The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Sconsidine@fflib.org www.fflib.org Facebook [link] LinkedIn [link] Twitter [link] Mike Cimino Director of STEAM and Making Fayetteville Free Library Michael Cimino is the Director of STEAM and Making at the Fayetteville Free Library (FFL). He worked as a secondary educator before joining the Fayetteville Free Library in the summer of 2013.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0: The Classroom 2.0 show is back!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. In it''s second year, this amazing five-day, 24-hour-a-day event helps educators and students connect with each other and with global education programs all over the world. Last year we had presentations from 62 countries.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

While the state’s Department of Education cycled through commissioners (six in six years) superintendents struggled to figure out the law, largely on their own. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. Imported from Alaska. The Gates Foundation is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

There was also plenty of rain in the education technology industry, where venture capitalists and private-equity investors unleashed a deluge of cash. education technology companies raised $1.45 educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education.

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EdTech Company Industry Edmodo 141

Waterford

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It’s so easy to put together a classroom Facebook group or send a school email without a second thought. 6] Millennials are no longer elementary or secondary students themselves, though they may still be students in college or graduate school. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, March 2011, 74(1), pp. Childs, R.

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TeacherCast

MAY 27, 2019

In this post, we will be reviewing Telestream Screenflow and how it can be used by educators to create and produce educational podcasts. TelestreamInc – Facebook. From ScreenFlow, you can directly export to YouTube, Vimeo, Google Drive, and Facebook. Where Can We Find More Info? ScreenFlow Homepage. How to Publish.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Stanford’s myth busters, led by education professor Sam Wineburg and doctoral student Sarah Cotcamp McGrew, have field-tested 15 news-literacy tasks of varying difficulty, with about 50 more in the works. Can high-school kids check the authenticity of an alarming image posted on Facebook? Janis Schachter, Northport (N.Y.)

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Social Media Learning Facebook Analysis 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In fairness, startups weren’t the only education companies experiencing this sort of upheaval this year: Amplify, News Corps’ education division, continued to sell off various parts of its failed business. DeVry Education Group got a new CEO." Layoffs at General Assembly (7% of staff). Why, schools of course.

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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. Good for you. But that’s not my job. And honestly, it’s probably not your job either.).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

The board has spent upwards of $40 million over the past two decades on K-12 education with a pro-industry bent, including hundreds of pages of curricula, a speaker series and an afterschool program — all at no cost to educators. The idea caught on. Hundreds of oil-and-gas-centric lesson plans are now available at the click of a mouse.

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