Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2019

When these “digital natives” show up in my classroom, they have played with iPads and their parents’ smartphones enough to know how to swipe, tap, squeeze, and shake, but they know none of the nuances required to morph the device from a toy to a productivity tool. Here’s how this works.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

“Free College” “How to Pay for Free Community College ,” according to Inside Higher Ed. ” (The narrative structure of these sorts of articles is always the same: crisis occurs; tech will save the day. “‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education?

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. ” asks the Student Experience Manager of the Minerva Project in an article in Edsurge. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. For more news about robots not taking jobs, see the HR section above.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. And speaking of utterly uncritical reporting, here’s another story in The NYT that does very little to demonstrate the claims made in the headline: “How ‘ Makers ’ Make the Classroom More Inclusive.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

“ From the article that ”innovative teaching practice" appears to be project-based learning. ” The article is accompanied by a photo of a classroom full of Asian students – as if Asian is not American. ” Also by Feldstein : “How and Why the IMS Failed with LTI 2.0.”

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