eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students. Freepik Cities and states will utilize dynamic policy making as they reach data maturity.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

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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Hack Education

AUGUST 23, 2016

Your heirs will not inherit your digital reading library. Your heirs will not inherit your digital music library. But Bush made this phrase – “ownership society,” – a cornerstone of his policies circa 2003–4 as he cut taxes. You do not own the music you stream; you’ve paid for a subscription.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

ANNOUNCEMENTS The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference is almost here! Huge thanks to the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science , the founding sponsor of the conference. E-book provider Overdrive reports that e-book checkouts from libraries are up over 200% from last year.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It How is Google influencing policy? How is Google influencing research?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Teachers and the Future of Education" (the importance of teacher voice in education discussions, "Hack Your Education" (thinking about self-directed learning--Audrey''s in this proposal), and "Technology, Pedagogy, and the Silver Bullet" (addressing the myopia of some ed tech business ventures). November 2 - 4, all online, all free.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Decision-makers rose to the challenge in the initial waves of the pandemic, enacting temporary policies to permit and reimburse for online education services. Though these policies made a big impact, many have expired in favor of returning to the status quo. –Joy Smithson, Ph.D.,

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

” More on the policy change via IHE. The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total. Via Inside Higher Ed : “Ithaka S+R and OCLC Research launch project to examine how universities and their libraries are changing.” Here’s the very short press release from the Department of Education.

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Education E-rate MOOC Data 44

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

” Via The Wall Street Journal : “More Schools Are Buying ‘ Active-Shooter ’ Insurance Policies.” ” Via The Wall Street Journal : “Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘ No Experience Necessary ’ ” Contests and Awards. The adaptive learning company has raised $175.6

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Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “ DeVos criticizes Bush-Obama policies , saying it’s time to overhaul conventional schooling.” A new project from the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel : “Reimagining College Access: Performance Assessments From K–12 Through Higher Education.” Monstrous, really.

Education 44

Education Elsevier MOOC Knewton 44

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Forbes has pulled an essay by a professor that advocated that Amazon stores replace public libraries and thus save the taxpayers money. Librarians and library supporters responded by saying that the article was ill informed and didn’t reflect the many roles libraries play.”

Education 43

Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

” Via PBS Newshour : “GOP reinstates usage of ‘ illegal alien ’ in Library of Congress ’ records.” Via NPR : “ Wyoming School District Stalls On Transgender Student Policy.” The School Library Journal reports that “ New York DOE Green Lights Amazon eBook Deal.”

Education 46

Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

. “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. The ALA has released library privacy guidelines for students in K–12 schools. It's religion.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). Siegler: “ The End of the Library.” 3D Printing. They haven’t.).

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Orders Review of Education Policies to Strengthen Local Control.” ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. The NMC Horizon Report 2017 – the Library Edition.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

.” Not sure how popular Facebook and Summit Public Schools ’ “personalized learning” platform is, for what it’s worth. Via the Institute for Women’s Policy Research : “ Single Mothers are 3 Times More Likely to Enroll in For-Profit Colleges than Single Students without Children.”

Education 45

Education Broadband Company Data 45

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. “ 14 projects win 2016 Knight News Challenge on Libraries.” The adaptive learning company has raised $4.57 ’” LOL job titles. ” Oh.

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” “Policy-based Privacy is Over,” says Eric Hellman. Some (education policy) history from Sherman Dorn : “The pendulum and the ratchet.” The American Library Association announced its youth media awards. Adeptemy , an adaptive learning company, has raised $3.48 million total.

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40