The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2012

I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs the following question: How should tech education (formal and informal) change to keep pace with business’ growing technology needs? I want students to be playing with technology — using it, finding out what they like, what they don’t like. Teach Some Curiosity.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Google is announcing a swath of new features for its education-focused products today, including that G Suite for Education is being rebranded to Google Workspace for Education. If you’re already a G Suite Enterprise for Education customer, you’ll automatically roll over to Google Workspace for Education Plus.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Danika Harrod October 22, 2024 - 5:46pm Larissa Amoroso Vice President, Tableau Community, Tableau Tableau Academic Ambassador Dr. Mary Dunaway has spent years empowering students and educators with skills such as data visualization. Dunaway first heard of Tableau while attending an educational advisory board workshop.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 23, 2016

Institutions of teaching still wholly relied on the skill and effectiveness of the individual standing in front of a chalkboard to impart information to a hopefully wide-eyed audience—no matter if they were first graders learning their multiplication tables or medical students delving into the maze of human anatomy.

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Microsoft AI

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jef Groffen, a principal in Belgium, won the first-ever AI in Education award in the European Union for his innovative use of Microsoft technologies, particularly Reading Progress. His school, with students from 70 different nationalities, achieved remarkable reading progress in just two months.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 15, 2016

Imagine this scenario: instead of staring at a wall map of foreign lands, students can don some hi-tech headgear and be transported to those places in a 360-degree virtual world of images. Or teachers can turn learning into playtime with games for math and science that educate as they entertain.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In the modern day our teachers and educators are bringing more and more technology into the classroom. These are our top app picks for teachers and educators.

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2021

Microsoft is releasing a new stylus for classroom use: the Classroom Pen 2. The company launched its first Classroom Pen in 2019. It also shares some classroom-specific features with the Classroom Pen: it ships with replacement tips and has a slot that teachers can loop a string through to tether the pen to a Surface device.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2022

Here’s a resource a student might pull up. That’s Practice Sets, the newest Google Classroom tool, in a nutshell. Google Classroom, for folks who went to school before the internet was everything, is a widely used gaggle of web tools that allows teachers to post assignments, students to submit them, and teachers to return them online.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The challenge runs throughout October, with hundreds of bloggers and Twitterers rallying to support classroom requests on DonorsChoose.org. All told, they raised over $275,000 for classroom projects reaching 67,000 students in low-income neighborhoods around the country.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

To assist in the arduous grant research process, I’ve created this list of grant resources and funders according to a specific funding focus area: education. . Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on. Funding Priority: Education. They provide education tailored to girls’ needs.

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The Verge

AUGUST 21, 2020

Earlier this year, Microsoft added an “education” section to the Minecraft marketplace, and since March, 63 million pieces of content have been downloaded. While Minecraft: Education Edition isn’t new, its digital nature makes it an almost ideal tool for this strange time. You can even play that old classroom staple The Oregon Trail.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Five years ago, entrepreneur Dan Sommer bet big on the adult learning space when he was building out Trilogy Education, an online and in-person bootcamp in collaboration with universities to train workforces on the latest tech skills. In 2019, Sommer sold that company for $750 million to 2U in one of the largest edtech exits to date.

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Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2022

Union County Education Foundation is a nonprofit that’s laser focused on “supporting students and encouraging educators” in Union County Public Schools. They primarily fulfill this mission through college scholarship programs for students and grants for classroom teachers. Who they are. They work hard to: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up. www.enteef.com.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Australian edtech start-up Vivi has raised $20 million from education investor Quad Partners, funds that it intends to use to improve its platform, upgrade its operational infrastructure, and hire more sales and marketing teams in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. This latest round sees Vivi reach $24.3

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The Verge

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Samsung would like you to believe its new 85-inch Interactive Display can bridge the gap between students in the classroom and students studying at home, now that blended-learning is the new normal across the country. Compared to the previous 55- and 65-inch models, more students could theoretically use the board at once.

