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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Integrated Studies of Educational Technology: Implementing the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund – Educational Technology State Grants Program (Review Copy) (American Institutes for Research, 2002) **Note: Despite the fact that the report was conducted under the direction of the U.S. ” How would the program operate?

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When His Roster Outgrew His Classroom, This Prof Mastered Modular Online Curriculum

Edsurge

Right before the start of the Fall semester in 2002, Robertson learned that the 400-seat movie theater that held his Principles of Marketing class at San Francisco State University would no longer be available. Different students have different approaches to learning, he says.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. SchoolNet helped many of these districts—and benefitted as well.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

van Dijk, 2002) or simply another phase in its relentless progress. Personally, I find myself in agreement with Brian Winston (2003), preferring to view social applications as a facet of gradual evolution rather than symptoms of sudden revolution. As with most other technology innovations, Web 2.0 BMC Medical Education 6, 41.

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Against the 3A’s of EdTech: AI, Analytics, and Adaptive Technologies in Education

ProfHacker

A good teacher can promote these attitudes despite plagiarism-detection software, but the software itself does not do this. I was talking to an undergraduate computer science student yesterday about my ethical objections to surveillance used in personalized learning, and he told me “ethics have evolved”.

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Throw the cookie cutters away: Remaking high schools for the 21st Century

The Hechinger Report

Between 2002 and 2013, New York City shut many of its large high schools, replacing them with small, personalized schools. A priority on youth development : This involves cultivating character skills along with academic growth and giving students a voice in their own learning. Related: This is how you start a school.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Districts have spent thousands of dollars on consultants and software upgrades, and the racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps that the law was supposed to help eliminate remain largely unchanged. I had never seen kids so in charge of their learning.”. Related: What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us?

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