The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Recipient of the 2016 ISTE Emerging Leader Award, recognized as a PBS Digital innovator for her initiatives in enhancing student learning with technology, Fox has also served as President of the Young Educator Network for ISTE, and received the President's Volunteer Award in 2018.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 21, 2016

You will want to share the following with your classroom teacher partners and your school’s edtech leader: Best of Breed 2016 (categorized favorites). Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning (for training, e-learning, performance support and social collaboration). Alice Keeler is a Google Certified Teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — CAST Tech, San Antonio’s newest public high school, looks like an outpost of Google. The schools are the brainchild of Charles Butt, a big donor to local education causes and chairman of H-E-B, the region’s largest grocery store chain. million donation from H-E-B in 2016. What’s cool about CAST Tech?”

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IT Bill

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

According to the ECAR 2016 Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology , 96% of undergraduate students now own a smartphone. By using Google Drive or Archive.org , media can be made available for students to download offline, when they may be without a WiFi connection as well as for those students with limited data plans.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

K., & Bruegmann, E. The Learning Policy Institute says in their 2016 study, Well-designed mentoring programs improve retention rates for new teachers, as well as their attitudes, feelings of efficacy, and instructional skills.(32) 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24) 24) Jackson, C. 25) Kraft, M. A., & Papay, J.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2016

Amal Abdi at her high school graduation in June, 2016. It’s e-counseling 2.0. Early on, when Abdi assembled her “balance list” of potential colleges, the low acceptance rates and sky-high average SATs of the most selective colleges left her feeling inadequate and intimidated. Lauderdale, Florida, July 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. To buy Chromebooks, the most-purchased device on the ed tech market , school districts can check prices from Google, Acer, Samsung, HP and others. Photo: Jessica Huseman for The Hechinger Report.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

This week, I also enhanced the K-12 Cyber Incident Map by adding video clips of news reports of select incidents since 2016. Tagged on: April 23, 2017 Is It Time to Break Up Google? | Google and its partners have pitched Chromebooks as affordable, simple to use and manage, and rugged enough to survive student use.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

This week, I also enhanced the K-12 Cyber Incident Map by adding video clips of news reports of select incidents since 2016. Tagged on: April 23, 2017 Is It Time to Break Up Google? | Google and its partners have pitched Chromebooks as affordable, simple to use and manage, and rugged enough to survive student use.

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Tagged on: March 18, 2017 G Suite for Education Now Open for Personal Google Accounts, Outside Domains | Campus Technology → Raises privacy questions. " says Google Family Link manager Saurabh Sharma.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Learning.comoffers a complete online safety curriculum that provides lesson plans and activities, reporting on district E-rate compliance, and seamless integration with Google Classroom and other widely used learning platforms.

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E-rate Online Assessments Industry Report 41

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

LeMya is one of 156 4-year-olds in Mississippi who participated in UPSTART’s 2016-17 school year pilot program. a month for the first student in the family who enrolls, with a discounted rate for additional students. In 2016, that average was $4,976 per student according to NIEER. for one year.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Showing the Algorithms Behind New York City Services | New York Times → Algorithms can decide where kids go to school, how often garbage is picked up, which police precincts get the most officers, where building code inspections should be targeted, and even what metrics are used to rate a teacher. " Maybe, maybe not.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Showing the Algorithms Behind New York City Services | New York Times → Algorithms can decide where kids go to school, how often garbage is picked up, which police precincts get the most officers, where building code inspections should be targeted, and even what metrics are used to rate a teacher. " Maybe, maybe not.

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” Via the Data Quality Campaign : “ Student Data Privacy Legislation : A Summary of 2016 State Legislation.” they do boost graduation rates.). Via Buzzfeed’s Molly Hensley-Clancy : “These Colleges Have The Worst Student Loan Default Rates In The Country.” ” Education in the Courts.

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Education E-rate MOOC Report 40

Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

Via Edsurge : “After Net Neutrality , Experts Expect Changes to FCC’s E-Rate.” Via The Guardian : “ Google faces new discrimination charge : paying female teachers less than men.” Via The New York Times : “How Climate Change Deniers Rise to the Top in Google Searches.”

