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What Public School Teachers Want: Less Disruption

Edsurge

Since the 2008 Time magazine cover story on Washington, D.C. Since the Reagan administration’s Nation at Risk, an alarmist and misleading report that has since been discredited , there has been a bipartisan attempt to break open the education “market” and put public school dollars into private pockets.

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AI, Personalized Learning Are a Dynamic Duo for K–12 Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

AI Tools and Personalized Learning Are a Powerful Pair. There is no argument that the world has changed in the last 10 years.

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A Gullible Population Is a National Security Issue

The CoolCatTeacher

He asserts that the Chinese hacked the both the Obama and McCain campaigns in the 2008 election cycle. When talking about the 3,500+ ads, Wired Magazine says, “What made these ads so deceptive is they rarely looked like traditional political ads. For those upset about a foreign entity meddling in U.S. Source: Wired.

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Newseum launches free resource site

eSchool News

The Newseum has launched a new online educational resources site called NewseumED , which gives teachers and students free access to curated, standards-aligned content from the Newseum’s vast collection of more than 35,000 newspapers, magazines and other artifacts. Since the Newseum opened in 2008, more than 1.5

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Today - Episode 10 of REINVENTING.SCHOOL - "Play" with Wolfe, Nachmanovitch, and Skenazy!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Lenore Skenazy spent 14 years at The New York Daily News as a reporter-turned-opinion columnist, and two more at The New York Sun. In 2008, after her column "Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone" landed her on every talk show from The Today Show to Dr. Phil, Lenore founded the book and blog “ Free-Range Kids.” Yes -- Mad.

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The History of the Future

Hack Education

Take Anthony Levandowski, the creator of a self-driving car program and a religion that worships AI, for example: "The only thing that matters is the future," he told a reporter from The New Yorker. By 2019, about 50 percent of high school courses will be delivered online" — Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn (2008).

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Live Interview Wednesday, January 26th - Michael Horn Revisits Disrupting Class

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He is the coauthor of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (McGraw-Hill: June 2008) with Harvard Business School Professor and bestselling author Clayton M. News and World Report. Christensen and Curtis W. Johnson, president of the Citistates Group.