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Do Personalized Learning Programs Offer Authentic Choices?

MindShift

There are a lot of folks on the vendor floor at national conferences who will sell you products that supposedly personalize learning, and much of the buzz around something like Khan Academy is that it personalizes the learning for kids. Students should be able to own their learning by creating stuff that matters to them.

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'It's Like Amazon, But for Preschool'

Hack Education

A year ago, the richest man in the world asked Twitter for suggestions on how he should most efficiently and charitably spend his wealth. ” “We’ll use the same set of principles that have driven Amazon,” Bezos wrote in a note posted to Twitter. The child will be the customer.” ” W.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. The company sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015, for example. And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.”

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 18, 2017 FBI arrests Twitter user who sent seizure-inducing GIF | CNET → This is terrifying: Kurt Eichenwald, a journalist who writes for Vanity Fair and Newsweek, tweeted Friday that the FBI had arrested a man suspected of purposefully sending him a GIF that triggered an epileptic seizure.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Learn how one school system infuses computer science and programming throughout the primary grades to deliver content that’s engaging and relevant to today’s learners. Explore resources and tools – including robots, programming languages and computer-powered mechanical structures – you can use with students in grades K-5.

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Driverless Ed-Tech: The History of the Future of Automation in Education

Hack Education

Robots are coming for your job.” “Robots are coming for your job.” Robots don’t do anything they’re not programmed to do. Robots don’t just roll into the human resources department on their own accord, ready to outperform others. Robots don’t apply for jobs.

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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. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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