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The in-school push to fight misinformation from the outside world

The Hechinger Report

Today’s information environment is tremendously exciting and there’s all kinds of access, but there are really some enormous challenges and pitfalls and hazards out there.” We’re teaching web credibility as if it’s 2002,” he said. Peter Adams, senior vice president of education, News Literacy Project.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Pam: I think that one of the things that particularly — in states like Virginia where the resources that localities have access to can be wildly different. They flipped to one-to-one sometime around 2002. Obstacles to Implementing the Vision in Virginia. You know, Charlottesville is the center of Albemarle County.

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OPINION: Fixing education during the pandemic means fixing an uneasy relationship with technology

The Hechinger Report

A recent survey conducted by the University of Virginia (UVA) and the EdTech Evidence Exchange found that an overwhelming share of educators see a sharply increased need for individualized attention and instruction as a result of learning-from-home challenges, including unequal access to technology and varying levels of support from caring adults.

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Which Edtech Companies Are Listening to Teachers?

Edsurge

I'd much rather they build for Abbott Elementary than for Palo Alto High School. Jeff Livingston, founder of the Center for Education Market Dynamics “I say, ‘Have you watched Abbott Elementary?’” So I'd much rather they build for Abbott Elementary than for Palo Alto High School.”

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Rising college rates spur Hispanic progress in higher education

The Hechinger Report

More than half of Hispanic students — 54 percent — now finish college within six years, up from 46 percent in 2002. More than half of Hispanic students — 54 percent — now finish a bachelor’s degree within six years, up from 46 percent in 2002, the Education Department says. To some extent, those efforts appear to be working.

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Click here to register to attend the conference live or to have access to the conference recordings afterwards. Ozelle Stephen, Rev/Director of Education, Miridians Elementary School, Centre of Enabling Support Foundation, Uganda Access to Quality education Opportunities, Good Health + Well-being for all.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account. (I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.)

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