Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 21, 2016

I am a proud member of AASL’s Best Apps for Teaching and Learning Committee. In this tenth anniversary of Jane’s efforts, she has moved from Top 100 to an impressive list of Top 200 Tools for Learning. Top 100 Tools for Personal & Professional Learning (for formal/informal learning and personal productivity).

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The Electric Educator

AUGUST 14, 2009

I was browsing through the pages of the July edition of Tech and Learning and saw a new product from Luidia : the eBeam Edge. I read the description in Tech and Learning and then browsed the Luidia website and couldn''t help but laugh-- I can create the exact same setup using a Nintendo Wii controller and an IR pen for less than $100!

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The Electric Educator

JUNE 23, 2009

Note: the following post was published in the Fall 2009 Edition of the MACUL Journal While some teachers are battling to keep iPods out of the classroom, I’m encouraging my students to use them as learning tools. As the capabilities of the iPod expand, educators are considering ways that the iPod can be used for learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update October 21st, 2014 In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Mahatma Gandhi The Learning Revolution Project holds online and physical learning events, and highlights professional development opportunities from a network of 200 partners in the learning professions.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is a throwback post, first published in March 2014 (and referring to yet another post all the way back in 2007). In the original article, I gave a list of what computing skills mathematics majors should learn and when they should learn them. Second, I’ve been using computers and software more and more in my teaching.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. Virtual worlds in 2007, for example. What can we learn about the future by looking at the history of our imagining about education’s future.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Our two-month, free, online summit focused on home-based and home-centered learning officially started last week. Sessions are free to watch for five days, then become part of the Home Learning Summit library. Sign up now: [link] Whether by circumstance or choice, learning at home is now the reality for more students than ever.

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Hack Education

JULY 2, 2016

VR appeared in some of the earliest Horizon Reports for example, with the 2007 report positing that virtual worlds would be adopted by higher ed institutions within two to three years’ time; funnily enough, the 2016 report offers the same outlook: we’re still two to three years out from widespread adoption of VR. “Soon.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The New York Times broke the news this week that New America ousted its Open Markets team after it praised a recent EU fine against Google : “Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant.” ” New America has received more than $21 million from Google. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. .”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” That’s Joel Rose ’s School of One software. ” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.” ” The Google Memo. ISTE has hired Joseph South as its Chief Learning Officer. ” Holy s**t.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

“In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. About learning? Much like “brain training,” “brain scanning” was repeatedly hyped this year as a possible way to improve the efficacy of education software. What do we believe about education?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. “Everyone should learn to code.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

“ Artificial Intelligence: Could emerging technologies ‘humanize’ teaching & learning? This is so important to consider, as Tufekci noted on Twitter, in light of Google’s domination of the K–12 computing market.). Via Edsurge : “ VR Could Bring a New Era of Immersive Learning. ”).

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

.” DeVos’s brother, Erik Prince , is the founder of the private military company Blackwater , infamous for its human rights violations, including the murder of 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007 by its employees. Google has acquired Quiklabs , a tech training company. ” (emphasis mine). “The number of Ph.D.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

I know it’s trend to criticize keynotes and lectures and claim that they’re terrible ways to learn. It’s a great story, particularly if you want to wield that factoid along with a product pitch for more “active learning” – like clicking on things. This is the “PayPal Mafia.” Who tells it?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

As she writes, “many of these models encoded human prejudice, misunderstanding and bias into the software systems that increasingly manage our lives.”. Shaw, which is a hedge fund, and I started in June 2007, so right before the credit crisis started breaking. The more I learned about that, the sicker to the stomach I became.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Challenges to accreditation and certification and the steady drumbeat of “everyone should learn to code” are connected to politics as well as to the business of ed-tech. Every industry uses computers, software, and internet services. Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company.

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