By Henry Kronk April 30, 2018
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Once the king of basic operational software, Microsoft Word is not quite taking this insurgency lying down. In January of this year, the company announced it would be prototyping the new ‘Editor Overview Pane.’ The new feature began to rollout last week.
By Henry Kronk March 30, 2018
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“With 3DBear, we could unleash the creativity in children and channel their innate energies for good. Moreover, as Finland is known for the best educational system in the world, we thought that we were in a unique position to develop a pedagogical solution which focuses on the learning progress enabled by new technologies and not the technologies itself.”
By Henry Kronk March 27, 2018
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When the dust cleared, although he and other Apple reps announced quite a few new products and developments, the world was left underwhelmed. The biggest development of the event was a revamped 9.7” iPad intended for the classroom. The tablet retails for $329 for the public and $299 for students. That’s certainly in the realm of affordability for many districts, but it still drew eye-rolls considering it’s the same price as the iPad unveiled last year.
By Henry Kronk October 28, 2017
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My issue here is just about bad business practices that don’t work given how our education system actually functions. This is wasting billions of dollars of well meaning capital that could otherwise be productively deployed to help education companies that actually do work.