Tag Archive | "Education"

Minnesota EduTech Startup KidBlog Now Reaching One Million Users

Friday, October 7, 2011

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On Wednesday, I stopped into the EduTech Minnesota conference at the U of M. I wanted to catch up with my friends Matt Hardy and Dan Flies, cofounders of Kidblog.org, and hear about the latest with their startup. It turns out, of the 10 startups that were selected to present at the event, none even [...]

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Something Amazing Happened at #EduTechMN Yesterday – Steve Jobs Was in the Room

Thursday, October 6, 2011

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[This post was originally published earlier today on Tech~Surf~Blog.] I felt it. I didn’t know it then, but it may have been at the precise moment Steve was passing. I was sitting in a room of about 100 people, mid-afternoon, listening to a panel of educators at the EduTech MN conference at the University of [...]

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Classroom of the Future?

Monday, December 7, 2009

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Reinventing education in a time of accelerating change is more important than ever before, especially if you’re at all interested in your kids and our future workforce being technologically savvy and possibly more so than any other workforce in the world. Normally I wouldn’t do a story on an interesting initiative with a marginally innovative [...]

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Science Museum Could Be Minnesota’s Tech Secret

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

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The Science Museum of Minnesota held another of its Web Seminars on Tuesday, October 7th.  For many, the SMM has become a valuable resource as they seek to get up to speed, learn a new skill, or discover “what all the fuss is about” in the computer world. To others it could very well be [...]

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