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Governor Christie’s Guide to Destroying a Great Education System #NJED

A Principal's Reflections

His latest wisdom is articulated in this article: Chris Christie’s Education Plan Is Shocking : He Wants to Give to the Rich and Take From the Poor. Pushed forward a few unfunded mandates (Common Core, PARCC) that have taken away precious funds from improving what really matters. This only strengthened my resolve.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. Again, we all know that school budgets are tight.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

You can receive updates from Hack Education via email if you prefer to read articles that way.). Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. The Common Core State Standards. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012. Social Media: Adoption and Crackdown. The series kicks off on Saturday, 2 December.

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Learning Revolution Week's Events - Evernote in the Classroom - Yong Zhao - Google+ vs. Ning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Connect With the Learning Revolution Project on Social Media. The Learning Revolution, as a new project, could use some help building our social media presence and credibility. First, learn how to discover new tools rated for learning, mapped to Common Core, and see how other teachers are using them.

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Edublog Opining, Mentoring, & Haters

The Daring Librarian

Oh yeah.that''s some Common Core cooking, baby! You can''t personally mentor someone you don''t know - or gosh forbid, don''t like (insert fakey fawning social-media climbing friend-jumping people here). This will encourage kids to read, teach, & learn about blogging! simple and obvious yet so elegant! Include them.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. Um, they do.)

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')

Hack Education

Every year since 2010, I’ve undertaken a fairly massive project in which I’ve reviewed the previous twelve months’ education and technology news in order to write ten articles covering “the top ed-tech trends.” In 2012, I chose “the platforming of education” as one of the “top ed-tech trends.”

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