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A Video Game About Conflict Resolution Helps Develop Empathy for Refugees

MindShift

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. Olebe says so-called “social impact games” like Salaam are a category that has the potential to push the industry to expand its definition of success.

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Educating Kids for Life not for Tests

The CoolCatTeacher

She has a real interest in fashion, would love to be in the fashion industry. Dr. Moran has appeared on the cover of Education Week’s Digital Directions magazine as a “National Mover and Shaker” for her advocacy of a curricular digital integration model, which will be featured in an upcoming profile by Edutopia. She’s in there.

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Could a ROWE (Results-Only Work Environment) be right for your classroom?

The Cornerstone for Teachers

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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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Colleges Are Striking Bulk Deals With Textbook Publishers. Critics Say There Are Many Downsides.

Edsurge

While in Big Soda the main players are Coke and Pepsi, their equivalent in the publishing industry are Pearson and Cengage (which has announced that plans to merge with McGraw-Hill). “If they felt that Cengage is not as strong and Pearson is better, they kept with the Pearson.” Who Owns Student Data? But what if price isn’t the biggest issue?

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

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 Weekly News

Hack Education

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.”