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Removing the Obstacles in Education so Innovation and Academics Can Flourish

The Principal of Change

You can do what I did; take your computer or tablet and work in classrooms. April 13, 2018 Every “Best Practice” in Education Was Once an Innovation July 24, 2016 11 Books To Further an #InnovatorsMindset October 13, 2011 Turn on the lights September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon!

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A Flipped Classroom Approach: Tips from 3 Bett Speakers

ViewSonic Education

We are teaching digital citizens in 2018. Fortunately, there is a vast amount of content already available, such as YouTube videos, MOOCs, multiple choice questions and web-based resources. This antiquated idea of a classroom needs to be flipped on its head in the form of flipped learning via a flipped classroom approach!

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

SeanMcElwee) April 11, 2018. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The company sells a tablet for use in prison. Here’s how Techcrunch describes it : Edovo works with facilities to bring in secure wireless networks and tablets that access Edovo’s educational platform.

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Hack Education

So here’s an early contender for “Worst Education ‘Take’ of 2018’” by Gary Wolfram in Education Week : “ Make Public Education a Market Economy – Not a Socialist One.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “What are the Big Questions for 2018?”

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Hack Education

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Microsoft Hopes to Revive Its Education Tablet Efforts With the New $399 Surface Go,” says Edsurge. Via The Washington Post : “Former executives of defunct for-profit college firm ITT settle fraud charges with SEC.”

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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 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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” “ Torn Apart / Separados ” – “A rapidly deployed critical data & visualization intervention in the USA’s 2018 ‘Zero Tolerance Policy’ for asylum seekers at the US Ports of Entry and the humanitarian crisis that has followed.” ” Contests and Conferences.