Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

” Casey’s response: we have more information and expanded access to educational materials, but no increase in faculty productivity and no decrease in costs. He references the plight of adjuncts, including Doonesbury’s take. Casey answered by referring to what metaphors of change tell us about our attitudes.

Trends 40

Trends LMS VLE Technology 40

Learning with 'e's

JUNE 20, 2012

Kolb's model was categorised by Mayes and deFreitas (2004) as an individual constructivist theory, in that it features a number of components that reflect solo learning activities. And yet, although L and D departments are also embracing social learning, many still continue to refer to Kolb's model as an important model of learning.

Social Media 53

Social Media Training Study Accessibility 53

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 15, 2015

Malicious intent, willful blindness, or benign myopia--whatever the causal cognitive mechanism at play with individual actors in this game, it doesn't make any sense for us to allow food companies and their agents to set food guidelines, or bankers to help set banking policy, or. or testing companies to influence education policy.

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Policies Guidelines Company Industry 28

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

According to an April 2018 Department of Education report, 18 percent of 5- to 17-year old students in “remote rural” districts have no broadband access at home. The broadband expansion is supported by the managers of the existing network, and the plan’s backers could tap multiple statewide funding sources for education technology.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first started teaching in Philadelphia in 2004, teachers were lucky if they had one desktop computer in their room for students to use, and students attended weekly computer lab classes. In some cases, technology decisions are made by school leadership in-step with a plan developed with educators and an accompanying budget.

EdTech 275

EdTech Strategy Technology Company 275

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

As origin stories go, the founding of Blackboard twenty years ago lacked that single light bulb moment that tech companies like to tell. Here are some lessons I learned about what makes the higher education market unique. The winner of the LMS market would be the company with the most widely adopted platform.

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Blackboard Company Pearson LMS 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

LAS VEGAS — Among its many other nicknames, this landlocked desert city is often jokingly referred to by Hawaiians as their state’s ninth island. There are hula-dancing and lei-making lessons and outposts of Hawaii’s iconic Honolulu Cookie Company and ABC convenience stores. More than 40,000 have stayed permanently.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.). Any day now.

Trends 40

Trends Report iPhone Software 40

The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 5, 2018

You can take these courses for continuing education, salary advancement, or recertification. Aimee: Well, it’s funny that you say that, because a long time ago, 2004, I was nominated and I applied for the Disney Teacher Award, which is no longer. I thought, “Man, I’m a gift to education. They don’t have it anymore.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 3, 2020

As protests against racial injustice spread to communities large and small in this year, many educators have been pushed to examine how systemic racism harms students. public school students are children of color, but Martin’s exhortation is for educators in majority-white schools, too. “If More than half of U.S.

Classroom 69

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

Certainly we address “policies” – we often have no choice – but less often do we really dig into “politics” and even less often into the ideologies of education technologies. Education technologies – and technologies more broadly – are typically seen as politically neutral and ideology-free.

Conference 63

Conference Course MOOC Technology 63

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

I’m interested in how ed-tech (and tech more broadly) will change how we imagine education – as a process, as a practice, as an institution – and change how we value knowledge and expertise and even school itself. School is one of those institutions.

Software 90

Software Learning Training LMS 90

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

“There was always a group or two that wanted [social studies books] to stay as we had had it previously,” said Ed Richardson, who led the state department of education at the time. “No It’s not the first time Alabama officials, educators, parents and politicians have battled over school textbooks and how to discuss history.

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