Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is). million devices shipped to primary and secondary schools in the US last year – that’s up from 50% in 2015. The company has raised some $77.5

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Armstrong''s 2008 TED Prize wish asked to help her assemble the Charter for Compassion, a document around which religious leaders can work together for peace. In late fall 2008, the first draft of the document was written by the world, via a sharing website. She is a powerful voice for ecumenical understanding.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The problem has grown worse as schools and teachers are forced to deal with an increasing number of nontraditional students (minority, impoverished, foster, homeless, autistic) who come from nontraditional homes (single parent, divorce, second or third marriage) and learn in nontraditional ways (via the internet, tablets, social media).

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Issues we used to consider secondary or tertiary (religion, language, ethnicity) have become primary. The Latino Boom, 1993-2008 (plus smaller populations of Bosnians and other refugees). African refugees are pouring into our state – usually they are secondary migrants (first stop was another U.S. social media).

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 6, 2016

hosted by the National Writing Project, KQED and Educator Innovator partners—can productively bring the presidential election into classrooms to improve students’ argumentative writing and media literacy. In 2008, when people began responding to their online postings, my students realized that they had a place in the larger democracy.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 16, 2022

Participants are encouraged to use #microschools and #microschoolsummit on their social media posts about the event. Her desire to create more personalized experiences for youth led her to the founding of Meridian Learning in 2008. John’s and many dozens of other post-secondary institutions.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. David Homa Teacher, Los Gatos High School David Homa has been a teacher for 24 years both at the University and Secondary level.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I've never stopped thinking that I can help higher education faculty with these struggles by sharing what I've experienced and learned since 2008, when I discovered GTD and my life and career were transformed by it. Social media is a hot mess, a distraction, and a menace to our mental health.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Of course, teachers have utilized social media sites for years to launch various side-hustles — speaking gigs and “ brand ambassadorships ”, for example — as well as to facilitate their main hustle — you know, teaching. The incident, she added, had also made her aware that “Pearson is monitoring all social media during PARCC testing.”

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