Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

OpenSecrets.org on how the student loan industry and higher ed institutions spend their lobbying dollars : “The politics behind your college and how you pay for it.” Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. Via The New York Times : “More Law Schools Begin Accepting GRE Test Results.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 16, 2024

It will touch every sector, every industry, every business function, and significantly change the way we live and work." - Google CEO, Sundar Pichai "[This is] the most important advance in technology since the graphical user interface. It will change the way people work, learn, travel, get health care, and communicate with each other.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 9, 2024

It will touch every sector, every industry, every business function, and significantly change the way we live and work." - Google CEO, Sundar Pichai "[This is] the most important advance in technology since the graphical user interface. It will change the way people work, learn, travel, get health care, and communicate with each other.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The majority of districts that the state says are underfunded by more than $5,000 per student were offering no in-person learning, according to analysis by Mark Weber at New Jersey Policy Perspective. The county was once known for booming textile and tobacco industries that have long since declined.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

“ Personalized learning ” – it’s simply the best idea that money can buy (that isn’t already being paid for by Salesforce, I guess). Via Edsurge : “ VR Could Bring a New Era of Immersive Learning. And this one too , also sponsored by CZI, on a science research program.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Here’s a science textbook I was assigned at his school in 2007. “ inBloom ’s collapse undermined personalized learning and data standards efforts,” says danah boyd. (I’m Via Education Week : “ Personalized Learning and the ‘ Internet of Things :’ Q&A.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

But it’s a convenient figure for the tech industry to invoke, don’t you think. 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. ” The photo was taken as part of a 2007 profile in Fortune magazine.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Shaw, which is a hedge fund, and I started in June 2007, so right before the credit crisis started breaking. And they've essentially decimated journalism as an industry. Have you looked much at personalized learning algorithms? Nor was I particularly psyched with the actual department I was in. I think we deserve to know.

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