Hack Education

AUGUST 28, 2019

The future of education is technological. In order to prepare students for the future, the practices of teaching and learning – indeed the whole notion of “school” – must embrace tech-centered courseware and curriculum. To resist technology, therefore, is to undermine students’ opportunities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Wikipedia defines “cyberbullying” as: the use of information technology to repeatedly harm or harass other people in a deliberate manner. Cyberbullying occurs on not just social media like Twitter, Facebook, and topical forums, but multiplayer games and school discussion boards. But what about cyberbullying?

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 27, 2014

The post was titled Schools.the New Digital Age Learning Organization? In my case and that of New Milford HS anything now seems possible thanks to the unequivocal support from Central Office, a staff that has embraced meaningful change, and a student body yearning for a better way to learn. Events like this are truly amazing.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Wikipedia defines “cyberbullying” as: the use of information technology to repeatedly harm or harass other people in a deliberate manner. Cyberbullying occurs on not just social media like Twitter, Facebook, and topical forums, but multiplayer games and school discussion boards. But what about cyberbullying?

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

From cinema, through to television, the experience of media was defined by an amalgamation of sound and vision. This combination was not only the mainstay for entertainment and commerce, it also became the technological touchstone for many courses and programmes of study. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

From cinema, through to television, the experience of media was defined by an amalgamation of sound and vision. This combination was not only the mainstay for entertainment and commerce, it also became the technological touchstone for many courses and programmes of study. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 25, 2020

This week, REINVENTING.SCHOOL explores an increasingly common practice--home as a place for learning, and in some cases, as a physical replacement for a physical school facility. Diana Ortiz Burns is Director of Operations and Sustainability, Indian Creek School, and a force in the physical reinvention of local facilities used for learning.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This is number 28 in my series on learning theories. My most recent post explored Jack Merizow''s Transformative Learning theory. As usual, this is a simplified and concise interpretation of the theory, so if you wish to learn more, please read the associated literature. Social media can reduce the degrees of separation.

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IT Bill

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. mobile computing, mobile apps, social media, BYOD, mobile learning). Such media can be submitted to an e-portfolio or blog (e.g. Undergraduate Smartphone Ownership.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Wikipedia defines “cyberbullying” as: the use of information technology to repeatedly harm or harass other people in a deliberate manner. Cyberbullying occurs on not just social media like Twitter, Facebook, and topical forums, but multiplayer games and school discussion boards. But what about cyberbullying?

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 16, 2012

In his 2003 book 'Six Degrees', Duncan Watts expounded the idea of being connected in the digital age, drawing upon the theories of psychologist Stanley Milgram. Six Degrees of Separation is a useful book because it illuminates the science behind our daily use of Facebook, Twitter and other social media. Reference Watts, D.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2018

They project a slide on a topic of near-universal interest to teenagers – social media. Social media and technology are not agents of change. Social media and technology are not agents of change. A lively discussion soon erupts over the pluses and minuses of social media.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 31, 2019

These stats come from a new, nationally representative survey of media use among children ages 8-18, by Common Sense Media, which has been tracking this since 2003. Just ask Ashley Mingo, a junior at the Hudson High School of Learning Technologies in New York City. Seven in 10 teen girls use social media every day.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

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. enables them to take more responsibility for their own learning. Essentially, the Web has become more social. Essentially, Web 2.0

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 2, 2013

This is the third in a series of blog posts on the future of learning and technology. In my previous blog post I examined the debate about whether we are becoming more intelligent or less intelligent as a result of our prolonged and habituated uses of technology. There are examples of how such cyborg existence might come about.

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MindShift

JANUARY 3, 2018

They project a slide on a topic of near-universal interest to teenagers – social media. Social media and technology are not agents of change. Social media and technology are not agents of change. A lively discussion soon erupts over the pluses and minuses of social media.

