Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2021

This year, we celebrated our 10-year anniversary —a milestone that speaks to a decade of improving educational outcomes through powerful and innovative learning experiences ?? Below, Digital Promise staff share reflections, lessons, and learnings from 2021 and offer hopes for education in the new year.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 20, 2019

Editor’s Note: This is Part Two of a New Monthly Series, The Brief History of the Future of Education. Increasingly, these jobs are not only being outsourced and offshored to countries such as India, China and Pakistan, but automated by software, machines, robots and artificial intelligence. Change: Nothing Stays the Same (Van Halen).

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2023

The Dangers of AI (and it’s not cheating) Click To Tweet Listen to this article. AI in Schools and Classrooms Edweek shared in a 2020 article , In education, AI can be found in learning analytic platforms, online courseware, voice assistants, and support structures within other apps. How much more can we afford to lose?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2018

That was the focus of a recent New York Times article, which noted that even as America’s public schools promote the use of devices, others are banning screens from class. To gain some consensus on the issue, EdSurge reached out to a handful of education and industry experts for their opinions.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2018

It’s been quite a year for education news, not that you’d know that by listening to much of the ed-tech industry (press). Robots won’t replace you , the press repeatedly said. Unsaid: robots will just de-professionalize , outsource , or privatize the work. And on and on and on. Don’t worry, teachers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Today's three guests are expert authors of the newly released The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education. Dan is a respected authority in educational technology and artificial intelligence. Brad is a publisher of education and children's books as well as leads the strategic vision of the organization.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 21, 2015

I am a part of Team 4443: Sock Monkeys and we are a robotics team through the FTC. Robotics teams start the competition season by learning what that year’s challenge is; they then immediately get to work on designing and building a robot that is best suited to that year’s challenge. What does FTC stand for/mean?

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

It may, to the chagrin of many of us, be at a glacier’s pace, but there is hope for the future of education. To achieve this, though, we’ll need to educate people very differently ( Robot-Proof: How Colleges Can Keep People Relevant in the Workplace ). The potential for the future of education is limitless.

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User Generated Education

MAY 20, 2015

The maker movement and maker education, in my perspective, are such great initiatives – really in line with what student-centric education should be in this era of formal and informal learning. Social media has helped me gain a more global perspective and become aware of some of the problems associated with the maker movement.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Our primary goal is to build a world-class-quality K-12 technology service system, including achieving Level 2 in the ‘process and results’ categories of the National Institute for Standards and Technology’s Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Education.”. Celebrate progress. Kennedy School, Connecticut. “I

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

(National) Education Politics. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Silence From the Secretary , Despite Major Rules Changes.” State and Local) Education Politics. Immigration and Education. Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.”

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Smartphones have been around for 10 years now, but in education, the shifts are vastly different within our classrooms. According to the US Department of Education , there are seven ways to help close the digital divide. They consume social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. How can we close this digital divide?

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. State and Local) Education Politics. Education in the Courts.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 8, 2018

These little ball robots have opened up so many possibilities. And the beauty is you can use this little robot in any lesson, in any subject, and with any age. Our thought was to use the robot to create recycling videos for our school. To foster understanding she used books and articles about recycling with her students.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 5, 2017

Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) is an annual initiative that aims to inspire K-12 students to take interest in computer science. The Coding & Robotics K-8 PLC, sponsored by Wonder Workshop , hosted the webinar, “ Beyond the Hour of Code: Implementation for All ,” on December 6th. WATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING.

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techlearning

JULY 31, 2018

–Immersive New Content Empowers Educators to Create Dynamic Digital Learning Environments for All Students – Silver Spring, Md. The recently-added content empowers educators to create dynamic digital learning environments that support social studies, life and earth sciences, social and emotional learning, and more.

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ASIDE

MAY 10, 2016

Yet we constantly see discussions, blog posts, and articles about where and whether we should integrate technology, how it should be done, does it motivate learners, etc. Education seems to view technology as something separate. They do it through social media. We are decades past this discussion. No problem. No problem.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. Are any education technologies, for that matter?

