The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Kristen Betts, Clinical Professor Engaging student with Real World projects - the refugees crisis - Anne Farrell, Run This Way school program volunteer manager Global Competencies for Teachers and Professional Development - Andreea Bordeianu, SEHS Global Initiatives Program Coordinator 11:00 AM Crafting Global Learning Outcomes for Teaching the Ideals (..)

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Perhaps one of the few areas of overlap was that three of the four conferences featured the similar talk by Andreas Schleicher, OECD’s education lead, who shared snippets from his team’s latest “Trends Shaping Education” report. Beyond that though, each show catered more or less to its own niche audience.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

I'm getting Blue-Bot robots this year, so we can do coding in first grade! Since we started differentiating with eSpark, our 2015-2016 annual NWEA state assessment gains were terrific. Students create posters about themselves, the dynamics of their family, what they want to be when they grow up, favorite pastimes, favorite foods.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In 2015, when I started teaching American Literature at McClarin Success Academy, I knew I had an opportunity to break the stigmatization of at-risk youth. I had my first evidence of success with the Georgia Milestone test, doubling my passing rate from 2015 to 2016. My students deserved more. I knew I had to switch gears.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. The robot learner would be delighted to have you say, ‘Okay, you made three errors in problem number one,’ and being a robot learner, they’d be able to take out those bugs and do better the next time.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The sixth annual Global Education Conference , our free four-day online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, runs today Monday, November 16 through Thursday, November 19, 2015 (November 20th in some time zones). We invite all to attend! A full listing of sessions is below. You're going to be blown away.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” “ Unique International College used a misleading and unlawful scheme to target vulnerable communities in 2014 and 2015, pushing individuals to enrol in courses in management, salon management and marketing.” “Need jobs? .

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 13, 2015

April 13th - April 27th, 2015 Two Week Calendar | Learning Revolution Events | Learning Revolution Blog | Partner Spotlight To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at LearningRevolution.com. These interactive sessions on future technology trends will present key issues faced by information professionals and educators.

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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 Apple sold just 50 million iPads.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2014

We''re about to announce three additional conferences for 2015: Maker Education, Reinventing Higher Ed, and Digital Citizenship. Harvard’s 1,000 Kilobot swarm demonstrates the future of robotics 50 apps for the new school year Using Design Thinking to Create a School from Scratch Is This The School Library Of The Future? See you there!

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 27, 2016

Few trends in K-12 ed tech are as hot–or as under-researched–as “Maker” education. While exciting, that trend has begat a number of questions and tensions, many of which are just now beginning to be explored by researchers. Cross-posted from the Digital Education blog.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Not quite enough time for our robot overlords to overtake us, but both distant and soon enough to make us wonder. Those interactions look a lot different than just evaluating consumer or edtech trends in isolation. What edtech and consumer trends will be significant for when a teen leaves high school? Outside of the U.S.,

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” And accordingly, platforms are the underlying trend that ties together popular narratives about technology and the economy in general.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The Billionaire Venture Capitalist will lead a group of promising entrepreneurs live beginning Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 at 10pm|9c on ABC. Background: Majoring in industrial design, Sharon concentrated on robotics so she could create real, working prototypes. Twitter: @malcolmtyson. Sharon Winter. Hometown: Los Angeles, CA.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

To spotlight such books, MSRI created the Mathical Book Prize in 2015. 2015 Mathical prize winner. As the trend continues, Clarissa’s room fills up with woolly animals in bold colors and patterns. 2015 Mathical prize winner. “Books connect with that sense of wonder and imagination and creativity.” . By Steve Light.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

All the talk of the importance of “emotion” in education reflects other trends too. It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

From gamification to digital citizenship to PD for teachers to classroom robots and everything in between, the 102 posts that have been published on the NEO Blog in the last 12 months covered oh so many subjects related to education technology and e-learning for educational institutions. It was a long year, this year. We learned a lot.

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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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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Cyber attacks a serious, and under-reported, threat to Boulder Valley companies | Boulder Daily Camera → Specific to the Boulder, CO-area, but useful overview of cybersecurity trends. That's a lot of computers. It is a massive innovative market with supportive government policies and strong market demand.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

In 2014, I wrote about strategies for edtech success in the new school year , and in 2015, I wrote about edtech teaching trends for the new school year. I’ve seen the students in my own school get pretty excited about the robots they’ve built and programmed with code. It is good!

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Sept 2015). Teachers Report Sharp Growth in Game-Based Learning by District Administration (July 2016) – reports that 48% of classroom teachers report using games in classroom instruction in 2015. Gamification and Instructional Design by Mia MacMeekin includes a fantastic infographic to help understand some of the basics.

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Explore resources and tools – including robots, programming languages and computer-powered mechanical structures – you can use with students in grades K-5. 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. Register here.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

Emotional and mental health, school climate and school culture were priority issues for all three groups, according to a recent study by Child Trends , a research organization focused on issues affecting children. Educators, policymakers and students from across the country seem to be making that shift.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. million in revenue in 2015, and its executive compensation was $2.8 Via The New York Times : “A Few Telling Freshman Trends.” Phil Hill on an “LMS Revival: D2L picking up new customers and showing they can listen.” Tech Researcher Costumed as Car Seat.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“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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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Via Class Central : “A Product at Every Price: A Review of MOOC Stats and Trends in 2017.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Quartz : “One of the world’s biggest firms is spending $450 million to solve a world problem created by robots.” ” The firm: KPMG. ” Some “fix.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The test in question: The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study ( TIMSS ) which is administered to students around the world. ” Also via Techcrunch : “ Primo Toys rolls out Cubetto, a wooden robot that teaches kids to code.” Via Techcrunch : “ Google launches App Maker.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens. These universities have served as bulwarks against a decades-long trend of economic activity fleeing smaller cities and the center of the country for the coasts. said University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank.

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

She and her husband also donated $200,000 to AFC’s charitable arm in 2014 and 2015 through the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation. Via Campus Technology : “6 VR Trends to Watch in Education.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” President Trump gave the commencement speech at Liberty University.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

Perhaps it should go in the “robots” section. “ Will these four technology trends change education in India? Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Wired : “ Med Students Are Getting Terrible Training in Robotic Surgery.” ” asks CoSN. ” asks Livemint.

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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. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

But this year, I’m reorganizing my analysis of these “trends,” partly because I think they can all be subsumed under the larger theme of “the new economy.” ” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. for Robotics Contest.” Sensing a trend here? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Federal obligations to universities for science and engineering declined by 2 percent in the 2015 fiscal year, new federal data show.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Despite the press coverage – the funding announcement was made on Oprah – things didn’t really go as planned , as journalist Dale Russakoff has recounted in her 2015 book The Prize. “The hottest trend in education actually started in special-ed classrooms 40 years ago,” as Business Insider contended in October.

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