Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

I do worry sometimes that going on Twitter is just preaching to the choir… or that Facebook and Twitter are not necessarily effective mediums for changing people's minds and their inherent beliefs. Social media is not going to fundamentally take someone who doesn't believe in climate change and then make them believe in climate change.

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Twitter Technology Learning Advocacy 87

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 27, 2015

Stay tuned for all events at [link] , which also has Facebook event links for each activity. Register for free at [link]. A goal of the Spring Summit is to provide a forum to discuss ways to prepare for your personal and organization’s future. Register for free today at [link]. The event is open to the first 400 people that register.

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Education Libraries Game-Based Learning Conference 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Our social media page is HERE with links to Facebook , Google+ , Twitter , and more. Help Promote the Conference: We can still use your help to share the conference with your colleagues, associates, friends, family (!), and the world. Publicity resources, along with images you can use, are HERE. Gaudino, Ed.D.,

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” Nor has it stopped Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from making “personalized learning” a centerpiece of his venture philanthropy firm’s education work or from vowing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on it.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 10, 2019

REACTS Taxonomy Example of ideas from Synthesizing–Level 6. Adding the AASL Standards to my weekly lessons was something I felt strongly about because showing administrators that you are regularly aligning your lessons with national standards is a form of advocacy for both yourself and for your library program.

Digital Citizenship 76

Digital Citizenship Libraries Secondary Social Media 76

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. Facebook has not been one of them since 2017, but the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has full access to the Summit Learning platform’s content and traffic data. schools.

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 123

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on social media and asking him to kill her teacher.” It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. “Education is going to be a powerful example of the potential of VR,” he said.

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” (This is a good example of how ed-tech advocacy-posing-as-journalism operates – you get funded by an organization and then you get to “break the news” about that organization. ” Via The New York Times : “ Facebook ’s Push for Facial Recognition Prompts Privacy Alarms.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

And more importantly, to ascertain where some folks – those who issue press releases, for example – want the puck to head. It ignores what happens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for example: the site of Harvard and MIT. We’re more likely to overlook the role that venture capital plays, for example.

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Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2020

As parents working from home with young children are saying loudly on Twitter, Facebook and every other social media channel: Raising a kid and working full time without child care is not sustainable. “It Chamber of Commerce Foundation, where she focuses on the connection between child care and the nation’s workforce.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Protests at Evergreen College in Washington , for example. For its part, the Justice Department indicated that it would investigate what it deemed to be free speech violations on campuses – at Pierce College , for example, and at Georgia Gwinnett College. Again and again and again. Protests at Reed College in Oregon.

Technology 58

Technology Education Social Media Groups 58

Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

The Verge offers its “ Back to School Guide 2016 ,” which includes a $235 backpack and a $42 mug if you need an example of how woefully out-of-touch tech journalists can be. “Mark Zuckerberg Sells $95 Million Worth Of Facebook Shares For Charity,” says The Huffington Post. Became A Pop Culture Phenomenon.”

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Education Khan Academy MOOC Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Demanding that schools teach “the right skills” is also one of many examples of an ongoing “innovation” fixation , of how industry is pressing the education system to bend to its needs. Code.org is backed by a long list of technology companies – from AT&T to Amazon to Facebook to Google to Verizon. (I’ll

Robotics 59

Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. If we don’t make the most of this chance,” he said, “we’re not going to get another one.” “It We could have and should have led on this.”

Policies 141

Policies Education Elementary Advocacy 141

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

” These beliefs are readily amplified and shared by the very “network effects” baked into the infrastructure of social media platforms. But blaming social media is too easy and too simplistic. And in today’s information environment, all these stories have seemingly become a lot less “fringe.”

Technology 71

Technology Education Facebook Social Media 71

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It also treats “ed-tech” primarily as a product built by engineers, not for example, constructed through the practices of educators or students themselves – problems with education are, in this framework, engineering problems. Facebook is, although Mark Zuckerberg denies it , a media company.

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