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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Lesson plans can be shared via LearnBoost, but also via Twitter or Facebook and can be embedded on websites and/or blogs. Research and Data Rey Junco continues to publish interesting research on how Facebook is impacting students'' academic performance. The average time students spent on Facebook was 106 minutes per day.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. .” Not really.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

. “The UK government has published its 2016 HE White Paper, entitled Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice,” the Times Higher Education reports. And The Next Web headline makes for… something: “ Facebook and Google could be allowed to award university degrees.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg : our child died at** Sandy Hook** – why let Facebook lies hurt us even more?” ” IHE blogger Joshua Kim predicts there is “1 technology, 2 futures” as he writes about “ Robot Burger Makers and Adaptive Learning Platforms.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Patheos : “ BYU-Idaho Professor Fired After Defending LGBT Rights in Private Facebook Post.” ” “ Personalized learning ” equals cutting the teacher workforce in Oklahoma. Via KQED’s Mindshift : “ MIT’s Scratch Program Is Evolving For Greater, More Mobile Creativity.”