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Educating Kids for Life not for Tests

The CoolCatTeacher

Pam Moran on episode 236 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Twitter: @pammoran. I think that technologies are certainly a part of it. Congress to accelerate innovation in education. View story at Medium.com. Blog: spacesforlearning.wordpress.com.

Education 247
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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The more than 2,000 member PLN can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @ISTEGlobalPLN, and you can follow the hashtag #ISTEGlobalPLN. You can find her on Twitter, Voxer, and Periscope at @fmargret. In the fall of 2007, Courtney went on to attend the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities as a first-generation college student.

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The rural school district Obama fought to save

The Hechinger Report

Martin Middle School in Dillon dates to 1896 and was still in use when then-Senator Barack Obama visited in 2007 during his presidential campaign. In 2007, when U.S. Then Senator Barack Obama, speaking on the campaign trail in 2007. 10, 2007, when Senator Obama announced he’d run for president in Springfield, Illinois.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president. 3D Printing.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

. “Since 1970, DeVos family members have invested at least $200 million in a host of right-wing causes -- think tanks, media outlets, political committees, evangelical outfits, and a string of advocacy groups. Via The Daily Dot : “ Twitter tells developers to stop making police surveillance tools that use its data.”

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

It treats “ed-tech” as the result of markets and industry and “innovation,” and not as the result of policy or history. ” Trump might not have proposed any solutions, but he’s identified the problems: Setting up problems is the most important part of policy work. Take criminal justice.

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

Can we expect that – the science or the journalism – to alter public policy in an administration that does not believe in either science or journalism? Twitter too revealed it had sold ads to Russian accounts and the platform was (is) full of bots promoting and retweeting divisive messaging. Naturally.