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So Much More Than Letters and Numbers

The Principal of Change

I saw the title of this article, “ Are Parent-Teacher Conferences Becoming Obsolete? The article also reminded me of an article by Jessica Lahey , “ The Downside of Checking Kids’ Grades Constantly.” It was also why I spent so much time in classrooms and the hallways of schools to get to know kids.

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Educational Crises and Ed-Tech: A History

Hack Education

As school buildings were shuttered, the district turned to the radio to replace classroom instruction. As the Superintendent William Johnson wrote in an article in The New York Times a week after the experiment launched, So far as possible, fifteen minutes' time is given to each broadcast above the fourth grade.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Or one could look at ed-tech companies that laid off staff: the coding bootcamp Galvanize , the analytics company Civitas Learning , the learning management system Schoology , MOOC provider Coursera , the education giant Pearson , for example. The article takes that assertion at face value; many readers probably did too.

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Khan Academy redux

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

The whitepaper itself seems to advocate a position that schools would be more effective, and students better served, if they were more free from government involvement — more free to innovate and reform themselves, with a flipped classroom approach being the foremost example of reform. I actually do not disagree with this idea.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The New York Times : “ Rolling Stone Settles Lawsuit Over Debunked Campus Rape Article.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom."

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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. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” ECOT is the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, a failed online charter school. ” So of course, it’ll be in classrooms everywhere.

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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. ” Via KMOV , news from Montville High in Montville, Connecticut : “ Substitute teacher arrested for starting ‘ fight club ’ in classroom.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).