | It’s been a busy year in education technology.
In 2012, $1.1 billion of venture capital funding went to EdTech companies. Of 2,788 private companies acquired in that year, 48 of them were private EdTech firms.
These aren’t idle statistics.
... |
| Mar 6, 2013 | MOOCs and Assessments and Makers, Oh My! | Coming at you, live from Austin's SXSWedu. Some 5,000 educators and entrepreneurs have been buzzing around the Texas state capitol, talking technology and education.
We're learning a lot--and still asking a lot of questions. We're tallying ... |
| Dec 19, 2012 | Top Education Technology Tools - Q2 2012 | BEST OF S'COOL TOOLS Q2 2012: In ES-Instruct Edition 044, we took a look at the most fascinating s'cool tools featured in the newsletter throughout the first quarter of 2012 -- those tools that had you clicking and sharing away. It's the sa... |
| Dec 3, 2012 | How Dev Bootcamp Is Transforming Education To Focus On “Extreme Employability” | Michael Staton is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Learn Capital and a Community Advisor to NewSchools Venture Fund EdTech. He is the founder and Chief Evangelist of Inigral, and is currently mapping the market of innovation in education. He... |
| Oct 28, 2012 | Most ed-tech startups suck! Here’s where they’re going wrong. | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This is a guest post by professor, Reynol Junco
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| Oct 28, 2012 | Most ed-tech startups suck! Here’s where they’re going wrong. | This is a guest post by professor, Reynol Junco
We’re in the middle of an Educational Technology (“ed-tech”) startup boom.
Research by GSV Advisors shows a sharp increase in investments in education companies almost doubling between 2007 an... |
| Aug 30, 2012 | Grockit steps beyond test prep with Learnist, bringing social learning to iPhone and iPad | Grockit has made a name for itself when it comes to social learning for online test preparation, but with Learnist the company is looking beyond just helping you with the SATs: Now you can learn almost anything with lessons prepared by teac... |
| Aug 30, 2012 | Grockit steps beyond test prep with Learnist, bringing social learning to iPhone and iPad | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Grockit has made a name for itself when it comes to social learning for online test preparation, but with Learnist the company is looki... |
| Aug 21, 2012 | 5 Ways To Learn Code From The Comfort Of Your Own Browser | One of the big trends of the past couple years, spurred the growing demand for programmers, is the rise of in-browser programming tutorials. Gone are the days when you’d have to buy a book and configure a development environment before you ... |
| Jun 27, 2012 | Education Technology Teachers Take Charge at ISTE12 | It’s the annual education technology jamboree, with its feet squarely planted in teachers’ world. Held this year in San Diego (save that sunscreen for a trip to Texas next June), an estimated 18,000 people attended, including several thousa... |
| Jun 10, 2012 | Future U: fear and loathing in academia | Image from San Jose State reader comments 37 with 21 posters participating
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| Feb 29, 2012 | Biotech startup Vascular Magnetics raises $7 million, young LiftDNA acquired by OpenX [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | iTunes U 2.0: Not Perfect, Just Awesome | iTunes U has been around for a long time, but its expansion last week onto iPhones and iPads, as well as into new content like K-12 curriculum, has truly made this a 2.0 release. And it’s very, very good.
