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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition)

Doug Levin

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition). Tagged on: May 1, 2017 Google's Chromebook End of Life Policy stops support after 5 years | PCWorld → Planned obsolescence: Google's End of Life Policy sets a schedule for retiring older Chromebooks, but the details are murky. face up to. |

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What Are Education Innovation Clusters, and What Were They Up To in 2017?

Digital Promise

To really take stock of EdClusters in 2017, we first need to revisit the foundation and origin of Education Innovation Clusters — what they are, how they work, and how they are progressing. In 2017, we initiated a research project with seven EdClusters and key research partners. What are EdClusters? So what have we been up to?

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

Doug Levin

In the absence of the weekly news round-ups, I took the time away to do some further writing and analysis: Everything’s Bigger in Texas…Including (Maybe) the Data Breaches , which details the ham-handed way in which the Texas Association of School Boards has communicated about their breach of personal information about Texas educators.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 and 29 Combined Edition). " Tagged on: July 23, 2017 Education Division Strategic Plan | National Governors Association → NGA's Education Division has a new strategic plan (2017-2020), which includes a focus on personalized learning. I think the latter."

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2017 Teachers Pay Teachers’ July Conference — Overview

Ask a Tech Teacher

TpT 2017 Conference Observations. Buzzwords like “shout out”, “ecosystem”, “safe space”, “self-publishing”, “data analysis” were part of every conversation.

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?What Studying Education Taught Me in 2017—And Where Tech Can Take Us This Year

Edsurge

In 2017, this was especially true while taking a computer science course on data structures and algorithms. According to an analysis by NerdWallet , nearly 1.2 million high school graduates (36 percent) did not fill out the FAFSA for the 2016-2017 academic year.

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2017 NAEP: Exploring the “Homework Gap” in Math Performance

Doug Levin

Take them as works in progress, story ideas, and subjects for further and deeper analysis. This post will be the first in a series exploring specific questions in which I am interested. Question: Does home access to a computer (or tablet) and the internet make a difference on the math performance of 4th and 8th grade students?

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