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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. Robert obtained their Master of Science degree in Engineering from Boise State University between 2002 and 2005.

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30 Hilarious Kid Jokes about School

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Who hasn’t seen the spark in a student’s eyes when a lesson is peppered with humor, or watched a tough concept become more accessible through a playful analogy? As found in Garner’s (2005) research on “ Humor, Analogy, and Metaphor: H.A.M. Further studies corroborate these findings.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

Maia Sharpley’s career in education includes serving in executive positions with the New York City Department of Education, Kaplan and Charter Schools USA. From 2015 to 2019, entrepreneurs created 11 times the number of education unicorns compared to 2005 to 2014.

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Many Online Education Marketplaces Have Sputtered. Will Quizlet’s Pass the Test?

Edsurge

Founded in 2005, Quizlet has become a popular source among students for its user-generated digital flashcards. By opening up its platform to established authors and publishers, the company is betting that content creators will pay to access the massive user base that Quizlet has amassed over the years.

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Charitable giving to higher education is now broken

Bryan Alexander

It all comes from the Voluntary Support for Education survey , conducted by the Council for Aid to Education ( CAE ), and only accessible by purchase , so I’m proceeding by summaries and extracts published elsewhere. In 2005 just five colleges raised that much money for sports. Kaplan, survey director for CAE.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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Education Technology and the 'New' For-Profit Higher Education

Hack Education

.” There were some high-profile academic hires however, including John Vogel (Dartmouth), Don Sexton (Columbia), Jack Kaplan (Columbia), and Roger Schank (Carnegie Mellon). Vogel was one of the professors who stood with Trump at the press conference in 2005 announcing the launch of Trump University.