The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. First, learn how to discover new tools rated for learning, mapped to Common Core, and see how other teachers are using them.

Google 54

Google Classroom Digital Citizenship Conference 54

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2019

He reads e-books and takes courses using a tablet computer. An APDS tablet, which students use to study, read e-books and watch TED Talks. / Joel Castón uses a tablet in the library of the D.C. Riding in that car on the way to a correctional officers meeting, Lopez mentions she’s never been the victim of a crime.

Tablets 163

Tablets E-rate Khan Academy Study 163

NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

6) (Note: Most of these tasks could authentically be taught in our libraries during the natural course of any inquiry project.). Triangulate: Try to verify the information in multiple sources, including traditional media and library databases. Check out the post That Chain E-Mail Your Friend Sent to You is (Likely) Bogus.

Social Media 40

Social Media Handbook Facebook Report 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).”

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

Wheeler had been a “champion” of net neutrality and E-rate reform, according to Education Week at least, but his replacement, Trump appointee Ajit Pai, seems poised to lead the agency with a very different set of priorities – and those priorities will likely shape in turn what happens to ed-tech under Trump. .”

E-rate 49

E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Martin had the lowest ratings possible for achievement and improvement on its state report card that year. Not only is the middle school new, but the high school graduation rate has soared from 57 percent to 91 percent in four years. Obama had seen Corridor and wanted to meet him and the people in the film from Dillon and elsewhere.

E-rate 40

E-rate Course Policies Advocacy 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2017

Yet the long-term benefits of preschool — including higher high-school graduation rates and job salaries, better self-control and fewer arrests — are linked to quality programs that students attended for a year or more. In Phoenix , parents join their children for a seven-session “boot camp” held at library branches and community centers.

E-rate 68

E-rate Elementary Study Report 68

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Frank Brogan, the chancellor of the Pennsylvania State University System from 2013 until retiring this year, has joined the Department of Education in the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development – likely ahead of a nomination to a separate position.” More via Politico. The George W.

Education 45

Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

” Tuition keeps going up and up and up, although as The Wall Street Journal noted this fall, published tuition rates only rose 2.4% million in 2013–14. The Department of Education echoed that data , announcing in September that “the three-year federal student loan cohort default rate dropped from 11.8

MOOC 40

MOOC Technology OER Coursera 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Hayden is the first new librarian of Congress since 1987,” The New York Times observed at her swearing in in September, “and brings with her another generation’s ideas about accessibility, technology and the role that libraries play in society.” million in E-Rate rebates.).

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40