Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

There are some really interesting MOOCs available and this may be the first year that I actually complete a MOOC because I want to study the topic and not because I’m curious about the technology and pedagogy being used. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Of course, in order to retain the community you need to rethink the course part.

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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. It therefore follows that they need to learn more forms of literacy than I had to when I was in full time study. 2008) Txting: The gr8 db8. Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures: Cybercultures in Online Learning.

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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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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

social mobility and economic growth. State budgets are in free fall; early analyses suggest potential state revenue losses could be double what states experienced during the Great Recession, when states saw roughly an 11 percent decline in revenues over the two-year period of 2008 to 2010.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. In 2013, Intel acquired Kno for $15 million — for “ pennies on the dollar ,” said one analyst — and rebranded the software as the Intel Education Study App. Aaron Swartz, 2008. And on and on and on.

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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 Chalkbeat : “More bullying reported at New York City schools , study shows.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Employment and Debt of 2008 College Graduates.”

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