Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Subsidized by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, some publications have repeatedly run overtly and covertly sponsored articles that hawk the future of learning as “personalized,” as focused on “ the whole child.” Robots won’t replace you , the press repeatedly said. Don’t worry, teachers.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

Members of Digital Promise’s EdClusters Research Cohort (which includes Kathe Crowley-Conn of WeThinkBig in Madison, WI, Daniela Fairchild of EduvateRI in Rhode Island, and Carly Croman of LeadLocal in Tucson, AZ) discussed the successes and challenges of conducting social network analysis on their regional networks.

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Education EdTech Strategy Analysis 144

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

This story about robots and jobs was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Yes, the robots are definitely coming for the jobs of America’s 3.5 The analysis was based on information from the O*NET Resource Center and the U.S.

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User Generated Education

MAY 20, 2015

Here are some additional quotes, articles that discuss the need for a maker environment more inclusive of gender and people of color. In an analysis of every MAKE magazine cover since the first issue in 2005–36 in all–Buechley found that the photos portrayed a “very narrow definition” of Maker activities.

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edWeb.net

JULY 14, 2021

After retiring from the Air Force in 2003 he worked for several years in the simulation training development area for the Research Triangle Institute in a wide variety of education, training and analysis efforts and wrote several papers in these areas. He also works with edWeb.net to write articles on their professional learning edWebinars.

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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. This article was modified and published by EdScoop. Prior to this, Dr. Howard was a senior robotics researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill follows up on the Edsurge article with his own analysis : “ MOOCs Now Focused on Paid Certificates and OPM Market.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Immigration and Education.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Been quoted in an article on ransomware in K-12 education. " Tagged on: July 18, 2017 Let Robots Teach American Schoolkids | Bloomberg → This is not a work of satire. Business Administrator Richard Jannarone said he and his technology team lobbied for the third-party analysis due, in part, to attempted attacks in the past.

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techlearning

JULY 31, 2018

. · Multi-language elementary math programs: New content in the series “Pharaohs and the Robot” is now available in English and Arabic in DE Streaming Plus Global. Students meet two young pharaohs in ancient Egypt who learn core math concepts from a time-traveling robot.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Finding a Path to Media Literacy As you consider how to integrate critical media analysis into your teaching, try this four-step approach. Tiny Bop Robot Factory provides open-ended exploration and play that can lead to learning about engineering design. Want articles like this delivered directly to your inbox?

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 18, 2018

It enables the students to collect data right to their own device for review and analysis later on! The probes send the data to the app for the acquisition of the data, which can be exported easily to a spreadsheet for final analysis.

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Technology Classroom Chromebook Data 69

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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Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This article, we’ll go over our findings on which product will be better for your child – KiwiCo vs. Little Passports. Adventures include discovering galaxies, alien encounters, roving robots, and of course, the ultimate blast-off! We’ve got a lot of experience with both companies products. Check It Out!

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

” These two appliances are meant to serve in the article as an analogy for ed-tech adoption – something about how quickly we embrace products that fit into the home as-is as compared to ones that require we restructure entire rooms and lay new pipes – “incrementalism” versus “transformation,” I suppose.

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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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techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

In truth, the term AI has (arguably) gained more notoriety for storylines of killer robots (and the occasional Wall-e) hell-bent on destroying mankind than for its practical use and business benefits. Since then, AI has experienced a largely stop-start existence, principally due to sporadic funding and below-par technology. Or Google’s Alexa?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Lesson: Analysis. Analysis for short stories or novels requires a lot of critical thinking questions in which students justify their answers with evidence from the story. Without analysis infused into daily lessons students would be lost in any subject requiring them to think outside the box. Lesson: Structure.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The video’s narrator explains: “School administrators can use big data analysis to determine when students are better able to concentrate.” When BrainCo returned to CES in 2017, the company arrived with an even bigger robot—which the site WearableZone reported was a success—along with a strategic “pivot” towards education. “I

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User Generated Education

JULY 1, 2018

Program leaders and instructors remain predominantly male, and a language analysis of recruiting and instruction materials revealed evidence of implicit bias. I expected to find a decent number of articles on this topic, but became a bit dismayed on how few I found. Implicit bias is pervasive and insidious,” the report states.

