Hack Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

I shared the stage that day in Iceland with a person who gave their talk on how, in the future, robots will love us -- how they will take care of us in our old age; how they will teach our classes; how they will raise our children. Robots aren't coming for your jobs, but management may well be. Why do you? It's not a fact.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Renaissance just acquired Schoolzilla , which was launched in 2011, for this reason. Companies that provide teachers with data to inform instruction and monitor progress are still an important element of education. More broadly, I think the promise of data in education is still proving itself.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 1, 2013

GRIN stands for Genetics, Robotics, Information technology, and Nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is so new that no-one is really sure what will come of it ( Bonsor and Strickland , 2011), whilst robotics is so mature a science that we now know almost too much about it. Unported License.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

I promise you will find some great information coming your way this school year…So Sign Up Now and please pass this on with a retweet! – Mike Gorman ( [link] ). Whether your students design robots with PenPals in Asia, write poetry with PenPals in Europe, or create environmental solutions with PenPals in Africa.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2015

PARCC, 2011, p. Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, 2011, p. ask questions that plumb the depths of the text being read while considering only information contained there, not from outside sources. The reading voice is a bit robotic for me. This is not instinctual. Reading A-Z.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

.” Via Politico : “Partnerships between local law enforcement agencies and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement led to the displacement of more than 300,000 Hispanic students between 2000 and 2011, with most of those students disappearing from elementary schools.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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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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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

The graduation rate rose dramatically, from 81 percent in 2011 to 91 percent in 2017. Students who need more time to process content can watch videos or read information their teachers have posted multiple times to support their learning. Absent students can join classrooms through robotic telepresence.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

“The most challenging thing about implementing challenge-based learning in schools is changing the mindset of students and teachers,” says Dawn Hennessy, Technology, Design, Innovation and Robotics teacher at Carroll Magnet Middle School in North Carolina's Wake County Public School System. Why is this so challenging?

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 11, 2019

The YOUmedia model was developed in 2011 with support from the John D. Teens learn how to code robots, fabricate their own designs, make healthy snacks, write stories, and complete service projects. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.

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Educator Innovator

AUGUST 13, 2019

Most people wouldn’t think of science as quirky, but if they’d witnessed a posse of orange, papier-maché robotic pumpkins racing down the hall at the Science Museum of Virginia (SMV), in Richmond, Virginia, they might re-think that image. Now the network has grown to some 30 spaces across the U.S. Courtesy Science Museum of Virginia).

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Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

“The Snooki bill” is a response to $32,000 that the Jersey Shore star received from Rutgers in 2011. Via The USA Today : “Kids on winning robotics team told, ‘Go back to Mexico’ ” The kids were from Pleasant Run Elementary School in Indianapolis. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. million total.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Steven Hightower, who graduated from North Star this spring, works on his robotic car; Hightower will attend Brandeis University in the fall, where he plans to study computer science. North Star added AP Biology in 2011, AP Calculus BC in 2013, AP Computer Science in 2014, AP Chemistry in 2015, and AP Physics last year.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Whether your students design robots with PenPals in Asia, write poetry with PenPals in Europe, or create environmental solutions with PenPals in Africa. They have setup a network of schools around the world, through which schools are paired and exchange informative artworks on their own country and culture. Check out Pen Pals School.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

.” According to Edsurge , Knewton is now a courseware company and not a “robot tutor in the sky.” Via Think Progress : “Textbook co-authored by Roy Moore in 2011 says women shouldn’t run for office.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Cumulative Growth in Number of MOOCs , 2011–18.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “Kids connect with robot reading partners ,” says the PR office of the University of Wisconsin Madison. Venture Capital and the Business of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In 2016, unintentional overdoses claimed 1,465 lives statewide, up from 613 in 2011. Kids who are stressed-out, kids who are anxious, are not going to retain new information.”. Some indication of academic results, however, can be found in a 2011 study by Thomas Kochanek, PhD, for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. And in today’s information environment, all these stories have seemingly become a lot less “fringe.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 18, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “In a letter sent today to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos , Senator Elizabeth Warren , a Massachusetts Democrat, asked for information about the work of senior counsel Robert Eitel to determine if he broke conflict-of-interest laws.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” asks Mindshift.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011. So no surprise, Techcrunch informs us that “ Scrumpt now offers fresh, healthy lunches for kids.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Increased by just 2, but still.).

