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The History of the Pedometer (and the Problems with Learning Analytics)

Hack Education

These were my remarks as a guest speaker in Donna Murdoch's class “Online Teaching and Learning – Applying Adult Learning Principles” this evening. I was asked to speak about learning analytics, but like I said in my keynote last week at NMC , ed-tech is boring. So this is a talk about pedometers.

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Behaviorism, Surveillance, and (School) Work

Hack Education

I was a speaker today at the #AgainstSurveillance teach-in , a fundraiser for Ian Linkletter who is being sued by the online test-proctoring software company Proctorio. To adopt test proctoring software is to maintain a pedagogical practice based on mistrust, surveillance, and punishment. This should not come as a surprise.

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The Benefits Of Using Technology In Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

While they already had everything ready for in-school lessons, each remote lesson now requires teachers to convert these learning materials into forms more suitable for online education. Including hardware, software, training, professional development for teachers , and more. The Benefits Of Using Technology For Learning.

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?Updates, Upgrades and Overheard: What Was Unveiled at ISTE 2017

Edsurge

PHARRELL TEACHES GARAGEBAND: Apple has a new book on the shelf: Tuniversity , a project co-founded by Pharrell Williams that aims to “reinvigorate” music education by helping teachers use Apple’s Garageband in the classroom. The book costs $4.99 Kids can do homework through the app and use it any place, on the go,” Harrell explains.

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Marketplace trend update: 6 ed-tech developments

eSchool News

Below, we’ve gathered some of the latest and most relevant marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and learning initiatives, and new trends in education. Collaborative software provider ClassFlow announced a way for teachers to earn extra cash during the upcoming school year.

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They Said it Better Than I Can

Mistakengoal.com

Despite the occasional over-the-top writing, this blog was an excellent source of information about the recent kerfuffle about Purdue University’s learning analytics software. Craig Watson’s 2010 book of the same name. The Young and the Digital : This website is a companion to S.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. They’re supposedly “engines of innovation.”