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10 Things To Know about the Future of Blockchain in Education

Doug Levin

.” The event had a strong financial services theme, although I met audience members engaged in a wider array of fields (including healthcare and social media). To that end (and based on my DC Blockchain Summit experience), here is my current list of the top 10 things to know about the future of blockchain in education.

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Tech Apprenticeships Shift the Costs of Higher Ed From Students to Employers

Edsurge

For decades, companies have offered more or less the same deal to Americans in search of office jobs: You pay for your own higher education and skills training, and then we’ll consider employing you. Members include Walmart, Sony and T-Mobile. Multiverse is doing outreach through Instagram and other social media networks.

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Meet Some Heroes at This Week's Connected Educator Cafe Sessions

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education; education director, KQED-San Francisco (PBS). Tuesday, October 22 "From Connection to Collaboration" Julie Lindsay : Global educator, Innovator, teacherpreneur, leader. Esther Wojcicki : Educator, journalist, IT & OER consultant. Top 50 Innovators in Education.

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

techlearning

This is no small feat, considering that she and now-NJ Commissioner of Education Lamont Repollet stepped into a struggling district with 75% of students reading below grade level (half of those being three-to-six grades below). Achievements are touted on social media, changing the tone of the district’s story to engage the public positively.

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

Hack Education

” The University of Northern New Jersey had a website – one with a.edu domain, to boot – as well as several active social media profiles. How might new technologies – education or otherwise – and new economies reshape “what counts” as a credential , “what counts” as credit?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

(National) Education Politics. “The Education of Betsy DeVos ” – a profile of the Secretary of Education in Politico Magazine. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ DeVos Falsely Suggests That Student Loans Were Federalized to Pay for Obamacare.” Department of Education.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

This is part eight of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In previous years, I’ve looked at how education technology is intertwined with narratives about “ skills ,” “ competencies ,” and “ credentialing.” “Lower ed” is far more pervasive.