Learning with 'e's

MAY 2, 2012

In 2008 David Crystal related the story of a young student who wrote an entire essay in squeeze text. SMS, telephone voice, e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, written language. It therefore follows that they need to learn more forms of literacy than I had to when I was in full time study. Welcome To Facebook perhaps? Shortis, T.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 30, 2015

I posed this question on Twitter and Facebook, and received many thoughts, some of which echoed my own: Students are too anxious about injuring their reputations, especially in the age of ubiquitous media capture and social media, not to mention a still-difficult labor market. I fear many students are disconnected from democracy.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Credit: Facebook/Patrick Miller. That’s what some states did in 2008, and when federal money dried up a few years later, school budgets fell off a cliff. Although the contours of that budget crisis were different, the ghost of the 2008 financial crisis looms large over the current catastrophe.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). public high schools (42.5

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). public high schools (42.5

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

" Tagged on: March 2, 2017 Facebook brings suicide prevention tools to Live and Messenger | TechCrunch → I have so many questions about this: Facebook is unveiling new tools to provide support to people who may be suicidal, as well as resources for friends of those who are feeling suicidal. Should it be revisited?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. It was an elaborate scam, dating back to 2012, but one that gave out many online signals that the school was “real.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

So has Facebook. ” Online lending company SoFi (one of the companies in Peter Thiel ’s portfolio) runs invitation-only cocktail parties, according to this NYT profile on the company. Via Campus Technology : “ Online Learning Consortium , Tyton Partners Launch Courseware in Context.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This is part six of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Some of the most oft-told tales in education in recent years have the following plot: the students all move from “brick-and-mortar” to “online.” ” It’s an inevitable move, or so the story goes.

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

.” Via the Journal Sentinel : “More than 300 Kettle Moraine parents sign petition against online learning platform.” Via Edsurge : “ Facebook Expands Digital Training Initiative with College Partnerships in Chicago.” ” (So yeah. .” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. .”

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