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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 33 Edition)

Doug Levin

K-12 Cyber Incident Map: 8 School Districts Have Experienced Multiple Cyber Incidents Since 2016 , which reports on a trend that I’ve seen in tracking K-12 cyber incident reports: school districts suffering repeat cyber incidents, even in the short time I’ve been tracking the issue (since the start of 2016).

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The Scarlet Rating: How One ‘Improvement Required’ School Seeks a Turnaround

Edsurge

Brook Avenue Elementary School in Waco, Texas has been in the papers before, but not for shiny new laptops or flexible classrooms. However, school leaders Sarah Pedrotti and Jessica Torres are on a mission to flip the failure narrative and rebrand their school by motivating their teachers through personalized professional development.

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IT Coaches Leading Change in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Deb Ramm on episode 329 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Instructional Technology Coaches can be helpful advisors for teachers if they learn strategies of encouragement and empowerment. You can follow Deb on Twitter @Deb_Ramm. Twitter: @Deb_Ramm.

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How m-learning is transforming online education

Neo LMS

billion smartphones worldwide as of 2016 – a number that is expected to climb to 2.5 If someone has to learn, they can learn – period. Where they’re located, or whether a desktop or laptop computer is around, is now irrelevant. More than that, there were 2.1 billion by as soon as 2019.

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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. billion for 2016, the largest loss in its history. And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.” They’re amazing.

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

Doug Levin

But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer. Tagged on: March 18, 2017 G Suite for Education Now Open for Personal Google Accounts, Outside Domains | Campus Technology → Raises privacy questions. There is reason to wonder, nonetheless.

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She did it with My eCoach as early as 1999 — way before there was Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, or Pinterest. Barbara founded Personalize Learning, LLC in 2012 with Kathleen McClaskey who she co-authored two books on personalized learning: Make Learning Personal and How to Personalize Learning.