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The New Media Consortium: its sudden death and what comes next

Bryan Alexander

Meanwhile, I reached out to dozens of people through email, Facebook, LinkedIn, various IM clients, and text, trying to figure out more about what happened. I’ve known and worked with the NMC people since around 2003. As Kim Pearson quickly realized, This is a shock. — Kim Pearson (@professorkim) December 19, 2017.

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The New Media Consortium: its sudden death and what comes next

Bryan Alexander

Meanwhile, I reached out to dozens of people through email, Facebook, LinkedIn, various IM clients, and text, trying to figure out more about what happened. I’ve known and worked with the NMC people since around 2003. As Kim Pearson quickly realized, This is a shock. — Kim Pearson (@professorkim) December 19, 2017.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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With a 25+ career in education, Arati has used her curriculum design skills to create unique learning experiences in education and nonprofit sectors at Pearson, EdSurge and Silicon Valley Education Foundation. She has also leveraged these skills to create employee onboarding and training programs at Apple, Facebook, Google and Uber.

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What Video Games Like Doom Teach Us About Learning, According to GBL Guru James Paul Gee

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The Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University has been playing video games for four hours every day since 2003, solving puzzles and battling bosses in games such as Doom, Darksiders 2 and Uncharted 4. Gee: The first game I played was Adventures of the New Time Machine , in 2003.

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

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But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Facebook gets in the “ literacy ” business. “Facebook’s News Literacy Advice Is Harmful to News Literacy,” says Mike Caulfield. ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. Not really. It’s still in the entertainment and advertising business.

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Are History Textbooks Worth Using Anymore? Maybe Not, Some Teachers Say

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In her 2003 book “ The Language Police ,” education historian Diane Ravitch contends that “every textbook has a point of view, despite a facade of neutrality.” This is especially true of history texts, which attempt to distill complex and contrasting events into simple, linear narratives, often at the expense of nuance and unpleasant truths.

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