Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. Several software companies have their own repositories, such as Microsoft’s Docs.com, Schoology’s public resources, Canvas Commons, and more. As one example, it would be helpful if someone developed an open source tool to classify educational texts by grade level.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

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. In 2007 Apple opened a dedicated educational podcast forum it named iTunesU (iTunes link).

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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). First, I know more computer science and computer programming now than I did in 2007. Second, I’ve been using computers and software more and more in my teaching. Mostly this is because of two things.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Learning Revolution Events Global Education Conference , November 17th - 21st, 2014 Partner Spotlight Africa ICT Right (AIR) is an ICT-oriented non-profit organization established in 2007 with its Headquarter in Ghana and run by a team of volunteers. What other tools are you using for programming lessons in your classrooms?

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 53

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Practical Student Tools (Email / Calendars / Organizers) ? Microschools ? Mindful Teaching and Learning ? Lifelong Learning ? Music Education ? Online Learning ? Open Source and OER ? Pandemic Pods ? Positive Education ? Reinventing School ? Remote Teaching and Learning ? Self-Directed Learning ? Sleep and Rest ? Special Needs ?

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Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Affluent students get to digital tools for creative exploration; poor students get to use theirs for test prep. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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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).

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Education Pearson Common Core Report 40

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. I want us to use good tools that work for kids.

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Data Facebook System EdTech 99

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Marc Andreessen famously said that “software is eating the world,” but it’s far more accurate to say that the neoliberal values of software tycoons are eating the world. Every industry uses computers, software, and internet services. Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company.

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