eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: Current education trends point to personalization and accessibility Keeping up with current trends in education is essential for educators Learn more about K-12 Tech Innovation News In the dynamic landscape of K-12 education, several trends are shaping the way students learn and educators teach.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

leave those kids alone" and then be reassured that, in the future, magically, technology will make everything happier. And while my criticism of exploitative "personalized learning" technology was booed, their predictions were cheered. " And folks, let me assure you. Why do you?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It’s called the Teaching Online Podcast, or TOPcast , and co-host Thomas Cavanagh says he is driven by his quest to figure out one of the grand challenges of higher education: how to use technology to raise the quality of instruction while lowering costs. There are things that technology can do that humans can't. How does that work?

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

“Investors, particularly in China, are looking across the Pacific to check out innovative tools and models that they haven’t explored or implemented back home,” observes Victor Hu, Global Head of Education Technology and Services at Goldman Sachs’ investment banking division. Last year, at least 10 U.S.-based Limited Partner, Global Reach.

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Kathy Schrock

APRIL 15, 2023

It certainly read like a robot had written in, IMHO. I especially disagreed with the section below because online tools should not be supplemental, but infused into the curriculum in a meaningful way to support teaching and learning. The paragraph above almost seems to contradict the paragraph before.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. Companies include an AI robot, student incubator and a startup called Pie for Providers. Ostensibly these tools are for the greater good—keeping kids safe. Tuesday, March 5, 4 p.m.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Amplify Fractions covers math standards in grades 3–6 and uses adaptive learning, interactive storytelling, and a personalized digital tutor to help students conquer fractions. The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions.

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

I will not be assigning penance today – although as a scholar of history and culture, I do want you (all of us, really) to think about what we’ve done; to think about what we’ve said; to think about the stories we tell about the future of technology and education. I’m interested in what we believe technology will do.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Adaptive learning technology is the new go-to for personalized learning. Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom. Google Classroom ?

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Classroom Schoology Khan Academy Blended Learning 53

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

It includes a variety of assessments, multiple-choice and claim-evidence-reasoning assessments, along with extensive support for teachers such as embedded professional development and instructional resources to support a differentiated learning experience for each student. This release will also now include support for Google Drive.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This leads to the “innovator’s dilemma,” described recently in The Economist as “the difficult choice an established company faces when it has to choose between holding onto an existing market by doing the same thing a bit better, or capturing new markets by embracing new technologies and adopting new business models.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Key points: Technology is a great tool–but what specific tech aids in student learning? Let’s examine the transformative impact of specific technologies that empower students, fostering engagement, personalization, and skill development in the dynamic realm of learning. What technology helps students learn?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A key conversation focuses on weighing its benefits versus risks, and many education institutions have been quick to implement bans on the technology altogether for fears of plagiarism in written works. If we go back to the War of 1812 lecture example, we can see the value of adaptive learning if we instead embrace these tech advancements.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. From the Google blog : “ Chromebook tablets for versatile learning.” Speaking of Google , Wired reports that “Children’s YouTube is still churning out blood, suicide and cannibalism.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Paul LePage has called for a review of his state’s groundbreaking 1-to–1 student computing initiative, highlighting the growing pains nagging an educational-technology movement now well into its second decade.” ” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon.

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Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. It’s all of our loss, really, as too many in education technology happily reduce the potential of computer programming as an epistemological endeavor to a market for new products. This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via The Verge : “James Damore sues Google for allegedly discriminating against conservative white men.” ” 69% of Google’s employees are men. National) Education Politics. ” More from The Guardian. .”

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Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via The New York Times : “Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built.” ” “ Facebook ’s app for kids should freak parents out,” says MIT Technology Review. million total.

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Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 51

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Shocking, I know, but apparently “technology” is a “megatrend.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. DreamBox Learning has raised $130 million from The Rise Fund. ” Great. million total.

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Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via Campus Technology : “ Columbia U Opens Research Center Devoted to Blockchain Tech.” ” Via Bloomberg : “Inside Google ’s Shadow Workforce.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Techcrunch : “ Google and Coursera launch program to train more IT support specialists.” “ Google is jeopardizing A frican-American literature sites ,” says The Outline. National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook, like many digital technology companies, promises that in exchange for collecting your personal data – your name, your age, your gender, your photos, metadata on your photos, your location, your preferences, your browsing and clicking habits, your friends’ names – it will deliver “personalization.”

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Technology Pearson Education Facebook 73

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 organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot ,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story about “Jill Watson” (of course it’s a female name), an automated teaching assistant at Georgia Tech. “ Uber-U is Already Here ” – “powered by Blockchain Technology.”

Education 52

Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

.” Gotta love a quote like this, from a story in Edsurge profiling McComb, Mississippi ’s Summit Elementary School: “We are learning how to mitigate between policy and trying to be as innovative as possible without breaking state laws.” ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Also via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans.” Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.” Via Education Week : “ Personalized Learning and the ‘ Internet of Things :’ Q&A.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Wired : “Ex- Google Employee Claims Wrongful Firing For Criticizing James Damore ’s Memo.” Via The Verge : “ James Damore ’s labor complaint against Google was completely shut down.” “Open.”

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Education Company Data Elsevier 46

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

” Google announces it is “Funding 75,000 Udacity scholarships to bridge the digital skills gap.” For Online College Programs, Google Is Kingmaker.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “This Machine Learning-Powered Software Teaches Kids To Be Better Writers,” Fast Company claims.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Inside Higher Ed reports that “ National University is working to create a personalized education platform that combines three of the buzziest innovations in higher education – adaptive learning, competency-based learning and predictive analytics for student retention.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

Via Education Week : “ Minecraft Party to Raise Money for Technology in Philly Schools.” ” Campus Technology rewrites the press release that Examity will be used for identify verification and proctoring in edX classes. “ Credly Receives Open Badges Certification ,” Campus Technology reports.

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Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans ” – so enjoy that Google Certification, educators. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” That’d be Hugo Barra , a former Google exec.

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