TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

ABL pedagogy aims to enrich students’ academic experience and learning outcomes by connecting theory with practice, and concepts with methods, using data and insight they obtain through engagement with the larger world.” The study of teaching adults. Google Apps for Education. Google Classroom. Informal Learning.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I’ve learned Python over the last three years along with some of its related systems like NumPy and SciPy , and I’ve successfully used Python as a tool in my research. The computer is a tool for studying mathematical ideas in the same sense that a microscope is for studying biology and a telescope is for studying astronomy.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

” Tutoring is the cornerstone of technological fantasies about “personalized learning.” ” You’ll often hear its advocates invoke Benjamin Bloom’s 1984 study on “ the 2 Sigma Problem ” and claim that one-on-one tutoring is radically effective at improving student outcomes.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

Learn more or register here and see my notes at the bottom of this post! Walden University researcher, Rose Arnell, is looking for survey participants : I am a doctoral student at Walden University and am conducting a study called, Teacher Beliefs on Self-Learning, Collaboration, and Participation in Virtual Communities of Practice.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? Google had a big press event this week too, unveiling shiny stuff to a cheering crowd of stenographers. Raise $146.1 A Wi-Fi system. The results are concerning.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

While most of the headlines this week about Puerto Rico addressed the fact that a Harvard study found the death toll from Hurricane Maria hit almost 5000, Edsurge runs with a happy story about the island : “Months After a Devastating Hurricane, Puerto Rican Schools Turn to the Sun.” ” (State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” If you can’t create revenue, raise venture capital. Google has launched a curriculum called “ Be Internet Awesome ” to encourage digital safety and citizenship. The MOOC provider has now raised $210 million total. Dubious Study by xkcd.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Via The Chicago Tribune : “Almost all student loan fraud claims involve for-profit colleges , study finds.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. Via the Google blog : “Investing £1 million in training for computing teachers in the U.K.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

Thursday, April 24th at 7am Learning Revolution Keynotes , Don''t miss Pat Farenga on "What is the role of the teacher when children learn on their own?" Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. Learn more about this event here. Learn more here. The Bumpy Road of 1:1.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. It’s the model of human learning by someone who claims expertise in machine learning, a field of study which has aspired to model if not surpass the human mind.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” Via The New York Times : “Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built.” ” $3000 for three headsets.

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “The MOOC is not dead, but maybe it should be,” says Rolin Moe. ” Via the Google blog : “Rolling Study Halls: turning bus time into learning time.” 9 things to know from the state’s first study.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Via The Verge : “James Damore sues Google for allegedly discriminating against conservative white men.” ” 69% of Google’s employees are men. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Subscription boxes for teachers are somehow “ personalized learning.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “Free MOOCs Face the Music,” writes Inside Higher Ed on edX ’s decision to start charging fees. More “MOOC” news under the job training section below. Via Wired : “ Google’s Diversity Stats Are Still Very Dismal.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Google ’s chairman Eric Schmidt praises Trump. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Post and Courier : “ South Carolina ’s online charter schools: A $350 million investment with disappointing returns.” Via The 74 : “ Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Politico : Western Governors University , “the nation’s leading provider of competency-based educatio n – which the Education Department’s independent watchdog last month said violated federal student aid rules – is expanding into North Carolina.”

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Via Education Week : “Congress Budget Deal Bans New Gold-Standard Studies of Federal Vouchers.” ” Via The LA Times : “Trump is ending Michelle Obama’s ‘ Let Girls Learn ’ initiative, CNN reports.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” Perhaps, instead of tying “ personalized learning ” to special ed policies of the 1970s, you could read some Rousseau? Education in the Courts. What could go wrong?!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. They use cheat sheets and Google Search during exams. This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. “ Seen ” cheating.). million children ?

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Via Wired : “Congress Has a $65 Million Proposal to Study Tech’s Effect on Kids.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. ” Via Bloomberg : “Inside Google ’s Shadow Workforce.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Rather it’s a history itself – ideally one that’s useful for our thinking about the past, present, and future in the way in which the study of history always should be. Silicon Valley does include Mountain View, where Google is headquartered. This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.).

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). So much MOOC news! (Or “ MOOCs Are Global. Also via Edsurge : “How Harvard Is Trying to Update the Extension School for the MOOC Age.” ” That’s Inder Verma at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). From the edX blog : “How to be a Better Learner: Determine Your Learning Style.” Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.” A screen sharing app.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Lots of MOOC PR appeared in the news this week. ” “What if MOOCs Revolutionize Education After All?” “Now that MOOCs are mainstream, where does online learning go next?” “ Can personalized learning prevail? .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. 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. They’re distracting others. And on and on and on.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” @14prinsp @KateMfD @audreywatters @gsiemens VC-mediated "consent" for academic studies "Incorrect Response! .” ” @14prinsp @KateMfD @audreywatters @gsiemens VC-mediated "consent" for academic studies "Incorrect Response!"

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Are MOOCs Forever ?” A “ personalized learning explainer ” from Mindwire Consulting. ” Google has released its 2016 Scholar Metrics. ” A study has found companies are not happy with their corporate LMSes.

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

Cuts to work study. Via Reuters : “ Apple , Google , Facebook skip legal challenge to new travel ban.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “A Corporate Learning Revolution” – a Coursera webinar. Are MOOCs webinars? Are webinars now MOOCs?).

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Hack Education

APRIL 27, 2018

’” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Reminder: a lot of MOOC news is now job training news, so you’ll find some updates in that section below. ” “Don’t Take Personality Tests Personally,” says Pacific Standard. “Try Google.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

The** Department of Education** has selected the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education to manage its #GoOpen campaign. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” There’s some Udacity-related MOOC news in the job training section below. The Business of Job Training.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.” The Executive Director of HathiTrust responds.

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Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

” “How to Con Black Law Students: A Case Study” – Elie Mystal in The New York Times on a partnership between the HBCU Bethune-Cookman and the for-profit Arizona Summit Law School. Via Google’s blog : “ Howard University opens a new campus at the Googleplex.” Tressie McMillan Cottom weighs in.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

This study says fix unstable housing, not schools.” ” Via Chalkbeat : “New early learning initiative brings Sesame Street lessons into Memphis classrooms.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Google has acquired lesson-provider Workbench. Edcast has raised $33.6

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ’” ( In related self-driving car regulation news : “ Google ’s ‘Cozy’ Relationship With Driverless-Car Regulators.” The startup, which something something MOOC something something, has raised $9.69 OpenClassrooms has raised $6.74

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

And The Next Web headline makes for… something: “ Facebook and Google could be allowed to award university degrees.” accuse Google of failing to gain their consent before scanning their emails via its Apps For Education suite for advertising purposes,” says Education Dive. ” Presidential Campaign Politics.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Also via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” " No s**t. So there you go.). ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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