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AUGUST 11, 2017

Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via Education Week : “Risky Practices With Students’ Data Security Are Common, Survey Suggests.” Upgrades and Downgrades. Tech Researcher Costumed as Car Seat.” Tinkergarten has raised $5.4 million.

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JULY 20, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Bless this headline ( from The 74 ) ’s heart: “Educators & Experts Say Personalized Learning Is Not About Technology or Money but Leadership and Relationships.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Ohio State University and Apple on Wednesday announced a collaboration that will start a digital learning effort at the university that Apple and university officials said may represent the company’s most ambitious program in higher education.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “Culturally Sensitive Robots Are Here to Care for the Elderly ,” Futurism.com claims. Remember: robots for the elderly share a direct connection to MOOCs replacing higher ed.).

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Educause has published an article about “ The Mastery Transcript Consortium ,” a group of independent schools that are “reinventing” the college transcript. (I’m ” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.”

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APRIL 6, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “A Response to Larry Berger’s ‘Confession’ on Personalized Learning ” by New Classrooms’ Joel Rose. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. National) Education Politics.

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JUNE 23, 2017

” The charter school, which is closing it doors, is the Merit Preparatory Charter School , run by “personalized learning” charter chain Matchbook Learning. Here’s a sponsored article , paid for by the Gates Foundation and published by Edsurge promoting the school and its technology.).

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JUNE 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Apologies that this week this article is a day late. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “The ethical dilemma of the robot teacher ” by Neil Selwyn. 3 Findings From a New Survey Offer Some Clues.”

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JULY 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” From the press release (which explains why there’d be an article on the company this week): “ YouTube joins forces with Britannica to provide easier access to credible and authoritative information.”

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MAY 5, 2017

Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” “ Social-Emotional Learning Is the Rage in K–12. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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MAY 4, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Chalkbeat : “ Betsy DeVos ’s first Detroit visit featured Girl Scouts, robots, and talk of beluga whales.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Activate Learning has acquired Conceptua Math.

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MAY 13, 2016

” (The article features a photo of Arne Duncan – a reminder that the former Secretary of Education now works for the Knight Commission, as well as for the venture firm Emerson Collective.). Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.”

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JUNE 29, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via The New York Times : “ Robots or Job Training : Manufacturers Grapple With How to Improve Their Economic Fortunes.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ISTE calls this “ personalized learning.”

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JULY 28, 2017

Via The Daily Times : “Blount County Schools building new options to personalize learning.” ” Boy, it seems as though “personalized learning” is really just code for “virtual charter schools.” “ Can personalized learning prevail? ” asks ZDNet.

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APRIL 28, 2017

” asks WaPo’s Valerie Strauss, before reprinting an article by UVA professor Dan Willingham.). Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via CNBC : “Google exec, Mark Cuban agree that these college majors are the most robot-resistant.” ” (“What do we really know about the value of prekindergarten?”

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MARCH 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Perhaps it should go in the “robots” section. “ Artificial Intelligence: Could emerging technologies ‘humanize’ teaching & learning? .” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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JULY 14, 2017

” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. for Robotics Contest.” Edsurge profiles “ personalized learning ” software used in a virtual school that has some 450 incarcerated students. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ OpenStax Launches Learning Platform.”

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JULY 1, 2016

Via ABC News : “ A defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine over the magazine’s debunked article about a University of Virginia gang rape was tossed out by a judge Tuesday. From the edX blog : “How to be a Better Learner: Determine Your Learning Style.” District Judge P. ” Most is still loans.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “The Promise and Peril of Personalization ” from Stanford’s Center for the Internet and Society. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. I’m ending that series, I think, so I can focus on writing books.

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DECEMBER 18, 2016

And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. 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.).

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) But the “spying” has continued. Chatbot Instructors.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Via The Washington Post : “Many KIPP charter school alumni face financial hurdles in college, survey shows.” See her article on Betsy DeVos in the politics section above.). “ inBloom ’s collapse undermined personalized learning and data standards efforts,” says danah boyd. (I’m

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Edsurge : “ Robots Won’t Replace Instructors , 2 Penn State Educators Argue. . Via Edsurge : “Campus Support for OER is Growing, Survey Finds.”

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MARCH 2, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Chalkbeat on CZI ’s grant to the Woodrow Wilson Academy of Teaching and Learning : “‘ Personalized learning ’ comes to teacher training , bringing big ambitions and big questions.”

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Although the shooting is a local story, I am putting many of the articles here in the national section because, over a week later, it is still very much in the national headlines. National) Education Politics. What Should We Teach?”

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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. “Inventor creates device to help fidgety kids learn better,” the AP reports.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” How a Montessori classroom of fourth graders is like an International Baccalaureate classroom is a real article – and a good demonstration of how Montessori can be reshaped to fit any agenda. National) Education Politics.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Via Tony Bates : “Responses to the Canadian survey of online and distance learning.” ” The first article claims that “The college lecture is dying. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “This Machine Learning-Powered Software Teaches Kids To Be Better Writers,” Fast Company claims.

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JULY 29, 2016

Wonder Workshop has raised $20 million from WI Harper Group, Idea Bulb Ventures, Learn Capital, Charles River Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, and TCL. The robot startup, formerly known as Play-i, has raised $35.9 ” From Data & Society : “ Personalized Learning : The Conversations We’re Not Having.”

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MARCH 31, 2017

“Will Personalized Learning Become the New Normal?” Thankfully, IHE added a disclosure to the end of the article: “He also serves as chair of the McGraw-Hill Education Learning Science Research Advisory Council.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “Can Grit Be Measured?”

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JUNE 22, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” “ Personalized learning ” now includes working on a goat farm apparently. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via DML Central : “Scientists Seek Genetic Data to Personalize Education.”

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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. ” “One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams” – Edsurge on ETS.

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APRIL 20, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” From the ASU website : “Panelists discuss future of personalized learning.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. National) Education Politics. Via Inside Higher Ed : “The U.S. Research from S.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Perhaps I need to start a new section in this article where I look at these sorts of b t predictions and proclamations and cliches. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Edsurge : “Learning From Algorithms : Who Controls AI in Higher Ed, And Why It Matters (Part 2).” Via Edsurge : “Help! What Does That Mean?

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JANUARY 26, 2017

“Can robotics teach problem solving to students?” “Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. “The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning ,” according to KQED’s Mindshift. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

So, no doubt, were several articles by and about Emory University professor Mark Bauerlein and his defense of Trump and DeVos. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Pearson , after spending hundreds of millions of dollars on learning management systems , is leaving the market as the company seeks to restructure itself and boost its profits.”

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