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Only Schools Can End Schools

The Principal of Change

It was more of a refusal of Blockbuster to move forward than it was a willingness for a different company to do something different, and more importantly, better. ” The bulk of the article is not about literacy, but about math. They were the most well known, had stores all over the world, and a history of success.

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Khan Academy redux

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

The last thing I expected to encounter this week was a resurgence in the Khan Academy Debates of this past summer. But honestly, I hadn’t thought much about Khan Academy since then — until Monday afternoon. I did, and found that I was being used as a prime example of a Khan Skeptic.

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5 Ideas for Teaching Students the Most Important Skill They’ll Need

Ask a Tech Teacher

The following are a few examples of learning resources that are available for ongoing education outside of high school and university: Certification Programs – Certification programs are typically training programs that are offered by tech companies or other organizations outside of traditional academia.

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Educational Crises and Ed-Tech: A History

Hack Education

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. So no, Khan Academy did not invent "personalized learning." Like a MOOC, but in the school gym.

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A Call For Homeschool 2.0

TeachThought - Learn better.

The cost of starting a company has gone down because there are online tools you can use for free. Khan Academy. The Wired article editorializes, “Unless every family homeschools their children—a prospect that even homeschooling advocates say is untenable—it will remain an individualized solution to a social need.”

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). Beyond the MOOC. The series kicks off on Saturday, 2 December.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? It’s always fascinating to look at ed-tech companies’ job postings – this one is from Khan Academy. Raise $146.1 Upgrades and Downgrades.