Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

This is the progression of technology integration at CCS lower school since I came on staff in January of 2004 as a part-time related arts computer teacher. I graduated with a Masters in Instructional Technology in 2007. I wanted them to learn that technology was a tool for their learning. We've come a long way baby!

Technology 40

Technology Digital Citizenship Khan Academy Elementary 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms. But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

Some believe educators should focus on building soft skills like empathy and interpersonal communication so humans and robots can complement one another. When I produced Design Squad in 2007, the awareness of what engineering was, was very low,” explains Wolsky. “We Why do so many of our kids struggle with math problem-solving?

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How To STEM Smartphone Robotics 107

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Rising use of automated technologies has eliminated thousands of jobs in Mississippi, and many more are at risk, according to a recent report by the Brookings Institution. percent of the tasks performed by Mississippi’s workforce could be automated using today’s technology, a figure higher than in 41 other states.

Survey 87

Survey Secondary Robotics Training 87

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Technology for every purpose occupies each corner, from barndoor light panels for future photographers to compound microscopes for burgeoning scientists. A 5-foot-tall functioning robot leads a phalanx of smaller, award-winning robots—all built by students—stacked high on wire shelves behind it. After-school gains.

Robotics 40

Robotics Report Study STEM 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Hampered by school funding formulas based on property tax dollars and student enrollment, these schools are already being forced to cut teaching positions and scrimp on materials and technology. The number of people receiving food stamp benefits grew in Terrebonne Parish from less than 15,000 in 2007 to 23,000 in 2017.

Report 58

Report Elementary Trends Industry 58

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2017

Yes, working actively to erode the student-faculty relationship—or worse, somehow obviate the faculty role—by trying to create “ a robot tutor in the sky that can semi-read your mind ” is entirely wrong-headed. You can argue that it might have made a difference in 2007, but it won’t in 2017.).if

OER 60

OER LMS Pearson System 60

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.).

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Trends Report iPhone Software 40

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. Rasheed also will discuss how the district celebrates Digital Citizenship Week.

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 53

MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Instead, each team member spent a few minutes sketching out how one part — a marble run, say, or a Lego Robotics kicking foot — would operate within the machine. The STEAM labs, STEAM coordinators and technology education teachers are part of a district-wide embrace of “computational thinking.”.

Robotics 28

Robotics Elementary Technology STEM 28

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Earlier this year, Microsoft made headlines when it debuted Tay, a new chatbot modeled to speak like a teenage girl, which rather dramatically turned into “ a Hitler-loving sex robot within 24 hours ” of its release, as The Telegraph put it. The first name and gendering of the robot? Commercially viable. Scripting Pedagogy.

Microsoft 40

Microsoft Robotics Software Education 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 29, 2023

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Libraries Education Learning Professional Learning 76

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Google’s power and influence has immense implications for the future of “information” and scholarship, and if you think education (and education technology) is immune from this sort of influence, you are really not paying attention. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 97

Education Khan Academy Company Libraries 97

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. It’s all of our loss, really, as too many in education technology happily reduce the potential of computer programming as an epistemological endeavor to a market for new products. This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

Technology 85

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The reality is that in recent years, 88 percent of job loss in manufacturing is due to gains in productivity , such as increased use of robots. The Great Recession of 2007-09 economy devastated America’s least-educated workers. The popular notion is that the jobs were shipped to low-wage countries like Mexico or China.

Dropout 40

Dropout Industry Policies Robotics 40

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” Via The Intercept : “These Are the Technology Firms Lining Up to Build Trump’s ‘Extreme Vetting’ Program.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Impero Software has been acquired by Investment Technology Partners which paid $36.3 .” Immigration and Education. ” Education in the Courts.

Education 45

Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

million into schoolwide technology upgrades. One in five Greeley residents lives below the poverty level, and the school district is trying to upgrade its technology to give students an economic boost. We literally dumpster-dive for technology.”. The measure failed. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

MAY 24, 2017

I’m well known, I think, for fierce criticisms and cautions about education technology, and what I’ve prepared today is perhaps even darker and more polemical than I’d like, strikingly so on this beautiful campus. Education technology is not new; it has not appeared “all of a sudden”; and it is not a rupture.

Technology 76

Technology Education Industry Company 76

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Four floors above a dull cinder-block lobby in a nondescript building at Ohio State University, the doors of a slow-moving elevator open on an unexpectedly futuristic 10,000-square-foot laboratory bristling with technology. Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens.

Industry 84

Industry Trends System STEM 84

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Perhaps it should go in the “robots” section. “ Artificial Intelligence: Could emerging technologies ‘humanize’ teaching & learning? “ Will these four technology trends change education in India?

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Here’s a science textbook I was assigned at his school in 2007. Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.” ” Via MIT Technology Review : “ Second Life Is Back for a Third Life, This Time in Virtual Reality.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 40

Education MOOC Data Elsevier 40

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Or did you see another CNN host beclowning herself, when a reporter/host/robot confused Edward Snowden and Edward Scissorhands ? It’s interesting to see the very well-named Lemon buttress his broodings by talking them through with experts, and cloaking them with religion.

Social Media 40

Social Media Robotics Report Survey 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This is part one of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Last year, I started this series – my annual review of the year in education technology – with an article on wishful thinking. Why was so much ed-tech “fake news”? It’s a crisis of knowledge and expertise and science. (It’s

Technology 71

Technology Education Facebook Social Media 71