Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

That upward trend has continued: Since 2016, such requests have increased 117 percent. These include items like books written by authors of color, or other resources featuring figures from diverse backgrounds. million classroom projects, spanning from book sets to robotics kits to flexible furniture. classrooms.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. Manufacturing Trends.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

All the talk of the importance of “emotion” in education reflects other trends too. It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

It was the latest big-fix trend in K-12 education, and Gist, a favored daughter of Silicon Valley philanthropists, offered up the nation’s smallest state as a laboratory mouse. Some parts of Oppenheimer’s book (see: nightmare visions of Apple iMacs and CD-ROMs) have not aged well. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. She’s also written a new book on parenting and “screens.” ” (State and Local) Education Politics. When it’s strapped to your face, it’s Wild Immersion.

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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. And digital distribution has replaced the role of a library as a central hub for obtaining the containers of such knowledge: books. The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

But this year, I’m reorganizing my analysis of these “trends,” partly because I think they can all be subsumed under the larger theme of “the new economy.” Read The New York Times review of her book. We must encourage people to pursue “robot resistant” majors in college.

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