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Social Media Study Exercises Survey 76

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

He has published on open education, Rhizomatic Learning, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), Digital Identity, and practical classroom uses of virtual worlds. He has published numerous articles both online and in print, including The Future of Online Learning (1998), Learning Objects (2000), Resource Profiles (2003), and E-Learning 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 17, 2017

What does “digital literacy” mean in an era shaped by the Internet, social media, and staggering quantities of information? As learners increasingly move from just consuming information to also socially producing it, what are the new requisite skills of critical thinking and decision-making? Please also join the Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 31, 2017

What does “digital literacy” mean in an era shaped by the Internet, social media, and staggering quantities of information? As learners increasingly move from just consuming information to also socially producing it, what are the new requisite skills of critical thinking and decision-making? Please also join the Library 2.0

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 25, 2016

Gee teaches at Arizona State University and is a faculty affiliate of the Games, Learning & Society group. He has written several books on the role of games and learning, including What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (2003) and Language and Learning (2004). Yes, to some extent.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 15, 2017

Participants are encouraged to use #library2017 on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. Prior to joining Simmons SLIS, Abels was the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor at the iSchool at Drexel, The College of Information Science and Technology. Please also join this Library 2.0

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 4, 2015

At the event, Carolyn Sykora , Senior Director of the ISTE Standards Program, shared that the 1998 standards described a landscape in which we were learning to use technology. The 2007 standards described a landscape in which we were using technology to learn. We’ve nurtured and grown flexible Learning Commons.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 26, 2017

Participants are encouraged to use #library2017 on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. Prior to joining Simmons SLIS, Abels was the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor at the iSchool at Drexel, The College of Information Science and Technology. Please also join this Library 2.0

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MindShift

MAY 13, 2015

But for teens, getting to know one another is often the domain of intimate friendships or curated identities on social media platforms. Social science teacher Alex Fernandez is encouraging his students to think about these deeper experiences by spending one day a week discussing their own life stories and sharing them with classmates.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

In other words, the post-human condition emerges when humankind and technology merge to the point where they become a part of each other. We can understand cyborgs - and for many, the idea of a half-man, half-machine evokes deep seated fears about how far technology can go. Can we apply technology to the upgrading of humans?

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2015

The ultimate learning experience for students is both highly collaborative and extremely personalized, supported by mobile devices and digital content, reports Project Tomorrow in their latest Speak Up report. Among high school students, 58 percent said they now use their own mobile device at school to support learning activities.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Effective media literacy education also involves a strong focus on civic engagement and creation, connecting people with the tools to make their voices and perspectives heard. Of course, media literacy is always evolving as technology and culture shift, and there's no shortage of smart frameworks that each define it slightly differently.

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MindShift

AUGUST 14, 2018

Many of those proposals are rooted in popular ideas about the best ways to teach civics, including when kids should start, what they should learn and how to apply those lessons. But some students learn more about their government than others. ” Create a lab for civics learning. Little kids know about rules. Be inclusive.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Karen Blumberg Technology Integrator The School at Columbia University BIO : Karen Blumberg is an educational technologist at The School at Columbia University working with faculty and students to integrate technology academically, respectfully, and responsibly. The Charter was launched in November 2009.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit is in its final week. For the next eight days we'll be publishing three special 30-minute video interviews each day with an amazing set of learning experts (see below), for a total of 24 interviews (and maybe a surprise bonus interview or two). See all of the speakers here. Yong Zhao, Ph.D

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

This article was originally published by The Markup , a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. Future-minded reporting Our free newsletter, Future of Learning, features innovative, original stories every other Wednesday. billion blocks in just a month. Is that fair?”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. “In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go to the literature.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 14, 2012

Join me Tuesday, May 15th, for live and interactive Future of Education conversation with Mark Bauerlein to talk about his new book, The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking , and how this reflects our perspectives on teaching and learning. psid=2012-05-15.1018.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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MindShift

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In political classrooms, students learn how to discuss topics that have multiple, competing views, and practice listening and questioning. Then they compared the two types of teachers to see how they engaged students and what students learned. Best Practice Educators.

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Professional journalists themselves face new practical and ethical challenges relating to anonymity, privacy and safety, as well as reliability in their attempts to verify sources of breaking news from social media and user generated content in all media formats. (The On news literacy. Not as a lesson of good vs. bad.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” For those keeping track of how great social media is for the future of education and knowledge and civics and such: “Last Year, Social Media Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries ,” says the MIT Technology Review.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Boyer. . We sat down with Boyer to learn more about his flipped syllabus, unique assessments, and the hard work that goes into an easy A. Learn more about the Plaid Avenger and view his video Plaidcasts.

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