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Saddle Up for Silicon Slopes! Our Guide to the 2017 ASU+GSV Summit

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godfather” of OER and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning), trace their roots here. The conference also welcomes the return of familiar faces in new gigs: former Knewton CEO is now with Bakpax, and Los Angeles Unified’s former superintendent John Deasy will share plans for rebuilding prisons to better serve incarcerated youths.

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Heard, Overheard and Announced at ISTE 2016

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The ISTE conference isn’t the biggest edtech conference in the world by sheer luck. Back in February, an EdWeek brief reported that Amazon Education was beta-testing a new platform with educators, helping teachers navigate the jungles of open educational resources (OER). One of the top performers?

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Cash Awards Honor Faculty and Institutions for Innovative Use of Digital Tools

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Winners will be notified in early September and announced at OLC Accelerate 2017 , which takes place in Orlando, November 15–17.) When Wallinga returned to campus from last fall’s Accelerate conference, he brought back a check, a trophy, and newfound respect. The deadline for. submission to this year’s competition is July 15.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. But that’s not my job.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” The NAACP endorses OER. ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. ” Oh.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” The Linked Learning Alliance is a voluntary certification program for California’s high school career academies. The Girl Who Drank the Moon , written by Kelly Barnhill, is the 2017 Newbery Medal winner. ” Well someone has to keep paying for vendor spaces at ed-tech conferences, I guess. ” (I admit.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies). Subscribe to their blog.