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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2018)

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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. And on and on and on. Don’t worry, teachers.

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

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We have staff, we have a computer-based monolingual English program that parents can log in and access. They use the Blackboard platform to communicate with professors and engage fellow students in their courses. Now they do. We offer bilingual instruction and GED classes.

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. million students. million students. The LMS market today is valued at $9.2

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Are any education technologies, for that matter? Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms. But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful.

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Connected Librarians Day (Free) Events - Monday, October 14th

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Project Connect brings together leaders from school administration, library and instructional technology fields to provide models of success connected to mobile computing, digital resources and instructional practice. Blackboard Collaborate Room: https://sas.elluminate.com/d.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=LIB2013Part10

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s. The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts.

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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change

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Let me make sure I’m clear here – I’m interested in the “push,” in the stories we tell about machines more so than the technology underpinning the machines themselves. They’re part of our cultural imaginary as much as they are about a technological reality that we face today.