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Digital Leadership is Not Optional

A Principal's Reflections

Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptive learning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools. Twitter chats have increased from a handful to now hundreds happening on a weekly basis. Have you heard of it?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It They’re amazing.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. ” Train and retrain.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.” ” Via Getting Smart : “ Virtual and Augmented Reality in Personalized Learning.” ” Tom Vander Ark lists “ 15 Dimensions of Personalized Learning.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The Business of Job Training. ” “ Twitter is funding college professors to audit its platform for toxicity,” writes The Verge. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. DreamBox Learning has raised $130 million from The Rise Fund. The adaptive learning company has raised $175.6

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Hack Education Weekly News

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There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. The Business of Job Training. Via Techcrunch : “ Google and Coursera launch program to train more IT support specialists.” ” More on teen social media usage, this time from Buzzfeed : “‘Tweetdecking’ Is Taking Over Twitter.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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It was one of two social media messages – the other a Twitter photo of Tunsil smoking marijuana through a gas mark – that were posted during the NFL draft. ” Via Education Week : “ Teach For America Ends Pre-Training Pilot Focused on Cultural Competency.” From the HR Department. ” ( PDF ). .”