Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

While a comprehensive post of my initial findings will be published in the coming weeks (in partnership with the Future of Privacy Forum ), I did offer up a quick post this week on an emerging issue worthy of greater consideration: Should We Be Sending Students Who Hack Their Schools to Jail? Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Uber’s C.E.O.

EdTech 170

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

While a comprehensive post of my initial findings will be published in the coming weeks (in partnership with the Future of Privacy Forum ), I did offer up a quick post this week on an emerging issue worthy of greater consideration: Should We Be Sending Students Who Hack Their Schools to Jail? Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Uber’s C.E.O.

EdTech 150

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 11, 2015

Waze is a free navigation app for GPS-equipped smartphones that bills itself as ‘the largest community-based traffic and navigation app’ It includes spoken turn-by-turn directions and the ability to search for destinations by address, category, place name, or landmark. ’ comment to whoever needs to know with a click.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Are computers teachers? Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Arizona lags behind in schools' internet access, but change is coming | Tucson.com → “Urban Arizona keeps progressing and keeps getting access to better technology,” he said. Tagged on: March 25, 2017 Who’s logging your face?

EdTech 170

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Doug Levin

APRIL 9, 2017

Tagged on: April 9, 2017 Government's personal data collection drive a political dead horse | Stuff.co.nz → In New Zealand, Social Development Minister Anne Tolley is pushing for the next stage in the Government's "investment approach" - the brainchild of Prime Minister Bill English.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR. The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. What’s the evidence? What do other sources say?

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

"This sort of pie-in-the-sky belief that simply getting more computers in kids' hands and more app-development elective courses in schools will make the future bright is an oversimplification of a complex issue." Tagged on: March 10, 2017 State reaches $3.5 Tagged on: March 10, 2017 State reaches $3.5

EdTech 170

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Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

.” “The Common App Will Stop Asking About Students’ Criminal Histories,” writes The Atlantic. Google has updated its pseudo-LMS, Classroom. Google blogs ; tech publications help market the news. Via The New York Times : “How Tech Billionaires Hack Their Taxes With a Philanthropic Loophole.”

E-rate 44

E-rate Education Robotics Elsevier 44

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Tagged on: September 16, 2017 A principal's 'extreme' experiment works in paying kids to unplug | Sentinel Source → Smith, principal at the Washington Latin Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., Another tactic – as much a statement of political protest as a technique to enhance privacy – is obfuscation.

EdTech 150

EdTech Software Facebook Data 150

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Tagged on: September 16, 2017 A principal's 'extreme' experiment works in paying kids to unplug | Sentinel Source → Smith, principal at the Washington Latin Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., Another tactic – as much a statement of political protest as a technique to enhance privacy – is obfuscation.

EdTech 150

EdTech Software Facebook Data 150

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Startups making classroom response apps have raised tens of millions of dollars this decade. And students, for their part, have now created hacks and bots to crash these quizzes. In 2013, Intel acquired Kno for $15 million — for “ pennies on the dollar ,” said one analyst — and rebranded the software as the Intel Education Study App.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Tagged on: April 2, 2017 School IT Leaders Share Strategies on Defending Against DDoS Attacks | EdTech Magazine → This article claims students are primarily responsible for denial of service attacks on schools. Tagged on: April 2, 2017 What keeps cybersecurity experts up at night? It’s gives fake news a business model.

EdTech 150

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

” Price tag for the report: $3599. Fascinating how affluent parents in the shadow of Google and Apple HQs respond to ed-tech, no?). Via Techcrunch : “ Nickelodeon gets into e-books with new reading app for kids, Nick Jr. More on the Classroom API via the G Suite Developers Blog. “G Suite.”).

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MOOC Education Robotics Report 40