eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Seeing the trend of work-from-home opportunities increasing throughout the US, Rural Community Alliance’s Just and Thriving Remote Futures Initiative hopes to bring remote work opportunities to students in rural communities throughout Arkansas. To learn more, visit waltonfamilyfoundation.org and follow us on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

So while education continues to be the biggest part of the state budget, it seems that all of the funding trends are negative, not positive. Tweets and pins and blog posts and Facebook ‘likes’ are fairly easy to ignore, particularly by policymakers whom are less technology-knowledgeable. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 27, 2015

The Emerging Future: Technology and Learning brings focus to the planning skills that are needed, the issues that are involved, and the current trends as we explore the potential impact of technological innovations. Stay tuned for all events at [link] , which also has Facebook event links for each activity. Register for free at [link].

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We're having what may be one of the most important conversations about learning in the history of the world, and understanding when, where, and how learning takes place has never been more important. hours a day.

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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.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

All the talk of the importance of “emotion” in education reflects other trends too. ” An ed-tech trend in the making, investors hope. You can read more about who’s funding this and other trends in my year-end series on funding.hackeducation.com.). And “people” here certainly includes students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. based education reform advocacy group. The post School of Me: Letting students study what they want, when they want is the latest education trend appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Looking Forward.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Artificial intelligence was a trend among the for-profits that presented. It wants to create a movement of “equity designers” through youth programs, leadership development and educational advocacy tools. He added that he thinks it’s better for organizations to continue growing in the communities they’re already rooted in.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The change is part of a nationwide pilot program Walsh joined this year, one that could indicate just how deeply and how quickly the personalized-learning trend will penetrate the average classroom. Related: Summit Schools and Facebook announce new personalized learning platform project. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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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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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

” It’s a terrible message to send to children–that once you become a teacher, you lose your right for self-advocacy. And as soon as you start to peel that back, you realize what a catch-22 that is for grown women to have their needs overridden because “you’re here for the kids.”

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Facebook Argument : Students consider the relative strength of evidence that two users present in a Facebook exchange. News on Facebook : Students identify the blue checkmark that distinguishes a verified Facebook account from a fake one.

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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. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Via The Hechinger Report : “ Virtual charter schools need ‘bold action’ for change, says national charter school advocacy group.” That is, major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter increasingly made it difficult for ThinkUp to work with their APIs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Todd Ziebarth, senior vice president for state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, says that, in some parts of the country, organizations that oversee charters have started to take a more active role in ensuring that the schools enroll a diverse student body. Photo: Terrell Clark/The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.” Via The New York Times : “Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built.” ” “ Facebook ’s app for kids should freak parents out,” says MIT Technology Review.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Every year since 2010, I’ve undertaken a fairly massive project in which I’ve reviewed the previous twelve months’ education and technology news in order to write ten articles covering “the top ed-tech trends.” They’re not “trends,” really. They’re themes. They’re categories.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

I’m also curious how this news – again, I’m not sure two closures are really a “trend” – will affect student loan startups. Speaking of imperialism, The Guardian covers a report from Global Media which describes Facebook’s Free Basics program as “ digital colonialism.”

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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. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. See David Kernohan’s excellent keynote at OpenEd13 for more.)

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In previous years, when I’ve written about this topic, I’ve saved “The Business of Ed-tech” for one of the last articles in my “ Top Ed-Tech Trends" series. ” The Gates Foundation is perhaps the best known organization for furthering political advocacy through its funding mechanisms. .

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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.” Code.org is backed by a long list of technology companies – from AT&T to Amazon to Facebook to Google to Verizon. (I’ll

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

percent for the European Union, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development , which tracks international economic trends. percent of our gross domestic product is spent on public early childhood education and care for children age 5 and younger, compared with an average of 0.7

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

” Via Chalkbeat : “For Betsy DeVos and her former advocacy group, the future of education means ‘ personalization ,’ including virtual schools.” Via The Next Web : “ Facebook is letting Groups create online learning courses – what could possibly go wrong?”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

Via Education Week : “Parent Advocacy Group Warns of Ed-Tech ‘Threats’ ” Via PC World : “Why Google plans to stop supporting your Chromebook after five years.” “Mark Zuckerberg Sells $95 Million Worth Of Facebook Shares For Charity,” says The Huffington Post. Kobe Bryant. .

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Via Politico : “ Families for Excellent Schools CEO fired after investigation into ‘inappropriate behavior’ ” That’s Jeremiah Kittredge , who’s run one of the best funded pro-charter advocacy groups in the company. Via The New York Times : “Turn Off Messenger Kids , Health Experts Plead to Facebook.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

The image above from Google Trends helps demonstrate how popular the phrase has become in the intervening months. Initially Facebook had claimed that fake Russian accounts had purchased just $100,000 in ads on its platform – how bad could that be?! Why was so much ed-tech “fake news”? Small world, I guess.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

One of the challenges of writing this series – and trust me, there are many – is separating my analysis out into ten articles that name ten distinct “trends.” But when trying to write about ten “trends,” it’s evident: everything overlaps. Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company.

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