Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2015

There were definitely doubts at first. Students noticed the same trend. Through local partnerships, all families have access to free and low-cost Internet. Students take computer programming, robotics, and foreign language courses that, until recently, weren’t offered. Changing the culture.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

According to the surveyed candidates who are now not working in STEM fields, they did not pursue a STEM career due to a lack of access to resources and opportunities. Related: 8 Trends in Education Technology That Will Have A Major Impact | 2019. Engineering students can see and learn the functioning of a machine or robotics.

STEM 90

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

For many of our students, there isn’t a singular, definitive reason why they came to McClarin. Two weeks before testing day, after weeks of struggling robotically through course content, we ditch the projects and texts we are working on to focus solely on test practice, fueled by Powerpoints featuring sample test questions from prior years.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 1, 2023

However] Young people need to have access to a variety of books from which they can learn about different perspectives. I can say confidently that most of us do not want them to leave our classrooms as robots, programmed to think like we do. We, teachers, are trying our best. We want your children to learn and grow.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” ” “How Should Colleges Approach Student Success When Different Definitions Abound?” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” “ Robot abuse ”?!

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Access is important. I hear of librarians who jump into making because they feel pressure to identify with a trend or because they are lured by a commercial promotion and a growing number of available turn-key kits. The action in our huge open technology wing engaged kids in robotics and coding and CAD and now, 3D printing.

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Libraries Robotics Maker Movement Mobility 61

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

This group is gonna change the info access/experience for kids! The thing I love most about the Playground is the ability to access information in an informal way that lends itself to a more personalized experience. it’s an interesting trend. This is my team. I need ISTE to be a week longer just for the Expo hall.

Social Media 105

Social Media Libraries Conference OER 105

Edsurge

JULY 4, 2017

But while EdSurge paced the ISTE floor on June 25-28 in San Antonio, Texas, we decided to ask a slightly different question: What edtech trends, products, and buzzwords do you wish would retire—for good? Tara Linney: The piece of tech is definitely different apps that exist for the sole purpose of replacing a quiz.

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EdTech Trends Blended Learning Personalized Learning 154

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. They’re amazing.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

The collaborative aspect of CoCo has caught the attention of high school students like Nagamitesh Nagamuralee, who introduced the beta version in his robotics clubs in his former middle school in Lexington, Massachusetts. It’s definitely still a core strategy — only more nuanced than before.

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RafranzDavis.com

MAY 25, 2016

I definitely questioned her on creating a wooden cutout of President Obama’s signature but clearly she ignored me). In education, we have a way of taking a “thing” and reframing it to be something else…to fit our ideas or the latest trend of the moment but making isn’t new. It’s not about devices.

Robotics 70

Robotics Learning Maker Movement Accessibility 70

Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2018

There is a lot of talk these days about robots replacing humans in the workforce, but those conversations remain largely abstract. Of all the issues and trends in edtech these days, she says automation is one of the most pressing—and one that all educators should be thinking about. How can they train for jobs that don’t even exist yet?

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Broadband Robotics Digital Learning Trends 156

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

For a sense of how big this trend is, consider Guild Education, a startup that helps set up and run these education benefit programs by connecting big companies and colleges. The practice essentially treats employees like robots, tracking their productivity in ways that she found oppressive. “If add caption here.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

From gamification to digital citizenship to PD for teachers to classroom robots and everything in between, the 102 posts that have been published on the NEO Blog in the last 12 months covered oh so many subjects related to education technology and e-learning for educational institutions. It was a long year, this year. We learned a lot.

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LMS E-rate Digital Divide Blended Learning 279

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 28, 2021

His work centers around influencing systemic change and ensuring students from high-poverty communities have access to a quality education. He’s going to give us a bit of context about what the SEL needs are for students right now, what’s trending, and clarify exactly what true socio-emotional learning means.,

Learning 64

Learning Outcomes System Strategy 64

techlearning

AUGUST 9, 2018

Many of the updates come from trends I’ve seen not only in education but also in the workplace like these Top 10 Skills Needed for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (from the World Economic Forum). While I prefer the use of Keynote, there are many effect tools out there that students can access to create and present from.

Robotics 63

Robotics Education Social Media Mobile Learning 63

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The underlying trends that are certainly pre-pandemic have not gone away, and we’re still not in many ways addressing them, ranging from enrollment, to completion, to the absolute disgrace of public funding.’ They’re talking about internships,” he said. Credit: Steven Yoder for The Hechinger Report. “It So the school used $1.6

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Software Report Adobe Trends 96

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “For-profit institutions that cater to service members see chance to connect with students in Senate-passed provision expanding access on military bases.” ” This one’s definitely my favorite: “Lecture VR is a VR app … which simulates a lecture hall in virtual reality.”

Education 49

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

And the word “intelligence” is now used – oh so casually – to describe so-called “thinking machines”: algorithms, robots, AI. ” And again, let’s recall Franklin’s definition of technologies includes not just hardware or software, but ideas, practices, models, and systems.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education has placed restrictions on access to federal student aid for West Virginia public universities after the state was late submitting required annual financial statements for the third year in a row. Via Campus Technology : “2017 Ed Tech Trends: The Halfway Point.”

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

.” Some 20 Facebook engineers work on the software, and according to The Washington Post , the student information it tracks and stores is not housed on Facebook servers, although Facebook does have access to the data. Parents must sign away the privacy rights for their children who use Basecamp, as is required under COPPA.

Technology 73

Technology Pearson Education Facebook 73

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. Why was so much ed-tech “fake news”? It is now a key feature of his presidency.

Technology 71

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