Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

Some believe educators should focus on building soft skills like empathy and interpersonal communication so humans and robots can complement one another. However, other education thought leaders are ready to beat computers at their own game by teaching people to think like intelligent machines.

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JUNE 17, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Higher Education. Black and brown people are more exposed than white people because of educational issues and historic occupational histories.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

A 5-foot-tall functioning robot leads a phalanx of smaller, award-winning robots—all built by students—stacked high on wire shelves behind it. In addition to project-based learning, SR1 kids travel statewide and compete in robotics tournaments and visit college campuses. And for many, that pipeline is gone. A ‘huge’ blow.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 24, 2015

And we’re both in education to begin with — that’s a selfless and Sisyphean pursuit in itself. A 2007 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine study explains: Emotion enhances our ability to form vivid memories of even trivial events. In education, we look for symptoms of these emotions, maybe engagement or creativity.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” Are any education technologies, for that matter? Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. The former Little Caillou Elementary in Chauvin, Louisiana closed in 2007 due to population declines.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Spatial skills don’t get a lot of attention in K-12 education, despite research pointing to the link between spatial reasoning and academic achievement, creativity and the arts. In 2007, Columbus School for Girls added “spatial skills development” to its new strategic plan, based on suggestions from Swarlis and a fellow administrator.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Global Education Conference Keynotes. The great majority of these events are free to attend.

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

I graduated with a Masters in Instructional Technology in 2007. Mobile technology was becoming more pronounced in the educational arena and I was asked “can we do without a lab?” After school this year our STEAM coordinator has offered circuitry and robotics clubs as well. The hardest thing I’ve had to figure out is keyboarding.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2017

The bulk of my concern was expressed in these two paragraphs: Open education currently has no response to the coming wave of diagnostic, adaptive products coming from the publishers. You can argue that it might have made a difference in 2007, but it won’t in 2017.).if Five years ago, in an essay called “ 2017: RIP OER? ”

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2017

The bulk of my concern was expressed in these two paragraphs: Open education currently has no response to the coming wave of diagnostic, adaptive products coming from the publishers. You can argue that it might have made a difference in 2007, but it won’t in 2017.). Five years ago, in an essay called 2017: RIP OER? ,

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.). Any day now.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Earlier this year, Microsoft made headlines when it debuted Tay, a new chatbot modeled to speak like a teenage girl, which rather dramatically turned into “ a Hitler-loving sex robot within 24 hours ” of its release, as The Telegraph put it. The first name and gendering of the robot? Commercially viable. Scripting Pedagogy.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

That means that students at these schools — where only 15 percent of students are black or Hispanic, compared to almost 70 percent citywide — are getting almost $18 million more this year than they would have without the bonus, according to Department of Education data. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Instead, each team member spent a few minutes sketching out how one part — a marble run, say, or a Lego Robotics kicking foot — would operate within the machine. The STEAM labs, STEAM coordinators and technology education teachers are part of a district-wide embrace of “computational thinking.”. Aileen Owens).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 29, 2023

Learning Revolutions's ChatGPT Bootcamp for Teaching and Learning: Harnessing the Power of ChatGPT in Education with Steve Hargadon A 3-hour live online session with non-expiring access to recordings (The separate bootcamp for libraries and librarians is here.)

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

(National) Education Politics. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Colleges Find Few Reasons to Lobby a Friendlier Education Dept.” ” “Education Dept. ” “Education Dept. More on Candice Jackson ’s resume in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

(National) Education Politics. The AP interviews US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos , who laments “she didn’t decry racism enough.” ” Via Politico : “New marching orders from Betsy DeVos’ civil rights chief have the Education Department churning through civil rights complaints.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

Educators, policymakers and students from across the country seem to be making that shift. Our kids are tired of education,” said Dougherty, who teaches history. The rate of teen suicide has also risen since 2007. Peer-led social-emotional learning is the answer,” he said. They haven’t seen much outside of rural America.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

In 1967, fully three-quarters of the American workforce had a high school education or less. It was all the education they needed to earn a middle-class living. Related: If the anger that propelled Trump’s win is economic, can higher education fix it? But what we really have is an education deficit. The key growth in U.S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. Seymour, as my friend Gary Stager has described him , was the “inventor of everything (good) in education.” This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. I do so in Seymour’s memory.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Seventy-five different languages are spoken in the schools, and many of the refugees who populate classrooms haven’t been formally educated in years. “I Extra money has allowed these wealthier districts to invest heavily in Chromebooks and iPads, state-of-the-art robotics programs, computerized blackboards, and high-end 3-D printers.

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Hack Education

MAY 24, 2017

This talk was given today at CENTRO's symposium "Data, Paper, Scissors Tech-Based Learning Experiences for Higher Education" in Mexico City. Digital technologies, even education technologies, are implicated in all of this, and if we are not careful, we are going to make things worse. Thank you very much for inviting me here today.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. ” The US Secretary of Education appeared on 60 Minutes this past weekend.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens. Compare that to the public university system in Illinois, which has cut its higher education budget so deeply that Moody’s downgraded seven universities, including five to junk bond status. Higher Education.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Education Politics. “ Betsy DeVos , Pick for Secretary of Education , Is the Most Jeered” by The New York Times’ Dana Goldstein. Via The LA Times : “ Betsy DeVos ‘is unprepared and unqualified ’ to be Education secretary, charter school booster Eli Broad says.” ” asks The Atlantic.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This is part one of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Last year, I started this series – my annual review of the year in education technology – with an article on wishful thinking. ” Many educators were angered , insisting that this wasn’t their fault. I get that.

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