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Michelle Weise: ‘We Need to Design the Learning Ecosystem of the Future’

Edsurge

Combine this idea with the velocity of technological change we are experiencing. As an example, in 2014, LinkedIn’s top ten jobs were jobs that hadn’t existed five years prior: social media intern, iOS/Android developer, cloud manager, big data architect, or UI/UX designer as examples. We have to do better.

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Close to 10% of students got into MIT by excelling in a MOOC. In library they are using stop motion technology to develop stories.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

Claims on Social Media : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information. Social Media Video : Students watch an online video and identify its strengths and weaknesses.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

I want to start this year’s review of education technology acknowledging grief. I want to start this year’s review of education technology sanctioning, if such a thing is necessary, our mourning. ” Education technology faces an inexhaustible supply of quackery. Mourn and Organize. We need not hide our feelings.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Billion in Android Antitrust Case.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the credential section below. National) Education Politics. Fines Google $5.1 ” Testing.

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International ed tech and pedagogical projects: notes from INTED 2017

Bryan Alexander

Social media: various projects making use of it, including having students write to Twitter in a new language, or inviting Chinese students in another country to use WeChat to improve their morale. MOOCs: simply present in the ed tech space, without the hype crash America experienced. Gunnar hauls around 20 or so low-cost (i.e.,

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