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.

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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.

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Educator Innovator

AUGUST 6, 2014

IBM was the inaugural partner of the Brooklyn P-TECH pilot in 2011. These are the very jobs that are vulnerable to two trends that are tossing the future of work into utter chaos: outsourcing and automation. Since then, other corporate partners in other cities include Cisco, Motorola, and Verizon. Craig Watkins.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In 2011, Tim founded Draper University to teach entrepreneurial skills, fostering young leaders and innovators as they set out to light the world on fire. Background: Majoring in industrial design, Sharon concentrated on robotics so she could create real, working prototypes. Twitter: @malcolmtyson. Sharon Winter. and youPass.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. At the leading edge of this national trend is San Francisco.

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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. The same was true at the affluent, predominantly white Barrington Middle School, which will soon move into a $68 million building fitted with a robotics lab.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

“The Vastmanland court ruled Tuesday the Malardalen University ’s two-year program ‘Analytical Finance’ that Connie Askenback attended from 2011 to 2013 ‘had no practical value.’” ” Via the Hechinger Report : “Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code?”

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

So instead of a zeppelin, we got to ride in one of Google’s self-driving cars, which was of course the project that Thrun had been working on when he gave his famous TED Talk in 2011 – and that, in turn, was where he heard Salman Khan give his famous TED Talk. “Robots are coming for your job.” Cheaper how?

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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. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million.

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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 2011, a PR stunt that the company hoped would demonstrate how well it could handle Q&A. Watson famously won Jeopardy! Icon credits: The Noun Project

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Here’s a trend to watch in 2017 : companies and organizations who “help” schools buy ed-tech : The Hechinger Report looks at a couple of these , LEAP Innovations and LearnLaunch. .” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Upgrades and Downgrades. ” Via Fast Company : “Want to Fight Inequality?

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Data and “Research” Venture capitalist Mary Meeker released her “ Internet Trends ” report, giving tech publications an opportunity to decide if they’ll embed all the slides on one post or force folks to click through multiple pages – yay! advertising!

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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. ” Moore is Alabama’s Republican Senate candidate.

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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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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. The image above from Google Trends helps demonstrate how popular the phrase has become in the intervening months.

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