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What’s in a Name? Inside the Pricey, ‘Laborious’ Process of Education Rebrands

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In late October, education policy and advocacy group iNACOL opened its annual conference with a bang. An attempt to shorten the institute’s name to BIE fell flat when it was mistaken at a conference for the Bureau of Indian Education. The company has since been acquired and the domain is no longer active.

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Beer making for credit: Liberal arts colleges add career tech

The Hechinger Report

In a survey conducted by Quest Research and the Kaplan test-prep company, they were four times more likely to say they’d hire an English major with a credential in cybersecurity than an English major without one. “We Some check equations on laptops. We don’t want to lose the richness of the liberal arts. You cross some turf issues.”.

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Newsletter: Privacy Con, OZeLive, GlobalEd.TV, Homeschooling, Making Chromebooks, Student Inquiry, & More

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

As a special note, we are now taking presentation proposals for the "Privacy in the Digital Age" mini-conference--see below! The third annual OZeLive online conference started today with an early keynote by Lucy Gray , "Going Global: Project-Based Learning with a Global Focus," which should already be available in recorded form.

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From here to there: Musings about the path to having good OER for every course on campus

Iterating Toward Openness

A few months ago, I had the opportunity to participate in a systems thinking panel at the Ashoka U conference. Developers who are known to be doing this work on their own, with no financial contribution happening from any company” represented only 8.2% These are huge companies that compete directly with each other in many ways.

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. In math class, students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, work on laptops but also solve word problems in groups using a white board. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. MESA, Ariz.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

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CAROLINA BIOLOGICAL SUPPLY COMPANY BUILDING BLOCKS OF SCIENCE 3D ( www.carolina.com/help/pressreleases/2018/building-blocks-of-science-3d ) Carolina Biological Supply Company launched the new Building Blocks of Science 3D hands-on unit kits for students in grades K to 5. Spectrum Industries Inc.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

Other than a few murmured conversations and the clicking of keyboards, the only sound was mellow acoustic guitar music played on their teacher’s laptop. Related: Why one Mississippi district ditched textbooks for laptops. The school director, Kevin Bock, stood by the door. “We