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‘Learn’-Launching the 2017 Edtech Conversation With Cautious Optimism

Edsurge

Big data, open spaces, employability, utilizing maker movements, balancing innovation and accountability, privacy, collaboration, closing the digital divide, personalized learning, and navigating the hostile political climate were just a few of the concerns the audience members brought up.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: July 21, 2017 A complex web of factors influence children’s commercial media literacy | LSE Business Review → If they don’t know an ad from information, how can they grasp how companies use their personal data? Many want technology firms to do more, but they are divided on how to balance free speech and safety issues online.

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29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

eSchool News

Jason Innes, Director of Curriculum, Training, and Product Management, KinderLab Robotics. “We Safely getting back to the classroom requires many new precautions, and in 2021, innovations in technology such as digital signage software and content management will play a major role. Jeff Rubenstein, VP Product Strategy, Kaltura.

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DEI in action: eSN Innovation Roundtable

eSchool News

And this creates a digital divide between those who can afford it and those who cannot. There’s not a single subject you cannot teach within Minecraft, not a single assessment you cannot do within Minecraft. We have to take us older-school education people and retrain our way of thinking about how to deliver [instruction].

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 11 inspiring educators

eSchool News

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. The AI LAB is designed to allow students to work in different stations such as: Humanoid Robotics, Industry 4.0,

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AI can disrupt racial inequity in schools, or make it much worse

The Hechinger Report

Kids from black and Latino communities — who are often already on the wrong side of the digital divide — will face greater inequalities if we go too far toward digitizing education without considering how to check the inherent biases of the (mostly white) developers who create AI systems.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Assessing Betsy DeVos ’ Rollback on Disability Rights ” by Pacific Standard’s David Perry. No disclosure in this or its Class Central article that it shares investors with these MOOC companies.). (National) Education Politics. “The 72 OSERS Documents Rescinded by Betsy deVos ” – by Liz Ditz.

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