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The Classroom or Library as a Maker Space

User Generated Education

Articles, resources on social media, and conference presentations on these topics are proliferating at a rate that most educators are now familiar with maker education. As Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame noted in his 2016 Bay Area Maker Faire talk: What is making? It is a term for an old thing, it is a new term for an old thing.

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

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 18, 2017 G Suite for Education Now Open for Personal Google Accounts, Outside Domains | Campus Technology → Raises privacy questions. Tagged on: March 17, 2017 Problems with Personalized Learning | dy/dan → Dan Meyer says, "This isn’t good instruction. There is reason to wonder, nonetheless.

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The Weaponization of Education Data

Hack Education

Some 280 incidents since January 2016. Immediately following the 2016 elections, I tweeted that “Under a Trump administration: I very much want ed-tech companies and schools to reconsider collecting so much data about students.” I delete all my old social media now on a regular and ongoing basis.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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 Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

on Election Day 2016, closed at post-election high of $17.85 “‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education? “ Is Homework Compatible With Personalized Learning? “ No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. . Shares closed at $13.46

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Obama administration’s Education Department failed to consider key evidence when it reviewed and ultimately terminated its recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools in 2016, a federal judge ruled late Friday.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

This week, Edsurge covers a charter school there and its promotion of “ personalized learning ” and assessment technologies. ” Via Education Week : “‘ Personalized Learning ’ Guidebook Geared to Rural Districts’ Needs.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Priorities.