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2016 Global Education Conference Starts Sunday - Important Information!

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Thanks to the GEC Sponsors Social Media Amazing List of Currently Scheduled Sessions! Our founding sponsor International Education Resources Network (IEARN) will continue to support us for the 2016 Global Education Conference. Become a Partner Organization! We're Still Taking Proposals!

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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The Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation, which has given money to charter schools (including Success Academy Charter Schools), media organizations (including The 74), and conservative education organizations (including Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education). Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. pic.twitter.com/BBhsgwY2FZ — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 1, 2016. Seymour was 88; or, as he was born on February 29 – a Leap Year baby – he was just 22. Read Mindstorms.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. — Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) May 10, 2016. charter school.” From the HR Department.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Politico : “ Several Trump appointees shared unflattering views of minorities, women on social media.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via The New York Times : “ Generation X More Addicted to Social Media Than Millennials , Report Finds.” 2 job at the U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Republicans are made because the Department of Education issued guidelines about how ESSA should be implemented. Testing, Testing… “Most of the questions from New York ’s 2016 state tests are now public,” Chalkbeat reports. Education Politics. “ New Education Law: Bipartisan No More.”

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

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2016 was such a terrible, terrible year, and as I composed my reflections on it for this annual series, I wanted to start by recognizing the pain and the loss. ” These beliefs are readily amplified and shared by the very “network effects” baked into the infrastructure of social media platforms.