Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

As I have done for the past six years, I will spend the rest of November and December publishing my review of what I deem the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” of the year. I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. (Of How do you do that? You gather experts.

Trends 40

Trends Report iPhone Software 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. KIPP Morial, a school in New Orleans East, exemplifies how the personalized learning trend rolled out in charters across the Crescent City. DeVonté Trask, 11.

Personalized Learning 98

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 98

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Not quite enough time for our robot overlords to overtake us, but both distant and soon enough to make us wonder. Those interactions look a lot different than just evaluating consumer or edtech trends in isolation. They went into first grade when Apple was rolling out the first iPad, in 2010. There are attempts to jumpstart it.

Analysis 160

Analysis Trends Chromebook EdTech 160

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

It was the latest big-fix trend in K-12 education, and Gist, a favored daughter of Silicon Valley philanthropists, offered up the nation’s smallest state as a laboratory mouse. In 2010, Rhode Island won a four-year, $75 million grant from Race to the Top. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

Personalized Learning 97

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 97

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens. These universities have served as bulwarks against a decades-long trend of economic activity fleeing smaller cities and the center of the country for the coasts. China could catch up by 2030 based on current trends.

Industry 84

Industry Trends System STEM 84

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

“The hottest trend in education actually started in special-ed classrooms 40 years ago,” as Business Insider contended in October. In 2010, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt commissioned independent randomized studies of its Algebra 1 program: Harcourt Fuse. Icon credits: The Noun Project

Technology 73

Technology Pearson Education Facebook 73

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

TULSA, Oklahoma — On a fall morning in 2018, veteran technology teacher Abraham Kamara was working with his robotics team at Memorial Junior High School when Tulsa school superintendent Deborah Gist entered the classroom with a TV news crew. Gist is adamant that the trend of scrimping on education can’t simply continue indefinitely.

Common Core 92

Common Core Data Report Blended Learning 92