Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

.” that by 2019 half of all high school classes will be taught over the internet ; Raised questions about a new study on personalized learning ; Added four new incidents to the K-12 cyber incident map ; and. Been quoted in an article on ransomware in K-12 education. Enter personalized learning (PL)."

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

.” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. The company has raised some $77.5 ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 70+ million users’ account details.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ” he asks. Manufacturing Trends.

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edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

Diamond: When her district identifies a need, her team does an exhaustive competitive analysis, using an RFI and not an RFP, to see what products will work. They not only look at how the product would fit with their learning standards and curriculum, but the product must also work within their LMS. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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techlearning

MAY 16, 2018

Utilizing an inquiry-based format built on the 5E model, Discovery Education’s Science Techbook helps teach students to read, write, and think like scientists through hands-on labs, digital explorations, an interactive glossary, and data analysis activities. Inspired by the global media company Discovery Inc.,

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2021

And both during and after the pandemic, data will also continue to be crucial in identifying at-risk students, best practices, opportunity gaps, and ways to support personalized learning. He also works with edWeb.net to write articles on their professional learning edWebinars.

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techlearning

JUNE 20, 2018

With Discovery Education’s unique blend of dynamic digital content and professional learning, district educators will be empowered to build digital, inquiry-based learning environments that create new pathways and opportunities for middle and high school students, helping them prepare for their post-secondary educations and careers.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” There’s more on legal battles involving student loan companies in the business of financial aid section below. “ Does tech designed to personalize learning actually benefit students? Her remarks.)

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

These classes also open the door to self-paced personalized learning. Today, edtech companies are actively working on taking digitization even further by converting the traditional LMS into an intelligent learning platform (ILP). Intelligent learning platform benefits for K-12 schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2015

I’m not saying things like data-driven analysis can’t help us — it can help us know our students and personalize learning. ” One of the biggest mistakes I made when I was a General Manager for a cell phone company was being too open about some of the pressures I was under to make the numbers.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

He then got his Bachelors in Networking and Telecommunication from DeVry University, and while going to school worked for a company that helpe larger organizations relocate and setup new computer systems. She has published articles in Educational Leadership, The Learning Professional, and Phi Delta Kappan.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. One should be conscientious, as such.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

He’s put $100 million of his own money into his company Kernel (which I guess means we’re supposed to believe it’s a real, viable thing) with the promise of developing computer chip implants that will bolster human intelligence. ” An ed-tech trend in the making, investors hope. The World Economic Forum.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Tips and Tricks I've Learned from Experience From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. For purposes of this article, we’ll call these “the bricks.” ” When bricks and clicks combine into a powerful learning experience for students, we have an effective blended classroom.

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

To borrow from “ Norman’s Law of eLearning Tool Convergence ,” no matter the stories we tell about innovation, no matter the predictions we make about disruption, in time everything in ed-tech becomes indistinguishable from the learning management system. But that’s not new.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

million-or-so K-12 teaching jobs will eventually change roughly as follows: “Approximately 50 percent of teaching jobs will go into prep and analytics to provide totally personalized learning pathways. There’s more to this discussion, but the top-line rough estimates are that the 3.3

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2017

This article first appeared on Points, a Data & Society publication in February 2017. The claims about “personalized learning” attainable through more data collection and data analysis remain primarily marketing hype. Indeed, “personalized learning” is itself a rather nebulous concept.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The combined companies now extend from enrollment to graduation in districts that include traditional public, charter, and independent schools across the country. The company has partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits and provides online monitoring software to schools.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 18, 2018

“Personalized learning,” for example, is arguably thousands of years old, and we can date the idea of individualizing education by using machines back to the 1920s. Namely, you’ve looked at Papert’s The Children’s Machine and you’ve read my article on Skinner.). Skinner won; Papert lost.

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

Disclosure alert : no mention that Edsurge, which published this article, shares an investor with Class Central.). This week, Edsurge covers a charter school there and its promotion of “ personalized learning ” and assessment technologies. The math tutoring company has previously raised $4.7 Priorities.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

But as it turned out, the zeppelin company had gone out of business – I imagine that many people, like myself, could only think about Christopher Walken and Grace Jones’ characters and opted not to go. In the meantime, these companies continue to collect a lot of “driving” data. Google versus Uber.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? Via Class Central : “Analysis of 450 MOOC -Based Microcredentials Reveals Many Options But Little Consistency.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. awards debt collection contract to company with ties to DeVos.” ” Via Buzzfeed : “Here’s How A Student Loan Debt Relief Company Preyed On Its Customers.” National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

” The charter school, which is closing it doors, is the Merit Preparatory Charter School , run by “personalized learning” charter chain Matchbook Learning. Here’s a sponsored article , paid for by the Gates Foundation and published by Edsurge promoting the school and its technology.).

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Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

” And it sure isn’t “everyone should learn nursing.” ” Everyone Should Learn to Code. As I noted in the previous article in this series , the technology industry has continued this year to advocate for changes to both policy and curriculum to expand computer science education.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

SoFi : a student loan company and one of the most well-funded ed-tech companies out there sure seems swell. ” “ Delta Career Education Corporation , a privately held for-profit college company, is phasing out seven of its campuses,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Unified settles lawsuits with teacher Rafe Esquith.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Education Week : “ FCC Chair Moves to Block E-Rate Funds for Companies Deemed ‘Security Risk’ ” (State and Local) Education Politics. million in seed funding from LearnStart (Learn Capital) and Rethink Education.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) funding) and outputs (e.g.,

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “Lifelong learning” and multiple choice quizzes for two to five year olds. The company has raised $20.4 The company, which claims it’s like “LinkedIn for students,” has raised $14.1 Sounds like fun.

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Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” ” Edsurge gets the company’s take on criticisms of its business model.

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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.” “Everyone should learn to code,” as they like to tell us. “Disrupt.”

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Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

The learn-to-code company Treehouse has launched “Techdegrees,” “a guided-learning experience designed to prepare students for entry-level developer jobs at companies across the country.” ” “ Zynga ’s Headquarters Is Worth More Than The Actual Company.” Credit Cards).”

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Via Politico : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has increased her financial stake in a ‘neurofeedback’ company that says its technology treats attention deficit disorder and the symptoms of autism. Via The Daily Times : “Blount County Schools building new options to personalize learning.”

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. The company alleges in a lawsuit, which became public on Monday, that the Education Department’s process for selecting companies for its new loan servicing platform has been unfair and violated federal procurement rules.”

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Education Robotics Pearson Company 54

Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

Also via Edsurge : “How Boundaries Between Colleges and Companies Will Continue to Blur.” ” “ University of Michigan adds an automated text-analysis tool to a growing program intended to give more students a chance to learn through writing,” Inside Higher Ed reports. and from Hacker News.

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Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

This is part five of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” As in previous years, it would be quite easy to fill a whole article in this series on “ data insecurity ,” on the data breaches and cyberattacks that continue to plague education – both schools and software. million students.

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