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

And, in 2016, we would hope college students, who spend hours each day online, would look beyond a.org URL and ask who’s behind a site that presents only one side of a contentious issue. Oxford Dictionaries recently announced post-truth as its 2016 international Word of the Year. Fake news is not new. Post-truth or truthiness.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? ” Via the AP : “ District of Columbia Mayor Muriel E. Fines Google $5.1 in 2016 on a student visa.” Another invocation of Google Map s as a metaphor for student learning data in Edsurge.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

Via Edsurge : “Why the FCC ’s E-rate Makes Funding High-Speed Internet a Slow Crawl.” “The Saga of Ohio ’s Embattled E-School Is Coming to an End,” writes Education Week’s Ben Herold. Google has updated its pseudo-LMS, Classroom. Times published teachers’ ratings.

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E-rate Education Robotics Elsevier 44

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Kudos to the Houston Chronicle for the original reporting on this in 2016. Via The Verge : “James Damore sues Google for allegedly discriminating against conservative white men.” ” 69% of Google’s employees are men. ” The Department of Education’s press release has more. 56% are white.

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Via Education Week : “ FCC Chair Moves to Block E-Rate Funds for Companies Deemed ‘Security Risk’ ” (State and Local) Education Politics. ” Via the Google blog : “Rolling Study Halls: turning bus time into learning time.” ” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

There’s less than a month left of the 2016 Presidential campaign and The End can’t come soon enough. ” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. .”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “A former IT employee for the American College of Education , a for-profit college based in Indianapolis, locked thousands of students out of email and course materials by changing the password of a Google account after he was fired, according to a lawsuit filed by the institution.” Go, School Sports Team!

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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. 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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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Eighth-graders Avril Seppilu, 13, right, and Tia Prentice, 13, left, listen during a Google Hangouts Meet video call to students in Hawaii. She’s been doing Google Hangouts with us online, which is super convenient,” Tozier said. Related: In remote Alaskan villages, teachers struggle to make school meaningful.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” Via CNBC : “ Google , Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.”

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

“The UK government has published its 2016 HE White Paper, entitled Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice,” the Times Higher Education reports. And The Next Web headline makes for… something: “ Facebook and Google could be allowed to award university degrees.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The total dollars invested in 2016 are off by about $2 billion from this time last year; the number of deals are down by a third; and the number of acquisitions are off by about 20%. Or lack thereof – see “ The 2016 Ed-Tech Dead Pool.”). Funding has shrunk. ” You are a fool. “ Tweaking the business model.”

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

APRIL 27, 2018

For your “yes, Microsoft is still horrible files,” this from The Washington Post : “ E-waste recycler Eric Lundgren loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve 15-month prison term.” Via The Wall Street Journal : “Some Colleges Try to Burnish Student-Loan Default Rates.” “Try Google.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

’” ( In related self-driving car regulation news : “ Google ’s ‘Cozy’ Relationship With Driverless-Car Regulators.” percent in 2016 to total $208.6 ” Via Education Week’s Market Brief : “Global K–12 Market for Personal PCs to Contract in 2016, Experts Project.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

” The school recently announced that it would end its attempts to regain accreditation after the Department of Education withdrew recognition for the for-profit in 2016. This is so important to consider, as Tufekci noted on Twitter, in light of Google’s domination of the K–12 computing market.). Memos from HR.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Via Zion Market Research : “ Massive Open Online Course Market : Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecasts 2016-2024.” Fascinating how affluent parents in the shadow of Google and Apple HQs respond to ed-tech, no?). ” Price tag for the report: $3599. ” The program: Teach to One.

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MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

And maybe educators will rationalize using it anyway… “ Google ’s Mass-Shooting Misinformation Problem” by The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal. candidates submit and publish papers at much higher rates than women, even at the same institution. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

” From the organization’s press release : the NAACP “ratified a resolution Saturday adopted by delegates at its 2016 107th National Convention calling for a moratorium on charter school expansion and for the strengthening of oversight in governance and practice.” Go, School Sports Team! Through an LMS.

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Education Company Pearson E-rate 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. From Course Report : “the 2016 Coding Bootcamp Market Size Study.” “ 14 projects win 2016 Knight News Challenge on Libraries.”

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Not Net Neutrality, but another potential FCC move – ending the E-Rate program. “​Chromageddon Comedown: Educators Are Wary,” says Edsurge , “After Thousands of Google Devices Fail.” Via International Business Times : “ Charles Koch Gave $50 Million To Higher Ed In 2016. ” Yay.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2016

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) December 13, 2016. Wheeler supported e-Rate reform and “ net neutrality.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Google Effect Rubs Off on Schools in One Rural Oklahoma Town.” The BBC reports that “ Cuba signs deal for faster internet access to Google content.”

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