The iTunes U website carries the bo... |
| Jan 19, 2012 | Why Apple, Why Does it Have to Be Like This? The Cold Cynicism of the iBook EULA | It’s hard to wrap my brain around the cold cynicism of Apple’s releasing a new tool to democratize the publishing of eBooks today, only to include in the tool’s terms and conditions a prohibition against selling those books anywhere but thr... |
| Jan 5, 2012 | Why Aren’t Chromebooks Saving Password Changes? | There’s something weird going on with Chromebooks – the Google-branded laptop computers powered by the company’s web-based operating system Chrome OS. They’re not saving the password changes you make to your Google account. Basically, if yo... |
| Oct 7, 2011 | Practical Nerd: Survival tips for Startup Weekend EDU | Team Text2Teach, winners of Startup Weekend EDU Seattle, with keynoter Mitch Kapor. (Credit: Startup Weekend Seattle)
I was a first-time mentor at a Startup Weekend recently and, appropriate to my day job, it was focused on education techno... |
| Sep 5, 2011 | Practical Nerd: Irresistible startups, immovable education | Frank Catalano
I’ve advised a number of startups over the years and have been directly part of at least two. I discovered what many entrepreneurs know: it’s a maddening, exhausting, adrenaline-filled, glorious existence in which there’s nev... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | Google Gives Android App Inventor A New Home At MIT Media Lab | Back in July 2010, Google announced a nifty educational project called App Inventor. The goal? Give non-programmers a relatively easy way to build their own applications for the Android platform, using a drag-and-drop interface to add pre-w... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | MIT Launches Center for Mobile Learning with Support From Google | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced the creation of a new Center for Mobile Learning. The center will be housed at the MIT Media Lab. Google supported the creation of the center with a grant from Google University Relati... |
| Aug 9, 2011 | Google Retires Android App Inventor, Open-Sources the Code | Google has announced that App Inventor for Android, a do-it-yourself tool for building Android applications with no programming skills required, has been put out to pasture. As the company phases out Google Labs, its public test bed for Web... |
| Apr 14, 2011 | Instructure Aims to Knock Down the Learning Management System Walled Garden | When I first heard of the new learning management system Instructure, I confess, I was unimpressed. Even though I try to be supremely supportive of education technology startups – particularly those taking on giants in the industry – I just... |
| Apr 6, 2011 | Gates Foundation Distributes $10M to Build Tech Tools to Boost College Graduation | Last fall, the Gates Foundation, along with the ed-tech non-profit EDUCAUSE announced its Next Generation Learning Challenges initiative, a multi-year, multi-million dollar project to help support programs that boost college readiness and c... |
| Mar 16, 2011 | 1 in 4 College Textbooks Will Be Digital By 2015 | Sales of digital textbooks still only account for a small fraction of the U.S. college market. But according to the latest report by the social learning platform Xplana, we have reached the tipping point for e-textbooks, and the company pre... |
| Feb 23, 2011 | Google Versus Microsoft: The Battle for the K-12 Cloud Contract | North versus South. Rural versus urban. Add to those delineations now, as schools and government agencies across the U.S. move to the cloud, Google versus Microsoft.
On the surface, at least, it’s a public relations battle. Google announces... |
| Feb 21, 2011 | Student Tablet Maker Kno Reportedly In Talks To Sell Off Its Tablet Manufacturing | Kno, the makers of single- and dual-screen tablets for students, is looking to sell off the hardware manufacturing part of its business, according to All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher. Swisher reports that “sources close to the situation” s... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | Google Apps Stocks Its Marketplace Full of Educational Apps | The Google Apps Marketplace gives third-party developers the ability to offer installable apps that integrate with Google Apps. The marketplace is only a little older than nine months and although there have been educational apps available ... |
| Dec 23, 2010 | New CEO for Second Life as Linden Lab Names EA Gaming Vet to Head Company | Linden Lab, the maker of the virtual world Second Life, announced its new CEO today: Rod Humble, a former Electronic Arts executive. Humble will replace Philip Rosedale, who had been acting as the company’s interim CEO.
2010 was hardly a ba... |
| Nov 30, 2010 | Learn about Venture Capital from Khan Academy | With a catalog of over 2000 videos and with over 30 million lessons delivered, Khan Academy has become the world’s most popular educational website. Salman Khan has the distinction of being “Bill Gates’ favorite teacher,” as the second rich... |
| Nov 17, 2010 | Founders of Kno, Khan Academy, NIXTY Debate Education and Entrepreneurship | Are entrepreneurship and education opposed? Can companies be profitable while revolutionizing education? How can startups, with their emphasis on rapid change, co-exist with education, something that is traditionally risk-adverse? Is there ... |
