Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Discussion went in some interesting angles, such as secondary education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In August 2016, Google added a guardian summary feature for parents to receive updates on their student’s work, missing assignments or classroom announcements. I think you’ll see us expand to really understand and meet the needs of students and administrators as other important users in the products that we’re building.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. The back channel in the classroom is powerful and your LMS (Learning Management System) may serve this quite well. Today’s Meet – Create a virtual chat room for students to collaborate and learn from each other.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. That should extend into 2016. The forthcoming Horizon Report thinks BYOD is one of the two major tech trends for 2016.

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techlearning

MAY 16, 2018

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

A 2016 study from Common Sense Media found that 72% of teens feel the need to immediately respond to texts, social networking messages, and other notifications. Students, particularly in secondary grades, are on the go as much, if not more, than their parents. Are there benefits to allowing student phones in the classroom?

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 3, 2018

(I’ve done this once before, in 2016 ). The contest took place in the town of Randolph, at Vermont Technical College , in a large gym/meeting space. At no point in the entire contest did a single person mention, demonstrate, or describe using a learning management system (LMS). On team presenting to judges.

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