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Khan Academy plunged into classrooms, then classrooms went online

The Hechinger Report

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”.

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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

A big shout out to EdTech Magazine for recognizing this blog on its 2017 Honor Roll. I especially appreciated the following quote, “On his blog, Gorman shares what he has learned with a focus on how tech enables project-based learning.” Khan Academy – One cannot forget the Khan Academy.

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Measuring Academic Skills and ‘Grit’ to Help Identify At-Risk Students

Wired Campus

The pilot program, scheduled to start in January 2017, will include students at Excelsior and Western Governors University, a competency-based online degree program. For instance, if students are struggling in math, it will direct them to relevant lessons from Khan Academy, which offers free online lectures.

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Schools Let Students Take Laptops Home In Hopes Of Curbing ‘Summer Slide’

MindShift

Since not all parents are equally familiar with technology themselves, schools can level the playing field by telling them about good online learning sites and best practices for limiting screen time. Boulay has his kids log on to Duolingo and Khan Academy each day on break. Copyright 2017 NPR.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2017: The Stories We’ve Been Told. 2017 has been an extraordinary year for education news and for technology news – two areas that provide crucial context for everything that happens with education technology. Khan Academy. Online Learning. Mobile Learning.

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?Are We Recreating Segregated Education Online?

Edsurge

A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. Unless we carefully examine where we put the paywalls and how we cultivate diverse student bodies in our online learning experiences, we risk transposing the same patterns of inequity that have plagued in-person education into our digital classrooms.

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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. 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. with Pigeons.

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