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edWeb.net

MARCH 20, 2019

According to Erin Mulcahy, Senior Product Strategy Lead of Education at littleBits, during an edWebinar hosted by edWeb.net summer brain drain has a significant impact on elementary-aged students as the two-thirds of the achievement gap between lower and higher income 9th graders can be explained by summer learning loss. About the Presenter.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 22, 2019

We invite all library professionals, employers, LIS students, and educators to participate in this event. Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryemergingtech on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. Ida has published numerous articles on emerging technologies.

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EdTechTeam

MAY 19, 2017

Visited several local libraries and InfOhio : I tapped into these resources which gave me over 300 books, magazines, and articles at various reading and interest levels. While some studied robotics and social media, others dived into different learning disabilities and schools around the world.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We invite all library professionals, employers, LIS students, and educators to participate in this event. Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryemergingtech on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. Ida has published numerous articles on emerging technologies.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 4, 2023

Pew Research recently reported that about half of Americans regularly get their news from social media. It uses a wide variety of media (photos, diagrams, videos, animations, articles, and podcasts) to explain traditionally-complex concepts such as magnetism, genes, and thermal imaging.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 12, 2017

They will have no memories of the 20th century, which just happens to be the same century their lecturers were born and educated within. These young people - sometimes referred to as Generation Z, or Centennials - will redefine our understanding of learning, and will challenge the way university education is conducted.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

And in an educational landscape where games-based learning is gaining traction, the data GlassLab provides to educators makes the games stand out. In a previous article , we wrote about how GlassLab’s real-time assessment features can give teachers new insight into students’ decision-making processes.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 22, 2019

We invite all library professionals, employers, LIS students, and educators to register now to participate in this event. Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryemergingtech on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. Ida has published numerous articles on emerging technologies.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Lately I hear from administrators who, after reading an article or post about makerspaces in libraries, believe their library must have or be a makerspace, without serious consideration of how that program might or might not address local needs. business teachers (my school recently added a Social Media Class!), game design.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

With a recent focus on "fake news" and the realization that many of us (adults and kids alike) get our news primarily through social media , the concept of "media literacy" is buzzing. Tiny Bop Robot Factory provides open-ended exploration and play that can lead to learning about engineering design.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.” That this is how a venture capitalist would characterize the future of education is, nonetheless, quite notable. “Why is there a slide about Peloton? Is this really a trend?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 5, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. It is designed to socially and intellectually prepare students for high school and college.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 26, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Brought to you by USC Rossier’s Doctor of Education online (EDd). This session is aimed at all teachers K-12.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It may be the biggest question in college edtech during the pandemic: Should tests be allowed to robotically watch students? The more recent rise of automated proctoring tools replace those humans with software robots, thereby reducing the cost. The issue involves so-called automated proctoring services.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

This is part ten of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Perhaps it’s no surprise that there was so much talk this year about education, technology, and emotional health. All the talk of the importance of “emotion” in education reflects other trends too. They turn into products.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

And then, not two days later, I heard Twitter has reclassified their app as a news purveyor rather than a social media device. One more stat — which may explain the whole social-media-as-news-trend — and then I’ll connect these dots: 60% of people don’t trust traditional news sources.

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User Generated Education

JULY 2, 2017

Makerspaces, Maker Education, STEM, and STEAM are gaining lots of traction in Kindergarten though college level education. Articles, resources on social media, and conference presentations on these topics are proliferating at a rate that most educators are now familiar with maker education.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

If education is automated. Whose education is automated. This graph comes from an article in the online publication Vox that includes a couple of those darling made-to-go-viral videos of young children using “old” technology like rotary phones and portable cassette players – highly clickable, highly sharable stuff.

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Evelyn Learning

MAY 14, 2023

This article discusses, in detail, the points that influence the decision of its development, such as: Role of technology in curriculum Reassessing curriculum development as per new age requirements Factors to consider when redesigning the curriculum A curriculum is important for both teachers and students. So, why not education?

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