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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2018)

Hack Education

Meanwhile this year, immigrant, refugee children at the United States border were separated from their parents and kept in cages , deprived of legal counsel , deprived of access to education , deprived in some cases of water. Robots won’t replace you , the press repeatedly said. A teacher in front of a blackboard.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

. …This is key to its advantage over traditional business models when it comes to data, since a platform positions itself (1) between users, and (2) as the ground upon which their activities occur, which thus gives it privileged access to record them. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I

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2016 Global Education Conference Starts Sunday - Important Information!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The final live training is on Saturday, which you can access through the training page. Volunteering + Advisory Board - We Need You! Truly, the volunteer moderators are the HEART of the conference. Sears, M.A., Provincial Dumping Ground or Global Oasis?

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MP3 and MP4 versions will be available as well as the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings, although they take some days to process. Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Torrey Trust, Ph.D.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Personalized learning argues that the entrepreneurial nature of the knowledge economy and the gaping need, diversity and unmanageable size of a typical public school classroom are ill-served by the usual arrangement of a teacher lecturing at a blackboard.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The governor of Virginia has approved a bill requiring all public higher education institutions in the state to take steps to adopt open educational resources – freely accessible and openly copyrighted educational materials.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “A group of scholars object to a decision by the University of California, Berkeley , to remove many video and audio lectures from public view as a result of a Justice Department accessibility order.” ” Via IndyStar.com : “New IU policy bans athletes with history of sexual or domestic violence.”