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

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. Manufacturing Trends.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Alec Couros is a Professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. He has given hundreds of workshops and presentations, nationally and internationally, on topics such as openness in education, networked learning, social media in education, digital citizenship, and critical media literacy.

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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. More on that in a subsequent article in this series.) It’s a theme that runs throughout almost every article in this series.“Fake

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” Her remarks.)

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, whose vision for the future of education involves “ whole child personalized learning ” and who says it plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into education initiatives to that end. The analysis is also relevant to education. The World Economic Forum. ” “?

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 7, 2019

The Internet and the applications which allow for connection such as social media, text applications, voice over IP and video conferencing applications enable authentic connections to each other and others outside the school walls. Throw social media into the mix and the potential is huge.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

Researchers testing tiny ear computer Continuous professional development: teachers teaching teachers New tertiary education strategy focus: Workplace skills Infographic: Fueling a Personalized Learning Revolution A Guidebook for Social Media in the Classroom This startup wants high-schoolers to invent. Classroom 2.0

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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. I post my thoughts, my writing on my own websites , even though social media has really discouraged us from doing this. 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. .” “ MOOCs Started Out Completely Free. Where Are They Now?”

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Class Central : “Analysis of 450 MOOC -Based Microcredentials Reveals Many Options But Little Consistency.” All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education.

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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 Inside Higher Ed : “The State Department is proposing to ask additional questions of visa applicants regarding their social media usage.” National) Education Politics. ” This is my shocked face.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Educause has published an article about “ The Mastery Transcript Consortium ,” a group of independent schools that are “reinventing” the college transcript. (I’m ” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.”

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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 Pew Research Center on “ Activism in the Social Media Age.” National) Education Politics. Sounds like fun.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account.

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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.” “ Social-Emotional Learning Is the Rage in K–12. So Why Not in College?”

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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.” AltSchool is another Silicon Valley company working on a “personalized learning platform.”

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” “Frustrated with how colleges have handled their claims of sexual abuse , more students are turning to social media to publicize their cases,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.” charter school.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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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.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Educators and students are compelled to use centrally purchased tools, data systems, and popular social media platforms. Indeed, dissent by obfuscation is against the spirit of personalized learning and ‘student success’ systems, if not also literally against their terms of service.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Educators and students are compelled to use centrally purchased tools, data systems, and popular social media platforms. Indeed, dissent by obfuscation is against the spirit of personalized learning and ‘student success’ systems, if not also literally against their terms of service.

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Hack Education

MARCH 2, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Chalkbeat on CZI ’s grant to the Woodrow Wilson Academy of Teaching and Learning : “‘ Personalized learning ’ comes to teacher training , bringing big ambitions and big questions.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

“ From the article that ”innovative teaching practice" appears to be project-based learning. ” The article is accompanied by a photo of a classroom full of Asian students – as if Asian is not American. Maybe social media is broken, Cathy O’Neil suggests. Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

EDITED TO ADD: Apparently, The Guardian article is not quite right. Via Zion Market Research : “ Massive Open Online Course Market : Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecasts 2016-2024.” The social media platform had raised $2.5 Defeated" is too strong a word here.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” And I am not even linking to the National Review article promoting this racist crap. ” “One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams” – Edsurge on ETS.

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