edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Strategic planning for edtech is an endless journey—and not just because of constantly evolving hardware and software. Most educators look at the cost of their device and software, but what they need to understand is that the total cost includes PD, tech support, sustainability. Are they prepared to adapt to other systems?

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

Prior to being selected as the director of schools for Wilson County in July 2014, she served as the deputy director in two other school districts in Tennessee. She started her career as a software engineer at NASA supporting Space Shuttle and Station Operations. Frankie Jackson.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Many watched instructional videos or worked with adaptive-learning software that adjusted lessons based on each student’s proficiency. Still, there are some stalwart critics, notably Benjamin Riley, who visited many personalized-learning classrooms from 2010 to 2014 as the policy and advocacy director for the NewSchools Venture Fund.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Child advocacy groups and other non-profits, who often oversee the deals and sometimes serve as guarantors, say the arrangements encourage officials to embrace interventions with good track records. million, for a preschool software program students could use at home. A year earlier, the state earmarked a mere $4.7

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

She uses a software program popular among architects and designers. The students learn how to use industry-approved software programs and are often granted paid internships at local design firms and research labs, and Greeley’s planning and development departments. They also take field trips to area manufacturing firms.

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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. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. billion by 2025.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

An advocacy for libertarian politics – think Peter Thiel (a Stanford graduate) now advising Donald Trump. ” It was founded in 2014 by Max Ventilla, a former Google executive. The software – students are all issued computing devices – track the clicks. A belief in technological utopia. A fierce embrace of the new.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

It’s building this little web that turns the user into a mostly passive consumer of mostly western corporate content,” says Ellery Biddle, Global Voices’ advocacy director. Via Honi Soit : “University abandons Cadmus anti-cheating software.” ” The university in question: University of Sydney.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

” The Gates Foundation is perhaps the best known organization for furthering political advocacy through its funding mechanisms. The pressure to move towards digital assessments has fueled schools’ investments in hardware and software more than any other argument about the importance of ed-tech. The Procurement Problem.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

. “The DeVoses sit alongside the Kochs, the Bradleys, and the Coorses as founding families of the modern conservative movement ,” Mother Jones wrote in 2014. Simons in New York will develop software tools and apply cutting edge computing techniques to science often not possible in academia and industry.”

Education 40

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Arguably, there is no better example of this than the ongoing push that “everyone should learn to code,” led at the K–12 level by the industry-backed advocacy organization Code.org. A story from August : “New app scans your face and tells companies whether you’re worth hiring.” ” (Ha.

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via Education Week : “The Ohio education department could seek repayment of more than $80 million from nine full-time online schools , based on audits of software-login records that led state officials to determine the schools had overstated their student enrollment.” ” From the HR Department. She made $9.6

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Marc Andreessen famously said that “software is eating the world,” but it’s far more accurate to say that the neoliberal values of software tycoons are eating the world. Every industry uses computers, software, and internet services. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.

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