The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 23, 2020

In honor of her noteworthy accomplishments, Dr. Podgurski was awarded the Athena Women of Wisdom Award (2004), the NAACP Human Rights Award (2008), The ARC Community Award (2014), the Healthy Teen Network Excellence in Sexuality Education Award (2014), and the Carol Mendez Cassell Award for Excellence in Sexuality Education (2014).

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

We explored campus technology and faculty attitudes towards digital materials. Casey noted some long-term persistent trends, such as campus IT seeing technology as an underutilized aid for instruction, and not feeling satisfied about institutional promotion of technology for faculty. Here is the full recording and my notes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2019

When I was a newly minted college professor in New Orleans in the winter of 2004, I began writing regular editorials for the Louisiana Weekly , a newspaper devoted to the city’s black community. Typically, black media took it much harder. As the saying goes, when white folks catch a cold, black folks get pneumonia.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

From 1997 to 2004, she was a member of the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the federal testing program. From 1995 until 2005, she held the Brown Chair in Education Studies at the Brookings Institution and edited Brookings Papers on Education Policy.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2019

In my nearly 15 years of teaching in Philadelphia, I have seen technology introduced into schools and classrooms in myriad ways. I have spent the last 13 of those years as a technology teacher and coordinator, and an informal technology coach, in three different schools. What is driving this new purchase?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

Michael Smirnov, a post-doc at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience working on neuronal signal transduction , has been leading the course for the six students studying at the institute this year. The Max Planck Academy, then, will be an expansion of a model FAU High School started in 2004, when it opened with just seven students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The tagline speaks to the student body at the institution, many of whom are juggling jobs, parenting and studies with hopes of brighter futures ahead. Texarkana College adopted new enterprise software and other edtech tools like an early-alert system, but technology was only one aspect of the school’s effort.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 10, 2018

Robust Infrastructure is the technology, networks, hardware, and other resources (including policy) that make deeper experiences possible without detracting from the learning. Technology and the infrastructure that enables it—from the devices to the networks to the cloud—are vital to modern education. And to some extent, that’s okay.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

In Ken Bain’s longitudinal study of how superb post-secondary educators approach their teaching, he asserts the importance of attaining and maintaining students’ attention. Bain writes in What the Best College Teachers Do (2004): “They consciously try to get students’ attention with some provocative act, question, or statement.”

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ProfHacker

MAY 11, 2018

" Invisible Labor and Digital Utopias ," by Audrey Watters: "As a woman who writes online about technology, I have grown far too tired of ‘permission-less-ness.’ Here, for your weekend reading pleasure, are 5 links and a video. " Whose digital utopia does ‘openness’ represent?"

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

Pathways, Exposure, Academic Connection, Knowledge (PEAK) takes students to local companies such as Google and Facebook, as well as to hospitals, law firms and other businesses. As a high schooler, Kateryn Raymundo interned at Salesforce, a tech company, through the nonprofit Genesys Works. Photo courtesy of Pedro Raymundo).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Shawn Caine, who teaches technology at Panguitch High School in Garfield County, Utah, lets students who don’t have adequate home internet service get online in her classroom before and after school. Tom Rolfes, education IT manager for the Nebraska Information Technology Commission. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 13, 2015

ALEXANDRIA, VA Statistics—the science of learning from data—is the fastest-growing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) undergraduate degree in the United States over the last four years, an analysis of federal government education data conducted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) revealed. From a press release.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

James Bosco is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Educational Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was the Chief Research Officer and also the director of External Technology Relations for the WMU College of Education. psid=2011-05-31.1720.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350.

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Seeing his challenges in school as an opportunity to be solved, the boy who once hated math went on to study engineering, biology and neuroscience in college. Technology not only makes that kind of learning possible in one classroom, it makes it scalable to thousands of them. In the U.S., Source: U.S. Alex Belous, Cisco.

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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. Colleges were spending millions networking classrooms and residence halls, and I wondered about the absence of technology in the “front office” for teaching and learning. The idea was simple.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

She also has worked at the University of Chicago’s Urban Education Institute and the Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education and currently serves as the director of educational technology at North Shore Country Day School. Department of State and studied religion and culture in Indonesia. Department of Education.

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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.).

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

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. The company was renamed “Amplify.” I’d recently moved to Washington, D.C.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Technology. There have been several technologies that made my life better through this big change. I am also much more satisfied with their customer service than I was with the other company. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. My family moved this summer when I started a new job. It’s a book modeled on this comic.).

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edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2021

The Role of Technology During COVID. Even though many had been using technology in the classroom, they were not ready for the full-on virtual digital learning environment COVID demanded. Leveraging technology to support all student learners is essential. Access and connectivity must be equitable. Professional Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

So says a 2017 study published by the Institute of Policy Studies. About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

.” 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. I want to start this year’s review of education technology acknowledging grief. Education Technology and (Decades and Decades of) Quackery.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Stakeholders—from educators and nonprofits to politicians and private companies—have all rowed in one direction to spur the strategic use of technology to ensure that all students have access to a great education. Among its several objectives, BETA decided in 2004 to launch a statewide school connectivity upgrade.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Her passion for smart entertainment has lead her around the world, speaking on the role of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) programming on television. He then began his graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993. Yong Zhao, Ph.D He received his B.A.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Not only did Caleb never return to his local school, but he learned little throughout his elementary, middle and high school years — which included hundreds of hours struggling through computer lessons in math, science and social studies. Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

This keynote was delivered today at the Irish Learning Technology Association's annual conference, EdTech2016, in Dublin. I’m not sure we talk often enough about technology-enhanced learning in these terms – as a political not merely pedagogical practice. The full slidedeck is available here.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

This talk was delivered at MIT for Justin Reich’s Comparative Media Studies class “Learning, Media, and Technology.” I recognize that this class is called “Learning, Media, and Technology.” ” The full slide deck is available here. Thank you for inviting me to speak to your class today.

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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. . Explore the World Regions course file , with links to notes, quizzes, and study guides. Understand how Boyer integrates technology into his course design.

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