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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

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In fall 2007, Larry Berger, CEO of Wireless Generation (now Amplify) was invited to submit a paper to an “Entrepreneurship in Education” working group led by Rick Hess, the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. I’d recently moved to Washington, D.C. and he asked me to co-author the piece.

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Teachers: 3 ways technology can make learning visible, easily

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John Hattie’s meta-study, Visible Learning (2009), changed the way we think about what works in the classroom. And it gave us guidance about which classroom practices we should embrace, like Response to Intervention (RtI) or acceleration, because they provide the most benefit to students.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

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” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. Virtual worlds in 2007, for example. 2007 – the phones in their pockets. The quotation is from 2012.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

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.” This was what the mother of a nineteen-year-old killed by a bomb in Kirkuk said on an HBO documentary quoted by Bob Herbert in The New York Times on the morning of November 12, 2004. Or the flipped classroom. Say, the Android device in Google’s Cardboard Viewer and Expeditions program.). Fads fade, of course.

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How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year

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I’ve also done online office hours in a live format, where students, alumni, or random visitors basically used AOL Instant Messenger or Google Talk to ask questions. Discover how Course Hero can help inspire your course design. We use a free online service called Ustream to make it possible for students everywhere to watch.

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