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Sir Ken Robinson: A Brief In Memoriam [guest post]

Dangerously Irrelevant

Amidst the chaos of 2020 we lost a true leader in education in late August just as schools were trying to reopen. Like most of you that knew Sir Ken Robinson’s impact on education, I first learned about him through his wildly popular TED Talk in 2006. This year, 2020, has shown with stark clarity the implications of these failures.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020), you will probably have these characteristics: "You see roadblocks as opportunities, and you have tons of creativity that keeps you from getting bored. NG) This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

Edsurge

Its 2020 summer conference, originally scheduled for May, convened virtually—but not without losing substantial revenue that it normally generated from its in-person event. SIIA also created an “incubator” program in 2006 to support early-stage education companies, long before the idea became popular in the edtech industry.

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Community Colleges Have Long Powered the Economy. To Sustain That Role, They Must Innovate.

Edsurge

Industrialization, Economic Mobility and Community Colleges Reflecting on the advancements of the 19th century, the age of industrialization brought about great prosperity for the U.S., These schools served as the gateway to social and economic mobility and played a significant role in the movement toward greater gender and racial equity.

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The Challenge of Teaching News Literacy

Edsurge

Really with the advent of the first iPhone, around 2006, everything changed, and social media really took off. Mobile technology and social media were the two big drivers of the changes we're seeing. Everybody's talking about deepfakes in 2020, that's not something we were talking about in 2016, maybe even in 2018.

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Google Parts Ways With Longtime Education Evangelist, Jaime Casap

Edsurge

There were no “evangelist” openings at Google when he joined the engineering team in February 2006. In April 2020, the company claimed its G Suite for Education products were used by 120 million students and users across the world. Breakdown of mobile device shipments in the K-12 education market by operating systems.

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

Hack Education

In October of 2006 , Gartner said that Apple’s “best bet for long-term success is to quit the hardware business and license the Mac to Dell.” But Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983. Apple sold just 50 million iPads. And the Internet?

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