The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

People who work in this field keep high-tech factories and warehouses running, maintain robots and work in the aerospace and defense industries. That’s much faster than the two years it often takes. That finding was in a study underwritten by the Lumina Foundation, which is also among the funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Wynzleen Lee Technology as a possibility to value language teaching profession: yes, there is a choice!

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 23, 2016

Here a student shows off his robot that he built and programmed for the technology fair. gadoeteachertakeover #librariesofinstagram #makered #makerspace #teachersofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers #robot #robotics #stem #steam #technology #coding #hourofcode #tlchat #proudtobeccsd. Post 2-5 photos per day.

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Robotics Libraries Social Media Education 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

” How Philanthropy Shapes “Ed-Tech Trends” It’s hard to overstate how much influence philanthropic organizations have had on education policy, now and throughout US history. Philanthropy today shapes policy. No contemporary billionaire has shaped the policy and the discourse in education quite like Bill Gates.

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Klees, Professor of International Education Policy / Carol Anne Spreen A Global Shift in Mindset: How to develop innovative leaders? Ryan Makhani, M. Ed AFS-USA's Intercultural Learning eTool: Culture Trek: Classroom Connections / Tonya Muro, Ed.D.,

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EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

Corinne Roller, director of advocacy and public policy for the nonprofit group Girls Who Code , says the proportion of women in computing jobs has actually been trending downward over the last few decades. “If The Cyber Robotics Coding Competition began in New Hampshire in fall 2017, with 2,600 students taking part across the state.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

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. They turn into products. ” – Eric Hoffer.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

At Brooklyn Tech, there’s both a genetics lab and a robotics program that are rewarding for students and teachers; Robeson High had neither. But policies like the specialized academic school bonus can lead to inequity even within the same school district, he said. The entire city should have these courses,” Stevens said.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Carmona, Lead Contract English Instructor Student-Generated Apps for Mobile Devices – can they enhance higher levels of understanding? Derek Barkalow, Ph.D.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Yet, from my vantage point in the education policy arena (in leadership roles, for instance, at the National Association of State Boards of Education and the State Educational Technology Directors Association), the book and prediction drove widespread advocacy for changes in policy and practice.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Yet, from my vantage point in the education policy arena (in leadership roles, for instance, at the National Association of State Boards of Education and the State Educational Technology Directors Association), the book and prediction drove widespread advocacy for changes in policy and practice.

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Karla Phillips, a policy director at Excel in Ed, told me that both personalized learning and charter schools have “flexibility” as their aim. Yet the academic and policy research behind it is thin.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

The State Policy Network has a plan to counter union activism with anti-union PR. ” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Indeed.

Education 44

Education Facebook Edmodo Pearson 44

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

“ States Are Adopting More Computer Science Policies. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “Culturally Sensitive Robots Are Here to Care for the Elderly ,” Futurism.com claims. Remember: robots for the elderly share a direct connection to MOOCs replacing higher ed.). Does He Want To?

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Education Chegg MOOC Robotics 55

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Chalkbeat : “How new evidence bolsters the case for California’s education policy rebellion.” ” (State and Local) Education Politics.

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Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 51

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

” The Black Alliance for Educational Options , a charter school advocacy group, announced it will cease operations at the end of the year. the nation’s largest virtual charter school management company , as president of academics, policy, and schools. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” (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. Content warning: contains hype about “ mindsets.”

Education 43

Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” It’s building this little web that turns the user into a mostly passive consumer of mostly western corporate content,” says Ellery Biddle, Global Voices’ advocacy director. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

.” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over again we were told “robots are coming for your jobs.” Robots might not take your job.

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Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. The sale, the FTC contended, would violate ConnectEDU’s own privacy policy, and it requested that users be notified so they could request their data be destroyed.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

” Via Chalkbeat : “For Betsy DeVos and her former advocacy group, the future of education means ‘ personalization ,’ including virtual schools.” ” “ UC reverses policy, won’t pick up tab for regents’ parties,” The San Francisco Chronicle reports. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via NPR : “ Trump ’s International Policies Could Have Lasting Effects On Higher Ed.” More about Trump’s immigration policies in a separate section below. And more about Trump and for-profit higher ed policies in the for-profit higher ed section below. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

34 Percent Of Graduates Received A Diploma Against District Policy.” 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.

Education 45

Education MOOC Company Pearson 45

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

“ Trump and Chief Strategist Pick Bannon Disagreed on Foreign Student Policy,” says Inside Higher Ed. Via abc.net.au : “ Queensland children as young as four will learn coding and robotics as a compulsory part of their education from next year.” President-Elect Trump. It’s all so awful. Lee Partners.

Education 40

Education Company Data Pearson 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. Facebook said it would work with the ed-tech advocacy group Digital Promise to teach digital skills.

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Technology Education Facebook Social Media 71