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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Bridge the data literacy gap for students in academia. In my many years as a scientist, I mentored trainees in data analysis and witnessed frustration, anxiety, and even productivity loss in students who lacked foundational data skills. Students will learn how to critically analyze data through theoretical and practical exercises.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Amira Learning aims to address this with an app that reads along with students, intelligently correcting errors in real time. Promising pilots and research mean the company is poised to go big as education changes, and it has raised $11 million to scale up with a new app and growing customer base.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 27, 2021

Teach For America (TFA) is an education nonprofit operating in support of a vision that one day all children in the United States will have the opportunity to attain an equitable and excellent education. Success Story: Creating Engaging Student Journeys With St. Changing the Technology Strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

Create Digital Classrooms – Education programs—schools, after-school programs, and youth-focused nonprofit—can work with established collections in the classroom; and students can document the area around their school to create their own collections, and potentially trade collections with other schools.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

help keep students engaged. Students read the book between sessions; once a week, an actor is streamed to the class to re-enact scenes, bring everything together and move the story along. Other times it’s live, with choose-your-own-adventure elements mixed in to let the students steer the ship.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If something happened that caused a student (or many students!) Pitched as an “all-in-one information hub” for students, parents, teachers and admins, Schoolytics is an analytics dashboard (School + Analytics = Schoolytics, yeah?) Much of that, it seems, holds true today.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

The Jakarta-based startup was created to give everyone involved in the educational process—school administrators, teachers, parents, guardians and students—apps that let them keep track of everything and communicate with one another. Gredu was designed to be modular, so it can be customized to a school or district’s needs. .

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Engaged student and alum supporter: My daughter gets very excited when she hears talk about the university she attended. That’s because her school did a great job of engaging her while she was still a student. They used technology designed for higher education along with personal interactions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Online education tools continue to see a surge of interest boosted by major changes in work and learning practices in the midst of a global health pandemic. Education is in session. But that’s not the only classroom where online education is getting called on.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The classrooms have child-size boats and construction vehicles children can play on, and ceilings painted to resemble outer space. Creators of the Reggio Emilia approach to early learning, an educational philosophy that emphasizes child-led learning, even refer to the environment as the third teacher in a classroom.

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The Verge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Logitech has announced a new stylus called Pen, and it’s aimed at being the best option available for classrooms full of Chromebooks. But Logitech’s angle for the Pen is to be more of a staple for the classroom with its design. The Logitech Pen doesn’t requiring pairing, thanks to its USI support. You’ll have to place a larger order.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

While those complications don’t exactly scream for a tech solution, NoRedInk , a San Francisco-based startup, has spent nearly a decade trying to help students get better at their writing through software. Other investors in the company include GSV, Rethink Education and Kapor Capital. Image Credits: NoRedInk.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic ushered in a new chapter for virtual learning, giving a boost of attention to existing tools and spurring the creation of new services and use cases as students of all ages were ordered to stay home and stay out of classrooms. The obvious place for Atom was to start was online learning aimed at students.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing some funding today to continue expanding its business. “We want the whole world to be learning languages,” Shangkuan said. “That is our vision.”

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Virtual Classrooms: A Comprehensive Guide GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - By 2027, it is anticipated that the online learning user base will grow to 57 million individuals. The flexibility offered by virtual learning is the primary reason for 63% of students engaging daily in online study.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Virtual Classrooms: A Comprehensive Guide GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - By 2027, it is anticipated that the online learning user base will grow to 57 million individuals. The flexibility offered by virtual learning is the primary reason for 63% of students engaging daily in online study.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Virtual Classrooms: A Comprehensive Guide Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems By 2027, it is anticipated that the online learning user base will grow to 57 million individuals. The flexibility offered by virtual learning is the primary reason for 63% of students engaging daily in online study.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2020

It says the goal is to support its Microsoft for Education products, which the company claims has more than 150 million students, faculty, institutional leaders, and teachers actively using it as part of remote learning. We regret the error.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

James Kenigsberg is the Chief Technology Officer and a founding team member at 2U , an educational technology company that partners with universities to offer online degree programs. Early in my career, I knew I wanted to leverage technology to impact education. The most amazing outcomes start as lofty ambitions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

But the startup is joining Quizlet, ApplyBoard and CourseHero as companies within the sector that have hit the unicorn mark as remote education continues to gain traction. Gross defines it as “material that isn’t purpose-built for education, [but] purpose-built for being interesting and informative.”

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