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How Is Cloud Computing Revolutionizing the Education Industry?

Ask a Tech Teacher

According to statistics published by Gartner analyst Thomas Bittman, only 4% of the school and education system was interested in cloud computing in 2009. Virtual Classrooms and Labs. Many renowned names in the game, such as Blackboard and Google, are now offering their own cloud-based virtual classroom suites.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

But I want to call out Proctorio in particular in this talk because this company has demonstrated it has no business in schools; its products have no business in classrooms. " Cop s**t supposedly brings order to the classroom by demanding compliance. For a long time, arguably Blackboard was one of the major ed-tech villains.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

When I started my first edtech business in 1998, our competitor Blackboard had less than 10 employees and customers. When I worked at Microsoft back in 2002, our team basically invented the idea of Google Classroom (it was called Microsoft Class Server), but we were twelve years too early and the product disappeared by 2006.

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Michael Fullan on "Motion Leadership" and Significant School System Improvement

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In the preface to Motion Leadership in Action he writes: This book builds on work we have been doing in the past decade on "whole-system reform" -- how to improve classrooms and schools on a systemwide basis. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link].

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Thursday Interview - Creating Personal Student Brands

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Date : Thursday, June 7th, 2012 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link].

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This Week's Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate (Formerly Elluminate)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Participants will discuss the best way to implement these considerations for their organisation and clients.

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When the children leave: What’s left after a mass exodus of young people from Puerto Rico?

The Hechinger Report

In 2009 Rossana Rodríguez-Sánchez was a middle school theater teacher in Puerto Rico. Rodríguez-Sánchez kept her job, but her salary stayed the same as the number of students in her classroom ballooned. Chairs in front of a blackboard in one of the empty classrooms at the Goyco school in San Juan. It was insane.”.

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