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A Call For Homeschool 2.0

TeachThought - Learn better.

So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Adaptive learning apps. Learning simulations. Learning here becomes less about curriculum and more about possibility. While short on experts, rules, and policies, a home has agility and “scale” that a school necessarily lacks. Dosomething.org.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. A computing platform is the stage on which computer programs can run.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” More on the policy change via IHE. 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.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The Washington Post : “ A South Carolina school district just abolished snow days – and will make students learn online.” ” Via The Wall Street Journal : “More Schools Are Buying ‘ Active-Shooter ’ Insurance Policies.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. ” ( Not mentioned : Penn was one of the very first investors in Coursera.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Chalkbeat : “ DeVos criticizes Bush-Obama policies , saying it’s time to overhaul conventional schooling.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. . Via Inside Higher Ed : “A New Home for AI : The Library.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

. “High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.