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False frontiers

Learning with 'e's

You could see where we might place formal learning using a VLE, or where students might meet to chat using Facebook, for example. With the increasing popularity of such movements as the Flipped Classroom , and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), other more radical formal learning space configurations are taking place.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

More personalized means more surveilled — we know this from Facebook and Amazon, don't we. Schools using radio-trackers on students' ID cards and monitoring students' mobile phones to make sure they're in class. And this is key: the fear that students are going to cheat is constitutive of much of education technology.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Samantha Adams Becker taught the first online course ever to take place in Facebook. The themes are: Increasing Access and Discovery Opportunities; Emphasis on Mobile; Content Management and Technical Infrastructure; and Rethinking the Roles and Relationships of Librarians. Details to join the webinar at [link].

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. There are, after all, only so many times you can put “mobile” on your list of “what’s on the horizon” before folks begin to suspect your insights might not be that… insightful. Whatever “it” is.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR. Facebook Argument : Students consider the relative strength of evidence that two users present in a Facebook exchange.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? .” Raise $146.1 ” Um, like Juliet? Dead) Cordelia?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Washington Post : “Going mobile: The government’s most crucial financial aid form.” ” One huge problem with the new mobile version of the FAFSA : you can’t use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool on it. And that makes the mobile app pretty useless, IMHO. .” The Business of Financial Aid.