Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

A perfect example of the device-before-pedagogy practice is the now-infamous 2011 Los Angeles Unified School District edtech initiative, which involved the purchase of more than 100,000 iPads for its classrooms to the tune of $500 million without any return on investment in terms of student outcomes.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Notes from a TCEA 2011 Concurrent Session Dr. Stephen Waddell Superintendent of Schools Birdville ISD Kelli Montgomery Coordinator of Instructional Technology Birdville ISD "OMG, I CNT BLIEVE WE R REALLY GTTNG 2 TXT WILE WE LRN!" Robots in warehouses now move the shelves and racks. 21st century learning tcea tcea 2011 web 2.0'

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In 2016, unintentional overdoses claimed 1,465 lives statewide, up from 613 in 2011. In Brockton – a once-prosperous town called “shoe city” until the last of its footwear factories closed in 2009 – drugs are plentiful. Brockton alone had 2011 overdoses in 2015. Limited course offerings. Photo: John D.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011. 2009 – the phones in their pockets. 2011 – the phones in their pockets.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

And if for some reason you need more ideas than what’s here—or if you’re just feeling nostalgic, as is befitting this time of year—take a look at our lists from 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , and 2009. Wow, we’ve been at this for a long time! Board Games.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Bush and Obama administrations, with initiatives such as No Child Left Behind (2001) and Race to the Top (2009), spurred what’s been called a “ nationalization of education politics ” and, many teachers say, a relentless cycle of shiny fads promising to revolutionize the field. The George W.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 96

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.”

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