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The 3 Biggest Remote Teaching Concerns We Need to Solve Now

Edsurge

Businesses and organizations are providing free access to digital tools and apps for teaching and learning (see THE Journal’s ever-growing list of Free Resources for Schools During COVID-19 Outbreak ). Additionally, the way they use these tools can also impact students’ privacy, safety, and learning experiences.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.” Pearson is Not a Platform.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Billion Federal Block Grant Makes Ed-Tech Training Higher Priority Than Software, Devices.” ” Via Techcrunch : “Comparing Apple , Google and Microsoft ’s education plays.” ” The Business of Job Training. There’s more robot news in the job training section above. million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.” ” More via Techcrunch. school departments employed 8.4

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Technology Tools Used in Teaching and Learning

eSchool News

Online collaboration tools, such as Google Workspace and Microsoft Teams, empower students to collaborate on projects and share resources in real time. Educational software, including interactive simulations and virtual labs, brings abstract concepts to life, enhancing experiential learning.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

Microsoft acquired Minecraft in 2015 – which probably speaks volumes right there about its progressive potential – and in January of this year, Microsoft bought TeacherGaming, the maker of a Minecraft version aimed at classroom usage. Nor, I’d argue, will a fixation on simply “learning to code.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Guardian : “ Student Loans Company ‘spied on vulnerable students’ social media’ ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. The Business of Job Training. Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “Teaching Tech-Based Farming: Microsoft Backs Program for Ag Group’s 650,000 Students.”