MindShift

DECEMBER 11, 2019

It was 2007, and his family was registering for benefits at a refugee camp in Uganda, where they’d settled after fleeing civil war in South Sudan. He couldn’t access the Internet, but a friend gave him coding tutorials loaded onto a flash drive. Lual Mayen, a video game developer based in Washington, D.C.,

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

Now something similar may be happening with textbooks, as publishing giants start to broker campuswide deals with colleges that give students unlimited access to a publisher’s digital textbooks at cut-rate prices. Inclusive access has already gotten up to acronym status,” he said.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 18, 2023

Between 2005 and 2007, productivity increased by 41% and employee turnover decreased by 90%. I’m wary of cross-pollinating business ideas into the educational sector (the Industrial Revolution is what got us into our current structure), but this idea still has me thinking: how could ROWE help both teachers and students?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It treats “ed-tech” as the result of markets and industry and “innovation,” and not as the result of policy or history. There is No Technology Industry (There is Only Ideology). “ There is no ‘technology industry’ ,” technology writer and entrepreneur Anil Dash wrote in August.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

And that’s a problem right there, no doubt, as journalism regularly gets scientific research wrong, often repeating the synopses from paywalled articles or the stories that industry hopes it will share: Is chocolate good for your health ? Are standing desks ? Is ESP real ? Do cellphones cause brain cancer ? Should you ban laptops ?

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Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

Bresch had previously been involved in another education-related scandal when, in 2007, it was revealed she had been awarded an MBA by West Virginia University even though she’d only completed half of the required credits. ” Via The Trade : “Industry worried about confidentiality of blockchain.” Me, I guess.).

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