Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In April 2018, privacy advocacy groups filed a complaint stating that YouTube had been illegally collecting personal data about minors who use its service without their parents’ consent, and used that information for advertising purposes. But is it really all that much? It may be easy when you’re talking about nursery rhymes.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 12, 2022

Make your own educated decisions about what is right for the children in your life. 2 Data Mining and Tracking. All images and information are being tracked by big data companies. I say this all the time, “You must both fear and respect Google (and Facebook, etc.) Data is big money these days.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

Joyce : What’s different about this study and why is sharing these data so important? We actually have been working since 2017, to try to get this data project funded. This is a piece of hard data relating to equity. Deb : Using the NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) data from 2015/2016 school year to the 2018/2019.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Sarah Powell, an assistant professor of special education at the University of Texas at Austin, is one of the founders of the science of math movement. For Sarah Powell, an associate professor of special education at the University of Texas at Austin, the question was this math problem: Donna and Natasha folded 96 paper cranes.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The challenge of attracting students into and graduating them from education departments at colleges predates the pandemic, experts say, and yet the pressures of the past two years have worsened the situation at some institutions. King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

Our professional guests: Lian Chikako Chang, a "data storyteller," started the Pandemic Pods group on Facebook in July; just weeks later, the group includes more than 35,000 members. I work on a freelance basis, turning your company's data into earned media coverage by telling compelling, data-driven stories through graphics and text.

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Trends Handbook Kaplan Company 36

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. They are also seeking to use this moment to educate teens about elections and voting and turn them into lifelong voters. “The Andrew Brennen, National Geographic education fellow. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Now in its seventh year, the annual gathering brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, educators and industry experts from around the world for four days stacked with panel discussions , workshops , an expo hall , meetups , film screenings —plus plenty of after-hours shindigs. to 11:00 p.m. Higher Ed 12:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m.

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Effective Advocacy. In 2002, UNESCO followed those leads choosing to name the subset of open content that was useful for teaching and learning “open educational resources,” instead of a name with “free” in the title.). The data in the [Linux Foundation’s] Kernel Development report shatter this illusion.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

She did it with My eCoach as early as 1999 — way before there were blogs, wikis, Twitter or Facebook. Barbara writes a regular column on professional development for OnCUE (Computer Using Educators) as well as regularly posts helpful materials and resources on her blog. Barbara is what you call a “Digital Pioneer.”

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Personalized Learning UDL Blackboard Social Media 48

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

While the state’s Department of Education cycled through commissioners (six in six years) superintendents struggled to figure out the law, largely on their own. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. Imported from Alaska. The Gates Foundation is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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Learning Report System Case Study 111

MindShift

OCTOBER 29, 2020

This story about youth activism was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter. OAKLAND, Calif.

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Kaplan Learning Policies Report 41

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.” ” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. How accurate is her data? (I’d Is this really a trend?

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Dr. Rebecca English: Parenting and Home Education Jodi Chaffee: Creating Intentional Family Culture in Homeschooling Leah Boden: Charlotte Mason Philosophy on Homeschooling Judy Sarden: Why Black Children Should Be Homeschooled? What Is It, How Does It Work? More to come. Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

This is part ten of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Perhaps it’s no surprise that there was so much talk this year about education, technology, and emotional health. All the talk of the importance of “emotion” in education reflects other trends too. They turn into products.

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Technology Education Facebook Company 67

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

These tenets hold as true for education apps as they do for those in the consumer market, privacy experts contend. That user data is often sold to or shared with other companies, such as advertisers who have a vested interest in behavioral data, and it’s not as anonymous as people think. Some apps do more harm than good.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Global Education Conference Call For Proposals Opens May 1st! virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. We argue that this progress is achievable only if we make room for new approaches in education—that is, if we innovate." Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. We argue that this progress is achievable only if we make room for new approaches in education—that is, if we innovate." Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. The 14-year-old speeds ahead when asked to use them to complete assignments. But he doesn’t like it.

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 123

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

And she hopes educators and families all across the country will try it and see that for themselves. In May, as one school year ended and another began to loom large on the horizon, Danks and the leaders of a handful of other outdoor education advocacy groups— Ten Strands , the Lawrence Hall of Science museum in Berkeley, Calif.,

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 19, 2020

After seeing Cathi’s message on the Future Ready Librarians’ Facebook Group , librarian Kim Borden, from the Penn Argyl (PA) School District, responded to the call. Plans should be flexible and change fluidly as new data is provided. What do we know? Pen Argyl schools are the heart of the local community.

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Libraries Elementary Future Ready Advocacy 118

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

In a recent edWebinar , sponsored by ClassLink and co-hosted by CoSN and AASA , education leaders reflected on the challenges of the past year and the possibilities of the upcoming school year. Kelley is an exemplary superintendent who received her bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 82

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2018

It wants to create a movement of “equity designers” through youth programs, leadership development and educational advocacy tools. A “DACA-mented” educator , she said she saw students suffer injustices and lack of support due to their immigration status. The organization ran a pilot in San Francisco and Berkeley last year.

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Personalized Learning Learning Company Policies 125

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

About a decade ago, leaders in this public school district nearly 70 miles northwest of New York City decided to radically change the way they provide education to its diverse and academically challenged student body. Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning.

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Trends Study Knewton Personalized Learning 40

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. My end goal is to improve student learning, and that can be done in extraordinarily powerful ways when teachers and students are able to leverage the unique affordances of open educational resources.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

About a decade ago, leaders in this public school district nearly 70 miles northwest of New York City decided to radically change the way they provide education to its diverse and academically challenged student body. Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning.

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Personalized Learning Technology Knewton Learning 28

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Beth Rabbitt, CEO of education nonprofit The Learning Accelerator. We know how education reform is. More than two-thirds of them are district-run schools.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Please spread the word and tell people about the Summit forward this email , or post on social media Hashtag: #homelearningsummit Twitter: @homelearnsummit Facebook: @homelearningsummit Instagram: homelearningsummit HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS WE ARE WORKING TO COVER IN THE SUMMIT TALKS, INTERVIEWS, AND OPEN-CHAT TIMES : ADHD and Learning ?

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Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

As educators, we talk a lot about how teachers are poorly paid and how unrealistic the demands are. She’s also the curator of @Edhistory101 on Twitter and has a podcast on education history. Jennifer: I think where we start thinking about gender, education, and history is looking at the common school era. Yes — exactly!

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How To System Classroom Twitter 70

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). public high schools (42.5

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). public high schools (42.5

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Among the education highlights: Republican VP candidate Mike Pence made up a name for the university hosting the event. Actually, I think that was the only education highlight. ” “ Clown College Calls National Rash of Rumored Clown Scares ‘Troubling’,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. And there’s more Facebook-related news in several of the sections below.

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Education Facebook Edmodo OER 44

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. Facebook Argument : Students consider the relative strength of evidence that two users present in a Facebook exchange. Historical Thinking Chart.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 99

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

last spring, public schools across the country were forced to grapple with how best to educate their students while still protecting lives. But that initial financial hit was just the beginning, according to some education experts. Related: New data — Even within the same district some wealthy schools get millions more than poor ones.

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