Shake Up Learning

APRIL 28, 2020

Listen to this article: Quick Tip of the Week. Now is not the time for new tools, as we learned from Jennifer Pearson. Connect and learn on social media, host a Twitter chat, create a Facebook group, or just search a useful hashtag. Everyone has been so supportive and driven to help everyone thrive during this time.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Pearson, for one.) 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. Again, we all know that school budgets are tight.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

That's what a decade of ed-tech social media and PR have wrought: hashtag gurus and fake news. Far too many articles — and this is surely what its venture capitalist and philanthropist backers hope — have not reflected the landscape but have tried instead to shape it. Good work, Adam and Rebekah. Spoiler alert: nothing.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “Publishers Wiley , Cengage , Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education have won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a seller of fake textbooks ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Credly has acquired Pearson ’s badge platform, Acclaim.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on social media and asking him to kill her teacher.” ” From the article: Zuckerberg revealed that he wants to ensure that education has a chance to flourish in VR. .” Nothing says “experts” like “crystal ball.”

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JUNE 1, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via TPM : “No Test Left Behind – How Pearson Made a Killing on the US Testing Craze.” ” Via Pew : “ Teens , Social Media , & Technology 2018.” National) Education Politics.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

. “ 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

AUGUST 25, 2017

” Via The Nation : “ Trump’s Border Security May Search Your Social Media by ‘Tone’ ” Via Education Week : “Setback for DACA Supporters Places Program’s Fate Squarely in Trump’s Hands.” No disclosure in this article that Edsurge shares an investor with VIPKID.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. There’s also an article on financial aid and cybersecurity in the data and surveillance section below. “ Can Pearson Sell Efficacy? Via Forbes : “Building Brains: How Pearson Plans To Automate Education With AI.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. And then there’s the advice from Pearson.

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Inside Higher Ed : “The State Department is proposing to ask additional questions of visa applicants regarding their social media usage.” National) Education Politics. ” This is my shocked face.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via The Guardian : “ Student Loans Company ‘spied on vulnerable students’ social media’ ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” From the Pearson website : “ Pearson 2018 half-year results.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

I’ve never seen an education story receive quite as much attention from non-educators on social media. ” Let’s all point out how this article gets “the pioneers of the MOOC” wrong. Via WHIO : “ School social media director fired after correcting student’s misspelled tweet.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” ClassDojo is now a full social media platform for schools - this letter & video just emailed to parents. ” Education Week on a Pearson poll : “Generation Z Prefers Learning From YouTube, Not Books.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 29, 2014

member and Pearson Education employee, Leon Li, is exploring the introduction of virtual reality into educational settings. This week we look at a recent informED article by Sara Briggs called 20 Things Educators Need To Know About Digital Literacy Skills. One Classroom, Many Worlds. Classroom 2.0

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

“ Social-Emotional Learning Is the Rage in K–12. ” asks the Student Experience Manager of the Minerva Project in an article in Edsurge. I wrote about social-emotional learning (algorithms) as a “trend to watch.” .” Edsurge gets the company’s take on criticisms of its business model.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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MAY 13, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “British Officials, Pearson Probe Effort to Leak Test Content.” ” “Frustrated with how colleges have handled their claims of sexual abuse , more students are turning to social media to publicize their cases,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Every year since 2010, I’ve undertaken a fairly massive project in which I’ve reviewed the previous twelve months’ education and technology news in order to write ten articles covering “the top ed-tech trends.” ” (This talk will hopefully serve as an explanation for you and a nice reminder for me.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” The University of Northern New Jersey had a website – one with a.edu domain, to boot – as well as several active social media profiles. I wrote about this program in more detail in the article in this series on “ The ‘New’ For-Profit Higher Education.”

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Librarians and library supporters responded by saying that the article was ill informed and didn’t reflect the many roles libraries play.” Will Merge Government Data, Social Media Posts.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Stanford historian Larry Cuban has also written a number of articles this year on his observations of the instructional practices and technology usage at the charter school chain.). Pearson claims Pearson’s personalized learning products work. It partnered with Pearson. It partnered with Sesame Street.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Educators and students are compelled to use centrally purchased tools, data systems, and popular social media platforms. Lots more to say about what happened here, but schools would do well to ensure that they remain in control of their social media accounts.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Educators and students are compelled to use centrally purchased tools, data systems, and popular social media platforms. Lots more to say about what happened here, but schools would do well to ensure that they remain in control of their social media accounts.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Vox : “Brazilian media report that police are entering university classrooms to interrogate professors.” ” The “guru” is Brendan Kealey , formerly with Pearson. National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

MARCH 2, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Reports that Pearson is looking to sell its K–12 courseware business in EdWeek’s Market Brief , Inside Higher Ed , and Edsurge. ” The Pew Research Center is out with its latest report on “ Social Media Use in 2018.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

These have all been separate articles in each series. I’ve already made references to for-profit higher education in the second and third articles in this year-end series – on the “ innovation gospel ” and on the business of student loans. The prison market. “The new economy.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

EDITED TO ADD: Apparently, The Guardian article is not quite right. The social media platform had raised $2.5 in the Classroom” – by Rose Luckin and Wayne Holmes and sponsored by Pearson, of course. ” (Peers are members of the House of Lords for those not up-to-date on UK government titles.)

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. From the Department of Education press release : “ Federal Commission on School Safety Meeting to Focus on the Effects of Entertainment , Media , Cyberbullying and Social Media on Violence and Student Safety.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” And I am not even linking to the National Review article promoting this racist crap. ” Via The Chicago Tribune : “Pearson Family Members Foundation sues University of Chicago , aiming to revoke $100M gift.”

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” For those keeping track of how great social media is for the future of education and knowledge and civics and such: “Last Year, Social Media Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries ,” says the MIT Technology Review. I might have missed some in this back-and-forth.

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

City native and rap superstar Fetty Wap released a music video last week for his latest single, ‘Wake Up,’ filmed at Eastside High School, according to social media posts by the rapper. ” Michael Horn also trumpets the “ Virtual Reality Disruption ” this week in an article in EducationNext.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on social media.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

One of the challenges of writing this series – and trust me, there are many – is separating my analysis out into ten articles that name ten distinct “trends.” So I’m including a lot of events in this article that are not “ed-tech” per se. “Tech” and the Presidential Election.

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