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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. Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2022

While looking for the answer, we’ve shared our findings in this series of articles. Educators at the Helm Before we dive into that data, it’s important to understand the broader context of our analysis. The creators of an educational robot, for instance, recently decided that they needed to rethink its training regimen.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The stories that I write about the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” are the antithesis of most articles you’ll see about education technology that invoke “top” and “trends.” I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs. I’m not interested in publishing clickbait.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

A complement to its award-winning The World Almanac for Kids, this new database provides a wealth of elementary-level content—including illustrated articles, videos, interactives, Fun Facts, and more—in a colorful, kid-friendly format. In addition, KIBO also has a Marker Extension Set, enabling the KIBO robot to draw while moving.

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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. I wrote about this company, along with its better known competitor ClassDojo, in an article in The Baffler.

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Technology Education Facebook Company 67

The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 4, 2023

As described in my planning article , I start every semester by tallying how many teaching days I have and dividing those days up by unit. It’s easy to practice and advance the same reading, writing, and analysis skills as we move through new content. Strategy 1: Building in buffer time.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In the final analysis, it is demotivating to “point-ify” everything students do. Author Alexandria Neason writes an article about what is happening at Quest to Learn. Financial Literacy: Make the Money “Real” – An article I wrote for Edutopia that has lots of game-based ideas for teaching personal finance.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This post is actually intended to supplement the “Cycle of Learning Innovation” model that will be publishing tomorrow (7.7.2015), which means this is less about analysis and context and more about the examples. ” The article goes on to point out some examples of this kind of dilemma, and how certain businesses responded.

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Hack Education

JUNE 21, 2020

This — The Matrix — has been a much more central part of our ed-tech imaginary than any book or article published by the popular or academic press. Skinner published his first article in Science on education technology. Address structural racism. Don't fund startups. Fund public education. You can guess which one more Americans read.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Each week for the past eight or so years, I have gathered a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this has fed the series of articles I have written each December, analyzing the stories we have been told about the future of education. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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MOOC Education Elsevier Report 78

ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

It includes both online articles and works of fiction, film, and longer books in separate sections. The Tone Policing comic by Robot Hugs is a useful way to contextualize debates over the place of emotion in discourse, particularly in divided classrooms. If you have other favorites, please share them in the comments! [

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

There have been several articles in the industry and investor press recently that describe the ed-tech market as “ on the rebound ,” with venture capitalists getting their “ second wind ” and finding ed-tech once again to be something worth throwing money at. MakeBlock (robotics) – $30 million.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

This isn’t simply a matter of “ robots are coming for your jobs.” 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. ” They’re coming for your kids’ jobs.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 25, 2017

“You can now buy $400 pants with a subprime loan ,” The Outline notes in an article about Affirm , which also offers private student loans (marketed particularly towards those in coding bootcamps). No disclosure in this article that Edsurge shares an investor with VIPKID. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Education Laptops Company Report 46

Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : "Starting a robotics company out of school? Via The Associated Press : “Schools See Steep Drop in Librarians , New Analysis Finds.”

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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.). ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Techcrunch : “ Robot tutor Musio makes its retail debut in Japan.” Reminder: you can find my analysis on ed-tech investment at funding.hackeducation.com.).

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Education MOOC Facebook Report 45

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” asks The Economist in an article about coding bootcamps. ” Via the Hechinger Report : “Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code?” IHE’s Joshua Kim weighs in , also not really offering a lot of analysis but still hopeful that Microsoft will someday buy Coursera. (I

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. Read Mindstorms. ” ).

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