The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 23, 2021

This event is being organized in partnership with Don Means, Director of the GIGABIT LIBRARIES NETWORK , and Kristen Radsliff Rebmann, Professor in the School of Information at San José State University. conference events, which are designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2021

This event is being organized in partnership with Don Means, Director of the GIGABIT LIBRARIES NETWORK , and Kristen Radsliff Rebmann, Professor in the School of Information at San José State University. conference events, which are designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide.

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

SchoolMessenger Passport allows districts to provide teachers, staff, parents and students with quick and secure access to online learning applications, open educational resources (OER), and a variety of school management and administration software programs using a single sign-on.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This event is being organized in partnership with Don Means, Director of the GIGABIT LIBRARIES NETWORK , and Kristen Radsliff Rebmann, Professor in the School of Information at San José State University. conference events, which are designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide.

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 18, 2021

This event is being organized in partnership with Don Means, Director of the GIGABIT LIBRARIES NETWORK , and Kristen Radsliff Rebmann, Professor in the School of Information at San José State University. conference events, which are designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide.

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 50

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This event is being organized in partnership with Don Means, Director of the GIGABIT LIBRARIES NETWORK , and Kristen Radsliff Rebmann, Professor in the School of Information at San José State University. conference events, which are designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide.

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 45

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2021

This event is being organized in partnership with Don Means, Director of the GIGABIT LIBRARIES NETWORK , and Kristen Radsliff Rebmann, Professor in the School of Information at San José State University. conference events, which are designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide.

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. “ Can a New Approach to Information Literacy Reduce Digital Polarization? Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” asks Marketplace.

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

We're in this great global conversation about social media and what Shoshana Zuboff calls "surveillance capitalism," and kids are perfectly capable of understanding that stuff. I wanted to ask you about OERs. So, find out who the war criminals are who get to see all of your data, who get to offshore every click you make.

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Education Exercises OER Meeting 61

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). But participants were very, very engaged from the start. Rebecca Davis , J.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. collects and sells user data while helping you clean up your inbox. Oh, and unroll.me

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. Platforms are “an extractive apparatus for data.”

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

[link] March 16th, 3:00 - 6:00pm US Eastern: Library 2.016: Privacy in the Digital Age The Learning Revolution and School of Information at San José State University are excited to announce the first of three Library 2.016 mini-conferences: "Privacy in the Digital Age." More information at [link]. Save the dates!

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Chromebook Blendspace Libraries Conference 28

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I promise you will find some great information coming your way this school year…So Sign Up Now and please pass this on with a retweet! – Mike Gorman ( [link] ). Data collection for planning. I hope the information is helpful to you! What information and training must be provided to students and parents to ensure success?

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. collects and sells user data while helping you clean up your inbox. Oh, and unroll.me

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The App Hub is dedicated to bringing transparency to developers’ data and accessibility policies, and to help decision-makers find information about apps to meet the unique learning goals and policies of their school districts.”. Then at the bottom are links back to the app information for each application used in the spark.

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Chromebook Khan Academy Classroom Google 78

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. Overall, young people’s ability to reason about the information on the Internet can be summed up in one word: bleak. For more information.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week about privacy, data, monopoly power, and regulations. Via ProPublica : “Teen Who Faced Deportation After He Informed on MS–13 Gets Temporary Reprieve.” ” Via Campus Technology : “ NYC Data Science Academy Launches Online Bootcamp.”

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Education Facebook Edmodo OER 44

Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Meanwhile on Campus… Via Education Week (from last Friday – as I work on the week’s round-up of news, I try to avoid looking at social media, but I think there was another school shooting this morning): “10 Dead, Most of Them Students, and 10 Wounded in Texas High School Shooting.” million total.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

I have been busy with my year-in-review, but I will be updating my Horizon Report “data liberation” project with as much data as I can scrape from the NMC website before it all goes away.). Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. More via Edsurge. (I iContracts has acquired the EasyCampus LMS from Educadium.

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Education Robotics MOOC Facebook 46

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Ever wonder how stories promoted by ‘thought leaders’ on social media get selected? This from the school district that is still reeling from a major student data privacy breach. Government Websites | ITIF → The public relies on federal websites to access information and services from the U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

LOTS of information below! Keynote speaker information follows the session information. This is an amazing and free online event that brings together educators and innovators from around the world. We currently have 10 keynotes and 130 regular sessions scheduled over the course of three days. Registration (free) is required.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. Really great investigative work on Department of Education data on school shootings by NPR’s Anya Kamenetz, Alexis Arnold, and Emily Cardinali : “The School Shootings That Weren’t.” Thank you, big data, for giving people this insight.

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Education Social Media Company Data 41

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

danah boyd has announced that she’ll be stepping down from running her research organization Data & Society. IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER. Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. “Blame Big Data.”

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Education ProctorU Company Report 51

Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

I’ve never seen an education story receive quite as much attention from non-educators on social media. The Department of Education , under the auspices of “transparency,” promises more access to data about financial aid. Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. It was a disaster. Find Yours.”

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Education Pearson E-rate MOOC 40

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The IRS data retrieval tool that let financial aid applicants automatically import income information into the FAFSA won’t be restored for the current aid cycle, said James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, in written testimony to Congress Wednesday.”

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

“ Are Universities Training Socially Minded Programmers? “ Was It Ethical for Dropbox to Share Customer Data with Scientists? “The RISE Package for R: Reducing Time Through the OER Continuous Improvement Cycle” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

” From Edsurge : “​Invasive or Informative? ” Inside Higher Ed also looks at how data is being talked about at the higher ed ed-tech event. ” “How Social Media Can Help Teach Good Writing,” according to Edsurge. Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “With Student Interest Soaring, Berkeley Creates New Data-Sciences Division.” ” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” George Veletsianos on the “ ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2018.”

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Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” It’s 2017 and many critics agree that social media is full of trolls and harassers, that it helps subvert democracies here and abroad, but hey: “To Teach Digital Citizenship Effectively, Educators Say It’s Time to Unblock Social Media ,” says Edsurge. Shaw Academy has raised $1.46

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

I was recently informed that my pointing out the relationships between politics, tech investors, and their investment portfolio constitutes an “ad hominem” attack. This week: “ OpenStax Partners with panOpen to Expand OER Access.” ’ ” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Via The Atlantic : “The Confusing Information Colleges Provide Students About Financial Aid.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The number of career colleges and the number of credentials they award have dropped by roughly 20 percent in the last four years, new data from the U.S. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

. “Schools across the country are about to be held accountable for student attendance – attaching stakes to a measure that previously had much less significance and increasing the risk that schools will try to manipulate that data,” according to Chalkbeat’s Matt Barnum. ” Immigration and Education.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Meanwhile on Campus… The New York Times on “How the Parkland Students Got So Good at Social Media ” – a really important corrective, I’d argue, to that “digital native” silliness. Edsurge on the business of OER. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. Look to Japan.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on social media.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.

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