Education Superhighway

AUGUST 9, 2018

They also had smart boards, laptops, Google Classroom, and all sorts of subscriptions to student online resources. This school also has laptops available and Google Classroom, but not smart boards. Now, this is interesting to think about…I was a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador from 2007-2010. Why or why not?

Laptops 58

Laptops Social Media Comparison Google 58

The 21st Century Principal

JANUARY 9, 2011

Honestly, I’ve used it, and there just isn’t enough added functionality to warrant an upgrade from Office 2007. Many of our students already have the laptops and other devices. For example, there’s blogger for blogging and Edmodo is a great free social media solution. Use free or low-cost web 2.0

Technology 71

Technology Microsoft Edmodo Software 71

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.” But there are trade-offs.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. And on and on and on.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

” These beliefs are readily amplified and shared by the very “network effects” baked into the infrastructure of social media platforms. But blaming social media is too easy and too simplistic. Should you ban laptops ? Are standing desks ? Is ESP real ? Do cellphones cause brain cancer ?

Technology 71

Technology Education Facebook Social Media 71