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Teaching isn’t Rocket Science – It’s Way More Complex

The CoolCatTeacher

Doug Green on episode 284 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Doug: Well, the people that started this back in about 2007… They just started recording their lessons. Doug: Kids walk in there.They hand them a Mac laptop. Twitter: @DrDougGreen.

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’15 The Year of Wearable

The Thinking Stick

2007: The Year of the Network (Can we say Twitter and Facebook). 2007: The Year of the Network (Can we say Twitter and Facebook). 2012: Mobile and Integration (Chromebooks, iPads, laptops, tablets, phablets, phones…yeah the list goes on and on). if you are wrong…nobody really cares. 2013: Opps….forgot

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Apple’s share of the market – which includes its sales of both iPads and Mac laptops – fell to 19% – down from about a quarter of the market. The Chromebooks are not fully-functioning laptops.

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Education Technology as 'The New Normal'

Hack Education

When I hear the phrase “the new normal,” I cannot help but think of the ways in which those same words were used in the US to describe the economy during and since the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and subsequent global recession. It is inextricably linked to history, to histories of education and to histories of technology.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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 For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date.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.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

This is so important to consider, as Tufekci noted on Twitter, in light of Google’s domination of the K–12 computing market.). ” The Wall Street Journal weighs in on laptop bans. ” From the NCES : “Changes in Bullying Victimization and Hate-Related Words at School Since 2007.”

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

Should you ban laptops ? Executives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter testified before Congress in October, responding to questions about the role these Internet companies had played in the election, particularly as related to allegations of Russian interference. Are standing desks ? Is ESP real ? Do cellphones cause brain cancer ?