Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Last week, a colleague asked me what I would recommend as essential reading for understanding technology in student affairs. If we go outside of student affairs and higher education to consider literature produced in other disciplines then we have to be ruthless in culling the list to a manageable size.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 31, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler In a previous post I outlined some of the metrics around the use of digital media, technologies and social networks. I wrote that: "The age of social technologies has radically transformed the way we live our lives, and that includes how we learn and teach. 2002) Smartmobs: The Next Social Revolution.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

Tiana Young is a freshman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where a racist Facebook post from a student in the alt-right group Turning Point left the African-American community shaken and frustrated by the school’s lack of public response. Photo: Stuart Miller for The Hechinger Report. Photo: © Allen Holder/TNS/ZUMAPRESS.com.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

This is number 4 in the series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future.' Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. As with most other technology innovations, Web 2.0

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 28, 2012

I decided that rather than merely cover practical issues (the 'how to do mobile' approach), I would try to take a more challenging approach, and explore social, pedagogical and psychological theories that relate to mobile technology, and present some of the issues that mLearning practitioners are currently facing. Fortunati, L. Katz and M.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2024

A thought leadership type of panel, one in particular is engaging all students in esports and education, right? So our kids will help design Instagram and Facebook pages for them as well as a canvas page that they can have a picture of. Beyond the technology, and is that something that has evolved over the years?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2024

A thought leadership type of panel, one in particular is engaging all students in esports and education, right? So our kids will help design Instagram and Facebook pages for them as well as a canvas page that they can have a picture of. Beyond the technology, and is that something that has evolved over the years?

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 9, 2018

The technology giants of the world have found ways so that the average person can create their own AR and VR worlds with very little training or gear. Merge is a new tool that is moving quickly to break through in the education marketplace. This is a feature that is unheard of for the education sector at a reasonable price.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 9, 2013

My series of retrospective reviews of seminal learning and technology books continues. Today''s book recommendation is the fifth in the series: Howard Rheingold (2002) Smart Mobs: The next social revolution. The book remains a significant contribution to the discourse around learning technology. For previous reviews start here.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

The day after the launch, for example, Espino and classmate Jaime Sanchez were learning Python programming through Udacity, an online education platform that offers “nanodegrees.” For example, the Silicon Valley Education Foundation’s summer program, Elevate Math, is raising algebra readiness, a critical first step on the STEM success track.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

This story on STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about higher education. However, educators realize that getting students on track academically isn’t enough. SAN JOSE, Calif. —

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Oh, it was Facebook, and I got a message from her. You’re the reason that I’m in education. I think that’s one of the most wonderful things about being in education or being a teacher. But I will say that at the time, I knew that one of my three kids had a learning difference, and I knew that there was technology to learn.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2017

The panel was titled "Higher Education in the Disinformation Age: Can America's public liberal arts universities restore critical thinking and civility in public discourse?" Or at least, I too have often felt frustrated with the reporting I read on education and technology – topics I like to think I know something about.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Peter Thiel’s beliefs about free speech and the free press are particularly important as he sits on the Board of Directors of Facebook. (He 44% of US adults, according to Pew Research Center , get their news from Facebook. Silicon Valley Ideology and the Future of Education. It matters for the future of education.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

And so tonight I spoke with the educators at NYCIST. We’re told an awful lot of stories about what “good teaching” looks like and what “bad teaching” looks like and how technology will purportedly enhance the former and replace the latter. They were very kind and put up with a very half-assed talk.

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