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For example, when they smell familiar fish, zebrafish show reduced levels of fear, a fact that seems cool but irrelevant until you learn that a 2011 study of humans showed that “having a best friend present during an experience significantly buffered any negative feelings, lowering cortisol and boosting a sense of self-worth.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Via The New York Times : “ Broadband Law Could Force Rural Residents Off Information Superhighway.” From Boing Boing : “Paterno was fired in 2011 after it emerged that during his tenure, [assistant coach] Jerry Sandusky had assaulted dozens of youngsters in his care. Robots probably won’t take your jobs.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Because of the amount of information that is published about ed-tech – the amount of information, its irrelevance, its incoherence, its lack of context – it can be quite challenging to keep up with what is really happening in ed-tech. It is creating an unprecedented explosion in the production of information.

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Department of State has received emergency approval from the Office of Management and Budget to collect additional information regarding certain visa applicants ’ travel and employment histories, familial connections, and social media usage in accordance with a notice it posted in the Federal Register May 4. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

“College Leaders Show Growing Interest In Teaching Information Literacy ,” according to Edsurge. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “In an age of robots , schools are teaching our children to be redundant,” says George Monbiot. Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. million total.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

” Some 20 Facebook engineers work on the software, and according to The Washington Post , the student information it tracks and stores is not housed on Facebook servers, although Facebook does have access to the data. in 2011, a PR stunt that the company hoped would demonstrate how well it could handle Q&A.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via The Washington Post : “School informed parents of low-performing students they could opt out of state tests.” “The New York City-based language company, founded in 2011, offers 10 language classes along with courses in interior design, mixing cocktails and French culture,” says Edsurge.

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Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

.” “The University of Michigan has agreed to pay $165,000 to settle what was left of a lawsuit over a graduate student’s dismissal from an engineering program in 2011,” the AP reports. The robot startup, formerly known as Play-i, has raised $35.9 ” He is suing the university. .” million total.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

“Personalized learning is not something you buy,” emphasized Chris Liang-Vergara, a consultant from the Chicago organization LEAP Innovations who helped charter Firstline Schools pilot its personalized learning programs between 2011 and 2014. “It’s It’s a teacher practice; it’s a teacher design.”.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

11, 2001, has not been in use since 2011, so the move is largely symbolic and appeared to be aimed at distancing the departing administration from any effort by the new president to revive the program, known as the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, or Nseers.” “Could robots be marking your homework ?”

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly sharing five school districts’ private information with an advisory company while it was negotiating for the districts’ contracts.” ” Via the Hechinger Report : “Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code?” ” (Hmm. .

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2017

Skye Morishita working on the robot she programmed at a recent CoderDojo session in Boston. On a recent Saturday, a squad of Lego robots fitted with markers limped, hopped and spun dizzily across the table. The pair launched the first CoderDojo in June 2011, hosted by the National Software Centre in Cork. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

It also means fewer language programs, robotics labs and other enrichment opportunities that parents increasingly perceive as necessary. Since 2011, families have been able to apply to any of the city’s 72 public elementary schools, submitting a ranked list of choices. The same goes for middle and high school options.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

The state’s largest district, in Providence, has dramatically increased its spending on web-based instructional programs, from $158,000 in the 2011-12 school year to $928,000 in 2015-16, the latest data available. A spokeswoman for Summit said in an email, “We only use information for educational purposes.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The reality is that in recent years, 88 percent of job loss in manufacturing is due to gains in productivity , such as increased use of robots. This country created 82 million jobs from 1967 to 2011, and all of them were in service industries. The popular notion is that the jobs were shipped to low-wage countries like Mexico or China.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The district has already spent more than $3 million since 2011 on tablets, laptops, software programs, fiber optic wiring, and engineers to oversee all the instructional technology. But computers are expensive. Colorado is famously parsimonious with its school district funding. It’s perhaps not surprising.

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