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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

In 2008, ever hopeful, Gartner insisted that “This thing certainly isn’t dead and maybe it will yet blossom.” But Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983. And look at the predictions about mobile computing: 2006 – the phones in their pockets. Maybe it will.).

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

BIO : Religious thinker Karen Armstrong has written more than 20 books on faith and the major religions, studying what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common, and how our faiths shaped world history and drive current events. In late fall 2008, the first draft of the document was written by the world, via a sharing website.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

Doug Levin

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 ).

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

Doug Levin

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 ).

EdTech 150
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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The test in question: The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study ( TIMSS ) which is administered to students around the world. Via Google’s press release : “ Google and Bertelsmann launch mobile digital skills initiatives with Udacity – 10,000 Android scholarships available for EU developers.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date.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

Hack Education

The suit against the for-profit chain and its American InterContinental University was originally filed in 2008.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Quartz : “The robot that takes your job should pay taxes , says Bill Gates.” Via the MIT Technology Review : “What Happens When Robots Become Role Models.”